St. Mauritius (Dissen)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
View from the south

St. Mauritius in Dissen am Teutoburg Forest is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church . Parish of Dissen, which belongs to the Melle-Georgsmarienhütte parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .

Building history and architecture

The current church building was consecrated in 1276 . It is a cross-shaped hall building with a two-bay nave , a straight closed choir , rectangular cross arms and a square west tower .

In the nave and in the cross arms there is groin vault , in the crossing and in the choir pear ribs on corner services .

Excavations have shown that in the area of ​​the nave and the crossing there was a narrower previous building, probably with an apse . A stone work-like building in the area of ​​today's southern transverse arm probably belonged to this .

Interior

The oldest origin has a chalice , whose foot Romanesque , stem gothic and cuppa baroque is. Most of the interior is post-Reformation : one of the three galleries dates from 1654, the pulpit from the 17th or 18th century, the altarpiece from 1765 and the organ front from 1789.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Dehio, p. 390 f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 51.3 ″  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 17 ″  E