St. Sebastian (Nienberge)
The Catholic Church of St. Sebastian is a listed church building in Nienberge , a district of Münster , in the Münster district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It has been a branch church of the parish Liebfrauen-Überwasser since March 9, 2014 .
Description and architecture
The parish was founded shortly after 1040. The strong Romanesque west tower dates from the 12th century, it is provided with sound arcades on two floors . The nave is a low, vaulted hall of three bays with a 5/8 end. The keystone in the choir, with the picture of the church patron, is marked 1499. A transept was added in the 20th century .
Furnishing
- A late Gothic , octagonal tabernacle . It is crowned with an openwork helmet and has rich figural decorations on the subject of salvation history on the base.
- A stone pulpit with openwork tracery panels . The foot was renewed. The pulpit dates from the time the church was built.
- A baptismal font , surrounded by a snake from 1790, probably by Johann Wilhelm Gröninger .
- Twelve under life-size figures of the apostles of wood, it emerged in 1470 in the Netherlands, came after the Reformation to Nordwalde in the Nordwalder Parish Church St. Dionysius , from where they were issued in 1895 by Nienberge. (In Nordwalde there have been copies of the figures again since the 1980s.)
- Three combined stucco reliefs with the scourging and crucifixion of Christ and with the Marienklage probably derived from the old 1655 high altar erected.
- Four bronze bells, cast by Petit & Edelbrock Gescher in 1950, tone sequence d'-f'-g'-a '.
organ
The organ goes back to an instrument made by the organ builder Melchior Kersting (Münster) in 1840. The instrument was rebuilt in 1959 by the organ builder Emanuel Kemper (Lübeck), and added the Rückpositiv in 1979 by the organ builder Friedrich Fleiter (Münster) . The main work and wind chest from 1840 are original. The slider chest instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Fiction
The church is mentioned in a legend (based on JG Th. Grasse) about a smithy smith as follows: “On the church door to Nienberge there is also supposed to be a lock from him, which had the property that the thieves who wanted to break it down were the same arrested and held captive. "
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official Gazette No. 10. (PDF; 474 KB) (No longer available online.) District government of Münster , March 7, 2014, archived from the original on May 12, 2014 ; accessed on May 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten v. November 3, 2016: Visiting St. Sebastian: Insight into the history of the old parish church .
- ↑ 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. 405 .
- ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse: Book of legends of the Prussian state . tape 1 . C. Flemming, 1868, p. 772 ( online in Google Book Search [accessed October 11, 2009]).
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 56 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 34 ″ E