St. Cyriacus (Vilsen)

Tower and the western = old south transept with a late Gothic portal

St. Cyriakus Vilsen is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Vilsen in the hamlet of Bruchhausen-Vilsen in Lower Saxony in the Diepholz district . It is named after the martyr Cyriak , who is considered a saint in the Catholic and Orthodox Church , and belonged to the Heiligenberg Monastery .

Building history

Around 1200 a hall church with a west tower was built here in Romanesque style field and rubble stones , the end of the choir is unclear. It forms the nave of today's cruciform church . The reveals of the arched windows that are walled up today are made of porta sandstone . The lower part of the tower dates from this time.

North side with Gothic (window and western transept), late Gothic (sandstone portal) and neo-Gothic (new transept and probably the west window) changes

Towards the end of the 13th century, a transept and a new choir were added to the church in the brick Gothic style . The old nave was probably also vaulted on this occasion. and the vaulting of the entire church. The cross vaults of the tower yoke and the nave yokes have strong ribs. The north and south side portals are made of sandstone and have engraved dates, 1534 and 1547 respectively.

In the years 1883–85, the church was expanded to include a second transept according to plans by CW Hase , which adjoins the old one to the east. The roof turret of the tower also comes from this conversion.

organ

The organ was built in 1959 by the organ builder Paul Ott . The slider chests -instrument has 32 registers on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Dumped	16 ′
2.	Principal	8th'
3.	Reed flute	8th'
4th	octave	4 ′
5.	recorder	4 ′
6th	Nasat	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
7th	octave	2 ′
8th.	Sif flute	2 ′
9.	Rauschpfeife II
10.	Mixture VI-VIII
11.	Third cymbal III
12.	Trumpet	8th'

II Rückpositiv C – g ³
13.	Wooden dacked	8th'
14th	Principal	4 ′
15th	Hollow flute	4 ′
16.	Pointed flute	2 ′
17th	Fifth	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
18th	octave	1'
19th	Sesquialtera II
20th	Sharp III-IV
21st	Krummhorn	8th'

Pedal C – f ¹
22nd	Sub-bass	16 ′
23.	Principal	8th'
24.	Dumped	8th'
25th	octave	4 ′
26th	Transverse flute	2 ′
27.	Mixture IV
28.	Cymbal Bass III
29	trombone	16 ′
30th	Rankett	16 ′
31.	Trumpet	8th'
32.	Tongue cornet	4 ′

Pairing : II / I

Literature (selection)

BRUCHHAUSEN-VILSEN, Kr. Diepholz - district VILSEN. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, pp. 298f., ISBN 3-422-03022-0
St. Cyriakus Church Vilsen. (Flyer; 6 pages); Text: Christiane Wimmer (2008), photos: Dagmar Focke, Jörg Cordes (2005)

Individual evidence

↑ Landschaftsverband Weser-Hunte: Brochure medieval village churches in the districts of Diepholz and Nienburg / Weser , 2nd edition 2013, as PDF , pp. 30/31
↑ More information about the organ

Web links

Commons : St. Cyriakus (Vilsen) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

52.821879 8.987256Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 18.8 ″ N , 8 ° 59 ′ 14.1 ″ E

[1] Landschaftsverband Weser-Hunte: Brochure medieval village churches in the districts of Diepholz and Nienburg / Weser , 2nd edition 2013, as PDF , pp. 30/31

[2] More information about the organ