St. Marien (Borken-Gemen)

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St. Marien with a former Franciscan monastery

The Catholic parish church of St. Marien is in the historic center of Gemen , a district of Borken . The full patronage is To the Immaculate Conception of Mary . The church together with the Franciscan monastery complex belongs to the historically and art-historically significant complex of Burg and Freiheit Gemen.

The church is a hall building with a richly structured facade in Münsterland baroque forms . The simple monastery building connects to the side. The church was built between 1705 and 1708 with the support of Countess Charlotte Amalie von Limburg-Stirum. The pastoral care was initially taken over by the Franciscans of the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ), for whom Charlotte's son Otto Ernst Leopold founded a Franciscan residence at the church in 1719.

Except for the organ, the church has been completely preserved. It has three altars, a pulpit and a gallery, a historic choir stalls as well as historic pews, communion bench , confessionals, statues and pictures.

organ

In the 1980s the church received a new organ . For this purpose, a baroque organ case was purchased and inserted into the gallery parapet. The organ was built by Franz Breil .

I main work C–
1. Open flute 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Flute 4 ′
4th Octave 2 ′
5. Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Head trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C–
7th Lead-covered 8th'
8th. Gamba 8th'
9. recorder 4 ′
10. Principal 2 ′
11. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
12. Sub bass 16 ′
13. Open flute 8th'
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ heimatverein-gemen.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '42.1 "  N , 6 ° 51' 53.2"  E