St. Alexander (Daseburg)

The church in town

The Catholic parish church St. Alexander is a listed church building in Daseburg , a district of Warburg in the district of Höxter , North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The first church in Daseburg was mentioned in 1231, but existed much earlier. The patron saint of the church is St. Alexander of Rome , whose relics were transferred to Wildeshausen in 851 . This patronage indicates that the church was built in the middle of the 9th century, as the nearby Desenberg was owned by Count Waltbert , who had the translation carried out. He could have sent a relic to the church in Daseburg.

The dilapidated previous building of today's church was demolished in the 1880s, today's church was built in 1887/88 according to plans by Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann and consecrated in 1892. The church is a neo-Gothic hall church.

Furnishing

A former high altar, which was originally made by Heinrich Papen for the Hardehausen monastery , is now in St. Martin Wilnsdorf (Siegerland). The current high altar, which no longer has a cafeteria and only serves as a tabernacle, used to be in the next apse. This in turn houses the Pietà from the 17th century .

literature

Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Westphalia. Höxter district. Volume 1.1: City of Warburg . Petersberg 2015, p. 394-396 .
Lorenz Gorzel: Daseburg . In: Franz Mürmann (Ed.): The City of Warburg - Contributions to the History of a City, Vol. 2 . Warburg 1986, p. 446-450 .

51.51299 9.223256Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 46.8 " N , 9 ° 13 ′ 23.7" E

Web links

Information on the website of the Warburg Pastoral Association

Individual evidence

↑ See Kampschulte, Heinrich: The Westphalian Church Patrocinia, especially in their relationship to the history of the introduction and consolidation of Christianity in Westphalia, Paderborn 1867, 125 .
↑ See Lorenz Gorzel: Daseburg. In: Franz Mürmann (Ed.): The City of Warburg - Contributions to the History of a City, Vol. 2. Warburg 1986, 446–450, here 447.
↑ See parish church St. Alexander Daseburg: On the history of the church
↑ See monument topography, 394–396.
↑ Cf. monument topography, 396.

[1] See Kampschulte, Heinrich: The Westphalian Church Patrocinia, especially in their relationship to the history of the introduction and consolidation of Christianity in Westphalia, Paderborn 1867, 125 .

[2] See Lorenz Gorzel: Daseburg. In: Franz Mürmann (Ed.): The City of Warburg - Contributions to the History of a City, Vol. 2. Warburg 1986, 446–450, here 447.

[3] See parish church St. Alexander Daseburg: On the history of the church

[4] See monument topography, 394–396.

[5] Cf. monument topography, 396.