St. Lambertus (Merzen)

The St. Lambertus Church in Merzen

St Lambertus in Merzen is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Lambertus, which belongs to the Osnabrück-Nord deanery of the Osnabrück diocese .

Building history and description

Merzen is considered the original parish of Varngau . Until the 19th century there was a Romanesque hall church with two nave yokes , a slightly drawn-in, rectangular choir . This church was demolished in 1874, the Romanesque west tower was initially preserved.

From 1874 to 1876 a larger new church was built on the same site according to plans by the architect Franz Xaver Lütz , a three-aisled hall church in neo-Gothic style. The tower was raised in 1894.

Interior

The oldest piece in the church is the late Romanesque font made of Bentheim sandstone ( Bentheim type ) from the 13th century. A baroque ray monstrance with a representation of St. Lambertus dates from the 18th century and is said to have been acquired by the Iburg monastery after the secularization in 1803 .

Bells

Three bronze bells hang in the tower of St. Lambertus. They have the following sequence of strikes: es' - ges' - as'. The large es' bell was cast by Johann Frese in 1495. The two smaller bells were cast by the Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen in 1948. Their diameters are 1082 mm and 964 mm.

literature

Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Bremen / Lower Saxony, new editing, heavily exp. Ed., Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 946.

Arnold Nöldeke: The art monuments of the province of Hanover , IV. Administrative region Osnabrück, 3. The districts of Wittlage and Bersenbrück (No. 13 of the complete work), Hanover 1915, p. 156 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Dehio, p. 946.
↑ ^a ^b Nöldeke, p. 156 f.
^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 544 .
↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 502 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

52.4765 7.8305555555556Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 35.4 " N , 7 ° 49 ′ 50" E

[Dehio-1] Dehio, p. 946.

[Nöldeke-2] Nöldeke, p. 156 f.

[3] Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 544 .

[4] Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 502 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).