St. Goar (Hesborn)

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St. Goar

The Catholic parish church of St. Goar is a listed church building in Hesborn , a district of the town of Hallenberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

St. Goar from the air

The church is a long house built in 1914 . The oldest part of the building is the Romanesque west tower, which, according to tradition, dates from 1126. It is made of quarry stone. The sound floor is divided by twin arcades. A portal was built into the ground floor. The neo-baroque wall pillar church with retracted choir and apse is built in irregular boss masonry . The portals and the divisions are made of light-colored stone .

Most of the baroque furnishings were acquired from the former Glindfeld monastery in 1811 . The church was extensively renovated in 1989.

Furnishing

altar

The altar table of the high altar with a sarcophagus-like antependium was placed in front of the baroque structure in 1915 .

The altarpiece is signed C. Falcke pinx 1717. The altarpiece is adorned with a statue of St. Lawrence on the right and a statue of St. Augustine on the left . The reredos are said to have been carved by monks from the Glindfeld monastery. The Lamb of God was added to the book with the seven seals and an angel's head above them in 1915 .

crucifix

The crucifix in front of the altarpiece is exceptional in the area of ​​responsibility of the State Monuments Office Westphalia-Lippe. Christ stands with the cross on the globe and his feet are nailed into it. It dates from around 1700. The origin is unclear.

Side altars

The Renaissance - side altars were carved in the middle of the 17th century. The original pictures are no longer preserved. In 1928 H. Bergenthal painted the fourteen helpers in need and the scene of Joseph's death . On the left altar are the figures of St. Hubert from 1530 and St. Agatha and St. Elizabeth from 1656. The right altar is with the figures of St. Urban from 1520, St. Jude Thaddäus and a bishop from 1640 adorned.

pulpit

The octagonal pulpit in octagonal shape is marked 1620 and executed in the Renaissance style. The four evangelist figures and the tablets of the law are framed by flat ornaments . The sound cover is crowned by the tablets of the law.

organ

The organ is a slider chest instrument with 20 registers . A first used organ was purchased in 1817. The organ work was renewed and supplemented several times. The organ front was built in 1916 in the Baroque style. A total restoration of the organ took place in 1987.

tower

As a fragment of the upper part, a sacrament niche with stonemason's mark from 1332 is embedded in the walls . A figure of St. Bernard from around 1720 is also in the tower.

Other equipment

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 383.
  2. ^ A b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, p. 233.
  3. ^ LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia. .
  4. ↑ Description and history of the church ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pastoralverbund-hallenberg.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 0.4 ″  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 37 ″  E