St. Cornelius and Cyprian (Lippborg)
The Catholic parish church of St. Cornelius and Cyprian is a listed church building in Lippborg , a district of the municipality of Lippetal in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
An exact date of foundation of the parish is not documented. The parish in 1189, when Bishop was first mentioned Hermann II. Of Katzenelnbogen of Munster the Benedictine monastery in Liesborn the tithe prescribed in Lippborg.
Church from 1520
The description of the church from 1520 is taken from a log from 1835. The inauguration of the parish church took place on March 13, 1520. The church was 93 feet long and 25 feet wide. The west tower was 25 feet square and its masonry was 50 feet high. It was made of rough quarry stone and had no floor plan. The square spire was made of oak, so the total tower height was 50 feet (32 meters). The cross vault in the choir was probably drawn in at a later time, the rest of the church was vaulted with wooden barrels. The choir was made of hewn green sandstone and whitewashed inside with lime. As you can see under flaking, it was painted in the old days. The choir walls were divided by six windows. The building was accessible through a door in the tower and one in the choir. In the lower church there was a stage for the men and above it the organ gallery . The sacristy was cross-vaulted and equipped with a separate altar. The high altar was, as usual, on the choir. The side altars were dedicated to St. Mary and St. Catherine. The altars had a stone slab in which the reliquary was walled. A recent crucifixion group stood on the high altar . The church was demolished in August 1856. Stones that were still usable were cleaned and reused for walling . Some of the wood was also reused.
Emergency church
In order to guarantee the service during the new building, the construction of an emergency church was necessary. The exact location has not been handed down, but it is likely to have been near today's kindergarten, on a meadow that is still known today as Pastors Kämpken . The order for the construction of the half-timbered building was placed on October 2, 1856 by the Bishop of Münster Johann Georg Müller . The organ from the old church was also built, which had eight registers and a one-octave pedal with two registers. After the construction of the new church, the emergency church was auctioned off and demolished, the organ was sold to the organ builder Barkhoff from Wiedenbrück for 100 Reichstaler.
Today's church
For a fee of 100 Reichstalers, the Cologne architect Vincenz Statz prepared the plans for the new building of the church. Master bricklayer Hamerle from Beckum was entrusted with the construction work, the construction management was the responsibility of the site manager C. Crone from Münster. Most of the bricks (500,000 pieces) were fired by Master Conrad Adam. The exact start of construction has not been recorded; the foundation stone was laid on June 21, 1857. The neo-Gothic basilica was inaugurated on September 19, 1859 by Bishop Johann Georg.
The tower was only built in 1875. The interior was painted in 1915. The church tower was re-covered in 1958, the slate was replaced by Eternit . From 1962 to 1965 the church was extensively renovated. In the course of this, the pulpit with the sound cover , the intricately carved confessionals, the side altars and the entire choir stalls were removed. The wooden organ stage was demolished and replaced by a steel structure. The new confessionals were let into the aisles flush with the wall. The wooden benches in the central and side aisles have been renewed. The baptismal font was placed on the site of the Catherine altar. On the instructions of the architect Brößkamp, the images of the Stations of the Cross were reduced in size. According to the instructions of the Second Vatican Council, the choir room was redesigned in 1970. A new stone altar was erected, with the Cornelius shrine in the base. A new ambo was set up next to the sacristy. A new stone altar table was set up on the epistle side and the Ludgerus relic is visible in its base. The communion bench has been removed. A major renovation of the exterior was undertaken in 1986 and the interior was renovated by 1988. On December 31, 1984, the church was added to the list of architectural monuments in Lippetal .
Oratory and funeral cellar
There is an oratorio on the north side of the choir . Count Mathias von Galen had it built for his family and himself at his own expense and built a funeral cellar underneath for the family's burial. According to a cost estimate received, the total cost was 900 Reichstaler. In the course of the church renovation in 1964, Count Christoph Bernhard von Galen exchanged the family oratorio for the sacristy opposite on the epistle side. The old count's chapel was expanded to become today's sacristy. The death cellar was built over.
The remains of family members are still walled up in the death cellar:
- The patron Mathias Graf von Galen, Lord of House Assen
- The wife of the patron, Anna, b. from Kettler Harkorten
- The dean Christoph Bernhard Graf von Galen
- The canon Clementine von Galen
Patronage law
The right of patronage was originally held by the collegiate monastery of St. Stephanus in Beckum. In the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War and the Reformation , it passed to the Lords of Ketteler on Assen. With the purchase of the house of Assen and its accessories, the rights passed to the resident barons of Galen, who were elevated to the Prussian count status in 1803.
Furnishing
Cornelius Shrine
The Cornelius reliquary is a significant work in terms of art history. It was completed in 1498 at the latest. On the front side is a label engraved anno dni MCCCCXC VIII (In the year of the Lord 1498). The shrine, built in the Gothic style, is 60 cm long, 26 cm wide and 65 cm high. It was made from gold-plated copper and silver plates and stands on a base made of six pillars. The twelve apostles are arranged in the four corner pillars with arcades on the long sides. The church patrons stand in front of the gable ends. The coat of arms of the von Kettler men is attached to the gables. The shrine was lost during the Seven Years' War. It was found in 1860 while cleaning up in a blacksmith's workshop under iron junk and handed over to Pastor Didon. Didon wrote in 1861: “Today I finished the Knilles box in the restoration. Lock the relics carefully kept under lock and key in it ... ”. The box contained many relics, some of them were kept in stone pots or bags that were closed with wax seals. In a pouch, half made of linen and half of red silk, Didon discovered a small relic with the title St. Corneli . The other relics could no longer be assigned. The attached document from 1498 was no longer legible. Didon carefully sealed everything, made a new document and put it in a jar along with the old parchment and sealed it. The relic of Cornelius was placed in a stone pot, sealed with wax, and placed back in the shrine. The box was closed with a smooth lid, nailed shut and sealed with a church seal. The roof, covered with silver, was fastened with two screws.
Relic of St. Liudger
On the occasion of the 1050th anniversary of Liudger's death , the Bishop of Münster received some relics of the saint for use in his diocese . A relic, part of an upper rib, was given to this church. Count Mathias von Galen offered to donate an iron box to store the relic in the Ludgerus Chapel, as well as an ostensorium for the exhibition. He also offered to have the relic picked up from Münster in an extra mail . On July 29, 1860, the relic was picked up and carried to the church on a stretcher in a box. The relic was placed in a glass tube and sealed with a seal from the bishop. The ostensorium was completed in 1866, it resembles a monstrance, it is neo-Gothic and made of gold-plated silver. The engraving under the foot read: Donated in 1866 by Mathias von Galen and Anna von Ketteler-Harkorten, in memory of Friedrich von Galen . The relic has been visible to the public in the base of the altar on the epistle side since 1970.
Other equipment
- A font from the middle of the 13th century. The basin is cylindrical, with reliefs of the baptism of Christ between leaf friezes and pilasters .
- Epitaph of Wilhelm Ketteler (died 1582)
- The high altar burned down in 1913 due to glowing wicks, the new winged altar was inaugurated in 1921.
- A new ambo was purchased in 2004, it is a work by Rudolf Breimann from Roxel.
organ
The organ builder Felix Caspar Barckhoff built an organ with two manuals, a free pedal and 23 sounding stops in 1859. This was replaced in 1938 by an instrument by Bernhard Speith. The new organ had two manuals, a free pedal and 29 sounding stops. In 1962 the organ was given a new front and in 1979 it was thoroughly cleaned and re-voiced. 35 defective membranes were changed and 243 membranes replaced. The last thorough repairs were carried out in 2002, repairs were carried out and a trumpet sat on the bench and clicked on.
Bells
The main bell in the west tower consists of three bells that are tuned to the Te Deum motif dis'-fis'-gis'. Bells II and III were cast by Wolter Westerhues in 1527. In 1949 the Junker bell foundry in Brilon delivered the big bell.
literature
- Ursula Quednau (Red.): Dehio manual of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 572.
- Konrad Stengel, Willi Hennecke, Ulla Ellies, Franz-Josef Stengel: 150 years of St. Cornelius and Cyprianus. Lippborg 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 297 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '53.6 " N , 8 ° 2' 20.4" E