St. Cyriakus (Geseke)

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Parish Church of St. Cyriacus
View through the ship
The high altar
View of the organ
Choir view with flank towers

The parish church of St. Cyriakus is a listed church building in Geseke , in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The former collegiate church of the Geseke women's monastery was used then as now as the parish church in Geseke and is part of the Geseke-Stadt pastoral network of the Lippstadt-Rüthen dean's office in the Archdiocese of Paderborn . The building stands in the middle of a park-like garden with large, pattern-like green spaces and colorful flower beds. Several memorial plaques remind of personalities, former clergy and events.

history

In the middle of the 10th century, the Gesek women's community of the Saxon count family of the Haholde founded a women's monastery. King Otto I confirmed the foundation through Hohold and his siblings, omne, quod eiusdem civitatis interioris muri ambitu continetur The nuns received from Otto III in 986 . the right to elect an abbess, while immunity was granted. It was placed under the protection of Archbishop Heribert of Cologne by Hildegunde , the abbess of Geseke, in 1014 and was dissolved under Prussian rule in 1823 with the death of Abbess Bernhardina Sophia von Plettenberg-Lenhausen.

After the founding of the women's monastery, the collegiate church was built, it served as the ecclesiastical center for the ladies of the monastery freedom. During excavations in 1932, a previous building from the 10th or 11th century was found. The transept basilica had a flat roof and a square choir and apses . Remains of the enclosing walls in the transept and the southern and northern crossing arches have been preserved from this previous building.

Architecture and interior design

The former collegiate church is a hall with two bays and a transept, was built in quarry stone and plastered. The choir is just closing, the church has two side towers and a massive west tower. The sacristy is housed in the former chapter house, followed by the Romanesque cloister. The west tower was built in the second half of the 12th century, the beams above the gallery were installed between 1167 and 1176 according to the results of a dendrochronological study . The eastern parts were built between 1156 and 1180, at which time the transept was also vaulted with vaults over angular wall templates. The vault on the north side is marked 1474, the vault in the crossing was renewed in the 19th century. In the 15th century, the northern apse was probably renewed in a rectangular shape. The nave was rebuilt in the first half of the 13th century as a vaulted hall church, during this time the west tower was increased by three storeys with acoustic arcades. The walls of the nave are structured by tracery windows that were partially renewed in the 14th and 15th centuries.

According to the results of dendrochronological studies, the upper floors of the southern choir tower were renewed between 1445 and 1450. The portal in the north transept, which is now walled up, is called 1467. The vaults in the nave were painted at the beginning of the 16th century and partially uncovered in 1971. Up to the 17th century there were a total of 16 altars in the interior, according to a visitation report from 1717 there were only 12 and by the middle of the 18th century these were also dismantled and replaced by the baroque altar triads. During the renovation between 1878 and 1894, the upper floors of the west tower were rebuilt according to plans by Arnold Güldenpfennig ; The Paderborn Cathedral served as a model . The two portals in the nave and the three-window group in the choir were installed. The compact flank towers of the monumental west tower were originally only structured by a few arched windows. Traces of arched, two-lane window groups from the 13th century are still preserved on the nave. The portals on the south and north sides of the western nave yoke were built in the 19th century.

On the south side of the tower, a biforie from the Middle Ages is preserved among the bifories from the 19th century , which served as a model for the new ones. In the nave rest on massive, cross-shaped pillars with semicircular templates, busted cross-ribbed vaults that are drawn down deep. The capital zone with high fighter blocks and a continuous arched frieze looks unusual. The shield arches are set off in green sandstone. In the narrow aisles, domed vaults rest on rectangular templates. In the southern transverse arm, a 12th century ridge vault rests on wall templates. In the 12th century buttresses were placed in front of the crossing piers to the transept arms . The pillars in the crossing were renewed in the 19th century. The crossing arches on the south and north sides from older and more recent times are not concentric. The choir and the crossing are equipped with brushed groin vaults. A glare can be seen under the pointed arch window in the western choir bay. The flank towers are open to the Ostchorjoch through an arcade on the ground floor and a biforie on the upper floor. The tower chapels are vaulted with groin vaults, they have apses in the east in the wall thickness; Column frames are painted on the wall windows. At the north entrance, near the baptistery, there is a small opening, the so-called escape from the dead, let into the wall. A light used to be set up here during the funeral. Nowadays a light is burning here for the deceased parishioners as long as they are not yet buried.

The interior was extensively renovated in 2007, and the exterior and color redesigned since 2008. The construction joints were contrasted in color and the sound hatches emphasized. In this context, outdoor lighting was also installed. The slate valleys on the roof were renewed, new beams were inserted in the tower spire and the large enclosure wall was renovated.

Pilgrimage

The focus of the pilgrimage is the miraculous image of the painful mother, Maria Schuss . It was created in the 15th century and transferred to the church in 1633. The pilgrimage experienced a climax in the 18th century. Numerous votive offerings and foundations testify to the veneration of Mary . The pilgrimage has revived in recent years to allow members of the clergy to take a short break.

Furnishing

High altar

The high altar was built by Christophel Papen in 1727. It consists of two attic floors with splendid reliefs made of alabaster . In the excerpt there is a fully plastic figure of Christ with the globe, he is carried by angels on a pedestal. Above it, the Christ monogram can be seen in rich ornamentation . The black marble retable creates a contrast. The inscription under the pelican gives the year 1932 in the chronogram .

Other equipment

Baptismal font
  • The sacrament house from the beginning of the 16th century has neo-Gothic figures.
  • On the baptismal font is St. Cyriacus , the patron saint of the church and one of the fourteen helpers in need , represented with the attribute devil .
  • The organ front was carved with ornamental and vegetable elements by Johann Wilhelm Tüllmann in 1712. The organ was installed by Carl Tennstädt in 1890.
  • The Pietà was carved in the first half of the 15th century. It originally stood in a wayside shrine on Hellweg.
  • A wooden figure standing above the door to the sacristy represents Cyriacus. It was carved in the workshop of Franz-Dieter Brock in the 17th or 18th century. Since it was badly damaged by woodworm infestation, it was thoroughly dewormed and restored in the Brock workshop in Störmede. The wormholes were filled with artificial wood and old layers of paint were exposed. The figure was re- taken and edited with powder silver. The saint is shown in a knight's armor, according to tradition, he is said to have come to the aid of the population on a white horse and in silver armor between 1410 and 1415.
  • The shrine of Cyriacus stands in a rectangular niche on the north side; it was made in 1684.
  • The two stone relief panels are works from the first half of the 17th century; they show the resurrection of Christ and the martyrdom of the saints.
  • Epitaphs of deceased canons have been preserved in the inner courtyard .
  • The main bell in the west tower consists of four bronze bells from the Junker bell foundry in Brilon from 1948, tuned to c′-es′-f′-g ′. In the roof turret hangs a small Klepp bell, which sounds at high feasts and is tuned to H ". The bell was cast in 1674 by Johann de la Paix.
  • A holy grave is shown in the tower hall .

Stiftsbauhütte

The Stiftsbauhütte serves to preserve the church. This is where people come together informally who are committed to this goal in an ideal, financial or personal way. The old Geseker monastery coat of arms was chosen as the signet.

The rubble stones used in the construction are tectonically damaged. The small cracks in the brickwork are constantly expanding due to environmental influences, the stone crumbles and is only held by the wall composite. The damage has increased sharply since the last exterior renovation in the 1980s. The joint material can be removed piece by piece with your fingers , there is no longer any connection to the substrate. The structure is at risk in terms of statics. A thin, multi-layered slurry should be applied as surface protection. The underlying stone structure should remain largely visible. Crumbled stones must be removed and replaced, every stone must be checked.

literature

  • Dora Marie Wintzer: The building history of the collegiate church St. Cyriakus zu Geseke in Westphalia. Diss., Göttingen 1954.
  • Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .
  • Theodor Arens, Stanislaus Kandula, Roman Mensing: Baroque in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-89710-495-2 .

Web links

Commons : St. Cyriacus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Committees , website of the collegiate church.
  2. ↑ Garden around the church. In: hertaland.de .
  3. ^ Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg : Monasticon Westfaliae. Directory of the founders, monasteries and other religious establishments established in the province of Westphalia up to 1815. University bookstore Coppenrath, Münster 1909, p. 28 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Prehistory .
  5. ↑ Foundation and end of the monastery (PDF; 140 kB), review of Ulrich Löer: The noble Kanonissenstift St. Cyriakus zu Geseke. Website of the Concilium Medii Aevi magazine .
  6. ↑ Use as a collegiate church , website of the collegiate church of St. Cyriakus.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .
  8. ↑ Cloister and sacristy , website of the collegiate church of St. Cyriakus.
  9. ↑ a b c Theodor Arens, Stanislaus Kandula, Roman Mensing: Baroque in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-89710-495-2 .
  10. ↑ Information , website of the collegiate church St. Cyriakus.
  11. ^ Renovation measures , website of the collegiate church St. Cyriakus.
  12. ^ Baptismal font , website of the collegiate church of St. Cyriakus.
  13. ↑ Renovation of the Cyriakus , website of the collegiate church of St. Cyriakus.
  14. ↑ Epitaphs in the inner courtyard , website of the collegiate church of St. Cyriakus.
  15. ↑ Reference to the Holy Sepulcher , website of the Collegiate Church of St. Cyriakus.
  16. ↑ Need for renovation , website of the collegiate church St. Cyriakus.

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 42.5"  E