St. Cecilia (Bösel)

St. Cäcilia in Bösel is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Cäcilia in Bösel, which belongs to the Friesoythe deanery of the diocese of Münster .

history

In Bösel there was a chapel congregation within the parish Altenoythe with the parish church of St. Vitus until 1873 . The time of its establishment is unknown. The oldest reference to a chapel with the patronage of Martin von Tours dates back to 1574, but this probably existed before the Reformation . A new chapel was mentioned in 1724, which was rebuilt and expanded from 1798 to 1799.

After the chapel was determined to be in disrepair in 1831 , makeshift repairs were made and a new building was planned. Demolition and construction began in 1836. On July 14, 1839, the new chapel was consecrated by the official Franz Joseph Herold . She received the patronage of Cecilia of Rome in honor of the Grand Duchess of Oldenburg, Cecilia of Sweden , who laid the foundation stone .

By Abpfarrung Boesel was raised in 1873 into an independent parish and the former chapel to the parish church. In 1887 a church tower was built to replace the roof turret that was destroyed by fire in 1885 . From 1922 to 1923 the church was expanded by Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann . In 1960 the nave that had remained from 1839 was replaced by a wider new building.

description

The hall church made of red brick has had a cross-shaped floor plan since it was extended by a transept in 1922/1923 . With this extension in the neo-baroque style, the choir , side chapel , pietà and sacristy were added. The west tower from 1887 is neo-Romanesque .

Furnishing

High altar

Most of the furnishings are neo-baroque and date from the time the extension was built. These include the stone high altar by Fritz Ewertz , who probably also made a side altar , the communion bench and the baptismal font , as well as the Way of the Cross by the painter Wilhelm Lautenbach from Münster and the wall painting by Gerhard Lamers .

The earlier altarpiece , on which Jesus Christ is depicted as the Savior with the cross , was given to the community by Grand Duke August I in 1839 . It was only in 2015 that it was revealed that it came from the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens . After restoration, it was exhibited in a climatic case in the church.

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. 147.
• Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Vol. 2: Bremen / Niedersachsen, Neubearb., Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 241.
• Aloys Gelhaus: 1836 - 1839: New construction of the chapel in Bösel - a special gift from the Grand Duke for the consecration: the altarpiece. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Catholic parish St. Cäcilia in Bösel, accessed on April 10, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : St. Cäcilia  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Virtual tour of St. Cäcilia (Flash) at the Catholic parish of St. Cäcilia in Bösel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 147.
2. ↑ Gelhaus, p. 1.
3. ↑ Gelhaus, p. 2 ff.
4. ↑ Gelhaus, p. 7 ff.
5. ↑ History of our parish - Chapter 2 - The beginnings as an independent parish (1835 - 1915). Catholic parish of St. Cäcilia in Bösel, accessed on April 10, 2020 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Dehio, p. 241.
7. ↑ History of our parish - Chapter 6 - Expansion of the Böseler Church, expansion of the church infrastructure, construction of the first kindergarten (1959 - 1987). Catholic parish of St. Cäcilia in Bösel, accessed on April 10, 2020 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} History of our parish - Chapter 3 - Bösel - a growing community (1917 - 1933). Catholic parish of St. Cäcilia in Bösel, accessed on April 10, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Gelhaus, p. 10 ff.

Coordinates: 53 ° 0 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 18 ″  E