St. Regina (Rhynern)

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Parish Church of St. Regina
View from the side towards the tower

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Regina is a listed church building in Rhynern , a district of the independent city of Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia . It bears the patronage of St. Regina and today belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Francis of Assisi Hamm in the Hellweg deanery ( Archdiocese of Paderborn ).

History and architecture

The building is a three- bay vaulted basilica with a transept and a transverse rectangular choir . The bulky west tower dates from the 12th century. The side aisles were renewed in 1872 and extended up to half of the tower. The exterior is unadorned. The interior without the tower hall is 28.50 m long, the transept 18.25 m and the central nave about 10 m. The sub-square double yokes of the central nave are set off from one another by stepped wall templates . The ridge vaults of the central nave were renewed in 1872. Three keystones from the early 13th century with dragons entwined like tendrils are remarkable. The choir is equipped with wall arcades and a sill . The original windows and groin vaults are still present in the east . The south transept window is particularly elaborately designed, but the framework has been renewed. On the southern crossing pillar , a combatant frieze can be seen with a human figure lying in a palmette tendril .

Furnishing

  • A magnificent Antwerp reredos with painted wings from 1520
  • A reliquary of St. Regina marked 1457. It is made of wood and has copper and silver fittings.
  • On the long walls there are six squat apostle figures in arched panels
  • On the gable walls there are figures of God the Father and St. Regina
  • A cylindrical font from the first half of the 13th century, it is equipped with a large leaf frieze .
  • A sacrament niche from the end of the 15th century is crowned by a gable top.
  • The organ with its magnificent prospect was originally built in 1722 for the Dominican Church in Soest. It probably comes from Johann Berenhard Klausing and has been in the church since 1816.
  • A sun monstrance made of gilded silver from the early 18th century
  • An alb from the 13th century. This so-called Girenalbe is the only surviving piece of its kind in Westphalia.
  • A chasuble with two associated Levite robes from the second half of the 18th century
  • The west tower has a three-part bronze bell. Bell I (tone d ') was cast in 1951. Bell II (tone f ') comes from the 13th century and bell III (tone g') was cast in 1655.

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Web links

Commons : St. Regina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 489 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 48 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 30 ″  E