St. Boniface (Neuenkirchen)
St. Boniface in the district Neuenkirchen the community Neuenkirchen-Vörden is a daughter church of the Catholic parish of St. Victor , which the Dean Damme of the Münster diocese belongs.
history
1159 was of Neuenkirchen Damme (St. Victor) abgepfarrt . A Gothic church building was erected in 1426 , which was expanded in 1659 and renovated in 1738. This church was used as a simultaneous church by Catholics and Protestants from 1651 to 1889 .
After the end of the Simultaneum , the Protestant community built the Apostle Church , which was consecrated in 1891. The Church of St. Boniface became the sole property of the Catholic community and was demolished in 1902.
From 1902 to 1905, today's church building was built according to plans by Ludwig Becker , executed by Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann .
Building description
St. Bonifatius is a stepped hall made of sandstone - ashlar masonry in the neo-Gothic style . A transept adjoins the hall, a polygonal choir on the east side and the tower on the west side .
Furnishing
The oldest piece in the church is a baptismal font made of Bentheim sandstone ( Bentheim type ) from the end of the 12th century , which was already in the old church.
The stained glass by Wilhelm Derix (1904) dates from the construction time of the new church . The neo-Gothic high altar was designed by Heinrich Flügel and made by Fritz Ewertz in 1913 .
literature
- The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg . II. Issue: Amt Vechta, reprint of the 1900 edition, Osnabrück 1976, pp. 149–152.
- Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Vol. 2: Bremen / Lower Saxony, Neubearb., Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 972 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Catholic parish of St. Viktor: Neuenkirchen, St. Bonifatius
- ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 150 f.
- ↑ a b c d Dehio, p. 972 f.
- ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 152.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '39 " N , 8 ° 4' 2.5" E