St. Bartholomew (Essen)

St. Bartholomäus in Essen / Oldenburg is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Bartholomäus Essen / Oldb., Which belongs to the dean's office Löningen of the diocese of Münster .

history

The parish food was probably 968 to 978 of Löningen ( St. Vitus ), the mother parish of Hasegaues , abgepfarrt . Little is known about the earlier church buildings. In 1601 the church was destroyed by fire, which is reported by a bell inscription. The current church was built from 1870 to 1875 according to plans by the architect Johann Bernhard Hensen .

description

The three-aisled hall church was built from red brick in the neo-Gothic style. The four-bay nave is followed by a transept , a fore- choir bay and the retracted choir with ambulatory and five-eighth end . The upper floor of the tower is octagonal. The interior is structured by bundle pillars.

A special feature is the north-south orientation of the church, which deviates from the usual east , for which a special permit was required.

Furnishing

The neo-Gothic stone pulpit was made in 1880 by Fritz Ewertz from Münster, and a man of sorrows in 1683 by Bernd Meiering from Rheine. On the pillars there are saints by Thomas Simon Jöllemann (presumably 1700) and Johann Heinrich König (presumably 1769). A representation of Anna selbdritt from 1763 and other saints are attributed to Joseph Geitner . A classicist crucifixion group by Georg Gerhard Wessel (1801) comes from the former high altar .

Bells

Four bronze bells hang in the tower of St. Bartholomew. Bell 2 is from 1632 and was cast by Hinderich Ottnick. The other three bells which were cast in 1946 and 1950 by the renowned Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen. The big bell from 1950 is tuned to h °, the two smaller bells (1946) to f sharp 'and g sharp'. The peal is the second lowest pitch in the '' Oldenburger Münsterland '' area.

literature

• The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg . III. Issue: Amt Cloppenburg and Amt Friesoythe, reprint of the 1903 edition, Osnabrück 1976, p. 87 ff.
• Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Vol. 2: Bremen / Lower Saxony, Neubearb., Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 457 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 13 f.
2. ^ History of the community of Essen (Oldenburg). Municipality of Essen, accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 88.
4. ^ Dehio, p. 457.
5. ↑ Dehio, p. 457 f.
6. ↑ St. Bartholomew Essen. Catholic parish of St. Bartholomäus Essen / Oldb., Accessed on March 22, 2020 . 
7. ^ Dehio, p. 458.
8. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular 543 and 549.
9. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular pp. 501 and 506

Coordinates: 52 ° 43 '1.7 "  N , 7 ° 56" 24.7 "  E