St. Nicholas (Orsoy)

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St. Nicholas Orsoy

The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus is a neo-Gothic brick hall church in Orsoy on the Lower Rhine .

Building history

Until the Reformation, today's Protestant parish church Orsoy, which was founded in the 12th century, was the patron of St. Nicholas . Under Dutch occupation, the Catholic St. Nicholas Church was reformed in 1632. The remaining Catholic community was assigned the Orsoyer Gasthauskapelle in 1673 and was officially re-established in 1683. In the years 1843 to 1848/50 a new, initially three-aisled, parish church with four yokes was built by Heinrich Johann Freyse in the neoclassical style of the Schinkel School with a high, three-story west tower north of the old church . The usual eastward orientation of a Catholic church was dispensed with, so that the building faces north. Today the new building continues the patronage of St. Nicholas. The new building took place with the support of the Oberbaudeputation Berlin and the Reformed community.

In March 1945, the church was shelled by units of the Wehrmacht from the right bank of the Rhine, as they suspected that American artillery observers and radio operators were using the church tower. The tower and building suffered severe damage from the fire. A misdirected grenade also hit the hospital in the attack. After the Second World War, the building was rebuilt in 1951 as a simple hall church. The tower was reconstructed smaller and without a helmet . The final restoration took place between 1971 and 1974.

  • Entrance portal

  • View of the interior of St. Nicholas

  • The sacristy was added to the side

Furnishing

Wooden statue of St. Joseph.

A wooden statue of St. Joseph of Nazareth by an unknown artist from the 18th century and a more recent wooden statue of St. Nicholas are kept in the church. Heinrich Dieckmann's wall paintings , which adorned the choir room from 1925, did not survive the war damage.

Passion altar

see: Passion Altar by Orsoy

Nicholas altar by Orsoy, around 1500.

The inventory includes a carved Brussels altar with four painted wings from the workshop of the Flemish painter Colijn de Coter , which was created around 1500/10. In addition to de Coter, the sculptor Jan Borman may have contributed to the retable . The late Gothic carvings in the raised central part show the crucifixion of Jesus Christ . The pentaptych shows depictions of the Passion on the inside of the wings, while the outside is painted with scenes from the life of St. Nicholas of Myra. The altar had previously been placed in the original St. Niklaus Church until it was removed from it in 1638. In 1850/51 the shrine was re-gilded and colored. When the church was destroyed in 1945, the winged altar was also damaged. Between 1950 and 1952 the wings were restored. Between 1967 and 1974, the carved middle section was renewed.

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literature

  • Ulrich Becker: Orsoy's Passion Altar and the production of reredos in Brussels around 1500. In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 52, Cologne 1989, 43–76.
  • Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the district of Moers. Düsseldorf 1892, p. 44.
  • Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall : Handbook of German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia, I. Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 533.
  • Dieter Kastner: Rhenish City Atlas, Volume IX. No. 51. Orsoy. Habelt, R. 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1048-X , p. 12.
  • Dieter Kastner, Gerhard Köhnen: Orsoy. Story of a small town. Braun, Duisburg 1981, ISBN 3-87096-160-0 , p. 236 ff.
  • Hans Kisky: The restoration of the high altar wings by Colijn de Coter in the Catholic parish church in Orsoy. In: Yearbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege 2, 1956, p. 105.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kisky 1956, p. 105.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '29.1 "  N , 6 ° 41' 17.3"  E