St. Georg (Vechta)

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Provost church of St. Georg
Interior, view of the choir

The provost church of St. Georg in Vechta is the parish church of the Catholic parish of Vechta, St. Mary's Assumption, and the seat of the Episcopal Official of the Oldenburg official district , who holds the rank of auxiliary bishop of the Münster diocese . The church is under the patronage of St. George .

history

In the middle of the 12th century, the Counts of Calvelage-Ravensberg built a castle at the transition over the Moorbachtal. The first St. George's parish church was built around 1200 for the craftsmen and merchants' settlement emerging near the castle.

architecture

St. Georg is an east - facing three-aisled Westphalian hall church made of brick. The architectural style is late Gothic with a clear Renaissance influence . The three nave - yokes are separated by powerful columns, the vault carry. This is followed by the polygonal choir with star-shaped intertwined stitch caps . Destruction and restoration brought changes with them. The main features of the current church were built in 1452. The current appearance of the church dates back to 1598. In 1722 the massive tower with a baroque Welsch dome was added. From 2003 to 2007 the church was extensively renovated.

Furnishing

St. Georg has valuable furnishings . The altarpiece , pulpit and communion bench are works of the 18th century. Two arm-shaped reliquaries of St. Alexander from around 1220–1230 came here in 1699 from the Alexander monastery in Wildeshausen as part of the relocation of the Alexander chapter to Vechta. Also located in the church a Renaissance - cuppa on a late Gothic shaft of the baptismal font. The cup was created by the sculptor Johann Brabender from Münster ( Westphalia ) around 1540.

The most valuable part of the church treasure is a silver ray Madonna, which was made in 1636/1640 by Wilhelm Fesenmayr, an Augsburg goldsmith. It was given to the church in 1655 by Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen on the occasion of the liberation from Swedish rule.

A mounted next to the southern entrance to the outer wall of the church sandstone - Epitaph represents the 1,597 deceased knight Johann of Dorgelo is this belonged in the 16th century, the Good puppy..

  • The baroque pulpit from the 18th century

  • Choir with altar during Lent

  • Epitaph of J. von Dorgelo

The organ was built in 1963 by Alfred Führer ( Wilhelmshaven ). The slider chests -instrument has 39 registers on three manuals and pedal . The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electrical. In 2018 the organ was renovated by Harm Dieder Kirchner ( Weener ); In addition to several changes in the disposition, a new typesetting system was installed.

I. Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Tube bare 8th'
2. Principal 4 '
3. recorder 4 '
4th Flat flute 2 '
5. Fifth 1 1 / 3 '
6th Sesquialter II 2 2 / 3 '
7th Mixture IV 1'
8th. Dulcian 8th'
9. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II. Major Work C – g 3
10. Principal 8th'
11. Gemshorn 8th'
12. Octave 4 '
13. Reed flute 4 '
14th Fifth 2 2 / 3 '
15th Octave 2 '
16. Mixture VI-VIII 1 1 / 3 '
17th Trumpet 16 '
18th Trumpet 8th'
III. Swell C – g 3
19th Lead-covered 8th'
20th Gamba 8th'
21st Beat 8th'
22nd Fugara 4 '
23. Flute Octavin 2 '
24. Sesquialtera II 2 2 / 3 '
25th Mixture IV-VI 2 '
26th Bombard 16 '
27. oboe 8th'
28. Schalmey 4 '
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
29 Principal 16 '
30th Sub-bass 16 '
31. Fifth bass 10 2 / 3 '
32. Octave 8th'
33. Dumped 8th'
34. Octave 4 '
35. Night horn 2 '
36. Mixture V 2 '
37. trombone 16 '
38. Trumpet 8th'
39. Trumpet 4 '
  • Coupling (mechanical): I-II, III-II, IP, II-P, III-P.
  • Playing aids: Composition system with 4,000 storage spaces. Sequencer back and forth. Swell step for III. Manual.

Bells

In the years 1885 and 1919/20, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen supplied a total of three bronze bells. The bell from 1885 was melted down during the First World War. The other two bells have been preserved. They are tuned to d " and f"; they have the following diameters: 720 mm and 620 mm.

literature

  • Wilhelm Gilly: Medieval churches and chapels in the Oldenburger Land. Building history and inventory. Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-126-6 , p. 156 ff.

Web links

Commons : Propsteikirche St. Georg (Vechta)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nordkreis-Vechta.de - Propsteikirche St. Georg . . Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  2. ↑ Peter Kratzmann: Relic plays an enormous role in Wildeshausen ( Memento from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Northwest Newspaper . January 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Information on information about the organ in the Gabriel Isenberg Organ Collection (as of 2017) . Accessed May 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Information on the renovation of the Führer organ in the Vechta Provost Church on the website of the Kirschner organ building workshop . Accessed May 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular pp. 503 and 520.
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular pp. 471 and 484.

Coordinates: 52 ° 43 ′ 37.7 "  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 6.9"  E