St. Nikolaus (Gehlenbeck)
The church of St. Nikolaus zu Gehlenbeck today belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Lübbecke - Gehlenbeck ( Minden-Lübbecke district ).
history
The first written mention of Gehlenbeck was in connection with the possessions of the Counts of Tecklenburg there, in 1229 the cathedral chapter of Minden acquired bailiwick rights over goods in the place. In 1244 a church lord ("plebanus") is mentioned in Gehlenbeck, in 1288 a parish was mentioned for the first time .
Today's Gothic nave of St. Nicholas Church was built according to an inscription on the west side of the tower in 1495 ("In the year of the Lord 1495 this building was erected on the feast of Mary Magdalene in honor of St. Nicholas "). The basement of the tower, however, still belongs to an earlier Romanesque building. St. Nicholas can still be seen in the Gehlenbeck church seal. He holds a staff with a double cross in his hand as a sign of his episcopal dignity.
St. Nikolaus is a single-nave , three-bay late Gothic hall building with simple buttresses and a 5/8 choir closure. It has a cross vault with ribs and keystones on consoles. The arch of the tower is round, the cross chords are pointed. As part of the awakening movement that was particularly pronounced in Minden-Ravensberg in the 19th century, attendance at church services also increased considerably in Gehlenbeck. As a result, a two-storey gallery was built into the church. This created 1,300 seats. In 1951 the second gallery was removed again.
St. Nicholas 1904
View of the choir room, 1904
Cross and longitudinal section 1907
literature
- Albert Ludorff : The buildings and art monuments of the Lübbecke district. Munster 1907.
- Karl Lenk: The building history of the church in Gehlenbeck. Messages of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 52 (1980), pp. 65–75.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '32.9 " N , 8 ° 38' 54.2" E