St. Johannes Baptist (Siddinghausen)

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St. John Baptist

The parish church of St. Johannes Baptist is located in the Bürener district of Siddinghausen in the Paderborn district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The Catholic Church and Community is part of the Büren-Süd pastoral network in the Büren-Delbrück Dean's Office of the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

The church is dedicated to John the Baptist. It is a single-nave, four-bay hall building with a choir closed on three sides in a baroque style. The fourth yoke from the west is widened like a transept via the alignment of the longitudinal walls and accentuated on the outside by triangular gables. The portals, window frames, buttresses and building edges are made of sandstone. The roof is covered with slate and the walls are plastered white. The pilaster-structured interior is spanned by a Gothic groin vault. Pilasters and vault borders are emphasized in color, the vault of the fourth yoke, in front of the triumphal arch, has a stucco IHS monogram in the halo. The church interior has a uniform, rich baroque interior.

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history

A pagan temple is said to have stood in Siddinghausen as early as 800, which was destroyed by the Franks and replaced by a Christian church, a wooden structure. A legend tells that a remnant of the temple , a spigot, stood at the entrance of the church around 1900, which every churchgoer had to spit on. The current church was built between 1723 and 1737. The west tower of the church still partly consists of a Romanesque church from the 12th century.

Web links

Commons : St. John Baptist  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

literature

  • Brochure accompanying the Sintfeld Höhenweg , page 43 ( The parish church of St. Johannes Baptist )

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '16.8 "  N , 8 ° 31' 39.4"  E