St. Martini (Minden)

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Council Church of St. Martini

Tower of the Martinikirche (Minden) from the upper Altstatt

Basic data
Denomination Evangelical Lutheran
place Minden , Germany
Regional church Evangelical Church of Westphalia
Patronage St. Martini
Building history
start of building 1029
Building description
Reallocation 1530 (formerly Roman Catholic )
Function and title
Coordinates 52 ° 17 '17.3 "  N , 8 ° 54' 54.8"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '17.3 "  N , 8 ° 54' 54.8"  E
Evangelical Church of Westphalia

The Church of St. Martini in the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden is a church building that stands in the center of the old Minden city center on the edge of the upper old town terrace and is thus shaping the silhouette of the city of Minden. It belonged to the St. Martini Abbey, which was only dissolved in 1810.

The church was founded shortly before 1029 and is built in Romanesque and Gothic styles. In 1530 the church became Evangelical-Lutheran in the course of the Reformation . Here Nikolaus Krage read the evangelical church ordinance that he had written and thus the first in Westphalia. The building of the church was entered in the monument protection list of the city of Minden.

history

St. Martini (Minden)
Martinikirche Minden from the east (left former daughter's school)

The founding of the Church of St. Martini in Minden and the establishment of an associated collegiate foundation fall during the reign of Minden Bishop Sigebert (1022-1036). The exact date can no longer be determined, but is shortly before 1029, since in this year Emperor Konrad II confirmed his possessions to the Martinistift in a document. Bishop Sigebert therefore generously endowed his foundation with goods and income. The goods mentioned are Egisberen (today Eisbergen, city of Porta Westfalica), Kemmin (today Kemme, district Hildesheim), Niginbruck (today Nienburg / Weser) Suueverden (today Schwadvörden, district Diepholz) and Hiltiuuardingahusen (today Hilferdingsen, district of Unterlübbe, now municipality Hille). This list of goods that can be assigned to the Martinistift was expanded in a second imperial charter from 1033. After his death, Bishop Sigebert was buried in the choir of the unfinished church. It is assumed that the construction of the church could only be completed under his successor, Bishop Bruno (1036-1055), who certainly did not consecrate the church: this is mostly ascribed to his episcopal successor, Bishop Eilbert (1055–). The Collegiate Monastery of St. Martini was thus completed and fully functional.

The area for pastoral care assigned to the collegiate monastery by the bishop extended west of the bishop's seat to the border of the Minden original parish of St. Andreas in Lübbecke. Until 1972 this corresponded to the border and areas of the old districts of Minden and Lübbecke. The Martinikirche only got a tower a hundred years later in 1142. The oldest part of the church today was built after two fires under Bishop Kuno von Diepholz (1261–1262). In the last quarter of the 13th century the one-bay choir was built and in the 14th century the nave was redesigned into a Gothic hall church. At the beginning of the Lutheran Reformation there was an open rift between the monastery and the city when the citizens forced the parish churches to open up to the new teaching. On Christmas 1529 the reformer Nikolaus Krage preached for the first time in St. Martini's Church. On February 13, 1530, an evangelical church order written by Krage was read out there, which was unanimously accepted by the council and community. The Protestant church regulations read out here were binding for all citizens of the city and the first church regulations for a Westphalian city. In contrast to the Catholic cathedral , the Martinikirche had become a Protestant council church. The Martinistift remained Catholic, albeit with material losses, and was thus confirmed in a document. In the church, the canons only had the choir , sacristy , chapter room and cloister , while the nave was used by the now Lutheran congregation. The abolition of the monastery did not take place until 1810 by the Westphalian government in Kassel ( Kingdom of Westphalia ). Since then the church has been a completely Protestant parish church.

Near the Martinikirche, on the upper market square, is the Mindener Buttjer, a bronze statue by the artist Paul Wedepohl, which has recently become a landmark in Minden.

Recent building history

In 2014, during renovation work on the choir and transept, the remains of a weather vane were discovered. This was recreated in August 2015 and installed on the roof.

monument

Layout
View of the pulpit

The church was built in the Romanesque and Gothic style on the edge of the hill in the upper town and was registered in the 20th century by the city of Minden as the lowest monument protection authority in the list of monuments of the city of Minden.

In 1773 the tower of St. Martini was damaged by lightning and set on fire. Here, the were spire that Uhrkammer and the belfry destroyed and not rebuilt. Since then, the tower has had a transverse canopy.

The church building survived the Second World War relatively unscathed. Only the windows were destroyed by the impact of the bombs and the bells had to be sacrificed.

Tower building association St. Martini

The tower building association was founded around 1900 with the aim of rebuilding the tower that was destroyed in 1773. The Minden government president Francis Kruse was elected to the top. Soon an architect was hired to draw the plans for the reconstruction. The First World War initially prevented reconstruction, after which the inflation of 1923 devalued all the association's assets, so that the funds were no longer available.

Building association

The building association was founded in 1952 under the name "Bauverein für die St. Martinikirche eV" and pursues the following purposes:

  • Structural renovation of the venerable church.
  • Goals of the former Martini tower building association

Foundation, endowment

The foundation “Architectural Monument Ratskirche St. Martini zu Minden” was established in November 2006 for the purpose of raising funds for the construction of the church. These are used exclusively for the preservation, maintenance and renewal of the monument, including its art treasures and furnishings.

organ

View of the organ
Sobbe epitaph (under the organ gallery)

The organ on the west gallery of the Martini Church goes back to an instrument that was built in 1591. In 1747 the organ builder Mencke (Beckum) added a major Baroque work to the instrument. In 1965–1966 the instrument was restored according to the old disposition plan.

I Rückpositiv C – g3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Dumped 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Pointed flute 4 ′
5. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Reed flute 2 ′
7th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
8th. octave 1'
9. Mixture V
10. Dulcian 16 ′
11. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g3
12. Principal 16 ′
13. Quintad 16 ′
14th octave 8th'
15th Reed flute 8th'
16. octave 4 ′
17th Reed flute 4 ′
18th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th octave 2 ′
20th Mixture V-VI
21st Sharp III
22nd Trumpet 16 ′
23. Trumpet 8th'
III Breastwork C – g3
24. Wooden dacked 8th'
25th Dumped 4 ′
26th Principal 2 ′
27. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
28. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
29 Zimbel III
30th shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f1
31. Principal 16 ′
32. Sub bass 16 ′
33. octave 8th'
34. Dumped 8th'
35. octave 4 ′
36. Wooden pipe 4 ′
37. Great Mixture VI
38. trombone 16 ′
39. Trumpet 8th'
40. Trumpet 4 ′

Parish offices at St. Martini

  • Dr. Reinhard Mumm
  • Roland Braunschmidt (19xx-1985)
  • Dr. Heinrich Winter (1985-2009)
  • Christoph Ruffer (since 2011)

literature

  • Karl Hengst (Ed.): Westphalian monastery book . Volume 1: Ahlen - Mülheim . Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06886-9 , ( Sources and research on church and religious history 2), ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 44), pp. 619–624.
  • Götz J. Pfeiffer: Then Martinus understood that he should help the poor . Saint Martin of Tours in legends, customs and images to St. Martini in Minden, in: Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsverein - Heimatkundliches Organ for the districts of Minden and Lübbecke, 2007, 79, pp. 73-92.
  • Heinrich Winter (Ed.): Ratskirche St. Martini Minden. A millennium collegiate monastery, parish, community . Evangelical Lutheran Sankt-Martini-Kirchengemeinde, Minden 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028971-2 .

Web links

Commons : St. Martini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Nordsiek: Studies in the History of the Collegiate St. Martini Minden, p 35; in: Ratskirche St. Martini Minden, edited by Heinrich Winter, Minden 2009.
  2. ↑ Hans Nordsiek: Studies in the History of the Collegiate St. Martini Minden, p 28; in: Ratskirche St. Martini Minden, edited by Heinrich Winter, Minden 2009.
  3. ↑ Hans Nordsiek: Studies in the History of the Collegiate St. Martini Minden, p 47; in: Ratskirche St. Martini Minden, edited by Heinrich Winter, Minden 2009.
  4. ↑ Historical consideration by Dr. Hans Nordsiek ( memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on October 12, 2006.
  5. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: 2014 turns in the wind . Print version of August 8, 2015, page 11
  6. ↑ Rainer Derlin: “From the tower building association to the foundation - Minden's citizens are committed to the Martini church”, p. 525; in: Ratskirche St. Martini Minden, edited by Heinrich Winter, Minden 2009.
  7. ↑ Rainer Derlin: “From the tower building association to the foundation - Minden's citizens are committed to the Martini church”, p. 526; in: Ratskirche St. Martini Minden, edited by Heinrich Winter, Minden 2009.
  8. ↑ St. Martini zu Minden ( Memento from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Minden: St. Martini , on die-orgelseite.de