St. James the Elder Ä. (Remblinghausen)

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St. James
View of the altar

The Catholic parish church of St. Jakobus d. Ä. is a listed church building in Remblinghausen , a district of Meschede , in the Hochsauerlandkreis , in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

Originally, the right of presentation lay with the Meschede Abbey . The pen suggested the pastors and introduced them. The right was granted in 1319 by Archbishop Heinrich II . The hall church of four yokes was built from 1754 to 1755 according to an inscription. Due to the narrow cross vaults and the drawn-in choir with a three-sided end, it still looks almost Gothic . The vault in the choir is made of quarry stone, the one in the nave is made of clay framework . The stately west tower was built in 1755. Remnants of a previous Romanesque church were found during renovation work in 1980. The church is located on the Way of St. James , which leads to Santiago de Compostela .

Furnishing

  • The high altar from 1767 was damaged by fire in 1949 and renovated
  • The side altars from 1768 and 1769 are the work of the sculptor Joseph Strathmann from Anröchte
  • The pulpit dates from the end of the 18th century
  • A life-size wooden figure from the 16th century depicts Christ at rest
  • A seated wooden figure of St. James from the 15th century
  • The west tower bears three bells that sound fis'-a'-h 'in the Te Deum motif. The big bell was made in 1444. The two smaller bells were cast by Petit & Edelbrock in 1950. A small Klepp bell hangs in the roof turret.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Web links

Commons : St. Jakobus d. Ä. (Remblinghausen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 478 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 15 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 14 ″  E