St. Marien (Warendorf)

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East facade with main entrance
Aerial view of the new Marienkirche ensemble, tower and location of the old one
St. Mary's Church

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Marien (also "New Church") is the younger of the two old town parish churches of Warendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia . Since the merger in 2010, it has belonged to the newly established St. Laurentius parish with the old St. Laurentius parish and the St. Josef parish, a parish founded in the 1950s . The church is located in the west of the old town of Warendorf near the former city wall.

history

A new parish was founded at the turn of the 12th to the 13th century, although the number of inhabitants did not make this step necessary. Presumably, this was hoped for an impetus for the city's growth, but this did not materialize. A pastor for St. Marien is first mentioned in a document in 1253. The new parish comprised only one sixth of the urban area with one fifth of the residents and remained in the shadow of the mother parish until the expansion of the city in the 19th century. At times the parish was being dissolved, especially after the fire of 1741. It was not until the early 20th century that the parish had expanded to such an extent that it seemed necessary to build a new church. A few years after the completion of the new building, the previous building was demolished. Only the tower remained.

The first church

Tower with contour paving of the demolished church.

The tower is dated to around 1200 and is said to have already belonged to an older St. Mary's Church. This was later followed by a single-nave, three-bay Romanesque church with a retracted rectangular choir. This church was east. After the fire of 1741, which destroyed the building with the exception of the outer walls and are reminiscent of the two stone tablets in the preserved tower, enlarged windows were broken into the nave and choir walls during the reconstruction. At the same time, St. Marien was given a baroque interior, parts of which have been preserved in the new Marienkirche and elsewhere. In 1870 the tower was increased to 56 meters and provided with four neo-Gothic corner turrets. A pointed spire was also built. In 1882 the interior was changed again in a neo-Gothic style. In 1927 the choir and nave were demolished and the spire was replaced by a flat pyramid, whereby the high altar ended up in the Catholic church in Ellrich im Harz, where it has now been removed from this church. The outlines of the old building are made recognizable by paving in the lawn of the church square.

New building from 1911

The plans for the new building come from the Mainz cathedral master builder Ludwig Becker . That is why there is also a great similarity to the St. Clemens Church in Hiltrup, also planned by Becker . The new church is a three-aisled neo - Romanesque basilica with Art Nouveau elements . It is oriented to the west. Only two of the planned four nave bays were initially completed, the other two are additions from the 1950s and externally recognizable through changes in the architectural style and the lighter color of the stone. The proposed double tower facade was never realized. The exterior of the nave is divided into pilaster strips and arched friezes, the gables of the transept are adorned with blind arcades as well as slender columns and a large wheeled window each. Slender columns also structure the choir apse. The two choir towers rise up at the joint between the choir and the transept. There are annex buildings (sacristy and parament chamber) on both sides of the retracted choir bay. To the east, at the entrance to this church, closes a 1950s-style wall. In the center of this facade is a rose window.

Inside, in the nave, transept and choir yoke, there is a barrel vault in Rabitz technology, which is divided into individual "yokes" by means of less pronounced belt arches. This light construction means that there are no massive parts such as wall and buttresses, so the construction “rests” only on wall templates with delicate capitals. The pillars that support the aisle vault and the upper aisle are square. The seven-axis choir apse is characterized by rectangular windows, they show the five secrets of the Glorious Rosary, the two "remaining" show predominantly floral ornamentation and an angel figure. They come from the workshop of the church painter Friedrich Stummel . During a restoration in 1958, the apse was covered with a brick wall and the side apses in the transept were separated from the church and walled up. The painting in the choir arch was also painted over and its figurative decorations removed. During this renovation, the pulpit and the (old) communion bench were removed at the same time as the main altar and side altars. The side altars ended up on the mission to New Guinea, the whereabouts of the high altar are unknown. The facing was reversed in the main apse, so that today the windows and the associated Art Nouveau ornamentation are visible again.

Furnishing

The main altar from 1958 is made of Jura marble and quotes the nine choirs of angels on the front of its cafeteria . The associated tabernacle is now on a stele, since the altar served as a post-conciliar celebration altar until recently. The crucifix made of bog oak from 1958, which previously hung above the high altar, is now in the left transept. It is replaced by a cross from 1725, which was part of the old Marienkirche. During the recent interior redesign on the occasion of the centenary of the new St. Marien building, the communion bench from 1958 was removed and a movable "altar island" and a mobile celebration altar were acquired. The pews from the time it was built were also recently removed and replaced by various blue, orange and wooden, initially provisional, bundles of chairs in order to be able to use the church space more flexibly.

In the nave of St. Marien hangs a depiction of the Assumption of Mary, once known as the "Miraculbild". This picture in St. Marien in particular is also called “Patronale” in Warendorf (patronage: August 15th!). It is a crescent moon Madonna , accompanied by two angels and a representation of God the Father and the Holy Spirit above. The whole thing is framed by a halo and on top by an IHS lettering, a supplement d. 20th century, completed. This image was a revered miraculous image and came from 1640, but was destroyed in the fire in 1741 and then remade. Later, gradually from 1752, the image of the Virgin Mary in St. Laurentius became the actual pilgrimage cult image in Warendorf. During the restoration in 1958, parts of this "Miracul picture" were taken for a side altar, and it was later put back together.

The oldest work of art is a Pieta made from Baumberger sandstone around 1430 , it is located in a chapel under the organ stage and comes from a demolished processional chapel. The Easter candlestick (15th century), also made of Baumberger sandstone, was taken over from the old church. In the other of the two chapels under the organ stage there is a recent figure of St. Joseph.

The 14 Stations of the Cross were made in the Expressionist style and are by the artist Hubert Hartmann (1915-2006) from Wiedenbrück. He also created the protective mantle Madonna in the south (here left) transept.

The Ewig-Licht-Ampel and the choir stalls in Baroque style, which were made by a Warendorf painter in the 20th century, date from the time after the reconstruction after 1741. blue and white. The pulpit from the same era went to the Liebfrauenkirche Bocholt , the baroque organ case to St. Ludgeri Münster .

Like the Pieta, a stone relief was also taken from a demolished processional chapel. It shows a monstrance with adoring angels and is set; A chronogram that reads “A CHRISTIAN VOLKS SET HIS GOD THIS STONE” gives the year 1760.

The Hunger Cloth is a work from the 18th century, the border being from a later restoration. It depicts a crucifixion, on the left John and the women under the cross, on the right Mary Magdalene kneeling at the foot of the cross and two Roman soldiers. This cloth is unique in the entire Westphalian region.

The font is a work in the style of the 1950s and an addition to the extension from 1958/59. The organ from 1959 replaced a baroque organ, the main work of which can still be seen in St. Ludgeri Münster today. Today's electro-pneumatic instrument has 36 registers on two manuals and a pedal and was built by the Kreienbrink company from Osnabrück. Today it is in a poor condition and urgently needs a thorough renovation.

There is no information about the type, number and age of the bells, but both choir towers and the old tower have sound hatches.

"Organ miracle from Warendorf"

In this church there was also the original miraculous image (Miraculbild see above), which established the Warendorf veneration of Mary with the “organ miracle” of 1640. The following has been handed down about the organ miracle: The pastor Melchior Lohoff (1636 to 1649) had an old, apparently already existing picture of the Virgin restored in 1640. This was to be hung in the church on April 28, 1640 between four and five in the afternoon. The pastor and the citizen Hermann Wenning considered how this could best be done. Suddenly an unusual, extremely lovely and quiet playing began on the organ. They went up to the gallery and saw neither a player nor a playing movement on the organ. The harmonic game, which lasted for a while, stopped when one of the two began to examine the pipes more closely. The same thing happened again in front of witnesses the next day.

Events

The church has had flexible seating since 2012 and, in addition to its function as a traditional church space, is a place for a variety of events, experimental liturgy and concerts. These are u. a. supported by the choir of the church, the former church choir St.Marien, which today is called Marienkantorei Warendorf under the direction of Claudia Lawong is the parish choir with a focus on concert performances. The choir sang u. a. World premieres by Martin Palmeri, Heinz-Martin Lonquich, Ansgar Kreutz a. a. In addition, the Warendorf Chamber Choir under the direction of the former Marienkantor Ansgar Kreutz regularly gives concerts, mostly with a focus on a-cappella music in the Marienkirche.

Web links

Commons : Marienkirche (Warendorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.wn.de ; (last accessed on February 6, 2013)
  2. ↑ Engelmeier, Paul: Westphalian hunger cloths from the 14th to 19th centuries . Munster 1961.

literature

  • Norbert Funken, Warendorf - St. Mary's Catholic Church, Regensburg 2009; ISBN 978-3-7954-6816-3
  • Döhring, Klaus: Organ building in the Warendorf district, Warendorf 1995, out of print

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 11.9 "  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 14.4"  E