St. Johannes Baptist (Gimbte)
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
- 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 .
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.
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literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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