St. Vinzentius Church (Harpen)

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St. Vincent Church
View through the Romanesque nave to the choir
Floor plan before the expansion in 1905

The St. Vinzentius Church is now a Protestant church in the Harpen district of Bochum , whose origins go back to the year 1000. A fragment of an old tombstone indicates the old age of the church; he is a witness for the death of the lay brother Ludolf. The ornamentation and letter form of the inscription are dated to the year 1000 to 1050. The church was subordinate to the Werden monastery . The namesake is Vinzentius , a deacon to the Spanish bishop of Saragossa , who died a martyr during the last great Roman persecution of Christians under Diocletian in 304 . St. Vinzentius is represented in a sculpture (Baumberger sandstone) from 1470.

The altar plate of the antechamber was made around 1000, the baptismal font in 1050, the sacrament niche around 1300, the relief of the Three Kings around 1400. The baroque altar dates from 1699. The twin bells are pitched at half-tones: the Vincentius bell (tone fis) was 1483 and the Maria bell (Tone f) cast by Johann von Dortmund in 1484. Johann von Tremoniae, as he later called himself, was a famous bell founder at the end of the Middle Ages. Since 1567 the church has been owned by the Protestant parish of Harpen. The architect Gerhard August Fischer directed the extension in 1905/06 . A special feature from the modern era are 4 miner's windows (a foundation of Harpener Bergbau AG), designed in 1942/43 by the Berlin artist Helene Stark and made by the August Wagner glass workshop , Berlin. In these glass windows, the working world of the buddies is shown.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 55.4 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 5.1 ″  E