St. John the Baptist (Meeting)
 View of the church and the tower from the north-west |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| place | Greffen , Germany |
| diocese | Diocese of Münster |
| Patronage | John the Baptist |
| Building history | |
| Construction year | around 1500, extended in 1899 |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Gothic , neo-Gothic |
| Furnishing style | Baroque , neo-Gothic |
| Construction type | Hall church |
| Function and title | |
| 51 ° 58 '39.8 " N , 8 ° 8' 36.1" E | |
St. John the Baptist is a Catholic branch church of the parish of St. Lucia in Greffen in East Westphalia , a district of Harsewinkel in North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany .
history
Bishop Robert (1042-1063) donated the Greffener main courtyard to the cathedral chapter. He was owned by the Münster cathedral dean, who probably had the first church built in Greffen around 1100. The cathedral chapter of Münster founded the Romanesque wooden church with a flat ceiling as its own church. The cemetery was located directly on the outer walls of the church.
Already 100 years later, around 1200, a first stone church with a mighty tower is proven for Greffen. A document from 1229 first mentions a pastor in Greffen, the Pleban Godeschalk. In 1287 the community of Greffen was subordinated to the neighboring Marienfeld monastery. From then on, pastors and chaplains were mostly monks of the monastery.
Around 1500 the parish church was renewed and a late Gothic hall church was built . A Vespers picture and the baptismal font are still preserved from this time. Around 1750 the baroque furnishings - a high altar , a pulpit and a ray Madonna - were brought into the church.
In 1803 the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss abolished the Marienfeld monastery and the community of Greffen became independent again. From 1822 the deceased of the community were no longer buried in the churchyard, but in the new cemetery on Haller Straße.
The parish of Greffen grew steadily and from 1899 to 1911 there was a generous expansion of the church building. According to plans by Hilger Hertel , the choir and two vaults of the central nave were preserved and another vault and two aisles were added. At the same time, the now three-aisled hall church received a new church tower with a height of 45.7 meters.
In 1982 the parish had the interior as well as the high altar and pulpit restored. In 1986 the order for a new organ was awarded. In 2008, the church square was renewed with the support of the city of Harsewinkel. The Johannes Church as a monument is the oldest surviving testimony to the history of Greffen.
On April 27, 2014, Bishop Felix Genn abolished the parish of St. John the Baptist Greffen and established the parish of St. Lucia in Harsewinkel. The former parish church was elevated to a branch church.
Furnishing
The high altar is part of the furnishings of the church, the top of which extends to the choir vault. The altar painting shows the Immaculate . On the pillars on consoles stand Joseph with the baby Jesus on the left, Johannes Nepomuk on the right. Above is the patron saint John the Baptist. The altar is crowned by the Eye of God in a wreath of clouds. The altar is decorated with the coat of arms of the Marienfeld abbot Ferdinandus Oesterhoff , so that it can be assumed that the altar was built in the first half of the 18th century.
Figures of the four evangelists with their attributes can be seen on the pulpit . The spaces in between are decorated with vine tendrils that lead into a grape below the pulpit. A dove hovers under the pulpit lid as a sign of the Holy Spirit . The pulpit was built at the same time as the high altar and the Immaculate with a ray of glory.
In the course of the renovation of the church in 1899, two neo-Gothic side altars were added. The Marian altar on the north side is dedicated to the theme of the rosary . It is furnished with a statue of the Virgin Mary and a representation of St. Dominic and Pope Sixtus IV - both committed supporters of the rosary. The altar in the south aisle is dedicated to the depiction of the death of St. Joseph, flanked by angels with crown, palm and a banner with the inscription Sancte Joseph, ora pro nobis .
The oldest part of the furnishings is the Pietà , the Vesper picture made of Baumberger sandstone , created around 1440, which was venerated in the previous Romanesque church. The baptismal font made around 1500 corresponds to the cup shape customary at that time. It is located in the baptistery in the tower of the church, whose pointed arched windows show pictures of the baptism of Jesus, St. Boniface and the first bishop of Münster, Liudger .
According to the specifications of the Second Vatican Council , a celebration altar made of Baumberger sandstone was installed in the choir room, the design of which refers to the baroque high altar. Its four sides are adorned with fire-gilded bas-reliefs. In a modification of the Deesis motif, the front view shows the Virgin Mary with the church patron John the Baptist under the cross.
organ
The earliest mention of an organ comes from the year 1836. In the chronicle of the office of Harsewinkel it is recorded that the instrument was repaired that year by a Warendorf organ builder . In 1921 the organ building workshop Anton Feith jun. and Franz Eggert, Paderborn, built a new two-manual organ (Opus 288) with 18 stops . The game action was controlled by a pneumatic cone chest . The organ had 1210 pipes . Your disposition was:
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In the mid-1980s, the romantic Feith organ was no longer playable due to its susceptibility to failure, so that the community decided to build a new one with the organ building company Breil from Dorsten. The organ was inaugurated on February 1, 1987. It has 22 registers (1402 pipes), divided into two manuals and a pedal. The action mechanism is mechanical (sliding box), the registers are controlled electromagnetically. Your disposition is:
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Bells
A visitation report from 1662 mentions the existence of three bells. The two oldest date from 1407, another was cast in 1515 by Wolter Westerhus from Münster. It is adorned with coin prints, profiled pearl cords and rosettes. One of the two oldest bells was cast in 1697. In 1785, two newly cast bells were installed, for which two old bells provided the material. During a bell visit during World War I, the church had three bells - one from 1515, two from 1785 - of the latter two, the larger one had to be delivered in 1917 and the smaller one in 1942 due to the war. After the end of the war, the Greffener entrepreneur Bernhard Claves sen. the bell delivered in 1942 together with 137 others at the Hamburg bell cemetery and had it brought back by ship across the Ems. In the meantime, three new bells had already been ordered from the Petit & Edelbrock foundry in Gescher. On July 31, 1946, the new bells were consecrated on the church square and installed by the delivery company. For this purpose, the bell cage (originally made of wood) had to be expanded with a steel structure.
| No. | Surname | Casting year | Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Artist | inscription |
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| 1 | Sacred Heart Bell | 1946 | 136 cm | 1650 kg | d ' | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | Thanks and honor to God the Lord for gracious protection in great distress |
| 2 | Marienbell | 1515 | 103 cm | 622 kg | f ' | Wolter Westerhus, Munster | Est Maria noun mihi. Sacros pulsor in usus, cogo sonans homines ad pietatis opus. Anno domini MCCCCXV ; also coin prints, profiled hoops, pearl cords and rosettes |
| 3 | St. John's Bell | 1946 | 100 cm | 630 kg | G' | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | With thanks and love we remember our Bishop Clemens August Cardinal v. Galen . † March 22nd, 1946 he rest in peace |
| 4th | Joseph Bell | 1946 | 86 cm | 424 kg | a ' | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | Religion and work are the soil of the people. Bernhard Claves sen. 1946 |
| 5 | St. John's Bell | 1785 | 77 cm | 310 kg | b ' | Andreas Mabilot, Münster or Feldmann & Marschel , Münster | Sub reverendissimo domino Stephano Abbate et Archidiacono reversus dominus E. Veldwisch Pastor, F. Budde, C. Meyer et P. Beermann praepositi in honorem Sancti Johannis baptistae ecclesiae in Greffensis patroni me refundebant per artificem A. Mabillo monasteriensem (freely translated: As Stephanus Abt and Archidiakon, E. Veltwisch Pastor, F. Budde, C. Meyer and P. Beermann were church council members, I was re-cast by A. Mabilot in Münster on September 4, 1785 ) |
Bell 5 was originally cast by Andreas Mabilot in Münster in 1697 or 1695. A bronze bell from 1953, cast by Feldmann and Marschel in Münster, can be found in the literature with the same data.
Pastor
- around 1229: Pleban Godeschalk
- 1630–1650: Henricus Bödeker, monk in the Marienfeld monastery
- 1895–1911: Johannes Gedecke
- 1971–1990: Ludwig Löbbert
- 1990–1995: Franz-Herbert Westerwinter
After Pastor Westerwinter passed in March 1995, the pastor's post was not filled. It was decided that the parish of St. John should work together with the parish of St. Paul under the direction of a pastor. Since the establishment of a city-wide parish, consisting of St. Lucia Harsewinkel, St. Paulus Harsewinkel, St. Marien Marienfeld and St. Johannes Greffen, the pastor in St. Lucia has also been a pastor in Greffen.
- 1995: Günther Lube
- 1995-2003: Raimund Uhling
- 2003-2017: Wim Wigger
- since 2017: Marc Heilenkötter
literature
- JB Nordhoff: The art and historical monuments of the Warendorf district . Munster 1886.
- Karl Hölker: Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Warendorf district . Munster 1936.
- Walter Werland: From Greffen's old days . Munster 1976.
- Franz Mühlen: Careful handling of the treasures of the church in Greffen . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch Kreis Gütersloh . 1984, p. 126-129 .
- Franz Mühlen: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist in Greffen. In: Westphalian art sites . Issue 39. Westf. Heimatbund, 1986, ISSN 0930-3952 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Mühlen: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist Greffen. Münster 1986, pp. 3-6.
- ^ Franz Mühlen: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist Greffen. Münster 1986, pp. 7-16.
- ^ Ludger Stühlmeyer : On the history of the organs in Greffen . In: Kirchenmusik aktuell, issue 1, Warendorf January 1990, pp. 4–9.
- ↑ Ludger Stühlmeyer: The bells in Greffen . In: Kirchenmusik aktuell, issue 1, Warendorf April 1989, pp. 8–11, issue 2, Warendorf August 1989, pp. 13–14.
- ^ Bishop's General Vicariate Münster (ed.): The Diocese of Münster . tape 3 . Verlag Regensberg, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-7923-0646-8 , p. 438 f .