St. Jakobus (Jakobsberg)

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St. Jakobus (Jakobsberg)
View from the east
inside view

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Jakobus is a Romanesque, Gothic extended hall church in the Jakobsberg district of Beverungen in the Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the parish Heiligste Dreifaltigkeit Beverungen in the deanery Höxter of the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

History and architecture

The church is dominantly located on the western slope of Haddenberg, which was venerated as holy because of its spring in the 10th century. It was used as a pilgrimage church after it was founded around 1150. The building is a small two-bay hall with a slightly retracted west tower and a large two-bay choir with three-eighth end to the east, designed as a quarry stone building with ashlar structure, plastered in the western part.

The core structure dates from the end of the 12th century and was completed a little later with a tower with biforias and stepped gables. The chancel, which is square in plan, is elevated due to the hillside location and was probably replaced by a flat-roofed hall with buttresses and tracery windows when the Brotherhood of St. James was founded in 1485 . After 1914 the choir was vaulted and completed with a sacristy . The building was restored in 1973, with stair turrets and galleries from the early 20th century being removed. In 1993 the dividing columns in the tower biforias were reconstructed.

In the Romanesque part, groin vaults are drawn in between strong belt arches on rectangular templates. In the former choir arch, a steep staircase leads to the extension building, which is spanned with star vaults on consoles.

Furnishing

The furnishings mostly belong to the neo-Gothic style . Older parts are the wrought iron grille in the former choir arch and several carved figures from the 17th century. To the left of the choir is an artistically valuable depiction of the Man of Sorrows and to the right of it a terracotta Pietà . Saints Barbara and Augustine are placed on the north wall, and Saints Lawrence , Archangel Michael and Anthony of Padua on the south wall . The relics of Saints Don Bosco and James the Elder are housed in a Gothic reliquary on the left side of the choir. The swallow's nest organ is a work from around 1973.

Surroundings

In the vicinity of the church and the cemetery are the simple Jakobus chapel and a 3 km long way of the cross, laid out in 1981, with about 40 m difference in altitude, impressive panorama and the stations of the cross, which are housed in small station houses made of quarry stone.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia II. Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , pp. 100–101.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Flyer on the Way of the Cross on the website of the city of Beverungen. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  2. ^ Website of the parish Holy Trinity Beverungen. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 55.2 "  N , 9 ° 19 ′ 44"  E