St. Nicholas Basilica (IJsselstein)

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Tower of the basilica
Choir view
Virgin Mary statue

The St. Nicholas Basilica ( Dutch St. Nicolaasbasiliek ) is a Roman Catholic church in IJsselstein in the Netherlands . The parish church , which belongs to the Archdiocese of Utrecht , has had the title of a minor basilica since 1972 and has been protected as a Rijksmonument since 1976 . The basilica is dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra , based on the now reformed Nicolaaskerk on site.

history

This three-aisled, neo-Gothic hall church was built between 1885 and 1887 in the Rhenish style according to an important design by Alfred Tepe . The building is 51.8 meters long and 24 meters wide. The net vault rests on slender columns. The 70 meter high tower was equipped with deep niches.

Major parts of the church furnishings come from members of the St. Bernulphus guild . The sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg created the left side altar, the Victory Cross and the Way of the Cross by 1889, the colorful high altar followed in 1893, the right side altar in 1900. Heinrich Geuer made the central window above the high altar in 1889 , the other, large windows were not opened until 1923 and furnished in color in 1950, just as the walls and vaults were not painted until 1925. The neo-Gothic choir bench comes from the Biltstraat church in Utrecht . The organ with two manuals and free pedal was made by Maarschalkerweerd in 1890.

In the 1960s there were plans to demolish the dilapidated church. Finally, the church, including the organ, was restored between 1968 and 1972 and added to the list of monuments in 1976, making it one of the first buildings from the nineteenth century to become a Dutch national monument.

Pilgrimage basilica

St. Nicholas is a pilgrimage church with his statue of the Virgin Mary , the miraculous image of Our Lady of Eiteren, Help in Need from the 13th century is shown in the Marienkapelle. Pope Paul VI awarded the church the title of minor basilica on November 11, 1972 because of its importance as a place of pilgrimage .

literature

  • Kerkegids IJsselstein, Historische Kring IJsselstein, July 1981
  • AJ Looijenga, De Utrechtse school in de neogotiek. De voorgeschiedenis en het Sint Bernulphusgilde, proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht, 1991
  • Paul Philippot, Denis Coekelberghs u. a., L'architecturereligieuse et la sculpturebaroques dans les Pays-Bas Meridionaux et la principauté de Liège, 1600–1770, Sprimont 2003

Web links

Commons : St. Nicholas Basilica  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Basiliek van de H. Nicolaas on gcatholic.org
  2. ↑ St. Nicolaas on monument register

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '8.2 "  N , 5 ° 2' 25.8"  E