St. Mauritius (Enniger)
St. Mauritius is a Roman Catholic church in Enniger .
history
The oldest remaining part is the massive church tower from the last third of the 12th century. Due to its former use as a defense tower, it has no portals, only narrow window slits. A small Romanesque church was added to this fortified tower.
In 1682 the short spire was renewed due to impending dilapidation. This measure gave the tower a raised helmet tip. Today the massive quarry stone walls are concealed and can no longer be seen.
Enniger had grown to around 1,000 inhabitants by 1700. As a result, the church had become too small. This was followed by the installation of a stage within the church that was only accessible to the male population. In 1780 the same problem was faced. The stage was extended, from then on the church offered 390 seats:
- 240 believers in the 30 pews in the nave
- 150 believers in the 20 benches on the gallery (27 feet long and 39 feet wide).
In the middle of the 19th century it was obvious that the interim solution for the gallery was no longer sufficient and that an expanded new building was necessary. The demolition of the old church began on September 10, 1860. A few months later, on April 23, 1861, the bishop of Münster, Johann Georg Müller , laid the foundation stone for the new church. The new building was financed by a pfennig association founded on January 1, 1857 (253 RT ), through a lottery (150 RT), through collections (5919 RT) and the sale of grain that had been collected from the farmers (2000 RT ) and trees (470 RT). The materials used, such as bricks and the quarry stones, came from farms in and around Enniger. The architect of the new church was Emil von Manger . He designed a neo-Gothic hall church with a ribbed vault and a choir with a 3/8 end. The builder was master bricklayer Georg Eustermann from Wiedenbrück . The new church was consecrated on September 8, 1863.
The previously common burial site around the church was placed on All Saints' Day in 1874 in the south of Enniger. All that remains of this cemetery is the mission cross , which today contains a renewed corpus donated by Count Christoph Bernhard von Galen , who lived at Haus Neuengraben from 1932 to 1936 .
The church was extensively renovated in 2018-19.
organ
The organ was built by the organ building company Klein (Oelde) using material from the previous organ. In particular, the historic case and a large part of the historic pipe material have been preserved . The organ technology was re-established; the organ also received a new console . The pipes were placed on grinding chests (formerly cone chests). Some registers were replaced and the disposition was extended by four voices. Today the instrument has 25 registers, which are divided between two manual works and a pedal . The former electro-pneumatic actions are now mechanical.
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- Coupling : II / I (also as sub-octave coupling), I / P, II / P
literature
- Art. Ennigerloh (Enniger) St. Mauritius . In: Ulrich Menkhaus (Red.): The Diocese of Münster. Vol. 3: The parishes . Regensberg, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-7923-0646-8 , pp. 129-130.
- St. Mauritius Enniger . In: Stutenkemper, E .: 750 years of Enniger, Heimatbuch der Gemeinde Enniger , Gemeinde Ennigerloh 1976, pp. 29–38
Individual evidence
- ^ Jörg AE Heimeshoff : The master builder Emil von Manger. Historicist architecture in theory and execution (= preservation of monuments and research in Westphalia . Vol. 4). Rudolph Habelt, Bonn 1982, ISBN 978-3-7749-1902-0 , pp. 53-55.
- ^ Art. Ennigerloh (Enniger) St. Mauritius . In: Ulrich Menkhaus (Red.): Das Bistum Münster , Vol. 3. Münster 1993, p. 129.
- ↑ Detailed information on the organ on the website of the organ building company Klein, accessed on November 16, 2015.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 56.6 ″ N , 7 ° 56 ′ 58 ″ E