St. Gorgonius (Goldenstedt)

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St. Gorgonius in Goldenstedt is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Gorgonius, which belongs to the deanery of Vechta of the diocese of Münster .

history

The Goldenstedt parish is one of the oldest in the region. An originally Romanesque church with the patronage of Gorgonius of Rome existed until the 20th century , the time of construction is unknown and which has been changed several times over the years. The church building is said to have been expanded in 1423, and the vaults were destroyed in 1616 .

After the Reformation, the Simultaneum mixtum existed in this church , in which Catholics and Protestants celebrated their services together. The Simultaneum ended in 1850 after the construction of the Evangelical Martin Luther Church . The Church of St. Gorgonius became the sole property of the Catholic community.

The Simultankirche was demolished in 1908 and replaced by a new building designed by the Bremen architect Heinrich Flügel by 1910 .

Building description

View from the southwest

Historically , the architectural style of the new church is based on the transitional style of Romano-Gothic . It is a three-aisled hall church made of red brick with a five-bay nave , transept and choir with a 7/12 end. The four-storey tower is located on a transept-like substructure with three ogival portals .

The windows are arched , the transept is decorated with rosettes and blind arches and there is a dwarf gallery above the choir windows . The transept is equipped with a star vault , the nave with a ribbed vault and stitch caps .

Furnishing

Much of the glazing, the neo-Gothic high altar and numerous figures have been preserved from the construction time of the new church . Paintings of the flagellation and crowning of thorns of Christ from the end of the 17th century, a Pietà from 1722 and a figure of Anthony of Padua from the 18th century come from the previous building .

Bells

The renowned Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen cast bronze bells for both the St. Gorgonius Church and the Martin Luther Church in Goldenstedt. The cath. In 1949 the municipality received two bells with the tones f 'and a'. Their diameters are: 1154 mm and 916 mm. The bells weigh around 1020 kg and 420 kg.

literature

  • Office of Vechta. (= The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg , Book II.) 1900, pp. 118–122. ( As reprint : Osnabrück 1976.)
  • Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bremen, Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 520 f.

Web links

Commons : St. Gorgonius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 118 f.
  2. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 122.
  3. ↑ Dehio, p. 520 f.
  4. ↑ a b Dehio, p. 521.
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 545 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 503 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 8.3 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 45.5"  E