St. Georg (Soest)

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Drawing of the former church of St. George
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The former church of St. Georg was originally a Catholic parish church and after the Reformation a Protestant church in Soest in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

history

The Archbishop of Cologne, Philipp von Heinsberg , divided the city of Soest, which belonged to Cologne, into six parishes in 1180 . The parish districts roughly corresponded to the courtyards of the city. The Nordhofe was divided into two parishes, namely St. Georg and St. Maria zur Wiese . In the post-Reformation period, St. George became Protestant, as did the Maria zur Wiese church. At the beginning of the 19th century, Soest had grown from a once flourishing medieval Hanseatic town into a small, impoverished country town. Many of the many churches fell into disrepair, including the Georgskirche, and could no longer be maintained. In 1822 it was decided to demolish St. George's Church and to unite the community with the meadow community. The amalgamation of the congregations should, however, as was laid down in the act of unification, not take place immediately, but only after the death of one of the two preachers. The church was demolished in 1823. In their place, on the east side of the market square, the Resource Society House was built from the rubble .

architecture

The church building of St. Georg was a two-bay hall church in the immediate successor of the Soest Hohnekirche , provided with a retracted west tower. In the east, the building closed with a buttress-less polygonal apse, which used models of the Rhenish transitional style . The wide hall space was defined by heavy groin vaults over a pair of bundle pillars. Together with the Hohnekirche, the church stands at the beginning of the development line of the Westphalian hall church. The church was provided with Gothic tracery windows in a later construction phase .

The statue of a knight saint from the middle of the 13th century may come from the broken Georgskirche.

literature

  • Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia. Published by the Provincial Association of the Province of Westphalia, Commission publisher Ferdinand Schöningh, 1903.
  • Hubertus Schwartz : Soest in his monuments. Second volume: Romanesque churches (=  Soest scientific contributions, volume 15). 2nd unchanged edition. Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1978, ISBN 3-87902-029-9 , pp. 185–203.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Wiese-Georgs-Kirchengemeinde  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiesenkirche.de  
  2. ↑ Tour through the old town - pictures with explanations  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtbild-deutschland.org  
  3. ↑ Johann Josef Böker : Romanesque sacral architecture in Soest. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann (Ed.): Soest: History of the City , Vol. I (Soester contributions 52). Mocker & Jahn, Soest 2010, pp. 858–862.
  4. ↑ Johann Josef Böker: A Saint George from Soest? On the interpretation of the Patroclus statue in Münster . In: Soester Zeitschrift 108, 1996, pp. 21-24.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 21.3 "  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 24.7"  E