St. Amandus (dates)

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Parish Church of St. Amandus

The parish church of St. Amandus is a listed church building in Datteln in the Recklinghausen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The parish belongs to the Datteln deanery in the Münster diocese .

History and architecture

Pope Eugene III. confirmed in a document dated June 17, 1147 that the St. Heribert Abbey in Deutz also owns the church in Datteln (in Datlen ecclesiam). Probably there was an own church on the royal court Hofstedde since the 9th century .

There is no information about the appearance of the first church building. It was probably a building made of wood and clay. The west tower , also popularly known as the old tower, is the oldest surviving part of the old church. This church, like the tower, which was completed in 1250, was built of stone in the Romanesque style. The tower was crowned with a tent roof. The planning of a new church began at the beginning of the 15th century, as evidenced by numerous donations. The construction of the Gothic hall church began at the end of the century. It was about the size of today's transept. The asymmetrical space consisted of the main nave and a side aisle on the north side, where the sacristy and choir are today . The high altar was located in the end of the choir, where the tabernacle and the baptismal font are today. The Romanesque tower got a steep top. It continued to serve as the church entrance. The church was probably completed around 1520. Extensive renovations were carried out in the years from 1753 to 1754 and 1859 to 1865.

During the expansion from 1911 to 1913, the church got its current layout. A transept was added to the building in the neo-Gothic style. This new transept became the main nave and two side aisles were added. The old nave got the function of a transept, at the southern end of the new main nave the high altar stood in an apse . Today the main entrance is there. The south tower, also popularly known as the New Tower, was placed at the southeast corner of the new building. The church was accessed through an entrance from Heibeckstrasse. Today there is the choir behind the altar. Bishop Johannes Poggenburg consecrated the new church on April 30, 1914. During the Second World War , on March 9, 1945, the building was almost completely destroyed in a bomb attack. The substructure of the old tower and the new tower as well as part of the outer walls and columns remained. The church was essentially rebuilt on the old plan. A commemorative stone was set for this on October 24, 1948. The high altar was moved to a new location on the north wall, and the new main entrance was on the south side, next to the new tower. Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Roleff consecrated the altar on December 4, 1949. When the old tower was renovated in 1958, it was given a bronze portal . The tower is divided in the upper area by two arched windows with set columns. In the years 1983 to 1984 the interior was redesigned, an altar island was created and the side altars and the pulpit were removed. The coffered ceiling was painted in color, the arcade arches were given colored ornaments.

Furnishing

  • The Amandus Cross is the most valuable piece of equipment in terms of art history. Christ is depicted with a tunic , resurrected, in the style of the Volto Santo . The cross is from more recent times, but the body from the 12th century. According to tradition, relics of Amandus are contained in this Romanesque corpus . A large number of votive offerings prove the veneration of this cross. In April 2014, the corpus was subjected to an X-ray examination at the St. Vincenz Hospital to confirm the presence of the relics inside. Remnants of a human thigh bone, parts of a sternum and a piece of a rib were found. Whether these remains are relics of Amandus could not be determined without a doubt.
  • The sacrament house is in the baptistery . It was made around 1520 in Berndt Bunickmann's workshop in Münster. Only minimal remains of the original color scheme have survived. The house in the form of a tower is richly decorated and shows figures of saints and the scene of the Annunciation .
  • The gabled sacrament niche with a finial from the end of the 16th century was used to store the holy of holies .
  • The makeshift altar, a former conference table of the hospital, was replaced in 1984 with a new sandstone altar. Bishop Reinhard Lettmann consecrated the altar on September 22, 1984.
  • The sediles and the ambo were renewed in 1984.
  • The origin of the possibly Romanesque holy water basin is not clear. The twisted shaft stands on four reclining animal figures , the cup shows twelve semi-sculptural male figures.

organ

The organ building company Klais from Bonn made a new organ and installed it on March 6, 1988. The slider chests -instrument has 40 registers on three manual works and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I main work C – a 3
1. Reed flute 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Flute harmonique 8th'
4th Salicional 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. Cornet V 8th'
9. Mixture IV 1'
10. Trumpet 16 ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – a 3
12. Reed flute 8th'
13. Gamba 8th'
14th Vox coelestis 8th'
15th Principal 4 ′
16. Transverse flute 4 ′
17th Octavine 2 ′
18th Sexquialter II
19th Scharff IV 1'
20th Trumpet harm. 8th'
21st Hautbois 8th'
22nd Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
III Echo (swellable) C – a 3
23. Drone 8th'
24. Reed flute 4 ′
25th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
26th Principal 2 ′
27. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
28. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
29 Octave 1'
30th Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C–
31. Principal 16 ′
32. Sub bass 16 ′
33. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
34. Octave 8th'
35. Dumped 8th'
36. Tenor octave 4 ′
37. Bombard 16 ′
38. bassoon 16 ′
39. Trumpet 8th'
40. Clairon 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Legend

With the residents of the community as well as in the surrounding area, St. Amandu's great admiration. On his feast days, his picture was adorned with all sorts of gold and silver votive gifts. Thieves once stole the picture with the gifts. But they were forced to hide it, so they buried it in the ground. There was now mourning in the church because of the great iniquity. For a long time the image had disappeared and all searches were in vain. One day a pious shepherd who was walking across the field with his flock saw a white lily standing in a field. He broke off the beautiful flower, but when he came to the same field the next day, to his great astonishment, the flower was there again. The shepherd's dog began to scratch, and lo and behold, the long-lost image came to light! He reported his discovery and the picture was happily retrieved and put back in its place in the church. The piece of land where it was found is still called the Amandus piece and is located near the Emscher-Lippe colliery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pages of the parish
  2. ↑ Pages of the Dean's Office
  3. ↑ First mention
  4. ↑ Tower
  5. ↑ Gothic building
  6. ↑ extension
  7. ↑ Reconstruction
  8. ↑ Dehio, Georg , 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 , page 224
  9. ↑ Dehio, Georg , 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 , page 224
  10. ↑ X-ray examination
  11. ↑ Dehio, Georg , 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 , page 224
  12. ↑ Dehio, Georg , 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 , page 224
  13. ↑ Sacrament house and niche
  14. ↑ Dehio, Georg , 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 , page 224
  15. ↑ Information about the altar and organ as well as the disposition on the website of the builder company
  16. ↑ Trivia

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 46.5 ″  E