St. Nicomedes (Borghorst)
The Catholic parish church of St. Nicomedes is a listed church building in Borghorst , a district of Steinfurt , the district town of the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The small Aloysius chapel from the Rococo period is located in the parish area .
History and architecture
The church stands on the site of the former collegiate church of Borghorst Abbey, which was demolished in 1885 . It was built by Hilger Hertel the Elder from 1885 to 1889 . The building is a hall church in neo-Gothic style with stone facades. The tower of the church is 99 meters high, making it the third highest church tower in the Münsterland after the St. Antonius Basilica in Rheine (102.5 meters) and the Ludgerus Cathedral in Billerbeck (100 meters) .
Furnishing
Collegiate cross
The most important item of equipment of St. Nicomedes is a golden reliquary cross , the so-called Borghorster Stiftskreuz . It is one of the most important Ottonian goldsmith's works in Westphalia. The place of origin is not known, it was created in the 11th century. It has a wooden core and is covered with sheet gold on the front and sheet copper on the back.
The cross was stolen from the church on October 29, 2013. In February 2017, the work of art, insured with several million euros, was seized and the three perpetrators from Bremen , who have now been identified , were sentenced to several years in prison. After carefully examining and implementing the presentation and security concept in 2018, the work of art should return to the church shortly.
Further equipment
- Basin of a font from the 13th century, so-called "Bentheimer type"; The bronze base and lid date from the 20th century.
- Wooden Vespers from 1430
- Stone group from the 15th century: Anna teaches Mary the Holy Scriptures .
- Figures from the baroque high altar of the collegiate church, by the Vredener sculptor Johann Elsbeck (also created the high altar in the collegiate church of St. Felizitas Vreden, which was destroyed in the Second World War )
- Wooden figure of St. Nicomedes from the 18th century
- Wooden figure of St. Laurentius from the 18th century
- Stone Madonna, dated 1724 by a chronograph
Leaded glass window
St. Nicomedes has over 40 windows (surfaces) that have been colored by different artists.
Several windows, especially in the choir room and on the gallery, were designed by the Hertel & Lersch company between 1885 and 1886. They show biblical scenes such as Jesus on the Mount of Olives, the flagellation of Jesus, Mary and John under the cross, and also figures of saints (St. Liudger, St. Nicomedes of Rome, St. Laurentius of Rome).
Several windows, especially in the aisles, were created by the artist Paul Weigmann. Some of them date from 1978 and show ornaments from symbols of the Heavenly Jerusalem (battlements, towers, gates) and saints and righteous people (including St. Liudger, St. Paulus, Queen Mary of the Rosary, Adolf Kolping, Arnold Janssen, Clemens August von Galen, Maximilian Kolbe). Weigmann designed further windows in the years 1984–1985; they show biblical scenes such as B. the coronation of Mary, the wedding in Canaa, the tree of life. In the tracery of several windows there are fragments of the historical glazing.
The windows in the collegiate chapel were created in 1968 by the artist Franz Heilmann.
organ
The organ was built between 1926 and 1927 by the organ builder Ludwig Fleiter (Münster). The originally German-Romantic instrument with orchestral timbres was "baroque" after the Second World War in accordance with the sound ideals emerging at the time.
The instrument originally stood as a unit on the north west gallery. After installing a new organ loft in the church tower, the positive was placed on the new loft in a separate housing; later the case of the positive was renewed by the organ building company Fleiter and adapted to the prospectus on the north gallery. Some of the positive registers, the chamades , are located in a separate organ case on the south west gallery.
The instrument has 68 registers on three manual works and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are electro-pneumatic.
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Couple
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: III / I, III / II, III / III
- Super octave coupling: III / I, III / II, III / III
- Remarks
- ↑ a b c Horizontal register.
- ↑ Resounding register.
- (n) = register added later
Bells
St. Nicomedes has a baroque bell with a total of six bells. It is one of the few completely preserved historic monastery or monastery bells in Westphalia. The bells were taken over from the old collegiate church. The six ring bells hang in a wooden bell cage from the 19th century, the time the tower was built today, and were cast by various masters. The oldest bell from 1507 comes from the bell founder Wolter Westerhues. The three smallest bells (No. 4–6) hung in a roof turret until the church was rebuilt.
| No. | Surname | year | Caster | Ø (mm) | Mass (kg) | Nominal |
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| 1 | Salvator Bell | 1741 | Johann Schweys | 1394 | 1,600 | c sharp 1 +3 |
| 2 | Big Marienbell | 1507 | Wolter Westerhues | 1302 | 1,300 | d 1 +7 |
| 3 | Little bell of Mary | 1692 | Gottfried Delapaix | 1191 | 950 | e 1 +3 |
| 4th | Anna, Agatha and Nicomedes bells | 1737 | Johann Schweys | 518 | 85 | g 2 +7 |
| 5 | Guardian angel bell | 1615 | Everhardus de Vos | 545 | 110 | g 2 +7 |
| 6th | Antonius Bell | 1781 | Christoffel Heinrich Fricke | 368 | 35 | c 3 -2 |
Outside the spire, on the west side of the tower, hang two small clock chimes from the years 1661 and 1663.
| No. | Surname | year | Caster | Ø (mm) | Mass (kg) | Nominal |
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| I. | Hour-bell (barbara bell) | 1661 | 623 | d 2 +3 | ||
| II | Quarter bell | 1663 | 420 | h 2 +7 |
particularities
- In the local history museum Heimathaus Borghorst there are six wooden candlesticks called Torsten .
- There is a song dedicated to St. Nicomedes and its own Corpus Christi and processional song people, serves out of joyful instinct .
- The community has two nativity scenes that are set up alternately every two years. The one installed in even years is by Joseph Krautwald and was purchased in the 1970s. The one for odd years is the historical one, the oldest figures of which are from the mid-19th century. During a restoration in the 1980s, it was discovered that the figures that had been thought of as plaster of paris are actually wood carvings.
- For the Corpus Christi processions there is a canopy with historicist and neo-Gothic style elements. Since the merger, however, the newer, simpler and lighter one from today's branch church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt, a parish foundation and building from the 1950s, has been used.
- In the 2000s, the community had a hunger cloth made, which deviates from the fillet pot work usual in Westphalia and is colored. It is critical of consumption and, as a local reference, also addresses the textile crisis, which caused enormous upheavals in Steinfurt-Borghorst.
- There is a special feature on Palm Sunday: The communion children of the year in question carry a palm stick, which, unlike the ones otherwise wrapped with different colored crepe or tissue paper bows, is kept completely white. There is also a so-called “cross palm”, which is only worn by girls, that is, in addition to the upper boxwood band, two more are attached to the palm in a cross shape.
Torste at the Heimathaus.
Song plan of the Corpus Christi procession (before 2002) with "People, serve from happy instincts"
Old nativity scene of St. Nicomedes. Discarded at the beginning of the 1970s, restored around 1984/85.
Core scene of the old nativity scene for the odd years.
The historic canopy of St. Nicomedes.
literature
- Ursula Quednau (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03314-2 , pp. 1043-1044.
- Hans Jürgen Warnecke The maiden choir in the free-worldly noble women's monastery St. Nikodemes Borghorst in Westphalia Booklets for history, art and folklore, Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Münster 67th volume 1989.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Jürgen Warnecke: The maiden choir in the free-worldly noble women's monastery St. Nikodemes Borghorst . In: Westphalia. Hefte für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde , Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Münster, vol. 67 (1989), p. 285.
- ↑ St. Nicomedes Church , accessed January 17, 2019.
- ↑ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung ; Westphalian news
- ↑ https://www.wn.de/Muensterland/Kreis-Steinfurt/Steinfurt/2017/02/2699113-Video-Millionenschwerer-Kirchenschatz-Das-Borghorster-Stiftskreuz-ist-wieder-da
- ↑ Michael Bönte: The Borghorster Stiftskreuz returns - plan is available. In: Kirche + Leben, January 6, 2019, p. 14.
- ↑ See the information and images of the windows on the website of the Stiftung Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei
- ↑ Information about the organ ; see also the information about the organ on the municipality's website
- ↑ To the disposition (as of December 26, 2018)
- ↑ Information about the bells on the municipality's website; see. also the video recording on youtube
- ↑ See the information about the bells on the parish website.
- ↑ Borghorster Heimatblätter 1985
- ↑ See the information ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the parish in the WN
- ^ Dietmar Sauermann: Easter in Westphalia. Materials on the history of a popular church festival . Coppenrath-Verlag, Münster 1986, ISBN 3-88547-297-X .
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '35.4 " N , 7 ° 23' 53" E