St. Martin (Wilnsdorf)

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Tower of the St. Martin Church
Model of the former church building

The tower of the Roman Catholic parish church St. Martin in Wilnsdorf in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a listed building .

History and architecture

Around 950 the first Christian communities were founded by Frankish missionaries in Siegerland. Because of the patronage of St. Martin, this also applies to Wilnsdorf. A first pastor was mentioned in a document in 1444. The Reformation began around 1530 in the village. The Catholic pastor got his seat in Wilnsdorf in 1651, the Protestant pastor had his seat in Rödgen. Both churches were used simultaneously at the time. On the foundations of the former castle chapel, a new chapel was built in 1791, which was also used simultaneously. In 1852 the Catholic parish was given the royal Prussian main customs office as an emergency church. The Simultaneum was thus over.

The Martinskirche was built between 1889 and 1890 by the architect Fiedler. The church was demolished after the Second World War due to poor building structure. Only the neo - Romanesque free-standing tower has been preserved.

A model of the Romanesque church from 1890 is on the church grounds. The church tower was restored in 1996, and a new oak bell cage was installed. Until the new wooden bell chair was installed, the bell consisted of three cast steel bells from the Bochum association. A fourth, smaller bronze bell was added. It was cast by the Eifeler bell foundry Hans August Mark in Brockscheid with tone c sharp2. The bell for the new main chime in Minden Cathedral was actually cast, but the bell dedicated to Blessed Pauline von Malinckrodt turned out to be too thin-walled for the sound in the cathedral. It was sold to Wilnsdorf as an intact bell. The tower was listed as a historical monument in 1997. A major renovation and redesign of the church was carried out in 2007.

Furnishing

High altar

The high altar with an antependium and a two-storey retable made of marble, alabaster and flour stone was made in the Papen workshop around 1700 . It is the earliest of the preserved multi-storey altars from the Papen workshop, one of the leading Westphalian sculptors' workshops in the Westphalian region. It was originally created as a Johann Baptist side altar for the abbey church of the Cistercian monastery in Hardehausen . After secularization he came to Daseburg . Around 1888 a pastor Muermann was looking for an altar that was as inexpensive as possible for the Wilnsdorf church. The Daseburgers wanted a modern altar and so the Papen altar was given in exchange for the transport costs. Since the entire altar was not to be erected for reasons of space, the upper floor and some figures were sold to Cologne. Around 1935 a pastor of Kesting researched the whereabouts and found what he was looking for in the Schnütgen Museum. The altar was brought back together. As part of the most recent church renovation, the altar was cleaned, restored and its substance secured. The altar is made of sand-lime stone and marble, the figures of stone or wood. A figure of God the Father with the globe crowns the altar, it does not belong originally to the altar, but was already there in the old church. The figure on the upper floor is believed to be Pope Alexander, but could also be Bishop Liborius . The figure on the left is St. Meinolf, he is represented with the attributes monastery, book and deer. On the right is St. Laurentius with the attribute purse. On the main floor, the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan by John the Baptist is shown. The bishop figures show a St. Peter, probably a Cistercian abbot and St. Wilhelm, also a Cistercian abbot. The altar table is decorated with tendrils. The medallion shows St. Joseph with the baby Jesus, it is held by two putti.

Other equipment

  • The celebration altar, ambo and baptismal font in the choir room, as well as the holy water basin under the organ stage and the bronze Apostle candlesticks come from the St. Johannes Bielefeld Wind Flute Church, which was demolished in the summer of 2007.
  • The tabernacle was not originally part of the altar. It was only added when the church was rebuilt.
  • The wooden Madonna was carved around 1475.
  • The stone figures of Saints Elisabeth, Michael and Zacharias date from around 1700.
  • The two figures on the choir wall also come from the Papen workshop, but are younger than the high altar.
  • On the left is the figure of St. Elisabeth, on the right that of St. Zacharias.
  • on the left on the front wall of the church is the figure of St. Michael, who crowned the altar before the renovation. It probably also comes from the Papenwerkstatt, but did not belong to the altar.
  • The figure of Mary on the right was probably made in the 16th century. The rose tendrils were designed and forged by Stefan Spork.
  • The carved figures on the gallery parapet come from the pulpit of the old church and until the present renovation had adorned the ambo (the four evangelists) and the celebration altar (the teaching Christ in the middle).

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Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 52.2 "  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 12.1"  E