St. Margaretha (Emstek)
St. Margaretha is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Margaretha Emstek in the Cloppenburg deanery of the diocese of Münster .
history
The parish of Emstek is probably one of the original parishes that were founded by the mission cell in Visbek in the course of the Christianization of the Lerigau in the 9th century . In 1159 Cappeln ( St. Peter and Paul ) was parished out . Until the 19th century there was a church building in Emstek, which was supposedly built in 1352, but probably earlier. The new church was built from 1862 to 1865 according to plans by the architect Johann Bernhard Hensen .
Building description
The neo Church building brick has the shape of a three-aisle basilica with buttresses , fünfjochigem nave and a transverse ship . There are side chapels on the polygonal closed choir . The west tower has moved into the nave.
Furnishing
The oldest piece is the Romanesque font made of Bentheim sandstone (Bentheim type) from around 1200, which was taken over from the previous building. Side altars, sacrament house and stained glass date from the construction time of the new church and can be assigned to historicism . There are also several paintings from the 17th century.
literature
- The architectural and art monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg . III. Issue: Amt Cloppenburg and Amt Friesoythe, reprint of the 1903 edition, Osnabrück 1976, p. 82 f.
- Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Vol. 2: Bremen / Niedersachsen, Neubearb., Munich 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 447.
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 1 ″ N , 8 ° 9 ′ 20 ″ E