St. Vitus Church (Barnstorf)

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St. Veit Church in Barnstorf

The St. Veit Church is a Protestant church in Barnstorf (Lower Saxony). For centuries it was also called the Church of the Holy Cross .

It is a stately late Romanesque hall church made of brick with a semicircular apse and a western tower with a pyramid helmet . It was built in 1264 by the Junker von der Eck from Dreeke. A previous church was mentioned as early as 890. This should have belonged to the parishes that were founded by the mission cell in Visbek and whose patronage passed to the Corvey Monastery on March 20, 855 . After Charlemagne (* probably April 2, 747 or 748; † January 28, 814 in Aachen) from 780 AD onwards nine mission districts for the Christianization of the subject Saxons were established, Abbot Gerbert Castus from the Visbek mission cell founded the first parishes in the area. These churches counted in Lerigau the parish Barnstorf.

The current church building is Romanesque. The base zone of the square, octagonal top tower in the basement consists of granite boulders . The original arched windows were enlarged in the baroque and reduced to the original size in 1963. The 6 wooden apostle figures inside the church are worth seeing , as is the old sacrificial stock in the tower, which dates back to 1690 and is carried by St. Lazarus . This is flanked by two dogs. An inscription of the victims Stocks points with the words Who pity on the poor lends to the Lord of dess who is being guts repay him on the Proverbs .

Some dimensions: the tower has a side length of approx. 9 meters; he is 39 m high. The nave is 26 m long and has 7 m high walls.

The baptismal font from 1680 and the pulpit are works of folk carving from the Baroque era.

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Web links

Commons : St. Veit Church (Barnstorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Bönte: Abbot Gerbert Castus - A missionary from the second row. Church site ((former) online newspaper of the Münster diocese). October 29, 2004 ( Memento of May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved from the web archive on October 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Oldenburg official district . Retrieved October 14, 2013.

Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 6.5 ″  E