St. Johannes Nepomuk (Altenberge-Hansell)
The listed church of St. Johannes Nepomuk is a branch church of the Roman Catholic parish St. Johannes Altenberge , Steinfurt district , North Rhine-Westphalia and is located in the center of the Hansell district, which is part of the political municipality Altenberge. The parish church is St. Johannes Baptist (Altenberge) .
The construction of a chapel was initiated in the middle of the 18th century by the residents of the Hansell family so that they did not have to cover the arduous route to the parish church in Altenberge on all Sundays and public holidays. After completion of the building, this could only be done on the occasion of baptisms or the like. The chapel was donated by Canon Jodocus Franciscus Homeier and his sister Johanna Catharina, who owned a farm in Hansell. In 1921 it was raised to a parish and in 2009 the parish was merged, so that St. Johannes Nepomuk (Hansell) now again belongs to the mother parish of St. Johannes Baptist (Altenberge).
Building description
The oldest part is a chapel from 1765, which was expanded in 1899 and 1931. This original building is a simple two-axis, externally whitened hall, the rectangular windows of which are provided with soffits made of sandstone. The facade of the east-facing church is a three-tiered gable with an oculus window at the top and is structured by a cornice at eaves height, which is arched over the main entrance. Above the main entrance there is a sandstone cartouche , but without (preserved) inscription and above it a bronze relief of the church patron from 1931. The uppermost segment of the facade is shaped as a bell gable , ie there is a small. Bell, not the appearance of the facade is meant. Inside the original building there is a three-part, dark brown wooden beamed ceiling and, since the most recent restoration, an oak organ gallery based on the Baroque model.
The first extension is a significantly higher neo-Gothic hall church made of dark red brick with three bays with a recessed 5/8 choir closure without an additional choir bay (completed in 1899). The groin vaults and their girders rest on rectangular pilasters, the capitals of which with their profile quote Baroque and are not indebted to the neo-Gothic space. At the end of the choir, the vault is also without ribs . The windows are ogival without tracery and only the three behind the high altar show ornamental and figurative stained glass (left Johannes Nepomuk, in the middle "Christ Pantocrator" and right Johannes the Baptist). The rest of the window glazing of the neo-Gothic part from the time it was built, however, has a surrounding border made of colored glass as a decorative element; those of the baroque part also have antique glass , but from more recent times.
After being raised to the status of a parish, the bell tower was built in 1931, free-standing as a campanile, but connected to the church via an arch. The roof turret on the neo-Gothic extension was dismantled after the tower was completed and left to a local farmer, who rebuilt it on one of his farm buildings.
The sacristy is on the south side of the choir room.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic carved high altar is a foundation from 1899, whose cafeteria now serves as a celebration altar. Above it hangs a wooden crucifix in the choir arch. The lower area of the high altar is concealed by the three pulpit fields; in the middle Christ Pantocrator, on the left the Christ monogram IHS and on the right the Mary monogram MRA. On the right in the nave a statue of Our Lady in a neo-Gothic housing (made from parts of a neo-gothic confessional during the renovation / conversion in 1977) and to the west opposite the devotional image of "Perpetual Help" with a neo-Gothic wooden frame.
On the pillars of the extension from 1899 are four wood-faced figures from the Baroque period, Johannes Nepomuk, Antonius von Padua, Bernhard von Clairvaux and Joseph (Jesus' foster father). Also worth mentioning is the “baroque” painting of a Pieta, created around 1900 by a Münster painter, which now hangs over the north side entrance. The Mother of God is shown with the dead Jesus in front of her, plus a number of putti and a few people from the Passion story.
The Way of the Cross in the old building consists of framed, subtly colored pictures and is kept in the style of the beginning modern. In the west of the extension is the font, viewed as a whole in the center of the church; an older piece with a more recent copper cover.
The small organ has six registers and comes from the Kreienbrink workshop in Osnabrück.
Others
The St. Johannes Nepomuk Church has had a linen hunger cloth since 2008, based on the traditional Westphalian model . The cloth is embroidered with dark thread and depicts the contents of the Gospels of Lent Sundays. In the middle is a crucifixion scene.
The crib figures of the community are kept in the Nazarene style.
An older canopy is still in use for the Corpus Christi procession , which is made of a material similar to gold brocade and is loosely attached to the four support poles without struts. The support rods have a brass ball on top as a finishing touch. The absence of the massive struts that normally give shape can be explained by the fact that the processional path sometimes leads over narrow paths.
Web links
- www.Johannes-Altenberge.de 1 ; (last accessed on January 13, 2013).
- www.Johannes-Altenberge.de 2 ; (last accessed on January 13, 2013).
- WN-Online ; (last accessed on January 13, 2013).
- www.glasmalerei-ev.de ; (last accessed on January 13, 2013).
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.an-de-buorg.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; (last accessed on January 14, 2013).
- ↑ kirchensite.de ; (last accessed on January 14, 2013).
Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 29.9 ″ N , 7 ° 32 ′ 11.9 ″ E