St. Agatha (Rorup)

Aerial photo (2014)

St. Agatha

The Catholic parish church of St. Agatha is a listed church building in Rorup , a district of the city of Dülmen in the Coesfeld district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The church was originally dedicated to St. Mary and was called Marienkirche. The previous church was a Gothic hall with choir bay and a ⁵ / ₈ You -Schluss is in the great expansion of 1912 as the southern aisle receive.

Furnishing

• A triumphal cross made of wood, modeled on the twelfth century
• Anna herself, made of wood, from the last quarter of the 15th century
• A Vesper picture from the beginning of the 18th century
• Various baroque figures from the beginning of the 18th century
• St. Petronella, headache helper, inscribed 1737
• In the front left is the Agatha altar with a picture of Agathe.

organ

The organ was built in 1991 by the organ builder Friedrich Fleiter (Münster). The slider chests -instrument has 27 registers on two manuals and pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 1. Bourdun 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Viola da gamba 8th' 4th Hollow flute 8th' 5. octave 4 ′ 6th Reed flute 4 ′ 7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 8th. octave 2 ′ 9. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 10. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 11. Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

II Swell C – g 3 12. Wooden dacked 8th' 13. Salicional 8th' 14th Principal 4 ′ 15th Flauto dolce 4 ′ 16. Flautino 2 ′ 17th Sesquialter I – II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 18th Plein jeu IV 2 ′ 19th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 20th oboe 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 21st Double bass 16 ′ 22nd Sub-bass 16 ′ 23. Octave bass 8th' 24. Thought bass 8th' 25th Chorale bass 4 ′ 26th Rauschpfeife 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 27. trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

• Ursula Quednau (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 306.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 494 .
2. ↑ Information on the organ

Web links

Commons : St. Agatha  - Collection of Images

• Church history and photos

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 21 ″  E