St. Nikolaus (Rüthen)

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St. Nicholas

The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus is a listed church building in Rüthen , a town in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

Main altar and celebration altar

The building is a short, two-bay hall church with a short connecting bay to the square west tower . It was built in the third quarter of the 13th century using slurry stone. The einjochige Choir with 3 / 8 -Schluss dates from around 1300. The Ostsakristei is labeled 1700 and was increased later. The top floor of the tower, crowned with a baroque helmet, was added in 1712. The church has a skewed plan. The central nave bays are almost square in shape. The eastern yoke is equipped with cross-shaped pillars with half-column templates and stylized foliage capitals . In the west there are strong round pillars and bundle pillars towards the tower hall . In the aisles walled are Wandapsiden to see. The original vaults of the central nave were removed in 1833 and later replaced by ridge vaults . In the side aisles, intercepted services wear single-hip vaults . The walls in the nave are divided by arched windows, those in the tower with pointed arches . The choir was equipped with one- and two-part tracery windows. The columns on the early Gothic tower portal were renewed. The south portal with split gable and figural niche is marked 1712. A spiral staircase emerges on the north side of the tower . The partly unused pillars between the hall and the tower indicate a high Gothic renovation that has been started and not continued.

organ

organ

The organ was probably installed in 1756 by Adolph Cappelmann from Geseke. It was rebuilt in 1875 by August Randebrock . A new building was made in 1936 by Anton Veith using the old pipe inventory. Siegfried Bauer extensively renovated in 1999. The old bellows were activated again, new sliders were installed. Nine registers from Randebrock and Veith have been preserved. The side play cupboard was renewed and the gallery was lowered to achieve better radiation. The organ was damaged by smoke in 2002 and then repaired.

Furnishing

Pietà
  • The column retable was originally in St. Pankratius in Anröchte. It was built in 1771 by Joseph Stratmann and framed by C. J. Haane from Arnsberg .
  • The baroque sculptures are attributed to Johann Jakob Pütt .
  • The side altars and the pulpit are attributed to Paul Gladbach, they were created around 1680 and were later taken.
  • The southern altar is marked 1730.
  • The organ front was built in 1755 by Adolf Cappelmann.
  • Two bells from 1639 were cast by Francois and Petrus Hemony, they have the tones es′-4 and f′-7.
  • A bell cast by Joseph Michelin in 1650 has the tone g′-7.
  • The clock bell on the tower was cast by Rochus Nelmann in 1589.

  • Cross on the main altar

  • pulpit

  • Icon in a niche in the choir

  • Figure of a saint on the right confessional

  • Entrance portal of St. Nicholas

literature

  • Wilfried Hansmann , Dorothea Kluge (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1969, p. 496.
  • Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 940 f.
  • Constantin Grun: "... worked on örgelen ..." - which can be reconstructed based on the sources about the organ in the St. Nicholas Church in Rüthen. In: Kreis Soest (Ed.): Heimatkalender Kreis Soest 2015. Soest 2015, ISBN 978-3-928295-52-9 , pp. 54–55.

Web links

Commons : St. Nikolaus in Rüthen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 940.
  2. ^ Wilfried Hansmann, Dorothea Kluge (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1969, p. 496.
  3. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 941.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 29 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  E