St. Marien (Steinheim)

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St. Marien in Steinheim

The Catholic parish church of St. Marien is a listed church building in Steinheim , a town in the Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

Side view of St. Mary with the choir area
High altar with opened wing retable

The parish church has been the archdeaconate church of the diocese of Paderborn since 1231 and was incorporated into the Marienmünster monastery in 1324 . A stone hall church with a retracted square tower was excavated as the earliest complex, possibly dating from the 10th century. Around the middle of the twelfth century, this was expanded into a cruciform basilica with two double yokes in a linked system . The long walls of the choir , the transept and the lower floors of the tower have been preserved from this church . The basilica was later converted into a hall church. The choir was 1481 by a 5 / 8 extends -Schluss and the extensions on the south and north side attached. The south aisle was built in 1665. The west yoke of the north aisle was built from 1877 to 1878. In the same year the upper tower floors were renewed.

In the late Middle Ages, the church services and pastors were often paid from donations from benefices that were assigned to the individual offices or altars. The benefices were mostly land holdings with the income generated from them; the benefactors of the benefices had a significant influence on the filling of the pastor's posts and the design and dedication of services. In addition to the main altar, the parish church in Steinheim had at least four side altars equipped with benefices at the beginning of the 16th century (St. Vincent's altar, three-king altar, cross altar and altar of St. John the Evangelist). In the course of the Reformation , however, the benefices of the churches were gradually dissolved because of the abuse of the benefices observed in the late Middle Ages.

In earlier times, the pastors of the community and members of various noble families (including von Oeynhausen , von Haxthausen ) were buried inside the church. These burials were severely restricted in the 18th century and banned by the Prussian government in 1805. All the tombs in the church have been removed as part of renovations (most recently in 1963). The grave slabs themselves are lost; There is still a photo of Pastor Leander Scheiffer's grave from 1688.

The deceased of the parish were buried in the church square directly next to the church. The cast-iron grave slab (later attached to the church wall), which has covered the children's grave of the family of Mayor Husemann since the plague epidemic in 1618, reminds of this time . There are also three lavishly crafted tombstones of the landlord Conrad Busse (1813), Father Gregorius Köchling (1826) and the wife of the tenant of the Thienhausen estate, Luise Reese (1815). The church cemetery was abandoned in 1833 due to lack of space and the site was converted into a small park in 1965.

Equipment of the church

  • A high altar with an opening retable and carved reliefs of the Passion of Christ from the beginning of the 16th century
  • High sacrament house with pinnacle crown , around 1490; in the base relief tree of knowledge with a snake, on the tabernacle figures of the Annunciation. The historical version was uncovered in 1964
  • Small column retable, 17th century, with St. Antonius, wood 18th century
  • Neo-Gothic side altar with Madonna made of terracotta
  • Monumental Christophorus made of wood from the 17th century, revised in 1964
  • A cast-iron plague tablet with the designation 1618 is attached to the southern outer wall

Bells

No. Surname Caster Casting year Diameter (mm) Weight (kg) Chime
1 Sacred Heart of Jesus Junker 1949 1,423 1,548 d '
2 Maria Junker 1949 1,180 924 f '
3 Joseph Junker 1949 1,048 662 G'
4th Rochus Junker 1949 949 472 a '
5 Liborius mark 1998 505 102 b ''
6th Maria Goretti mark 1998 459 78 c '' '
7th Kilian mark 1998 396 54 d '' '

Source: Steinheimer Glockenbuch.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. in detail Stephan Waldhoff, a pious foundation 600 years ago, in: Steinheim Calendar 2013, annual booklet 2012, publisher Heimatverein Steinheim e. V., (Issue 36), p. 81
  2. ↑ s. Johannes Waldhoff, Gravestones and Cemeteries in Steinheim, in: Communications from the Culture Committee of the City of Steinheim, (July 2011, issue 60), p. 3
  3. ↑ Johannes Waldhof, ibid p. 4 u. 5
  4. ^ Georg Dehio (original), Ursula Quednau (arrangement): North Rhine-Westphalia, Vol. 2: Westphalia ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , page 1058

Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '57 "  N , 9 ° 5' 42"  E