St. Johannes Baptist (Warburg-Neustadt)
St. Johannes Baptist is a Catholic parish church built between 1228 and 1247 and consecrated to John the Baptist in the Warburg Neustadt district of Höxter . Church and parish belong to the pastoral association Warburg Stadt und Land in the Höxter deanery of the Archdiocese of Paderborn .
Architecture and building history
The church stands free in the middle of the Warburg New Town, which was founded on a ridge in the first half of the 13th century . Its 88 meter high tower with its copper-covered eight-sided spire dominates the market and can be seen far across the country. It served as a bell tower , watchtower and fire tower . There is a walkway above the pair of windows that grow larger towards the top.
The cruciform floor plan still follows the Romanesque scheme of a basilica . A square tower hall is in front of a three-aisled nave in the west. The aisles in the first two bays are only half as wide as the main nave. In the third yoke it expands like a transept with three square yokes. Apparently, however, there was a change of plan towards the hall church during the construction phase , because the side aisles were almost the same height as the central nave and the pillars were designed as bundle pillars - a bit simpler in the west and more divided in the east. The transverse and longitudinal straps are closed in an ogival shape , vault ribs are missing. While the architectural elements are made of reddish Weser sandstone , the surfaces are plastered on the inside and limestone on the outside. The church probably originally had an eastern end with a rectangular choir at the height of the central nave. A Lippe rose in the second nave yoke of the nave refers to the time the church was built during the time in office of Paderborn Bishop Bernhard IV. Zur Lippe , i.e. between 1228 and 1247.
Today's choir is three steps higher than the main nave, has a length of two yokes with an adjoining five-eighth end and almost twice the height of the main nave. It is made exclusively from factory sandstone. The wall surfaces are interrupted by high, three-lane tracery windows and reinforced from the outside by high buttresses . The vault ribs are led down through wall templates and are interrupted by canopies , statues and consoles. According to an inscription on the outer end of the choir, it was founded around 1366. As the open wall teeth on the outside and the unfinished bundle pillars at the transition to the main nave show, the choir was apparently also to be followed by a high-Gothic renovation of the nave. To the north of the new choir there is a two-bay former sacristy , so that the choir windows on the side are only designed as panels.
In 1450, Arnold Pistor added a side chapel to the southern nave. On the corresponding northern side there is another, but two-bay late Gothic side chapel. Both are connected to the church through large arched openings that were subsequently broken in.
Furnishing
- Figure cycle with Christ , Mary and the apostles John , Judas Thaddäus , Simon Zelotes , James the Elder and Peter from the end of the 13th to the middle of the 14th century in the high choir
- Mount of Olives made of sandstone from approx. 1420,
- Oak choir stalls, some from the 15th century.
- Pietà from the 14th century in a figural niche in the north arm of the transept
- late Gothic triumphal cross from around 1500 above the celebration altar
- Man of Sorrows from the beginning of the 16th century.
- Font from 1598, hexagonal
- Epitaph from 1603 of the Hermann von Hiddessen family
- Renaissance pulpit from 1611 with figurative representations of John the Baptist, the Evangelists and the four church fathers
- Side altar from 1627 in the south chapel, with a picture of the founder Bernhard von Geismar
- Baroque group of figures in the right side chapel with Jesus and John the Baptist from the former high altar from 1719 designed by Johann Conrad Schlaun
- Neo-Gothic high altar from 1882
literature
- L. Hagemann: History and description of the two Catholic parishes in Warburg . Paderborn (1903/04).
- Walter Freund: Sacred art in Warburg . In: Franz Mürmann (ed.): The city of Warburg 1036–1986 . Warburg 1986
- Nikolaus Rodenkirchen: Warburg district . In: Architectural and Art Monuments of Westphalia , Volume 44. Münster 1939
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 19.3 " N , 9 ° 8 ′ 55" E