St. Othmar (Dinker)

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Ev. Parish Church of St. Othmar Dinker (3)
Ev. Parish Church of St. Othmar Dinker (4)
Ev. Parish Church of St. Othmar Dinker (5)

The Protestant parish church of St. Othmar is a listed church building in Dinker , a district of Welver in the Soest district , in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The residents chose St. Othmar of St. Gallen as their patron saint . His portrait is in the keystone on the ceiling above the organ.

Description and architecture

The church was first mentioned in a document in 1221.

The building is a three-bay hall with a retracted two-bay choir . The construction of the choir was completed in 1514. The Romanesque nave had become dilapidated, it was replaced by the present one. The 14 ogival windows are a good example of the conversion to a Gothic building. The windows are in three parts and decorated with tracery. An east window is bricked up. The tower was rebuilt in 1901 on the foundations of its predecessor in brick .

Furnishing

  • Altar structure, organ and pulpit , as well as the wooden baptismal font from 1745 to 1750 by the master carpenter Kartenberg
  • Late Gothic tabernacle , made around the 12th century. The stone sacrament house stands on a 28 cm high stone plinth and rises to a height of 4.50 m. The largest width is 1.10 m. In the substructure adorned with tracery there are two apostle figures . The niche above has a gable and a three-part crown ( pinnacle ). The niche is also richly decorated with tracery. A figure stood above the niche, presumably a Madonna . These, as well as two apostle figures to the left and right of the niche, are no longer there. Above the gable of the niche stands on a finial a crucifix . The arms of the crucified Christ and the two figures standing to one side have also disappeared. The crucifix is ​​under the shadow of a canopy. The crowning finial lies repulsed behind the tabernacle. The niche is closed by a door.
  • The Othmar niche is opposite the tabernacle on the south wall. It is of the same age and also made of Gothic stone carving. It was used to hold the reliquary box of St. Othmar, the patron saint of the church. This niche was once richly adorned with a gable, tracery and pinnacle crown. The edge of the pediment is covered with flowers (crabs). The left pinnacle is still there, the right one has been repelled. The lock is formed by a door grille made of square bars in fine forging, 53 cm wide and 75 cm high. The whole niche has a width of 95 cm and a height of 2.30 m.
  • Different epitaphs
    • The Plettenberg epitaph was attached to the north wall above the presbyter's seat in 1595. It is made of stucco and around 2 m wide and 3 m high. It shows Theodor von Plettenberg , the nephew of the famous army master of the Teutonic Order in Livonia Wolter von Plettenberg , and his wife Catharina born in the middle field . von Wendt in adoration before the crucified. Theodor von Plettenberg is in full armor. He has taken off his helmet and sword as well as fencing glove. Behind everyone stands a fellow prayer. A fortress with many church towers fills the background of the picture. Angels' heads float above in the clouds. Above the gilded crucifix is: "INRI di", which stands for "Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum" and means: Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews . In the coronation with three pointed columns there are two coats of arms. Underneath it says "Plettenberg-Wendt". On both sides of this middle section there is a column, at the foot of which an angel strides, holding the teardrop in front of his eyes. A mourning angel sits above each pillar. One rests his arm on an hourglass , the other on a skull . The middle section has two half-width sides with three coats of arms each: Stenhaus, Ermelen, Kloster, Heiden, Nagel, Lintloe. The font in Latin block letters is gold-plated and well preserved, as is the entire epitaph.
    • On the no longer existing altar from ancient times was 1605 to 1854 as a triptych that Caesarius epitaph in memory of the mother and the first wife of the pastor Caesarius. The carving behind the two wings, which represented the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, has later disappeared.
    • The Voss epitaphs: On the north wall of the older part of the church, which was completed around 1699, there are two epitaphs from 1727 and 1735 next to each other. These are grave inscriptions for Caspar Henrich Voss and for his wife Margaretha nee Korff. The size ratio of the well-preserved epitaphs, executed in stucco work, is 2 m to 4.20 m in width to height. One inscription like the other - in heavily gilded German block letters - is framed by 16 coats of arms, 4 on top, 4 on each side and 4 on the bottom. The whole is flanked by two columns. Garlands hang down left and right. The coronation is a shell attachment. A shell attachment by Caspar Henrich Voss is 10 cm larger than that of his wife's epitaph. Below the inscription lies a skull with bones. On the western epitaph, that of Caspar Henrich Voss, there are the letters MvK at the bottom left and the letters FvV on the right - the initials of the founder of the epitaph, the widow of the deceased, and his brother Friedrich von Voss.
  • The organ: After the organ from 1773 after 155 years of service was broken off in the days after Misericordias in 1928, an organ was built in 1928 behind the old prospectus from 1773 and into the old case, which was purchased from the Archigymnasium Soest for 3,000 marks. It was created in 1864 in the workshop of the organ builder G. Voigt and Son in Halberstadt. On Sunday the cantata, May 6th 1928, this organ was played for the first time by the above teacher, cantor, sexton and organist Paul Stein. The organ had three predecessors.
  • Bells: Since 1922, three steel bells have been hanging in the tower of the church instead of three bronze bells that were hung down during the World War. They are named after the Christian virtues "love", "faith" and "hope". "Love" is 1.10 m, "Faith" 0.9 m and "Hope" 0.8 m. The inscription on all of them reads: "Replacement for bronze bells that were suspended during the World War". As a prayer bell, “Faith” rings at 6 am, 12 pm and 7 pm, in winter at 7 am, 12 pm and 6 pm. At the break of divorce "hope" rings, at funerals "faith" and "hope". On Saturday evening and Sunday morning, one hour before the service, “love” and “faith” ring; All three bells ring when going to church. The tone sequence is es'-ges'-b '.
  • The current choir was completed in 1699 and the nave in 1742 by Georg Eggert from Soester.
  • Two cast iron altar lights were built in 1828 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, pp. 124, 125.

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 30 "  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 41"  E