St. Jakobus (Breckerfeld)

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Parish Church of St. James

The Catholic Church of St. Jakobus is a church building in Breckerfeld in the Ennepe-Ruhr district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The community belongs to the parish Christ King Halver-Breckerfeld-Schalksmühle-Dahl in the diocese of Essen .

The building is since 1985 - as well as the neighboring Protestant James Church - the monument list of Breckerfeld entered.

History and architecture

The five-axis baroque hall closes on two sides on the south side. The entrance tower is called 1728. It was originally built by the Reformed community after the great fire of 1727.

A small extension was added from 1962 to 1963. The Catholic parish took over the church from the Reformed Church in 1844 . The tower was raised in 1901 and crowned in 1967 with a hood in the Baroque style. The walls of the simple plastered building are structured by arched windows, and a frieze surrounds the church under the profiled eaves . The entrance portal is framed by plaster ashlars, wild men hold the Prussian coat of arms , which is crowned. In stichbogig closed room a mirrored ceiling rests on Voute .

Furnishing

Interior of the St. James Church
  • The wooden baptism was made in the first quarter of the 19th century.
  • The Pietà was carved at the end of the 17th century, the setting was exposed in 1955.
  • The carved figures of the apostles Peter and Paul are works from around 1700.
  • In front of the city library there is a former cafeteria (altar plate).

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Jakobus Breckerfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Affiliation of the community ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christus-koenig.de
  2. ↑ An extensive research work by the local researcher Wilfried G. Vogt has been available since 2006 on the stone coat of arms above the church portal. “Prussian state heraldry at the Breckerfeld church portal. The great national coat of arms of King Friedrich I on the portal of the Catholic, formerly Reformed Church ”. Published in the Breckerfelder Telegraph 2006, p. 13ff.
  3. ↑ a b Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , page 193

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '35.4 "  N , 7 ° 27' 58.1"  E