St. Nicholas (Hagen)

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The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus is a listed church building in Hagen , a district of Sundern in the Hochsauerlandkreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The community belongs to the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

History and architecture

Parish Church of St. Nicholas

The small, three-bay hall church with the choir bay narrowing towards the east in the flat 5/8 end was made of rubble stone at the beginning of the 14th century. The tower stands in the west, a roof turret was attached to the building .

In the west yoke is the transition to the new building erected from 1974 to 1975 in the south. This transition is designed as a low aisle , it connects new and old buildings independently of each other. The architect Heinrich Stiegemann created the plans for this extension . The new building stands separately next to the Romanesque church.

The hall is a skeleton construction with a pointed wooden ceiling and triangular dormer windows on both sides. The narrow sides of the rectangular ship have a kink in the middle. The glazing of the triangular gable fields in the four intervals of the longitudinal walls is the work of Jupp Gesing. The room is covered by a hipped roof that is paneled over a large area; there are stitch caps on the sides. The building is accessed through the porch in which the gallery is located.

In the old building, ridge vaults rest over cross pillars that were renewed in 1976. In the same year, remnants of the building-time space were uncovered.

Furnishing

  • On the north wall of the choir is the rest of a St. Veronica from the 15th century.
  • The sacrament niche from the 15th century is framed with tracery .

organ

An organ was mentioned in 1685 and there is a cost estimate for a repair for 1888. A new organ with two manuals and 16 registers was installed by the Stockmann organ building company in 1921 . The instrument had to be restored several times between 1953 and 1964 due to moisture damage. The organ was moved from the old to the new church in 1976 by the Stockmann company. In 1989 the instrument was so damaged that a new acquisition was necessary. The inauguration of the new organ took place in April 1993, it has 14 registers.

Bells

When the Freedom Hagen was founded, a chapel was built that probably only had one bell. At the beginning of the 16th century two more were purchased. In a fire in 1816, the spire and the roof and the bells were destroyed. After the damage was repaired in 1819, a new, 1,000 pound bell was cast from the remains of the destroyed bells at the bell foundry father and son WMPH Rinke from Lün. Petit & Edelbrock supplied two smaller bells from Gescher. The costs should be raised through a special class tax and property tax. Because of the poverty of the population, this amount was not enough, an application was made to the district administrator Freiherr von Lilien for the provision of subsidies, but this was rejected. A house collection then brought the desired success. Queen Elisabeth of Prussia was also contacted for a donation. She was promised to name one of the bells after her. The answered handwritten, the letter is kept in the parish archives. The wording is: I am happy to approve your proposal of November 19 that my name should be added to one of the new bells in the church in Hagen, and I wish that the new bell be a memorial of the active ecclesiastical spirit of the community now alive; the later descendants of the same would be given a permanent inheritance and an awakening stimulation of ecclesiastical community. Charlottenburg, December 23, 1844. Elisabeth

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Otten: The church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930 to 1975 . Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7 , page 389
  2. ^ Heinrich Otten: The church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930 to 1975 . Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7 , page 389
  3. ↑ Organ
  4. ↑ bells

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 37 "  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 34.5"  E