St. Mary's Assumption (Ahaus)

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St. Mariä Himmelfahrt, Ahaus (aerial photo 2014)
St. Mary's Assumption, Ahaus

St. Mariä Himmelfahrt , also called St. Marien, is a Roman Catholic church building in Ahaus .

History and architecture

The first Catholic church in Ahaus was built in the 14th century. The single-nave building was destroyed in a fire in 1400. Then a three-aisled church was built, completed with the 68 m high tower, which has been preserved to this day and was built between 1498 and 1519.

After the Gothic nave was destroyed in a town fire in 1863, the church was rebuilt within the preserved outer walls as a three-nave, four - bay neo - Gothic brick hall church with a two-bay, just closed choir and completed in 1865. The Gothic tower made of sandstone was increased by one storey (consistently also made of sandstone) according to plans by Hilger Hertel , and the burnt baroque helmet was replaced by a (new) Gothic spire. In 1896 this building was expanded to include a third aisle.

In view of structural defects, the stability of the nave was no longer given at the beginning of the 1960s. In 1963 it was therefore decided to demolish and rebuild. In 1965 the nave was demolished and the foundation stone was laid for the new building, which was built according to plans by the architect Erwin Schiffer from Cologne and consecrated in 1966. The windows were designed by Georg Meistermann .

The light, rectangular concrete building is characterized by lamellar facades on all sides with colored glazing.

Furnishing

  • The liturgical furnishings are mostly from the time of the new building in 1965.
  • Older items of equipment:
    • 300 year old sandstone cross, originally on the south side of the church at that time, later used as a cemetery cross, now inside
    • on the north wall a depiction of Anna Selbdritt, around 1700; used until 1969 for the "Anne Altar" during the Corpus Christi procession
    • two reliefs of the neo-Gothic side altars
    • Baptismal font from the old church
    • In the entrance hall of the old tower there is a tympanum with the alliance coat of arms of those von Horstmar-Ahaus from the 14th century
    • Also there is a historicist "Perpetual Help", a baroque cross that was rediscovered when it was demolished in 1965 and four half-reliefs of the evangelists from the baroque pulpit from the Gothic church
    • At the junction between the tower and the new building, there are two stone tablets from 1865 with the memory of the town fire and the subsequent reconstruction of the church.

The organ was built by Orgelbau Fleiter (Münster), reusing 31 registers from the previous instrument. The instrument has 42 registers (including 4 transmissions and an extension) on three manuals and a pedal.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 '
2. Principal 08th'
3. Reed flute 08th'
4th octave 04 '
5. Flute 04 '
6th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
7th Principal 02 '
8th. Cornettino 04 '
9. Mixture IV 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
10. Trumpet (Ext. No. 11) 16 '
11. Trumpet 08th'
II threshold positive C-g 3
12. Principal 8th'
13. Quintad 8th'
14th octave 4 '
15th Coupling flute 4 '
16. Schwiegel 2 '
17th Minor fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  '
18th Sesquialtera 2 2 ⁄ 3  '
19th Scharff IV 1'
20th Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
21st Dumped 16 '
22nd Wooden dacked 08th'
23. Black viola 08th'
24. Vox coelestis 08th'
25th Principal 04 '
26th recorder 04 '
27. Nasat 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
28. Forest flute 02 '
29 third 01 3 ⁄ 5  '
30th Mixture III 02 '
31. bassoon 16 '
32. oboe 08th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
33. Open bass (from No. 34 + 21) 32 '
34. Principal 16 '
35. Sub bass 16 '
36. Subtle bass (= No. 21) 16 '
37. Octave bass 08th'
38. Pipe pommer 08th'
39. Choral bass 04 '
40. trombone 16 '
41. Trumpet (= No. 11) 08th'
42. Zinc (ext. No.11) 04 '
  • Coupling: II / I, III / I (also as sub- and super-octave coupling), III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids and miscellaneous: register cuffs, setter with 4096 combinations

Trivia

The new church is also ironically referred to as “St. Hoarding ”. These wrote Robert Gernhardt a critical poem architecture St. Horten in Ahaus .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Ludorff : Kreis Ahaus (in the series Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen ), floor plan on p. 10.
  2. ↑ Information on the history of the church  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the municipality's website@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.st-marien-ahaus.de  
  3. ↑ “Parish Church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Ahaus” leaflet published by the Catholic parish office of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Ahaus; Author: not specified; Year: not specified
  4. ↑ See the organ and its disposition , both on the website of the organ building company Fleiter
  5. ↑ Robert Gernhardt: Theory and Poetry. Successful comic literature in its social and media context Waxmann Verlag, 2011, by Tobias Eilers, on Google eBook

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 33.4 "  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 23.7"  E