Beheading of St. John (Salzkotten)

St. Johannes beheading in Salzkotten

St. Johannes Beheading is a late Romanesque-early Gothic Catholic parish church in Salzkotten in the Paderborn district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Structurally, the church and congregation belong to the Salzkotten Pastoral Association in the Büren-Delbrück Dean's Office of the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

history

View into the chancel

left side altar

right side altar

The first documentary mention of the parish church is in the peace treaty of August 24, 1256 between Archbishop Konrad of Cologne and Paderborn Bishop Simon I. Salzkotten was built to fortify the diocese and should have a parish church. Since the archive was destroyed in 1633, no further documents are available. However, it is known that the church was completed in 1275. Originally the believers in Salzkotten belonged to the community in Vielsen. The first pastor of Salzkotten was Joachim, the last pastor of Vielsen. He had a baptismal font no longer preserved in the church.

In 1589 Salzkotten rebelled against Bishop Theodor von Fürstenberg , and the majority of the town was probably already Lutheran after the Reformation. By 1600 the bishop deposed three pastors who had changed faith. With the help of Jesuits, the bishop tried to consolidate the Catholic faith in the village, which he succeeded. In 1663 Salzkotten was conquered by Hessian and Swedish troops and largely destroyed. So the pastorate burned down and the church was robbed. The people who fled to the church were murdered and great damage was done in the church. Since the choir window was damaged in this attack, the opening was walled up afterwards.

In 1717 the church was looted again.

Pastor Philipp Korte (1730–1803) had the pastorate rebuilt and added private funds. The school and poor house were also renovated during his time. Korte had new graduation towers built in Salzkotten and Westernkotten, which worked more effectively than their predecessors.

The walling of the choir window was opened in the 19th century.

Furnishing

The oldest part of the church is the 47 meter high tower. In 1589 he received the baroque hood. The lower windows of the tower were doors until 1967.

The Westphalian hall church has narrow aisles and a short transept. The pillars inside are 7 meters high. The sacristy was built around 1900. The John window in the east was redesigned in 1866–1889 after it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and then walled up.

Inside the church there is a 24-armed bronze chandelier from 1664. The tabernacle and altar were designed by Josef Rikus . A figure of John stands in a wall niche . The paintings on the niche are the oldest preserved and were made around 1500. The painting above the niche shows St. Christopher .

The Pietà in the left transept comes from the parish church in Vielsen . It was created in the 15th century. There are also two baroque altars in the transept.

organ

The organ goes back to an instrument that was built in 1888 by the Eggert organ manufacturer (Paderborn). In 1914 the instrument was equipped with an electric fan. In 1939 it was rebuilt by the successor company Anton Feith. In 1967 the two-manual instrument was supplemented by a Rückpositiv. Today the organ has 31 stops on two manuals and a pedal.

I main work C– 1. Drone 16 ' 2. Principal 08th' 3. Gamba 08th' 4th Hollow flute 08th' 5. Octave 04 ' 6th Covered flute 04 ' 7th Chamois fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ' 8th. Mixture IV 9. Trumpet 08th'

Rückpositiv C– 10. Quintad 08th' 11. Principal 04 ' 12. flute 02 ' 13. Sif flute 01' 14th Sharp 01'

II Swell C– 15th Violin principal 08th' 16. Salicional 08th' 17th Lovely covered 08th' 18th Harmony flute 04 ' 19th Gemshorn 04 ' 20th Forest flute 02 ' 21st Sesquialter III 22nd Octave Zymbel III 23. oboe 08th'

Pedals C– 24. Violon bass 16 ' 25th Sub bass 16 ' 26th Covered bass 08th' 27. cello 08th' 28. Choral bass 04 ' 29 trombone 16 '

• Coupling: II / I (also as super and sub-octave coupling), II / II (super and sub-octave coupling), I / P (also as super-octave coupling), II / P
• Playing aids: hand register, tutti, crescendo roller, pedal switch, tongue holder
• Effect register: Zimbelstern

Bells

A total of nine bells hang in the tower of St. John. The main peal consists of six bronze bells by the 2017 Bell and Art Foundry Rincker in mind were cast. Until 2017, a five-part cast steel bell hung in a steel bell cage in the main tower; the bells were cast by the Bochumer Verein in 1947/48 as a replacement for the bronze peal that had been confiscated for war purposes during the Second World War. This consisted of four bells, of which the oldest delivered bell was cast in 1404; the others are from the years 1509, 1633 and 1823/1830.

The bells are uniformly decorated with incised drawings by the artist Götz Sambale . The drawings show the cartridge of the respective bell or motifs from Salzkotten. The bells are hung in a new oak bell cage.

Two smaller bells hang in the roof turret. They serve exclusively to strike the clock and are struck by a striking mechanism; The hour bell from 1566, cast by Joachim Trost, a Van Wou student / successor, is of historical value . In 2017 a new clock chiming bell was hung up to strike the quarter-hour; the previous quarter-hour bell has since been placed in the roof turret.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information about the organ on the municipality's website
2. ↑ Assembly of the belfry and bells - St. Johannes, Salzkotten - November 2017 on YouTube .
3. ↑ St. Johannes Beheading Salzkotten: First ringing of the new bells; December 16, 2017 (plenary) on YouTube .
4. ↑ St. Johannes Beheading Salzkotten: Individual presentations of the new bells; December 16, 2017 on YouTube .

Web links

Commons : St. John's Beheading  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the pastoral association Salzkotten

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 18.1 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 22.3 ″  E