St. Sixtus (Haltern am See)
The St. Sixtus Church is the catholic town church of Haltern am See in the southern Münsterland .
history
The well testified Halterner Ludgerus -Tradition, the old and in the diocese of Muenster unique St. Sixtus - patronage as well as archaeological findings prove holders as one of Urpfarreien Founded in 804 diocese of Münster . Located at the Lippe crossing and at the intersection of two trade routes, the first church at this point is likely to have been a stone building.
A Romanesque successor building, probably from the 11th century, was replaced in the second half of the 14th century by a Gothic hall church , except for the tower . This had become too small for the growing community and the pilgrims of the Cross (see below) at least since 1830. Various expansion plans were eventually abandoned in favor of a completely new building. In 1875 the old church was demolished.
Because of the property blank, the new, significantly longer church was no longer faces east , but aligned to the south. The Münster architect August Hanemann was commissioned with the design . The new parish church was consecrated on September 16, 1885.
architecture
St. Sixtus is a large neo-Gothic hall church made of red brick . The four three-aisled nave - yokes lead to a transept with square crossing . The choir with a 5/8 apse adjoins another, shorter yoke across the width of the central nave . The nave yokes are emphasized by their own transverse hip roofs . The end of the portal side is the 80 m high square tower with a large central and four small corner helmets .
Inside, the tall, brick-view pillars with their services , which run into the ribbed vaults , as well as the contrast to the white wall surfaces create a wide and clearly structured spatial impression.
Furnishing
The most important piece of equipment from St. Sixtus is the Haltern Cross , a forked cross made of oak with an expressive figure of Christ , which was probably made around 1330/40 and has been the destination of pilgrimages for centuries . The legend tells that it was once found in the Lippe, swimming against the current. The highlight of the pilgrimage on the cross is the costume on the Sunday after the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
Also noteworthy are the richly figured Antwerp reredos from the beginning of the 16th century and the epitaph of Wilhelm Anton Goswin von Galen from 1710 , which is attributed to Johann Wilhelm Gröninger .
Several lively statues of saints date from the time the church was built. High quality neo-Gothic carvings are the pulpit and the organ front . The organ itself is a work of the Euler company in Hofgeismar from 1971.
The original picture windows were destroyed in World War II. Around 1955 Ludwig Baur created new ornamental windows for the chancel. The two arms of the transept received windows from Hubert Spierling in 1989 ("Outpouring of the Holy Spirit" and "Glorification of the Cross").
Baptismal font
carved pulpit
altar
literature
- Hans-Günther Schneider: Haltern / Westf. St. Sixtus (= Little Art Guide No. 1578). Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-7954-5286-4 .
- Haltern St. Sixtus . In: Ulrich Menkhaus (Red.): The Diocese of Münster. Vol. 3: The parishes . Regensberg, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-7923-0646-8 , pp. 276-279.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schneider, pp. 2-4.
- ↑ Schneider, p. 4f.
- ^ Art. Haltern St. Sixtus . In: Ulrich Menkhaus (Red.): The Diocese of Münster , Vol. 3: The parishes . Regensberg, Münster 1993, pp. 276-279, here p. 277.
- ↑ Schneider, p. 6.
- ↑ Praise to God . Edition for the diocese of Münster. Aschendorff, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-402-10001-1 , p. 1042.
- ^ Art. Haltern St. Sixtus . In: Ulrich Menkhaus (Red.): The Diocese of Münster , Vol. 3: The parishes . Regensberg, Münster 1993, pp. 276-279, here p. 278.
Web links
- Description and pictures (website of the parish)
- Information on haltern.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '32.1 " N , 7 ° 11' 14.1" E