St. Antonius Abbot (Ammeloe)

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St. Antonius Abbot

The Catholic Rectorate Church of St. Antonius Abt is a listed church building in Ammeloe, a district of Vreden in the Borken district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The first chapel mentioned in a document in 1369, founded by the Vreden abbess Adelheid IV von Bentheim, was under the patronage of St. Alexander. In 1444 it was replaced by one in the middle of a cemetery, which the 18 colleges and seven courts of Wennewick had requested from the abbess. He was surrounded by the storehouses of the 25 abbey farmers. The cemetery was later moved to the site.

The south-facing hall church of four bays , with a choir bay at a five-eighth end , was built from 1858 to 1860 under the construction management of Emil von Manger and according to plans by Johann Christian Schmidt. The tower is in the north. The brick building is structured by tracery windows made of sandstone. In the interior, busted ribbed vaults rest over strong round pillars. The choir walls are divided by five tracery windows, the two outer ones are ornamental carpet windows , the inner ones are figurative. The painting was done in 1881 by the painter Albert Brückmann from Münster

Namesake

In a document, St. Anthony Abbot is named as patron . He was born in Middle Egypt around 251. He gave away his inheritance and lived as a hermit in the Libyan desert , where he fought against demons . In Alexandria he comforted captured Christians. He died at the age of 105.

The saint is usually represented with a T-stick, the Egyptian cross . Usually a bell dangled from the staff. It indicates that the Antonite choirs had taken over the care of the sick in the hospitals. The little bell should warn the healthy of the danger of infection. Other attributes of the saint are a pig or fire.

Antonius was called in the case of plague , skin diseases and the so-called Antonius fire , an illness as a result of poisoning by ergot .

Because of the welfare of the poor, the Antonites had the right to graze their pigs free of charge. The Antonius pigs were probably also fattened with public funds. Their day of slaughter was January 17th, the feast day of the saint. Their meat was given to the poor.

There is hardly a representation of St. Anthony without the attribute of the pig.

Furnishing

Altars

  • The celebration altar is the youngest of the altars. As a result of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , the priest celebrates Mass versus populum , that is, facing the community.
  • The main altar was consecrated on November 21, 1860 by Bishop Johann Georg Müller in honor of St. Antonius Abbas according to the entry in the consecration certificate . It initially consisted of a brick block with a cafeteria , antependium and candlestick bench. The structure was only made in 1887 by the cabinet maker Vennekötter from Everswinkel.
  • The cabinet maker Vennekötter from Everswinkel undertook to build two side altars in 1895, the Marien and Josef altars.

Baptismal font

The baptismal font is probably part of the furnishings of the neo-Gothic church and was created in the 1890s. He is cup-shaped, in red and green color adopted and made of Ibbenbürener sandstone. The octagonal basin is decorated with a frieze made of quadrilateral, the shaft with Gothic tracery .

Bells

  • The bell of the previous chapel from 1444 was replaced in 1682 by a bell cast by the bell caster Mammes Fremy from Amsterdam. It is currently on display at the Hamaland Museum .
  • For the neo-Gothic church, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock cast two bells in 1883 , and another was added in 1909. Due to the war, these three bells were withdrawn in 1917. The bell, cast in 1921, was drafted in the Second World War. Three new bells were consecrated in 1947, a fourth was purchased in 1958.

Other equipment

The neo-Gothic interior dates from the 1880s.

  • The Drehtabernakel and the wooden figures of Saints Peter and Paul are works from the 18th century, they come down from the previous and in 1996 after findings taken .
  • The organ stands on a gallery, the instrument was built by Franz Breil from 1898 to 1899.
  • The Anna Selbdritt was carved at the beginning of the 16th century. The figure represents the mother Anna, Maria and the baby Jesus. She may have come to Ammeloe as a result of the iconoclasm in the Netherlands.
  • St. Antonius made of wood is a work from the second half of the 15th century.
  • The Perpetual Help is an icon, it is framed and hangs in neo-Gothic tower
  • The baptismal font is made of Ibbenbüren sandstone and is painted red, green and stone-colored. Its shaft is decorated with Gothic tracery , the octagonal basin with a frieze made of four- passages. it has a wooden lid.

Individual proof

Wilhelm Elling: St. Antonius Abt Vreden-Ammeloe, Ed .: Parish St. Antonius Abt, Ammeloe in cooperation with the Heimatverein Ammeloe, Vreden 1996

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Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 51.7 "  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 34.8"  E