St. Laurentius (Canstein)

St. Laurence

The Catholic Church of St. Laurentius is a listed church building in Canstein , a district of Marsberg , in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The building was erected from 1834 to 1837 as a classical hall church with a wooden ceiling and a 3/6 end. The hipped gable of the west facade was crowned with a cubic roof turret. The furnishings are fairly uniform in the Biedermeier style. The building is plastered and divided into stone made of wide corner pilaster strips.

Furnishing

• A baroque column retable from the Capuchin monastery in Niedermarsberg. Century.
• A dainty, three-legged baptismal table made of wood in rococo and plait style shapes from the end of the 18th century comes from the castle chapel.
• The organ gallery on columns with lyre-shaped parapets dates from the time the church was built.

literature

• Wilfried Hansmann , Dorothea Kluge (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 1969, p. 263.
• Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 637.

Web links

• history

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilfried Hansmann, Dorothea Kluge (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1969, p. 263.
2. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 637.

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 17 ″  E