St. Albanus and Cyriakus (Welver)

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St. Albanus and Cyriakus, on the left in the background the Catholic Church of St. Bernhard
View from the northeast
Interior
Floor plan 1905
Walled-up Gothic portal

The Protestant Church of St. Albanus and Cyriakus is a listed church building in Welver , a community in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Usage history

The parish church, which was presumably built in the 12th century as a separate church for the Lords of Welver, was incorporated into the Cistercian monastery around 1240 after the founding of the Cistercian monastery and from then on also served as the monastery church. During the Reformation, the city of Soest, to whose territory Welver belonged, tried to enforce the Lutheran doctrine, while the abbesses tried to keep the old doctrine. So the situation was initially confused. At times there was a Catholic pastor and an Evangelical vice curate side by side. At the end of 1649 the parish finally became Protestant; the church was assigned to her as a parish church and a Lutheran pastor was installed. At the same time, however, the church continued to serve the nuns of the monastery, which remained Catholic, as a monastery church. The Protestant church service for the congregation took place below in the nave and the Catholic church service for the members of the monastery took place on top of the nuns' choir , a gallery that no longer exists today. The simultaneum ended when the monastery built a new church next to the old one in 1697–1700 . Since then the old church has been purely Protestant.

architecture

The church is essentially a Romanesque hall with a closed choir , a transept and a squat, rectangular west tower . The first predecessor building from before 1150 was excavated in 1983 as an arched hall with a rectangular choir. The tower was built in the 12th century. A transept and a new, probably vaulted, choir were added to the building around 1200. After 1244 the nave was replaced by a slightly wider new building, which was built in the 14th / 15th centuries. Century was vaulted. At the same time, the windows were enlarged in Gothic shapes. The south wall of the nave and the entire tower were renewed in 1697, the vaults were removed and the windows closed with rounded arches. Extensive renovations were made from 1869 to 1870 and from 1982 to 1984. The plastered building is structured by stepped buttresses and arched windows. Remains of the Gothic window frames are still preserved on the north side . The capitals on the portal in the transept may still come from the original building. The construction seam of the baroque construction work is visible on the south side .

The interior is flat, with vaults in the transept. The supports of the former nuns' gallery are still on the walls of the nave .

Furnishing

  • The painted winged retable shows scenes from the life of Christ; it is inscribed with Matthia Knipping, 1615. It was restored from 1931 to 1932 and replaced with a neo-Gothic altarpiece.
  • The cup-shaped baptismal font with a leaf frieze dates from around 1200
  • The octagonal carved baptism is marked 1636
  • The carved pulpit is marked Wenckel 1785. It was taken by Kleine in 1786. It was originally in the Georgskirche in Soest and after it was demolished in 1823 it came to Welver. The tulip-shaped pulpit grows out of a palm trunk with a lizard running down it. The lizard is said to symbolize sin fleeing from the preaching of the divine word.
  • The organ, built by Johann Patroclus Möller in 1733 , was moved to the west gallery in 1982.

Bells

In 1917 the old bronze bell was melted down. In 1924 two iron bells were purchased that rang on cranked yokes. In 2007 the bells were expanded and replaced by four bells from the bell foundry Petit & Edelbrock / Gescher. The new bells sound in the tone sequence f sharp'-h'-c sharp "-dis" and are coordinated with the ringing of the neighboring Catholic Church.

literature

  • Hubertus Schwartz : The churches of the Soester Börde. Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1961, pp. 62-73.
  • E. Arndt: Welver. In: 800 Years of Welver - 1179–1979. Welver 1979, pp. 9-19.
  • Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 26.5 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 57.4 ″  E