St. Bernhard (Niederense)

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Catholic Church of St. Bernhard in Niederense

The Catholic parish church of St. Bernhard is a listed church building in Niederense , a district of Ense in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The Cistercian monastery Himmelpforten built a monastery church in the valley of the Möhne from 1721 to 1725 , after the abolition of the convent this served as a parish church . During the Second World War, the Möhne dam was destroyed in 1943 and the floods destroyed the church.

The parish church was built in a new location from 1945 to 1948 according to plans by the architect August Dambleff. The transept basilica with west tower , choir and apse was consecrated in 1949. The ruins of the old church were used as building material. For the outer facing, stone from remnants was used to repair the dam. The cross and the nave are with gable roofs covered in slate. The tower is crowned with a tent roof.

In the interior, the crossing square is marked by beams, which were later greatly enlarged. Flat beam ceilings are stretched across the rooms. The nave is accompanied by arched arcades with side corridors and windows in the upper aisle . The vestibule and the gallery open in large arches. The choir square with the apse is raised significantly, its walls are divided by three arched glass windows by the artist Willi Strauss. The glazing of the side walls was carried out in 1976 according to plans by Jupp Gesing . The romanizing character of the room was changed by the color tinting of the ceiling and painted frames.

Furnishing

  • The altar stands on a podium on the threshold of the crossing.
  • The remains of the stone altar that used to stand in the apse arch are in the southern side of the choir. The altar was built by Heinrich Papen and is marked 1726.
  • Six baroque wooden figures by Johann Leonhard Falter have also been preserved; they stand on consoles in the central nave wall.
  • The two walled ambon trees that stood on the stairs have not been preserved.

Bells

St. Bernhard has a total of five bells. A small bronze bell has been preserved, tuned to the tone d ″. It was cast in 1678 and comes from the former monastery church in Himmelpforten. She sounds at the Angelus. In 1948 four cast steel bells were hung. They originally hung in the Pankratius Church in Warstein. The bells St. Benedict (h °), St. Bernhard (dis ′), St. Maria (f sharp ′) and St. Agatha (g sharp ′) ring on strongly cranked steel yokes with counterweight clappers, which has an extremely negative effect on the sound. In 2017 the bell was temporarily stopped due to defective retaining bolts.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Bernhard (Ense)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clapper lifted from the church tower . In: https://www.soester-anzeiger.de . March 7, 2018 ( soester-anzeiger.de [accessed April 2, 2018]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 35.2 "  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 38.3"  E