St. Antonius (Gronau)

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Parish Church of St. Antonius
St. Antonius Church

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Antonius is a listed church building at Neustraße 13 in Gronau , in the Borken district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The parish patron is Anthony the Great , patron of the basket makers and brush makers.

History and architecture

The previous church was a late Baroque building that was demolished and in its place in 1913 the neo-Gothic basilica with a transept and a choir with a 5/8 end was built by Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann . The massive building made of Ibbenbürener sandstone blocks is structured by round and pointed arched windows with rich tracery . Further decorative elements are arch and block friezes. The interior is vaulted with ribs . The lead glass windows were made from 1914 to 1919 based on designs by Wilhelm Derix .

organ

The organ was built in 1962 by the organ building company Friedrich Fleiter (Münster). The main and pedal parts are without an organ case . The instrument has stops on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.

I main work C–
Pommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
Idleness 2 ′
Sesquialter III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Swell C–
Coarse 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Sing. Dacked 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Schwegel 2 ′
Octavlein 1'
Scharff III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Wooden dulcian 16 ′
Shawm oboe 8th'
Tremulant
III Rückpositiv C–
Quintatön 8th'
Darling Dumped 8th'
Venetian flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Sif flute 1'
Cymbel III
musette 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C–
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Tube bare 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P; II / I and II / II as sub-octave coupling

Bells

The church today has a five-part ringing of bronze bells. The smallest bell (V) is a medieval bell from Butendijk. Bells I to IV all come from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen. The Otto bells ring out on the '- es' - f '- es'. The three larger bells were cast in 1955. The es' bells were cast in 1928 and survived the bells seizure of the Second World War.

characters

  • The Lower Rhine Madonna is from the second half of the 15th century, it comes from the previous church
  • The figures of Saints Paul and Peter and Anthony Abbot are from the late Baroque period
  • The crucifix is from the 19th century

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Antonius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our parish patron ( Memento from September 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Cultural landscape technical contribution to the regional plan Münsterland administrative region Münster. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , 2013, p. 213 , accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ More information about the organ
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular 531, 544, 553 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 492, 502, 509 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 43 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 27 ″  E