St. Johannes (Sundern)

Parish Church of St. John

The Catholic parish church of St. Johannes is a church building in Sundern , a town in the Hochsauerlandkreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) that characterizes the town. The community belongs to the Sundern deanery, founded in 1923 in the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

history

Floor plan from before 1906

Southeast view in 1895

North-east elevation, photo from 1895

First church

First church activities are documented for 1310, Count Ludwig von Arnsberg reached an agreement with the pastor of the mother church in Stockum on the right of patronage for the newly built chapels in Sundern and Hagen . Both chapels received their own priests, who had to pay the pastor of Stockum a recognition fee at Christmas. The County of Arnsberg went to the Archbishopric of Cologne in 1368 , and the Parish of Sundern had its own parish church at that time. Pastor Josef Kleff wrote in the chronicle of the parish of Sundern in 1851 about the establishment of the parish and the construction of the first church: When the local parish church was built, when the subsidiary church in Sundern was branched off from the mother church in Stockum, that cannot be stated with any certainty , the relevant documents are missing on the one hand and tradition is also silent on the other . In any case, the church was built before 1623, an inscription behind the high altar reads Hoc altare 1623 in honorem St. Johannis Evangel. Sub Pastore Poelman primo consecratum noviter erectum ac decoratum est anno 1839 Sub Pastore Flüter (This altar, which was consecrated for the first time in 1623 in honor of St. John the Evangelist under the Pastor Poelman, was re-erected and decorated in 1839 under Pastor Flüter) . Albert Ludorff described the church in 1906 as Gothic with the choir just closed and a sacristy on the south side. In the ship and in the sacristy there are wooden ceilings, the choir was a cross vault moved in, the vault in the tower is dome-shaped. The windows in the nave are flat arched, those in the sacristy are just closed. The entrance to the sacristy and the church on the south side have a flat arch and the tower entrance is currently closed. The building was demolished in 1897 to make way for a new building, for which the cathedral master builder Arnold Güldenpfennig made the plans.

Second church

The master builder presented the plans to the church council on June 21, 1896. Some changes were made according to the wishes of the board. In order to continue to guarantee the church service during the construction period, an extension was added to the old school, the building then served as an emergency church.

The foundation stone was laid on August 1, 1897. The neo-Gothic, four-bay hall church with three naves was completed in 1899. Auxiliary Bishop Augustinus Gockel from Paderborn consecrated the church on August 17, 1899.

Extension

In the 1920s, the population increased sharply due to industrialization and the building became too small. The number of parishioners had increased from 1,500 to 2,500. The plans for the neo-Gothic extension come from the diocesan and cathedral master builder Kurt Matern . The Archbishop's General Vicariate approved the building project on May 26, 1934. After the groundbreaking on July 17, 1934, the foundation stone was laid on August 18, 1934. The outer wall on the south side was opened with a breakthrough and the extension was added. The choir was on the south side, and a three-nave church with six bays was built . Archbishop Caspar Klein carried out the consecration on May 26, 1935. At the end of the Second World War , the church building was also damaged in a bomb attack on April 10, 1945. The quarry stone walls with internal brickwork were partially damaged, the organ stage collapsed, the organ was destroyed. The roof and the vault partially collapsed. The necessary repairs were completed on March 13, 1946, with some changes being made to the previous state of construction. The organ stage was set up on the gable side of the entrance, the baptistery was located in the side wing. Since the entrances were previously quite narrow, they were widened. The architect Johannes Reuter from Kassel led the renovation in 1962 and 1963; Further extensive work was carried out from 1975 to 1976 under the direction of G. Ringelhan from Wenden, the church was painted by the church painter HW Rademacher from Olpe. Ringelhan also took over the management of the renovation in 1996.

Furnishing

• The cross in the center of the neo-Gothic high altar comes from the property of the community. The altar is decorated with figures of Saint Mary Magdalene , John the Baptist and a risen Christ . The figures are works by the sculptor M. Baumann from Ramsau. The altar is decorated with the Eucharistic symbols and a relief depicting the washing of the feet. The altar originally stood in the Church of St. Aloysius in Derne
• The ambo , the candlesticks and the lectern were cast in bronze by Edgar Gausling from Stromberg at the end of the twentieth century.
• The cross reliquary is a work from 1936, it was made in the Fuchs workshop in Paderborn. It is decorated with four medallions made of ivory , semi-precious stones and rock crystals. The medallions represent the saints Liborius , John and Mary , as well as the good shepherd . The Bishop Klemens August Cardinal Graf von Galen confirmed the authenticity of the cross particles.
• The altar of Mary is in the western aisle, the bronze reliefs and the replica of a Gothic Madonna, which is shown in the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum in Paderborn , are works by Edgar Gausling.
• The baptismal font is made of black marble , it stands in front of the Marien Altar.
• The carved figures of Saints Johannes Evangelist, Bonifatius, Agatha, Apollonia and Antonius were restored and newly painted in 1996.
• A leaded glass window in the Marienkapelle shows the old parish church before it was demolished in 1897.
• The simple, modern cross altar is equipped with a replica of the Minden cross from the Romanesque period.
• The terracotta pictures for the Way of the Cross were created in 1904 by Walter von Trier, the version comes from the painter Wittkop from Lippstadt. The frames came from Bäumker from Lippstadt. The stations were paid for from donations.
• The cross of the crucifixion group was carved in 1935 by Julius Mormann from Wiedenbrück. Maria and Johannes stand next to the crucified Christ, they were made in 1962 in the Greitemann workshop in Seidfeld. After the last church renovation, the group was moved from the choir to the west wall of the old parish church, in front of the Resurrection window.

Interior views

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  Central nave

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  Sanctuary

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  Ambo with bronze relief

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  Mary Altar

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  to the Marian pilgrimage in Werl

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  Saint Liborius

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  Sculpture and reliquary cross

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  Cross altar with replica of the Minden cross

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  Saint John Ev.

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  Transfiguration of Jesus

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  newot. High altar in the Johanneschor (1)

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  newot. High altar in the Johanneschor (2)

Former equipment

Anna selbdritt, crucifix and ciborium, state in 1895

• A crucifix from around 1400 with round passport endings is exhibited in the Diocesan Museum in Paderborn.
• The tower monstrance was probably made at the end of the 16th century.
• The St. Anne was carved in the early 1600, she was privately owned by the parish priest Joseph Schwikardi and is issued at the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum.
• A remarkable ciborium was made in 1654 and is in the Diocesan Museum since 1914.

Bells

These historical bells were cast in steel by the Ulrich Brothers in Apolda in 1918

There were three bells in the previous church

• 1. It was cast by the Greven brothers in 1788 and had a diameter of 61 cm. The inscription read S. joannes patronus
• 2. The bell was cast in the 16th century and had a diameter of 69 cm.
• 3. The bell with a diameter of 78 cm was also cast in the 16th century. These bells were brought to the Heinrich Humpert bell foundry in Brilon in May 1900 in order to receive new bells in exchange on May 27th. The ordination was carried out by the pastor of Hellefeld. A fourth bell, the so-called Klepp bell, was consecrated in July 1901, and this was also cast by Humpert.
• A cast steel bell was delivered in 1918 by the Ulrich bell foundry in Apolda. In 1999 new bronze bells were hung in the tower, the steel bells are in a steel frame next to the church.

literature

• Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999
• Albert Ludorff The architectural and artistic monuments of Westphalia, Volume 18 Arnsberg district , Provincial Association of the Province of Westphalia, 1906

Web links

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

• "Sundern Pastoral Area"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Community membership ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2013 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. 
2. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 page 11
3. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 page 10
4. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 page 10
5. ^ Albert Ludorff The Architectural and Artistic Monuments of Westphalia, Volume 18 Arnsberg District , Provincial Association of the Province of Westphalia, 1906 page 116
6. ↑ Master builder Güldenpfennig ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2013 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. 
7. ↑ Building description and consecration ( memento of the original from December 9, 2013 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. 
8. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 pages 57 to 63
9. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 pages 74 to 81
10. ↑ High Altar ( Memento of the original from April 2, 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. 
11. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 page 82
12. ↑ Cross Reliquary ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. 
13. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 pages 18 to 22
14. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 page 9
15. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 pages 12 to 17
16. ^ Albert Ludorff The Architectural and Artistic Monuments of Westphalia, Volume 18 Arnsberg District , Provincial Association of the Province of Westphalia, 1906 page 116
17. ↑ Hubert Schmidt The parish of St. Johannes in Sundern Falke-Druck Sundern, 1999 pages 50 and 51
18. ↑ New Bells ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 44 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 15 ″  E