St. Marien (Fröndenberg)

St. Mary's Church

The Catholic parish church of St. Marien is a listed church building on Sodenkamp 16 in Fröndenberg in the Unna district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

Catholic parish church St. Marien Fröndenberg, left tower of the collegiate church

History and architecture

The neo-Gothic , partially plastered brick building with a transept, polygonal apse and a high west tower was built as a hall church by Gerhard Franz Langenberg from 1893 to 1896 . After severe damage in the Second World War , the building was renovated as a wall pillar hall from 1949 to 1955 . An extensive renovation was carried out in 2005/06, during which the room setting was also renewed. High, busted pointed barrel compartments rest on wide belts and, in some cases, multi-stepped pointed arch openings.

Furnishing

• The gilded altar tabernacle made of copper is from around 1350.
• In the tower-like tracery canopy on a base with lion feet is a copy of the Werler miraculous image . The side doors in the form of finely divided tracery windows can be opened
• Two wooden candlesticks were made in the middle of the 15th century.

organ

The new organ has been playing in the church since 2017. The instrument consists partly of the material of a late Romantic predisposed organ, which in 1898 by the organ workshop Dinse ( Kreuzberg ) for the St. Afra Church in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen was built. The 15 registers of this instrument were supplemented by 17 other (mostly used) registers. The new organ has 32 sounding registers. The reconstruction was carried out by the company Krawinkel (Höxter).

The console has three manuals (coupling manual, main unit, swell unit). There are also sub and super couplers from the third to the first manual and a super coupler from the swell to the pedal.

I main work C – f 3 1. Principal 16 ′ 2. octave 8th' 3. Hollow flute 8th' 4th Gamba 8th' 5. octave 4 ′ 6th Flute 4 ′ 7th Super octave 2 ′ 8th. Cornet 3-fold 2 2 ⁄ 3  9. Mixture III 2 ′ 10. Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C – f 3 11. Drone 16 ′ 12. Violin principal 8th' 13. Lovely Gedackt 8th' 14th Aeoline 8th' 15th Vox Celeste 8th' 16. flute 4 ′ 17th Gemshorn 4 ′ 18th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 19th flute 2 ′ 20th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 21st Trompette harmonique 8th' 22nd oboe 8th' 23. Clarine 4 ′

Pedals C – d 1 24. Violon 16 ′ 25th Sub bass 16 ′ 26th Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  27. Principal bass 8th' 28. cello 8th' 29 Flute 8th' 30th octave 4 ′ 31. trombone 16 ′ 32 Trumpet 8th'

The organ building association St. Marien Fröndenberg takes care of the maintenance and the expansion of the organ.

Peal

The four-part bell of the church is tuned to d ', f', g 'and a'. The g'-bell was cast from bronze by the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen in 1894. The other bells are cast steel bells and were made in 1952 (d 'and f') and 1956 (a ').

literature

• Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : St. Marien (Fröndenberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Story and photo , accessed April 5, 2012.

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 25.6 "  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 52.1"  E