St. Georg (Vreden)

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Parish Church of St. George

St. Georg is the name of a Catholic parish church in Vreden in Westmünsterland ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). In addition to the eponymous Saint George , it is consecrated to Mary , the Mother of God, in a double patronage . The current church was built between 1952 and 1957 on the site of a late Gothic hall church that was completely destroyed in the Second World War .

Building history

Of the original structure, only the foundations of the six previous buildings have been preserved at this point. A total of 13 construction phases could be verified in the course of archaeological investigations. The oldest foundations belong to a Carolingian church and date from around 820/830. First of all, St. George's Church, then presumably still under the Sixtus patronage, was used as a collegiate church by the canons of the monastery, which was founded in 839 at the latest . This church was extended by a crypt around this time, probably in connection with the foundation of the monastery and on the occasion of the transfer of the relics of Saints Felicitas , Felicissimus and Agapitus to Vreden . Around 980 the Carolingian church was replaced by an Ottonian three-aisled basilica , which, like its predecessor, had a transverse structure , three apses and a westwork . This building had to give way to a Salic cross-shaped hall church around 1030 , which was supplemented by a Romanesque west tower in the middle of the 12th century. In the period between 1070 and 1100 the church lost its status as a collegiate church with the move of the canons to the immediately neighboring Felicitaskirche and has been the parish church of Vredens ever since. Around 1160/1170 this church received a new Romanesque nave and existed in this form until 1220/1230, then it was replaced by a late Romanesque hall church , which lasted until it was destroyed on March 21, 1945.

The results of the archaeological investigations from 1949 to 1951 are exhibited in the crypt under the choir . During the excavations, the resting place of Count Wichmann III, murdered in 1016 . from the Billunger family are located under the crypt.

The portal of the late Romanesque hall church has served as the north portal of the collegiate church of St. Felizitas since the reconstruction after the war.

High altar

Interior view with a view of the high altar

The choir of the church is dominated by the high altar , which is an Antwerp reredos from 1520. The two-winged tower is about 4.60 meters high. Different scenes are depicted during the church year. The outside of the retable was executed as a panel painting. The insides, which are shown at high festivals, consist of elaborate carvings.

The high altar was relocated during the Second World War. It is therefore one of the few pieces of equipment that could be taken over from the previous church.

organ

The organ of the parish church was built in 1964 by the Speith-Orgelbau company from Rietberg . The instrument has 39 registers on slider drawers . The actions are electric.

I breastwork C – g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Soft flute 4 ′
3. Minor principal 2 ′
4th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Zimbel IV 1'
6th Rankett 16 ′
7th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
8th. Pommer 16 ′
9. Principal 8th'
10. Capstan flute 8th'
11. octave 4 ′
12. Coupling flute 4 ′
13. Forest flute 2 ′
14th Rauschpfeife II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Mixture IV-VI 2 ′
16. Sharp III – IV 1'
17th Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
18th Reed flute 8th'
19th Black viola 8th'
20th Principal 4 ′
21st Flute 4 ′
22nd Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Schwiegel 2 ′
24. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
25th Oktavlein 1'
26th Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
27. bassoon 16 ′
28. Trumpet harm. 8th'
29 Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
30th Principal 16 ′
31. Sub-bass 16 ′
32. Octave bass 8th'
33. Thought bass 8th'
34. Choral bass 4 ′
35. Funnel whistle 2 ′
36. Backset V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
37. Bombard 32 ′
38. trombone 16 ′
39. shawm 4 ′

Bells

A 5-part bronze bell hangs in the tower of St. George. It has the beat notes b 0 , c 1 , des 1 , es 1 and f 1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of the Church of St. Georg on StGeorgVreden.de, accessed on October 9, 2016
  2. ^ Stefan Eismann: From the monastery to the city. Medieval archeology in Vreden. , in contributions from the Heimatverein zur Landes- und Volkskunde , Volume 69, pp. 171–208, Heimatverein Vreden (ed.) self-published, Vreden 2005. ISBN 3-926627-44-1
  3. ↑ Harald Weiß: The building history from St. Georg to the late Romanesque church , in contributions by the Heimatverein zur Landes- und Volkskunde , Volume 69, pp. 99-138, especially p. 121f., Heimatverein Vreden (ed.) Self-published, Vreden 2005. ISBN 3-926627-44-1
  4. ↑ Video recording of the peal on youtube

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 8.3 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 19.5 ″  E