St. Johannes Baptist (Molbergen)

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

history

Molbergen was probably 1080-1088 as a noble private church of the mother parish Krapendorf (Parish Church of St. Andrew ) abgepfarrt . The original half-timbered church was probably replaced by a stone church in the 12th century . This was probably later equipped with vaults and buttresses . A tower was built in the 18th century .

In 1899 the old church was demolished, the tower was initially preserved. The new church was built from 1899 to 1902. In 1904 a new tower was built on the baroque tower base from 1772.

description

The neo-Gothic hall church made of red brick has a four-bay nave , which is divided by cross pillars. In the central nave there is a ribbed vault , in the side aisles barrel vaults . The drafted choir has a five-eighth closing . The neo-Gothic spire is equipped with four stepped gables .

Furnishing

The Gothic retable of the high altar was taken from the old church and was made of sandstone in a Westphalian workshop around 1460 . Around the central representation of the crucifixion of Christ there are 14 smaller fields with various Bible scenes. The paintings on the wings are from the beginning of the 17th century. The statuettes in the predella are modeled on those of the high altar of the Osnabrück Johanniskirche and were probably made by Lukas Memken around 1900 .

Most of the furnishings come from the baroque era . These include a Pietà from 1768 (a replica of the Telgter miraculous image ), figures of saints by Johann Heinrich König , a wooden baptismal font and a Christmas crib by Thomas Simon Jöllemann from the early 18th century, as well as the organ prospectus from 1786 to 1789.

The stained glass in the choir dates from the time the new church was built and is attributed to Wilhelm Derix .

organ

The present organ was built in 1964 by the workshop Werkstatt Alfred Führer , Wilhelmshaven , for which a baroque organ prospectus could be used. According to information in the Weisel database, Johann Adam Berner senior built an instrument here with a manual and 11 registers in 1723 . However, it must remain unclear whether the preserved case (or parts of it) come from this work, since Dehio dated it to a later period. Further work was carried out in Molbergen by an organ builder Kröger from Osnabrück in 1890.

The instrument has 30 registers, which are distributed over three manuals and pedal . It has sliding drawers with a mechanical action . The following disposition was created in 1964 when it was built:

Rückpositiv C – g 3 Lead-covered 8th' Quintad 8th' Praestant 4 ′ Ror flute 4 ′ recorder 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Scharff III 1' Krummhorn 8th' Tremulant

Hauptwerk C – g 3 Quintad 16 ′ Praestant 8th' Reed flute 8th' octave 4 ′ Flute 4 ′ Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Forest flute 2 ′ Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Trumpet 8th'

Breastwork C – g 3 Dumped 8th' Dolce 8th' recorder 4 ′ Principal 2 ′ Tertian II Zimbel III 1 ⁄ 3 ′ shelf 8th' Tremulant

Pedals C – f 1 Sub-bass 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' Thought bass 8th' Chorale bass 4 ′ Rauschpfeife IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : RP / HW, BW / HW, RP / P, HW / P, BW / P

Remarks

1. ↑ swellable

Bells

In 1949 the  Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen for the cath. Molbergen church two bronze bells. The bells have the following diameters: 1200 mm, 940 mm. Together with a bell from the 14th century, they form a three-part chime: e - f sharp - g sharp.

literature

• The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg . III. Issue: Amt Cloppenburg and Amt Friesoythe, reprint of the 1903 edition, Osnabrück 1976, p. 133 f.
• Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Vol. 2: Bremen / Lower Saxony, Neubearb., Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 956 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Architectural and art monuments, p. 14 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Parish Church of St. Johannes Baptist, Molbergen. St. Johannes Baptist Catholic Church Congregation, accessed March 29, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} architectural and art monuments, p. 133 f.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Dehio, p. 956 f.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Entry in the database of Hans-Dieter Weisel ( memento from July 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Version 20, as of January 1, 2008, accessed on May 25, 2020
6. ↑ Information about the organ. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .  on www.orgbase.nl
7. ↑ Organ Journal of the workshop leader Alfred, ed. 1964, the spelling of the register names follows this sheet
8. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the bell foundry dynatie Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 542, 545, 562 .
9. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 500, 503, 515. , Urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 18"  E