St. Kilian (Letmathe)

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Parish Church of St. Kilian

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Kilian in Iserlohn - Letmathe is a neo-Gothic hall church in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . Popularly, St. Kilian is also called "Kiliansdom" or "Lennedom". Today's church is the largest hall church in the Märkisches Kreis and the seat of the pastoral association.

history

It is believed that parts of the previous church, which was demolished in 1914 and stood on the site of the current church, were built before the 14th century.

The foundation stone for the new building, which was completed in 1917, was laid on July 12, 1914. The construction work was delayed by the outbreak of the First World War . Sankt Kilian was consecrated on November 11, 1917 by Paderborn's auxiliary bishop Heinrich Hähling von Lanzenauer .

building

View from the southeast

The church was built from Westhofen sandstone . On the outside of the building there are rough rusticated cuboids, while on the inside there are hewn sandstone. The hall church has three aisles . The northwest tower has a height of 73 meters, of which the height of the tower spire is 19 meters. The church is entered through the tower portal. The tower is followed by a four-bay nave with a suggested transept. A two-storey sacristy is placed in front of the final choir .

Architect Joseph Buchkremer designed the church in the Westphalian hall churches with Rhenish building traditions.

In 1978 a major exterior renovation was carried out because the sandstone was attacked by weathering. In the course of this, the interior was fundamentally restored and adapted to the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council . The executive architect was Heinrich Stiegemann from Warstein.

The furnishings of the church are documented in terms of art history.

Bells

The bell of the church consists of four cast steel bells of the Bochumer Verein , cast in 1948. The bell is tuned to g ° -b ° -c'-es' and was hung on strongly cranked steel yokes, which had a negative impact on the sound of the bells. Since January 2019, the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher has been renovating the bells, with the bells ringing on straight wooden yokes in an oak bell cage. For the 100th anniversary of the parish fair in 2017, two small bronze bells were purchased for the roof turret, which will in future ring for the Angelus and the change.

organ

organ

The organ was rebuilt in 1938 by the organ builder Anton Feith (Paderborn) and rebuilt in 1979 by the organ builder Siegfried Sauer (Höxter). In 2001 a renovation was carried out by the Stockmann brothers . The slider chests -instrument has 49 registers on three manual works and pedal . The pedal and the swell are in the side galleries, the main and upper works are in the main housing on the middle gallery. The console has four manuals. The fourth manual is intended to enable the control of a choir organ that was to be built at a later date.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
01. Principal 16 ′
02. Principal 08th'
03. Wooden flute 08th'
04th Praestant 04 ′
05. Flute 04 ′
06th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
07th Super octave 02 ′
08th. Cornett III-IV
09. Mixture V-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 08th'
11. zinc 04 ′
Tremulant
II Swell mechanism C – g 3
12. Covered 16 ′
13. Ital. Principal 08th'
14th Delicate violin 08th'
15th Beat 08th'
16. Gedackpommer 08th'
17th Pointed flute 08th'
18th Sing. Principal 04 ′
19th recorder 04 ′
20th Chamois fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Night horn 02 ′
22nd Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
23. Sif flute 01'
24. Scharff IV
25th Trumpet harm. 08th'
26th Singing shelf 08th'
Tremulant
III Oberwerk C – g 3
27. Covered 08th'
28. Quintatön 08th'
29 Dulciana 08th'
30th Principal 04 ′
31. Reed flute 04 ′
32. Coupling flute 02 ′
33. Super-fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
34. Third Sept II 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
35. Zymbel II 01 ⁄ 2 ′
36. Rankett 16 ′
37. oboe 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
38. Principal bass 16 ′
39. Violon 16 ′
40. Sub-bass 16 ′
41. Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
42. Octave bass 08th'
43. Bass flute 08th'
44. Chorale bass 04 ′
45. Peasant flute 02 ′
46. Back set IV
47. trombone 16 ′
48. Dulcian 16 ′
49. Trumpet 08th'
  • Coupling I / I (sub and super octave coupling), II / I, III / I, III / II, IV / I, I / P, II / P, III / P

particularities

In St. Kilian there is a relic of Pope John Paul II. The relic, located in a cross-shaped reliquary, is currently placed in the Kilian altar.

See also

literature

  • Peter Trotier: History of the Catholic parish of St. Kilian, Letmathe. Contributions to the Westphalian church and local history. Letmather Nachrichten, Schäfers & Gerbe oHG, Iserlohn-Letmathe 1988.
  • Peter Trotier: The parish church of St. Kilian zu Letmathe. A church leader . 3. Edition. Iserlohn-Letmathe 2003.
  • History circle Letmathe (Ed.): The Kiliansdom. The construction. The house of God. 100 years. 1st edition. Self-published, Iserlohn-Letmathe 2016.

Web links

Commons : St. Kilian  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimatverein Letmathe: Chronicle Letmathe - 17th to 11th centuries , accessed on February 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ Texts and photos: documents in the church archive / diocese archive in Paderborn.
  3. ↑ ikz-online.de: Bells ring for the last time with the old tone at noon. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Information on the organ at the Gabriel Isenberg Organ Collection
  5. ↑ Letmathe Pastoral Association: Archbishop Miecislaus Mokrzycki visits "You have to have the courage to show solidarity!"

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 55.5 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 30 ″  E