St. Johannes (Borken)
The Johanneskirche is a branch church of the parish of St. Remigius in Borken and is therefore popularly known as the “Little Church”. It is located in the city center on Johanniterstraße, corner of Kapuzinerstraße.
historical development
The church was part of a monastery complex that no longer exists today . It goes back to a Ludgerus chapel, originally built around 1200 , which was provided with income by the knight Werenzo von Lohn in 1202 and consecrated by Prince-Bishop Hermann II von Katzenelnbogen . At the same time it was raised to a branch church of the Borken parish church of St. Remigius. In 1263 Bernhard Werenzo and his brother Gerhard von Lohn transferred the church to the Order of St. John . The Johanniter retained ownership until 1658 when they handed the church over to the Capuchins , who had lived in Borken since 1629 .
The Capuchins had the church torn down in 1696 and built an initially single-nave church building in the Baroque style on its foundations .
In 1753 the Borken scholaster Jodocus Hermann Nünning was buried in the church.
In 1777 the church was enlarged by adding a chapel (aisle) on the south side. The annex was separated from the nave by a wall and served as an independent worship chapel, equipped with a miraculous image of the "Mother of Good Rate".
As a result of secularization , the monastery complex became the property of the Principality of Salm in 1803 . The monastery was closed in 1810, and the church and the monastery complex now served as storage facilities or, a little later, as barracks for the Prussian Landwehr battalion .
The church has been in service again since 1819. The parish acquired the church building from the Prussian state in 1857, expanded the church to include the choir between 1887 and 1897 and furnished the church in the neo-Gothic style. After removing the partition wall between the church and the side chapel nave, the church structure remained unchanged. After severe damage from bombs in 1945, the church was renovated between 1954 and 1957 and its baroque character was restored. The turret contains 2 small chime bells.
Furnishing
- Radiation Madonna
- High altar
- Side altar with miraculous image
- Baroque pulpit
Organs
Main organ
An organ that was built around 1600 stands on the west gallery . The builder is unknown. The organ was originally intended for the Georgs-Kommende of the Teutonic Knight Order in Münster.
The community acquired the instrument in 1956. It was restored by the organ building workshop Paul Ott from Göttingen. The original upper case, which has since been changed, and the main drawer have been restored. The disposition of the main plant remained unchanged in the state it had been in around 1750. The bassoon was simply built into an unoccupied loop as an additional reed register. The lower case was supplemented and equipped with a new breastwork. With regard to the use of church services, the organ was given an independent pedal mechanism .
The housing is built a total slim. The breastworks with its wing doors is located above the gaming table. Above are the three pipe towers in which the registers of the main work are located. The pipe towers are equipped in the Renaissance style. The registers of the pedal mechanism are located in the simple attachments attached to the side of the historic case. The purely mechanical instrument has 23 registers .
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- Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P
Mutin organ
Since 2010 there is a second organ in the Johanneskirche . The instrument comes from the organ building workshop Charles Mutin , student and successor of the well-known organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll . The instrument was built in 1924 for the theater in Marseille and was used as a church instrument in the Catholic Church of Saint Peter and Paul in Roquebrune-sur-Argens on the Côte d'Azur from 1966 . Interestingly, there is now an organ in this church from the secular St. Josefs Church in Borken, which was built in 1966 by the organ builder Franz Breil with 20 stops and two manuals and a pedal. After St. Joseph's Church had been profaned, the organ was sold to Roquebrune and placed there in a new case.
The purely mechanical instrument has 9 registers . All registers are in a swellable housing. Since the organ was hidden in the theater, there was no prospectus - as is usual with theater organs .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- annotation
- ↑ Disposition of the organ in Borken: Hauptwerk : Principal 8 ', Spillflöte 8', Octave 4 ', Rohrflöte 4', Octave 2 'Mixtur VI, Dulcian 16', Trumpet 8 ', Tremulant ; Rückpositiv : Gedackt 8 ', Principal 4', Recorder 4 ', Koppelflöte 2', Sifflöte 1 1 ⁄ 3 ', Scharf IV, Shawm 8', Tremulant ; Pedal : Subbass 16 ', Principal 8' Nachthorn-Gedackt 4 ', Backrest IV, Trombone 16'.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch, Volume 3 No. 719
- ↑ Information about the Johanneskirche on the website of the parish of St. Remigius in Borken
- ↑ See the information on the Breil organ
- ↑ Information on the Mutin organ ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 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.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 34.9 " N , 6 ° 51 ′ 35.1" E