St. John Baptist (Bakum)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Exterior view

St. Johannes Baptist in Bakum is the parish church of the Catholic parish St. Johannes Baptist Bakum, which belongs to the deanery Vechta of the diocese of Münster .

Building history and description

A church was probably founded in Bakum as early as the 9th century. A church building existed until the 20th century, with a Romanesque nave from the end of the 13th century and the Gothic choir from the end of the 14th century. The church tower was destroyed in a village fire in 1777 and replaced by a new building in 1848.

In 1907 a new church in neo-Gothic style was built by Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann . It is a three-nave hall church made of sandstone with a four-bay nave , two transepts, polygonal choir with side chapels and west tower.

Furnishing

Epitaph of Agnesa von Schloen

The early Gothic sandstone were taken down from the previous baptismal font from the late 13th century with figures of the apostles , the Renaissance - Epitaph of Agnesa of Schloen († 1608) and a crucifixion painting from the second half of the 18th century.

The stained glass by Wilhelm Derix , the high altar made by Bernhard Diedrichs and Franz Knoche ( Wiedenbrück school ) and two side altars date from the construction time of the new church .

organ

The organ goes back to an instrument that was built in 1891 by the organ builder Gorgonius Kröger (Vechta) with 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal. After the church was rebuilt, the organ builder Friedrich Fleiter (Münster) built a new organ in a new, neo-Gothic case in 1909, reusing the existing pipe material. In 1988 the organ was renovated by Orgelbau Fleiter (Münster) and changed in parts; the gaming table was renewed, the wind chest system converted to slide chests. Today the instrument has 22 stops on two manual works and a pedal. The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I main work C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Dolce 8th'
octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – f 3
Violin principal 8th'
Flauto mayor 8th'
Flauto dolce 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
violoncello 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
trombone 16 ′

Bells

The Bakum parish church of St. Johannes Baptist received two bronze bells from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen. The first delivery of Otto bells took place after the First World War in 1920. Otto cast and delivered four bells, of which only the smallest bell, a c '' bell, survived the destruction of the Second World War. In 1947/48 Otto cast three new bells, so that today the church has a four-part bronze bell ringing by Otto. The strike tone series is: g '- a' - b '- c' '. The bells have the following diameters: 1100 mm, 1010 mm, 910 mm, 800 mm. They weigh 810 kg, 630 kg, 460 kg, 300 kg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Saint John the Baptist Church (Bakum)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 76 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Dehio, p. 181.
  3. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 79 f.
  4. ↑ Information on the organ
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 520, 543 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 484, 501 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 43"  E