St. Marien (Hemer)

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St. Marien is one of five Roman Catholic parish churches in the city of Hemer . The church building was inaugurated in 1930 after a year of construction and is located in the Bredenbruch district .

history

Up to the Reformation, Ihmert and Bredenbruch were part of the parish of St. Pankratius in Iserlohn. In the course of the Reformation, the entire population of the valley had become Protestant, and Catholic residents were first mentioned again in 1817. The parish of St. Aloysius also became the mother parish in Iserlohn. While the proportion of Catholics in Ihmert was still relatively low, there were again many Catholics in Bredenbruch. Most of them have not attended church services in Iserlohn since the 20th century, but in St. Bonifatius in Sundwig.

In 1920 the establishment of an independent congregation in Bredenbruch began with the permission to carry out worship and religious instruction in the village itself. The mass was celebrated once or twice a month in the Johannistal school . In 1929 they were able to buy their own property, on which the new St. Mary's Church was built in 1930 . From then on, church services were held weekly.

After the pastors of St. Aloysius were also responsible for St. Mary until 1945, the community received its own clergyman after the war. The pastor of today's LWL-Klinik Hemer , which was then used as a hospital , held services in Bredenbruch and for the wounded who were treated in Ihmert, also in the Ihmert church .

A vicariate building was inaugurated in the immediate vicinity of the church in 1956, after the interior of the church had already been renovated in 1948. At the beginning of 1959, the congregation , which had been elevated to a parish vicarie four years earlier, received its own asset management, from 1984 it belonged to the parish of St. Petrus Canisius in Westig. In the meantime St. Marien is an independent parish church in the pastoral association Hemer.

The church building was restored in 1973 according to plans by the Hemeraner architect Hermann-Josef Geismann . Among other things, a new chancel and new choir windows were built during the work. The parish hall next to the church was inaugurated on June 8, 1980 after less than a year of construction.

Architecture and equipment

The hall church was built as a brick building on a quarry stone base. The arched windows have been decorated with pictures from the life of Mary since 1966 . The chancel in its current appearance dates from 1973 . It is characterized by a glass concrete window that depicts the cross as the "tree of life". In the middle is the tabernacle , which was renewed in 2006 at the suggestion of Johannes Joachim Degenhardt . The Archdiocese of Paderborn took over most of the costs.

The church has a bell from 1988. The 78 kilogram bell with a diameter of 48 centimeters and striking tone G sharp replaced an old steel bell with a poor sound. It bears the inscription “St. Maria Rosenkranz ”.

organ

For financial reasons, the community was only able to purchase a small organ with 5 stops and an attached pedal in 1960 . Builder unknown. However, experts determined that it is a historically valuable instrument from the Ibach company , dating from around 1830. A new organ was purchased in 1986. The "old" organ is now in the Bonifatius Chapel in Becke, after having been in the Deilinghofen community center for over 20 years. The new organ has eleven registers, mechanical action and slider chests. The work was built by the organ builder Simon in Borgentreich-Muddenhagen. The organ was consecrated on May 29, 1986.

Main work
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Swell
Wood-covered 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Principal 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Tremulant
pedal
Sub-bass 16 ′
Covered bass 8th'

See also

literature

  • Bernhard Limper: 50 years of the Catholic Marienkirche in Bredenbruch – Ihmert (1980). in: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer e. V. (Ed.): The key. Hemer 1981
  • Werner Hoffmann: The primer. Volume 6: Churches, bells, organs in the Hemer urban area. Zimmermann-Verlag, Balve 2001. ISBN 3-89053-086-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small home chronicle in: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer e. V. (Ed.): Der Schlüssel , Hemer 1980.
  2. ↑ a b Werner Hoffmann: The Primer. Volume 6: Churches, bells, organs in the Hemer urban area. Zimmermann-Verlag, Balve 2001. pp. 178–182 (p. 180)
  3. ↑ IKZ Hemer: “New tabernacle inaugurated in St. Marien”, published on December 6, 2006

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 11.1 ″  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 42 ″  E