St. Michael (Werdohl)

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Parish Church of St. Michael
Location of the parish church in the village
Portal view

The Catholic parish church of St. Michael is a listed church building in Werdohl in the Märkisches Kreis (North Rhine-Westphalia). The parish belongs to the diocese of Essen. Since the structural reform in the diocese of Essen, the brothers of the Minorite monastery have been responsible for pastoral care in the community.

History and architecture

The predecessor church was a three-axis hall with a cone, built in 1862, despite the historicist romanizing forms . The rectory was built across. This church was used as a meeting room for the community after 1901.

The neo-Gothic three-bay hall church made of quarry stone with a 58 choir closure was built in 1901 by Hermann Wielers based on the church in Weidenau. The quarry stones were obtained in the Hardtmecke. The three-bay building with transept and apses has a neo-Romanesque choir crypt and a west tower . The apse niches of the side aisles are windowless, the walls of the nave and the choir are divided by two-lane windows, the windows next to the tower are single-lane, those in the transept are three-lane. The gables of the transepts sit on a stepped cornice, they have slender blind arcades in a Gothic shape. On the outer walls, the windows change rhythmically with buttresses. Since no galleries are built in, the hall, with naves of almost the same height, appears wide and sedate. The transept underlines the width. The groin vaults are supported by six round pillars with simple key capitals. The color windows are labeled Hertel & Lersch . The building was slightly damaged in World War II and then renovated. In the mid-1970s, the interior was fundamentally redesigned and redesigned in accordance with the specifications of the 2nd Vatican Council . The choir windows show the Lord's Supper, the birth, the Trinity, the crucifixion, the sending of the Holy Spirit and St. Michael as patron of the church. The left window of the transept shows the original Werdohl patron saint Kilian. The church was consecrated in 1901. The three-story tower on the south side looks massive and fits the overall impression. The sound openings and windows are grouped in different ways, the bell chamber is flanked at the corners by four corner towers, which are crowned with pointed helmets. The polygonal helmet of the tower is pointed. In the square roof turret above the crossing, the image with the corner towers is repeated, reduced in size. In the 1970s, the church was renovated under the direction of the Diezösan architect Dohmen and the builder Rudolf Schwarz. The altar platform was pulled forward to the crossing.

Furnishing

The celebration altar with its artfully decorated altar block is the work of the sculptor Theo Heiermann from Cologne. The altar contains a relic of Kilian, it was consecrated in June 1978.

  • The neo-Gothic main altar with carved reliefs and cracks was made in 1907 by Albert Pehle . It shows scenes from the New Testament and is in gray red and gold taken .
  • The north side altar contains the crucifixion relief with rough figures from the old parish church. It dates from the beginning of the 16th century and was probably taken in 1912.
  • The Stockmann organ was installed in 1976, it contains parts of a historical instrument from 1757, which the court organ maker Ignatius Seifert built, from the church of Eslohe .
  • The four bronze bells sound in c sharp ', e', f sharp 'and g sharp' and were cast in tin-free special bronze from Brilon in 1948.

literature

  • Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
  • Heinz Dohmen: image of heaven, a thousand years of church building in the diocese of Essen . Verlag Hoppe and Werrry, 1977
  • Werdohl - Contributions to local and regional studies , ed. from the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis. Altena 1986.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Diocese ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-michael-werdohl.de
  2. Minorite Monastery
  3. a b Werdohl - Contributions to local and regional studies , ed. from the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis. Altena 1986. page 179
  4. ^ Werdohl - Contributions to local and regional studies , ed. from the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis. Altena 1986. Pages 189f.
  5. ^ Werdohl - Contributions to local and regional studies , ed. from the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis. Altena 1986. Page 178f.
  6. a b c d Werdohl - Contributions to local and regional studies , ed. from the Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis. Altena 1986. page 180
  7. Bell catalog of the diocese of Essen .

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 33.5 ″  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 0.3 ″  E