St. Antonius (Papenburg)
St. Antonius is the Catholic parish church of Papenburg in the district of Emsland . The great neo-Gothic brick - hall church was from 1875 to 1877 according to plans by native Pape Burgers and Osnabrück Diocesan architect Alexander Behnes built. It is particularly important because of the largely preserved original furnishings.
history
Papenburg, established in the 17th century as a fen colony on the northern border of the monastery of Münster , had a Catholic parish church since 1674/80. The Blessed Niels Stensen , then Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, consecrated it on August 20, 1682 to the patronage of St. Anthony of Padua . The small, towerless church was on the west bank of the main canal. In 1777/78 it was expanded to double its size, but a few decades later it no longer met the needs of the rapidly growing community and was demolished between 1878 and 1881 after the new Antonius Church was completed.
New building plans and a church building fund had existed since the 1840s. Josef Niehaus († 1864) drew his first architectural drafts . In 1868 the property on the other bank of the canal, opposite the old church, was bought. The final construction plans were drawn up by Alexander Behnes in 1871. Because of the bog soil alone, more than a million bricks were needed for the foundation. Due to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of an empire , the laying of the foundation stone was delayed until July 15, 1875. On December 11, 1877, the Osnabrück bishop Johannes Beckmann consecrated the new Antonius Church. The purchase of the interior, the bells and the first organ (on the gallery in the north transept) lasted until 1885. The rich wall paintings by Gerhard Lamers and the stained glass windows were created in 1911/12. At the same time, a new gallery was built for a new, larger organ in the Westjoch.
During the Second World War , the bells were withdrawn for military purposes - prisoners of the Aschendorfermoor camp had to dismantle them and blow them up in the tower - the tower, the facade and some windows were damaged by shell fire, but the church was not destroyed.
In 1965 St. Antonius received new windows based on designs by Erentrud Trost , and in 1974 a new organ. Part of the church square with linden trees had to give way to the expansion of federal road 70 in 1966 . After provisional solutions in the wake of the liturgical reform , the sanctuary was redesigned in 1977. In 1978 the cross chapel for weekday services was built on the south side of the choir.
architecture
St. Antonius is a brick church 70 m long and 35 m wide in round-ogival Gothic forms. The nave is a three-aisled, ribbed vaulted hall. Between the four western and three eastern yokes are two lower cross arms with tracery-rich façades , but they do not form a real transept or crossing . The 88 m high, three-storey square bell tower with a pointed helmet rises above the main portal in the west. All corners of the building are marked with decorative turrets, the eaves are lined with an arched frieze . A drawn-in polygonal apse forms the east end .
Furnishing
The spatial impression of the interior is characterized by patterns of green glazed between the bricks that have been left red, elaborate capitals under the vault ribs and the figural stained glass windows from 1911/1912 and 1965.
In the center of attention is the free-standing sandstone high altar with a crucifixion group in a neo-Gothic architectural frame and flanking saints. Like the side altars, it was created in 1877 by the stonemason Heinrich Balthasar Seling. The crucifixion group is crowned by a Gothic arch and surrounded by pinnacles. Two cabinets with “golden” doors are integrated into the high altar: the upper one serves as a showcase for the monstrance , the lower one houses the tabernacle .
Also noteworthy are the pulpit, the side altars (Mary's altar and Joseph's altar), the confessionals and the images of the Stations of the Cross .
The wall paintings created by Gerhard Lamers with scenes of salvation history , pseudo-architecture and numerous, sometimes fabulous plants and animals, are particularly significant . The paintings are above the ledges, next to the windows. You can see u. a. twelve depictions of (winged) dragons (e.g. on the right above the Marien Altar and on the right of the window above the "place of holy water"), depictions of pheasants (on the right and left of the window at the Marien Altar), peacocks and other birds, Squirrels and indefinable subjects too.
"Antoniuszoo": dragon
"Antoniuszoo": peacock
Painting crossing
Apse painting
Mural
organ
When the church was completed in 1877, there was no organ gallery in the western part of the church, so the first organ was placed on the gallery in the north transept. The present organ stage above the tower hall was not built until 1911 when a new organ was to be installed there.
The current organ , which replaced the instrument from 1911, was built in 1957 by the organ building company Ernst Brand (Quickborn). The instrument was initially in the St. Josephs Church in Wandsbek and was acquired by the parish of St. Antonius in 1973 and expanded to 26 registers in 1974 by the organ building company Speith (Rietberg).
In 2020 St. Antonius will receive a new large organ. On May 18, 2017, the council of the city of Gelsenkirchen decided to give the previous concert hall organ of the Hans-Sachs-Haus , which was not reinstalled there after the renovation of the building, to the parish of St. Antonius for the symbolic amount of one euro. It is an organ from the company Werke from the company EF Walcker & Cie. from the year 1927. The instrument has 98 registers and is housed in a new case and attached to the vault with steel cables and thus sounds quasi "floating" in the church. The company Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn , where the organ was stored from 2007, takes over the construction and the intonation . The old organ of St. Anthony goes to Poland.
Bells
Four bells hang in the tower of St. Antonius. Three were made in 1950 at the Junker bell foundry (Brilon). The little Antonius bell dates from 1929.
| No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Weight (kg) |
Nominal (16th note) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fallen Memorial Bell | 1950 | Junker, Brilon | 1670 | 2580 | b 0 |
| 2 | Marien | 1950 | Junker, Brilon | 1400 | 1520 | of the 1st |
| 3 | Joseph | 1950 | Junker, Brilon | 1320 | 1340 | it 1 |
| 4th | Antony | 1929 |
literature
- Hans-Bernd Rödiger, Menno Smid : Frisian churches in Emden, Leer, Borkum, Mormerland, Uplengen, Overledingen and Reiderland , volume 3. Verlag CL Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1980, p. 110.
Web links
- Network presence of the parish of St. Antonius
- Church leader St. Antonius Papenburg. Sankt Antoniusgemeinde Papenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Location of the old Antonius Church
- ↑ The old church. with pictures. In: Church leader St. Antonius Papenburg. Sankt Antoniusgemeinde Papenburg, accessed on January 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Architectural drawings by Alexander Behnes. In: Church leader St. Antonius Papenburg. Sankt Antoniusgemeinde Papenburg, accessed on January 2, 2020 .
- ↑ The history of St. Antonius Church. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 .
- ^ The first 33 years. In: Church leader St. Antonius Papenburg. Sankt Antoniusgemeinde Papenburg, accessed on January 2, 2020 (dimensions of the church under the bottom picture).
- ↑ Information on the murals: "Antonius Zoo". In: Church leader St. Antonius Papenburg. Sankt Antoniusgemeinde Papenburg, accessed on January 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Organ gallery. Part 3. In: Church leader St. Antonius Papenburg. Sankt Antoniusgemeinde Papenburg, accessed on January 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Gelsenkirchen decides to sell - The "Queen of Organs" comes to Papenburg. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. May 18, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Old organ in St. Antonius goes to Poland , accessed on May 9, 2020.
- ↑ Information about the bells: bell room. In: Church leader St. Antonius Papenburg. Sankt Antoniusgemeinde Papenburg, accessed on January 2, 2020 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 45.3 " N , 7 ° 23 ′ 42.8" E