St. Johannes Evangelist (Sassenberg)
St. Johannes Evangelist is a Catholic parish church in Sassenberg, Westphalia, in the Warendorf district . The representative three-aisled hall church was built from 1670 to 1678, the north tower was completed in 1914 in baroque forms. The church and parish belong to the Warendorf deanery in the diocese of Münster . Together with St. Mary's Assumption in Füchtorf , the parish forms a parish community.
history
For a long time the Sassenbergers were looked after by St. Laurentius in Warendorf and attended the service there. Later, services could be celebrated in the St. George's Chapel in Sassenberg.
The foundation stone of the Sassenberg parish church was laid on April 24, 1670. On May 1, 1678 Church of the Prince Bishop could Christoph Bernhard von Galen ordained to be. Under von Galen, Sassenberg obtained his princely freedom of the palace, which found expression in the representative church.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Sassenberg parish church only had a small roof turret instead of a tower . Since the nave was too small, it was decided to add a tower. To do this, a pub that bordered the church had to be acquired and demolished. Diocesan master builder Wilhelm Sunder-Plassmann was commissioned with the planning and he presented a first draft in 1905. The construction was delayed because of differences of opinion among the preservationists , the church council and the vicariate general . On June 29, 1914, after the high mass, the tower with the tower cross and cock was completed. The old baroque portal on the north side was reused.
architecture
The baroque Westphalian hall church from the 1670s is designed in Gothic style. The building of plastered brick is not faces east , but aligned to the south. The nave is covered by a gable roof with red tiles. Stepped buttresses structure the long sides. The interior is illuminated through large windows made of lead glass with arched arches. The portals in the north and west from the period of construction are lavishly designed in the Baroque style with two flanking free columns, architrave and blown gable as well as von Galen's coat of arms. The portals are similar to the south portal of St. Johannes Baptist in Attendorn .
Inside, the cross vault of the three naves rests on four mighty round columns. The keystones of the vaults are covered with coats of arms. The aisles reach the same height as the central nave. Opposite the nave, the polygonal choir is drawn in and lower in the south.
The tower built on to the north on a transverse rectangular floor plan stands out from the simple nave due to its rich baroque design. The corner blocks of the tower are cut out from the plaster. The tower shaft merges into two triangular gables in the east and west, on the lower corners of which rise four turrets with hoods and tops. A six-sided structure emerges from the gable roof, on which three curved hoods are placed, which taper towards the top and are interrupted by an open lantern. The top is crowned by a gilded tower pommel, an ornate cross and a weathercock. At the level of the bell storey, which has round-arched sound holes, there is a circumferential outside balcony, underneath on the three free-standing sides the clock faces of the tower clock. The bell chamber houses a six-bell ring, which the community purchased in 1946 as a replacement for the bell that was delivered during the Second World War.
Furnishing
The original church furnishings include two baroque side altars from the second half of the 17th century, donated by Galen. They come from the Cologne tradition and show characteristics of mannerism . The base is adorned with a gilded garland. Two free pillars flank a statue above the predella . The top above the architrave is decorated with tendrils on the side and crowned by a ray of sunshine at the top.
In 1686 Johann Rotger Torck donated the baptismal font made of light sandstone, the hemispherical basin of which is supported by four cherubim . Between them, four semicircular fields bear inscriptions with three Bible verses and a donor inscription. The church stalls made of dark oak are also part of the initial equipment. Some cheeks have coats of arms and coat of arms birds. The stalls leave a central aisle free.
The statues of saints represent the saints Aloisius of Gonzaga , Antonius of Padua , Liudger and Johannes Nepomuk .
organ
The organ was built by the organ building company Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen in 2008 and 2010. The instrument has 28 sounding registers and four transmissions . The game contracture is mechanically, the key action electrically.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Super octave coupling: II / I, II / II
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I, II / II
- Playing aids : crescendo kick
Peal
The six bells were cast in 1946.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Homepage of the parish: Historical , accessed on May 17, 2018.
- ^ Leidinger: On the Christianization of the Ostmünsterland. 2004, p. 48 ( online , PDF).
- ↑ Franz Mühlen: Examples of the expansion of historic churches. In: Association for the history and antiquity of Westphalia (Hrsg.): Westphalia. History, art and folklore books. Volume 56, 1978, pp. 213-223, here: p. 223.
- ↑ For the leaded glass windows, see Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century , accessed on May 17, 2018.
- ^ Schmitz: Foundations and beginnings of baroque church architecture in Westphalia. 1969, p. 93.
- ↑ a b c Homepage of the parish: Tour , accessed on May 17, 2018.
- ↑ Angelika Seifert: Westphalian altarpiece (1650-1720). a contribution to the interpretation methodology of baroque altar architecture. Habelt, Bonn 1983, p.
- ↑ Eule-Orgel Sassenberg accessed on March 14, 2020
- ↑ Information about the bells
literature
- Paul Leidinger: On the Christianization of the Ostmünsterland in the 8th century and the development of the medieval parish system. In: Westphalian magazine . Vol. 154, 2004, pp. 9-52 ( online , PDF).
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia II: Westphalia. Edited by Ursula Quednau. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .
- Karl Josef Schmitz: Basics and beginnings of baroque church architecture in Westphalia (= studies and sources on Westphalian history. Volume 10). Bonifacius print shop, Paderborn 1969.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 8 ° 2 ′ 28.2 ″ E