St. Martinus (Wessum)

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St. Martinus (2014)

The Catholic parish church of St. Martinus is a listed church building on the church square in Wessum , a district of Ahaus in the Borken district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The parish was merged on May 25, 2015 with the parish of St. Andreas (Wüllen) to form the parish of St. Andreas and Martinus .

History and architecture

Originally the church was a St. Marien and Martin church. A parish was first mentioned in 1188. The building was erected as a separate church on the main courtyard of the Counts of Cappenberg. The four-bay hall made of quarry stone and a choir bay with a 5/8 apse is crowned with a roof turret. The west tower one has stepped gable mounted. The three western bays and the tower were built in the middle of the 14th century. The nave was extended by a yoke to the east in 1899, and the choir was rebuilt in its original form. The church was badly damaged in World War II and repaired from 1954 to 1958. A sacristy was added in 1971. The outer walls are uniformly structured by two-lane tracery windows with quatrefoils and buttresses. In the south-western yoke, the two-part portal and four-lane windows with fish bubble tracery are embedded in a common niche . The tower with corner buttresses is marked on the dial with 1520, the sound openings date from 1870. In the hall, busted cross rib vaults rest on round pillars with octagonal cover plates. In the narrow aisles, the vaults rest on three-quarter services .

Furnishing

  • The neo-Gothic high altar was installed in 1915.
  • The late Gothic sacrament niche was restored and supplemented in 1971.
  • The octagonal font is structured by tracery fields reminiscent of windows.
  • Half of the double wooden Madonna from the end of the 15th century has been reconstructed.
  • Three medieval bells; the one from 1360 shows an incised drawing of a head of Christ, those from 1496 and 1499 were cast by Gerdt van Wou

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 4.

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '23.3 "  N , 6 ° 58' 14.2"  E