St. Mary's Assumption (Alstätte)

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St. Mary of the Assumption

The Catholic parish church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt is a listed church building in Alstätte , a district of the municipality of Ahaus in the Borken district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). Church and congregation belong to the deanery Ahaus in the diocese of Münster .

History and architecture

The parish was first mentioned in a document in 1297.

The west tower dates from the second half of the 15th century. The stepped gable was renewed. The church building is a four-bay wall pillar hall made of brick with a two-bay, drawn-in and flat-closed choir . It was built from 1789 to 1792, probably based on plans by Johann Engelbert Boner (1735–1815). The Alstätter Church is an early example of classicism in church construction in the diocese of Münster .

In 1936/1937 the building was extended to the north. After severe damage in the Second World War , the building was rebuilt in different ways. The building was extensively renovated in 2004.

Furnishing

organ

The organ

The two-manual organ with pedal has 27 registers , was built in 1972 by the Kleuker company and expanded in 2006 by the Fleiter company. The disposition is as follows:

I main work
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Pointed flute 4 ′
6th octave 2 ′
7th Cornett III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II swell
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Black viola 8th'
12. Principal 4 ′
13. Coupling flute 4 ′
14th Sesquialter II
15th Forest flute 2 ′
16. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Scharff IV 1'
18th Dulcian 16 ′
19th Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
pedal
20th Principal bass 16 ′
21st Sub bass 16 ′
22nd Principal bass 8th'
23. Gedackbass 8th'
24. Choral bass 4 ′
25th Rauschpfeife IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
26th trombone 16 ′
27. Trumpet 8th'

Special

In Alstätte there was a special form of decoration on the occasion of processions. Bouquets of flowers on sticks were carried by schoolboys in the procession. This is still common today in a few other places in the Münsterland and is called Torste nträger in the places concerned .

literature

  • Georg Dehio (founder), Ursula Quednau (scientific director): Handbook of German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia , Volume 2: Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , pp. 2–3.
  • Thomas Frings : Designed upheavals. Churches in the diocese of Münster between redesign and conversion . Dialogverlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-937961-69-9 , pp. 16-19.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Peter Holzwig: The history of church building in the diocese of Münster . In: Johannes Schneider (Red.): The Diocese of Münster . Vol. 2: Art, Music, Education . Éditions du Signe, Strasbourg 1994, ISBN 2-87718-180-4 , pp. 2–19, here p. 11.
  2. ^ Georg Dehio, Ursula Quednau: Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia , Volume 2: Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 2–3.
  3. ↑ Information about the organ
  4. ^ Enlarged photograph in the Alstätte home

Web links

Commons : St. Mary of the Assumption  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 52.3 ″  E