St. Kilian (Welda)

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St. Kilian, front of the main entrance
Church floor plan

St. Kilian is a church built around 1120 AD in Welda near Warburg . Church and parish belong to the pastoral association Warburg Stadt und Land in the Höxter deanery of the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

location

The St. Kilian's Church was around 1120 n. Chr. In Kerkwellede (Kirchwelda today Welda) in Twistetal about one kilometer south of the original Wellede (Alt-Welda, which today is a deserted village built is). A fragment of a holy water basin or crucible was found in Old Welda. There was probably the first stone church in Alt-Welda and probably a wooden church as a forerunner, with the same patronage . Today's St. Kilian's Church is located in the center of Welda, surrounded by houses and farms and opposite Welda Castle on the north-south line. For a long time there was a church cemetery around the church. The church and the pastorate building next to it are surrounded by a wall.

Building

Today's Kilian's Church is single-nave, two-bay and has a straight choir end . Next to the church there is a half-timbered extension that served as a tithe barn (granary). The church tower was probably also used as a defense tower . The church walls as well as the church wall are built from rubble stone. The church was plastered and painted white in the 1970s.

Furnishing

The "halved" people altar

The Lippoldsberg consoles are characteristic of St. Kilian's Church , with six symbols in boxes per console, which were interpreted as a Greek picture puzzle by the former pastor F. Cramer around 1930. According to Cramer, the six symbols each result in a Christian motto.

The art treasures of the church are the baptismal font from 1601, with a bronze dome, as well as the Pietà from 1680, the Madonna and Child (around 1680) and Anna selbdritt (1580), a cross of branches (around 1500) and the pulpit the year 1600 and Mater Dolorosa (1700). There is a Renaissance painting on the window on the south wall, which was made around 1650.

The retable of the high altar from 1697 is attributed to Heinrich Papen and was illuminated by Wilhelm Hutzier . It shows the coronation of Mary and was taken over by the Warburg old town church in 1865 . The popular altar comes from the former chapel of the castle . It was cut through so that the cafeteria is quite small.

On the outer north wall of the church there are two memorial plaques for those who fell in the two world wars.

The church was last renovated in 1991. During the renovation, a fragment of a Renaissance painting (made around 1650) was discovered.

Church clock

The tower clock is a gift from the Welda-born watchmaker Johann Ignaz Fuchs , who exhibited the clock at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 and was awarded a prize on October 18, 1873. The tower clock struck for the first time in Welda on November 22nd, 1875.

organ

St. Kilian, side view of the organ on the gallery and organ prospect on the left wall of the church

Until 1875 there was a small organ on the north wall in the nave. In 1897 a new organ was built by Franz Eggert from Paderborn with nine registers and placed on the gallery. Until 1953, the altar boys used bellows to provide the air for playing the organ. In the same year the organ was fitted with an electric fan. In 1957, the entire organ, except for the console, was housed in the former granary above the crypt chapel. Today the instrument has ten registers on a manual and pedal and is played via an electro-pneumatic register and playing mechanism .

I Manual C-g 3
1. Bourdon 8th'
2. Principal 8th'
3. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
4th Salizional 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Concert flute 4 ′
7th Octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture II-III
Pedal C – f 1
9. Sub bass 16 ′
10. Octave bass 8th'

Bells

Duration

In 1917, all but one of the bells had to be handed in for the military supplies during the First World War . Among the bells handed in was the Kilians bell, which was cast in 1854 by the Henschel & Sohn company in Kassel . Four years later, new, inferior steel bells were produced and hung by the Bochum Association , which were consecrated in the names of Kilianus , Maria and Martha . During the great field procession in 1921 they could be rung for the first time after the war. The three bells were ordered on May 19, 1921 from the Heinrich Humpert bell foundry , Brilon, at a price of 19,300 marks. In addition to the sexton, an altar boy was necessary for the manual bell and the beeping . The bells have been electrically powered since 1960.

In the bell room, three cast steel bells from the Bochum Association are installed in a one-story, three-field steel bell chair from 1959. Bells 1 and 3 hang on wooden yokes, while bell 2 has a steel yoke.

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		foundry
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg, approx.) 		Chime
 
1 Kilianus 1921 Bochum Association 1066 460 a 1
2 Maria 1921 Bochum Association 890 300 c 2
3 Martha 1921 Bochum Association 798 230 d 2

Ringing order

Sunday was rung in earlier. The small and medium-sized bells are rung on weekdays and all three on Sundays. The ringing of the death takes place with the big bell. It used to be half an hour, today it is a quarter of an hour. At funeral ceremonies, only the big bell is rung.

occasion Ringing time Number of
bells 		1 2 3 Order of
ringing
High strength 1st order Prelude 30 minutes before the start 3 a 1 c 2 d 2 ascending
Ring the bell together 15 minutes before the start 3 a 1 c 2 d 2 descending
High strength 2nd order Prelude 30 minutes before the start ascending
Ring the bell together 15 minutes before the start descending
Ringing in Sundays and public holidays (eve) 2
Salve Regina 1
Death knell 1

List of pastors

As one of the first pastors of Welda, Johann von Wellede is documented in writing in 1224. Pastor Bernardus Hillebrand was the first cleric to introduce church records in 1693. (to the legend: + died or buried in Welda). Some Dominicans (OP) from the Warburg monastery helped out temporarily as parish administrators in the Welda parish.

  • Johann von Wellede (around 1224)

...

  • Bertold Ludeken (?)
  • Gottschalk from Vorseten (?)
  • Cord Manegoldes, dean (?)
  • Johann Tymans (1457-?)

...

  • Anton Hertogen (1601–1626)

...

  • Henricus Brandes (1630-1646)
  • Meinolph Radering (1646–1650)
  • Georgius Schorten (1650–1674)
  • Friedericus Bartsmann (1674–1684)
  • Friedericus Casparus Blankebiel (1684-1693) +
  • Bernardus Hillebrand (1693-1717) +
  • Joannes Henricus Bernholtz (1717-1736) +
  • PF Fischer, OP (1736--1745)
  • Laurentius Brandt (?) Called
  • JBNiedermeyer around 1741 (mentioned)
  • Joannes Mauritius Bach (1751–1770)
  • Hermann Werner Schmitz (1774–1796)
  • Johann Heinrich Wünnenberg (-1796) +
  • Joannes Mauritius Bach (1751-?)
  • Hermann Werner Schmitz (1770-1774)
  • Johann Heinrich Wünnenberg (1774 - 1796)
  • Johann Nicolaus Rappe from France (1796–1808)
  • Henricus Fehring OP, (1808-1810)
  • Friedericus Wilhelmus Zieren (1810–1828)
  • Friedericus Josephus Batsche (1828–1834) +
  • Franciscus Bernhard Beuing (1834-1845)
  • Johannes Meinolph Gerhard Hoischen (1845–1864)
  • Casparus Melchior Balthasar Kleinschmidt (1864-1881) +
  • Johann Dietrich Gla (1881–1886)
  • Ludwig Rubarth (1886-1919) +
  • Paul Thelen (1919-1926)
  • Johannes Franz Anton Sauerwald (1926–1928)
  • Franz Cramer (1928-1952) +
  • Bernhard Scherer (1952–1955)
  • Franz Peitz (1955–1957)
  • Werner Fuhlrott (1957-1977) +
  • Clemens Kathke (1977–1979) (parish administrator)
  • Rudolf English (1979) (Subsidiar)
  • Gottfried Pöschl, OP, (1979–1993)
  • Alfons Weskamp (1993–2012)

literature

  • Nikolaus Rodenkirchen: Warburg district . Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster in Westf. 1939 (architectural and art monuments of Westphalia 44th volume. Welda) p. 482ff. (unaltered reprint, Hermes-Verlag Warburg, 1994)
  • Little guide to the Church of St. Kilian . Welda, 1992
  • Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Westphalia. Höxter district. Volume 1.1: City of Warburg. Petersberg 2015, pp. 552-556.

Web links

Commons : St. Kilian (Welda)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 9 ° 6 ′ 40.7 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Doms: Directory of archaeological monuments and finds in the Warburg urban area, Höxter district, In F. Mürrmann, Die Stadt Warburg, Hermes-Verlag, Warburg, Vol. 1, 1986
  2. ↑ Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in Westphalia. Höxter district. Volume 1.1: City of Warburg. Petersberg 2015, p. 554.
  3. ↑ fled to Germany during the French Revolution, returned to France after 1808
  4. ↑ actually clerical director of the Laurentiusheim, Warburg
  5. ↑ https://welda.de/unser-dorf/geschichte.html?showall=1&limitstart= Accessed May 25, 2020