St. Georg (Saerbeck)

St. George

Station of the cross

The organ in St. Georg

The Catholic parish church of St. Georg is a listed church building in Saerbeck , a municipality in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The history of the community probably begins in the Middle Ages around 800, when the Münsterland through St. Ludgerus was Christianized . The first evidence of a stone church in Romanesque style comes from a document from Emperor Heinrich V in 1161. The parish was first mentioned in 1196, but it must have existed before the beginning of the 11th century. At the beginning of the 16th century a church in the late Gothic style was built on the same site . The tower was raised. The oldest known pictorial representation of the village with a representation of a church dates from 1750. Remnants of the wall were found from the Romanesque predecessor church.

In the 19th century the church was dilapidated and was therefore torn down. The neo-Gothic hall church is made of ashlar . There is a transept and three choirs . It was built in 1896 by Wilhelm Rincklake from Münster. The lower tower floors and the west portal, designated 1526, are still present from the previous Gothic building . The church was painted in 1917, but these murals were whitewashed in the 1960s. They were exposed again during renovation work around 1980. They are considered to be particularly good examples of rare, neo-Gothic paintings in Westphalia .

Furnishing

• A font with tendril frieze and arcade structure from the second quarter of the 13th century
• A wooden Madonna from 1480 with a more recent version
• A Vesper picture from 1630
• A seated figure of St. Anna with Maria in the manner of a seated Madonna from the 13th century

Bells

The bell consists of five bronze bells , which were cast in 1974 by August Mark in Brockscheid (Eifel). The tone sequence is: d ¹ e ¹ f sharp ¹ g ¹ a ¹ .

literature

• 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. 498 .

Web links

Commons : St. Georg (Saerbeck)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History and old photos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dehio manual (...) (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 24 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 7 ″  E