St. John the Baptist (location)

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View from the northwest

St. John the Baptist in Rieste is the parish church of the Catholic parish of the same name , which belongs to the Osnabrück-Nord deanery of the Osnabrück diocese . The church was built in the 15th century and until its abolition in 1810 it belonged to the coming position of the Order of St. John.

Building history and description

View from the southeast, on the right the choir, which was added in 1962

The church was built as a late Gothic hall church made of quarry stone outside the commandery and consecrated in 1426 . It originally consisted of a two-bay nave and a just closed choir .

In the course of a renovation from 1659 a portal extension and a baroque roof turret (on the eastern yoke) were added. From 1902 to 1904, Ludwig Becker and Wilhelm Sunder-Plaßmann expanded the building on the west side to include a transept and a tower in neo-Gothic style. A new choir bay was added on the east side from 1960 to 1962.

The ogival windows are in three parts and equipped with tracery . The Gothic star vaults in the old part of the church were decorated with stucco in 1743 , probably by Joseph Geitner , who was also active in Malgarten , Iburg and Meppen .

Furnishing

Interior view - altar

Numerous works of art from the time of the Coming have been preserved in the church. The oldest piece is the camp cross , a crucifix made of oak , which was consecrated in 1315 by the Osnabrück bishop Engelbert II. Von Weyhe and serves as a miraculous image .

15th century originate Madonna of sandstone (around 1420 to 1430) and a fresco of Christ carrying the cross (around 1440-1450) in the north wall of the former Chorjochs. A sandstone Pietà from the early 16th century comes from the workshop of Evert van Rodens .

The high altar was consecrated in 1676 by the Vicar Apostolic of the North , Valerio Maccioni . Two other altars date from the same period, one of which with a built-in pulpit was demolished in 1906 and reconstructed in 1995.

On the east wall there are sandstone epitaphs for the Commander Heinrich von Ledebur († 1577, Renaissance ) and Johann Jakob von Pallandt († 1693, Baroque).

Inside view - organ

literature

  • Georg Dehio (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , Vol. 2: Bremen / Lower Saxony, Neubearb., Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 1128 f.
  • Heinrich Bernhard Kraienhorst: Location - Johanniter (1245 to 1810) . In: Josef Dolle (ed.): Lower Saxony monastery book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810, part 2: Gartow to Mariental (= publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen. Volume 56.2). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89534-956-0 , pp. 895–901.
  • Arnold Nöldeke : The monuments of the Province of Hanover , IV Region of Osnabrück, 3. The circles Wittlage and Bersenbrueck (issue 13 of the complete works), Hannover 1915, pp 138-140..
  • Benedikt Benninghaus: The continuity of the pilgrimage to the Holy Cross in location , Münster 2014, ISBN 3-95645-254-2 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nöldeke, p. 135.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Dehio, p. 1129.
  3. ↑ a b c d Kraienhorst, p. 899 f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '49.3 "  N , 8 ° 1' 34"  E