St. Laurentius (Neuenkirchen)

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

Building history and description

Depiction of St. Lawrence in a three-pass on the tower

Until the 19th century there was a church building in Neuenkirchen, the construction time of which is unknown. The old church was a simple quarry stone building with a later added north aisle , a right-angled choir and a low west tower . The windows in the choir were pointed arch , otherwise round arched . This church was damaged by fire in 1815 and later demolished. In their place is the Neuenkirchen School today.

From 1895 to 1897 a new church was built east of the old church according to plans by the Osnabrück architect Alexander Behnes . It is a neo-Gothic square building with a three-bay nave and a square transept , to which three polygonal choirs adjoin in the east, as well as a west tower.

Interior

Oldest piece in the church is a tabernacle of limestone with gothic style elements that originated around 1500 and from the Church of the Osnabrück Augustinian monastery will be financed.

The rest of the furnishings are predominantly neo-Gothic from the time the new church was built. Altars , pulpit and figures are by Lukas Memken from Osnabrück, the stained glass of the windows by Victor von der Forst from Münster and the painting of the church by Wilhelm Hustemeyer from Osnabrück.

From 1815 the baroque high altar created by Thomas Simon Jöllemann from the church of the secularized Osnabrück monastery Gertrudenberg was in the St. Laurentius church. It was later sold to the Provincial Museum in Hanover , and since 1980 it has been back in its original location in the Gertrudenkirche.

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the province of Hanover , IV. Administrative region Osnabrück, 3. The districts of Wittlage and Bersenbrück (issue 13 of the complete work), Hanover 1915, p. 157 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nöldeke, p. 157 f.
  2. ↑ a b Dehio, p. 969.

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 19.4 ″  E