St. Johannes Baptist (Gimbte)

St. John

The Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptist is a listed church building in Gimbte , a district of Greven in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The building was erected as a separate church on a main episcopal courtyard. The parish was founded before 1040. The right of collation lay with the abbess of the Überwasser monastery in Münster .

The west tower dates from the twelfth century. The original entrance was on the south side. The north door on the first floor is walled up. The west portal and the upper floor were built in 1846. The neo-classical hall, stone work, has a polygonal retracted choir . It is marked 1836.

Furnishing

View of the chancel

• Baptismal font in a cylindrical shape from the 12th century
• Side altar with a representation of the stoning of St. Stephen and the Evangelist John on Patmos , inscribed 1699
• Wooden Vespers from the 17th century
• Life-size wooden group depicting the baptism of Christ by Heinrich Ansum. It was originally created in 1726 for the baptistery of the cathedral in Münster .
• A late Gothic Johannis bowl is kept in the sacristy .

View of the organ

The organ was built by the organ builder Friedrich Fleiter (Münster). The slider chest instrument has 18 stops on two manuals and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 1. Principal 08th' 2. Pommer 08th' 3. octave 04 ′ 4th Reed flute 04 ′ 5. Forest flute 02 ′ 6th Mixture III 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th Trumpet 08th' Tremulant

II breastwork C – g 3 8th. Dumped 08th' 9. Flute 04 ′ 10. Sesquialter II 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 11. Principal 02 ′ 12. cymbal 01 ⁄ 2 ′ 13. Rohrschalmei 08th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 14th Sub bass 16 ′ 15th Octave bass 08th' 16. Dacked bass 08th' 17th Piffaro II 00 04 ′ 18th trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.

literature

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

Web links

Commons : St. John Baptist (Gimbte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, p. 187

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 37.7 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 38 ″  E