St. Magnus (Niedermarsberg)
St. Magnus is a Catholic parish and provost church in Niedermarsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis . The neo - Gothic three - nave hall church is entered in the list of monuments of the city of Marsberg .
Architecture and history
First church
Abbot Drothmar von Corvey laid the foundation stone for the first St. Magnus Church in 1019. It was consecrated on July 27, 1040 or 1046 by Bishop Rotho von Paderborn as St. Magnus Church. It belonged to the Corvey Monastery , which was responsible for the construction work . A parish was established between 1036 and 1047 and the provost office in Obermarsberg was incorporated . This old church stood in the same place as the present one, although it was significantly smaller. Together with the retrofitted galleries and the organ stage, it offered space for around 450 people. Initially, only the altar table was available, an organ was purchased from Blomberg in 1653. The attachment for the high altar was purchased in 1682 and the pulpit was acquired in 1696. The building stood in the middle of a cemetery where the dead of both denominations were buried until 1807. After a long period of neglect, the Romanesque church fell into disrepair in the 18th century and no renovations were made. The following statement has been passed down from Pastor Windraken OSB (1747–1756): The church of the parish of St. Magnus is more like a murder pit than a house of worship. In the following years some pastors tried in vain to get the necessary financial means to build a new church from the royal treasury, as legal successors of the Corvey monastery.
Today's church
Decades of legal dispute with the Prussian government, the legal successor of the Imperial Abbey , arose over the cost of a new building . Pastor Caspari (1839–1887) managed to get the necessary funding. The old church was demolished in September 1852 and after the purchase of some land adjacent to the church square, the foundation stone was laid in the tower base on August 3, 1853.
The neo-Gothic hall church with a choir closed on three sides was built from ashlar masonry between 1853 and 1856. The retracted west tower with pointed helmet is accessible via a stepped gable. In the wide, light interior, rib vaults rest on octagonal pillars over wide beams
On August 24, 1856, the church was consecrated by the Paderborn auxiliary bishop Josef Freusberg . It was planned by the royal construction manager Friedrich Heinrich Kronenberg based on the model of the Warsteiner parish church St. Pankratius. In March 1873 the elevation to the provost church took place , the first provost of which was Caspari.
The new windows in the nave were installed in 1911, they depict scenes from the Sermon on the Mount and the lives of well-known saints. During the renovation in 1959, a number of works of art were removed, some of which have been shown again since 1974. A comprehensive interior and exterior renovation was carried out from 2001 to 2003.
Prayer chapel
In the so-called prayer chapel in the intermediate house, a crown of Mary and St. Anthony of Padua can be seen. He is dressed in a Franciscan robe with a baby Jesus and a lily.
The six remarkable half-columns in the intermediate house are decorated with cylindrical capitals. The ornamentation shows figurative and vegetable motifs.
Furnishing
Winged altar
The neo-Gothic winged altar was built in 1920 in the workshop of the Mormon brothers from Sigmaringen. A painter Ronge from Munich painted after models by unknown masters in the Imperial Museum in Vienna Christ meets his mother on the Way of the Cross and Christ on the Mount of Olives . When the altar shrine is open, four reliefs made of linden wood can be seen, they represent the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan by John the Baptist , the Holy Family at Nazareth , Christ's Resurrection and the Holy Trinity in heaven . On the left side there is a figure of St. . Sturmius with a church floor plan, crook and book and on the right side a figure of St. Abbot Magnus. He is dressed in the Benedictine robe and carries a crook and a book. The crowned cross was made from an original in the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg.
Baptismal font
The date of creation of the baptismal font has not been passed down. It is probably a work from the 20th century. It has the shape of a cup and is made of precious marble . The cover is a magnificent brass dome that closes with a cross. The end of the cross is decorated with lily flowers.
Way of the Cross
The Way of the Cross was made by the Larenz brothers from 1892 to 1895; the fourteenth station was donated by the Concordia Choir in Niedermarsberg.
Triumphal cross
The magnificent triumphal cross is a late Gothic work from 1510. Mary and John can be seen at the feet of the crucified.
Double Madonna
In the front nave hangs a double Madonna with an identical image facing east and west. It was made by Heinrich Papen around 1700 .
Vesper picture
A picture of Vespers is shown at the north exit . The representation was made by the Larenz brothers. It shows the grieving Mother of God with the body of Jesus removed from the cross. John and mourning women also mourn.
Papal relief
A relief depicting the Holy Family hangs on the east wall of the tower hall; it was made by Heinrich Papen and comes from the Joseph's Chapel, dated 1710.
Pillar saints
The four pillar saints still come from the first church, they come from the succession of the Papenwerkstatt. St. John Nepomuk with the biretta was made by Johannes Pollmann from 1740 to 1750.
characters
- The church patron Magnus is shown as a bishop with a staff, the figure still comes from the old Magnus church, it was carved around 1680.
- To the left of the choir is a Madonna . The work comes from the sculptors Gebrüder Larenz from Niedermarsberg. Another sculpture from the same workshop shows St. Joseph with baby Jesus.
- St. Elisabeth of Thuringia is shown distributing alms to beggars.
- Charlemagne is depicted in an imposing pose with sword and church.
- The abbot Druthmar von Corvey is depicted in Benedictine robe, he is wearing an abbot's staff.
- Saint Vincent de Paul is represented with the attributes of a cross and a child at his feet.
- The dragon-slaying Archangel Michael hangs over the entrance to the sacristy. It was created around 1750/60 by Johann Pollmann, a successor to the Papenwerkstatt.
- St. Anna teaches Maria to read, this depiction is a work by Johann Heinrich Biggen from around 1750 to 1760.
- St. Apollonia is represented with the attribute of a tooth held in forceps.
- St. Liborius is a work by Heinrich Papen from around 1700. The attribute plate with stones was obviously added at a later time.
Other equipment
- Since 1938 there are relics of St. Sturmius in the church.
- A bell with electric bell machines was purchased in 1937.
- A carved antependium of the former celebration altar with the church patron St. Magnus was made in 1753 by Johann Henrich Biggen. It shows the saint with outspread arms, as well as a miter and a crook.
- A female saint made of wood with a branch of lilies and a book dates from the beginning of the 16th century. It is currently (2011) exhibited in the Heimatmuseum.
- The splendid, two-story wrought iron chandelier dates from the beginning of the 19th century. It was made in the art forge Westermeyer in 1905 and was originally to be illuminated electrically. After its rediscovery in 1976, the chandelier was restored and the electric lighting was replaced by 32 candle holders.
organ
The organ was built in 2006 and 2009 by the organ building company Fischer & Krämer (Endingen). In this instrument, four registers of the previous organ were reused, which had been built in 1860 by organ builder Franz Wilhelm Sonreck (Cologne) with 21 registers on two manuals and pedal . Today's organ has 32 registers on two manuals and a pedal. The actions are mechanical.
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- annotation
- H = historical register of Sonreck (1860)
literature
- Norbert Schröer: Chronicle of the Propsteigemeinde St. Magnus in Niedermarsberg. Niedermarsberg 2006.
- Norbert Schröer, Ulrich Boxberger Church leader: Propsteikirche St. Magnus in Niedermarsberg , publisher Propsteigemeinde St. Magnus, printing: Druckerei Boxberger
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ursula Quednau (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 630.
- ↑ More information about the organ
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '36.6 " N , 8 ° 51' 15.3" E