St. Alexander (Schepsdorf)
St. Alexander is the Roman Catholic church in Schepsdorf , a south-western district of Lingen, Emsland district in Lower Saxony. The essentially Romanesque church of the 11th / 12th centuries Century was rebuilt and expanded several times. In the course of a Gothicization in the 15th century, a west tower was added. The polygonal choir dates from 1874 and the north extension from 1965. The church belongs to the dean's office Emsland-Süd and is part of the parish community of St. Alexander (Lingen-Schepsdorf), St. Bonifatius (Lingen) , Christ König (Lingen- Darme) and St. Gertrudis (Lingen-Bramsche).
history
When there were no bridges yet, carriages and travelers had to cross the Ems in Schepsdorf by ferry, where two important trade routes crossed: the traffic from Münsterland to East Friesland and that from Holland to Bremen. At this point a small wooden church for pilgrims was built, which was built on the occasion of the transfer of the relics of St. Alexander to Wildeshausen in winter 850/851 waited for the Ems ferry.
The oldest part of today's church are the outer walls of a former Romanesque hall church from the 11th / 12th. Century. This church was extended in the Gothic style at the end of the 15th century to include the west tower and a rectangular chancel in the east.
In 1874 the choir was replaced by the neo - Gothic five - eighth closure . The church has been completely renovated and redesigned in the neo-Gothic style.
The last major construction project took place in 1964/1965 when a large extension was built to the north. Since the renovation in 1998/1999 according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect Bruno Braun, the old and new churches have been more closely related.
architecture
The church consists of several structures that are connected by the exposed brickwork made of light-colored blocks. The east-facing church , which is essentially Romanesque, is covered by a gable roof. Buttresses and lancet windows with two-lane tracery structure the long sides. The neo-Gothic polygonal choir is lower than the nave. It also has buttresses and tracery windows with nuns' heads and tripass . The Gothic west tower is divided into two storeys by a surrounding cornice. On the upper floor there are sound openings for the bells in every direction and a tracery window is let into the west of the lower floor. In the north, the large modern extension joins under a gable roof. The sacristy in the northwest has a tent roof .
Furnishing
The old part of the church is used as a room for weekday services, baptisms and devotions. In addition to the cup-shaped baptismal font from 1874, a “baptismal garden” was designed in 2007 with photos of the children to be baptized from a calendar year. The altar, ambo and tabernacle have been set up in the new church . The Cologne artist Arne Bernd Raue made these parts from Anröchter dolomite . In the apse there is an old corpus, framed by a modern steel cross. In the side niches there are two valuable wooden figures carved from oak: St. Antonius Abbas was created around 1740. Around 1520 the master of Osnabrück created the figure of Anna selbdritt .
organ
An organ made by Vierdag (Enschede) has been in the church since 1975 . Since 2001 the organ services have been performed by the respective regional cantor of St. Bonifatius .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 35.2 ″ N , 7 ° 17 ′ 44 ″ E