St. Meinolf (Bielefeld)
St. Meinolf is a Roman Catholic parish church in Bielefeld , North Rhine-Westphalia . The church and congregation belong to the Bielefeld-Ost pastoral network in the Bielefeld-Lippe dean's office in the Archdiocese of Paderborn .
history
The church was built in neo-Romanesque forms in 1956-57 as a white plastered masonry structure according to plans by the architects Pothast & Schmidt. The foundation stone was laid on November 11, 1956. For this, an old stone from the sacristy of the monastery in Böddeken was made available, which is located on the right-hand side of the main portal. On October 5th, 1957, the 1100th anniversary of the death of the church patron St. Meinolf , the consecration took place by Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger . The congregation of the St. Meinolf Church was formed from the Liebfrauenkirchen congregation in Bielefeld after the number of believers had risen sharply as a result of immigration, especially by expellees from the former German eastern regions.
Building description
architecture
The St. Meinolf Church is a three-aisled hall church in the Romanesque style and closes off to the south with a semicircular choir . There is a gable roof over the barrel vault . The attached bell tower is 30.25 meters high and is crowned by a 7 meter high cross. On the left outside between the tower and the rectory adjoining the sacristy there is an arcade . The portal is 15 meters high and is adorned by a rosette 4 meters in diameter made of shell limestone .
The interior of the church is simply designed and kept entirely in white. It consists of a slightly raised central nave, which is joined on both sides by two narrow aisles with the side altars. There are six large, narrow windows on either side. In the apse , steps made of Italian marble lead to the altar made of yellow artificial stone . The glass painting of the 18 windows comes from the painter Wilhelm Buschulte from Unna and represents a crown of thorns in its entirety . The painter also created the colored windows of the rose window above the entrance. In the center is the depiction of a pelican, a parable going back to an African legend.
Furnishing
- Disc cross in the chancel: Because of the colored windows in the room, the large disc cross is designed very simply. It is based on the earliest cross of this type in continental Europe from the Church of St. Maria zur Höhe in Soest. The creator was the sculptor Johannes Niemeier from Druffel near Riethberg.
- Easter candle: in the chancel, the stand comes from Johannes Niemeier and shows a resurrection scene in the middle.
- Virgin Mary statue : The almost life-size figure was created by the Munich artist Professor Wagner and came to the church in April 1958. It has baroque features and its design is based on models from southern Germany.
- Wooden cross in the baptistery: The cross from 1958 is a copy of a cross made by Xaver Hochenleitner from Oberammergau . Originally, it was supposed to be part of a memorial for the fallen of the two world wars, but it was eventually placed behind the main altar. Today it is in the baptistery.
- Confessional room: with a glass window by the artist Klaus Stegmann from Bielefeld – Senne
- Nativity scene: the nativity scene, which is set up every year at Christmas, was created at the suggestion of the first pastor Seiffert and dates from 1957. Through donations, it was subsequently supplemented with further figures, and in some cases self-made accessories were also used. As the last figure for the time being, a shepherd girl was added in 1971.
Bells
In 1961 the church received four cast steel bells , cast by the Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture (BVG) .
| Surname | Bell of praise and thanks | Emergency and supplication bell | St. Meinolf | Marienbell |
| Diameter (mm) | 1020 | 1045 | 1180 | 1350 |
| Weight (approx kg) | 2410 | 715 | 880 | 1240 |
| Chime | d ' | a ' | fis' | e ' |
See also
Web links
literature
- Heinrich Otten: Church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930–1975 (= studies and sources on Westphalian history . Volume 60 ). Bonifatius, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7 , p. 190 .
- Hans-Jörg Kühne: Bielefeld from A to Z: Interesting facts in 1500 key words about history, art and culture , Verlag Aschendorff, 2007, ISBN 978-3-402-00233-9 , p. 271
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Liebfrauenkirche Bielefeld-Mitte ( memento of the original from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 12, 2015
- ^ Harald Propach, The Bells of Bielefeld. Voice of the church, cultural asset and work of art . Bielefeld 2008, ISSN 1619-9022 , pp. 195f
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 45.4 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 15.4 ″ E