St. Severin (Wenden)

Aerial view

St. Severin

The Catholic parish church of St. Severin is a listed church building in Wenden , a municipality in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The building stands in the middle of the village and can be seen from afar. The parish belongs to the Wendener Land Pastoral Association in the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

History and architecture

The church was a branch church of Drolshagen . A chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1179. It was called Capella around 1300 and the occupation belonged to the provost of St. Severin in Cologne . The previous church was built around the middle of the 14th century; the foundation walls were partially excavated during the renovation from 1987 to 1988. Church and village burned down almost completely in 1714. The foundation walls were still standing and a roof was immediately put on again. The altars were renovated, a new organ , new benches and new bells were purchased. Over time, the population grew so that the church became too small.

The existing church was built around the old church from 1750 to 1751 by the Tyrolean master mason Franz Beyer. Until the completion of the new one, services were held in the old one, then it was demolished. From the stones of the chancel with was ⁵ / ₈ -Schluss brick, the wood is processed in the roof truss. The building is a stately, five-bay hall church with a retracted, closed five-sided choir . The west tower is essentially older, it is crowned with a pointed helmet. The east walls of the aisles are sloping, the basic forms are Gothic. The mansard roof is unusual for church buildings in Westphalia . In the picture niches above the pilaster portals there are figures of saints that Johann Nikolaus Düringer created in 1752. The triumphal arch with colored setted decorated stucco. The equipment of the old building was taken over.

Furnishing

The altars were made between 1699 and 1714 in Johannes Sasse's workshop
A crucifixion group by Johann Nikolaus Düringer
On the pillars are the figures of the twelve apostles
Rococo confessionals with the figures of St. Peter and St. Magdalena
A pulpit from 1752
A double Madonna from 1757

organ

The organ and the prospectus were built in 1751 by Bartholomäus and Joseph Boos from Koblenz.

I main work CD – c ³
1.	Bourdon	16 ′
2.	Principal	8th'
3.	Drone	8th'
4th	Viola di gamba	8th'
5.	Octav	4 ′
6 & 7.	Whistle	4 ′
8th.	Nasard	2 2/3 '
9.	Super octave	2 ′
10.	Cornett IV
11.	Mixture IV
12.	Trumpet	8th'

II positive CD– ³
13.	Funnel flute	8th'
14th	Flute	8th'
15th	Octave	4 '
16.	Principal	2 ′
17th	Fifth	1 ¹ ⁄ ₂  ′
18th	Krummhorn	8th'

Pedal CD – d
19th	Sub-bass	16 ′
20th	Principal	16 ′
21st	trombone	16 ′
22nd	Octave bass	8th'
23.	Choral bass	8th'
24.	Mixture IV

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969.
Georg Dehio, under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Community membership
^ 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. 584 .
^ Christian Binz: The organist and organ maker Joseph Anton Boos (1727–1804) , In: Acta Organologica . Volume 34, 2015, p. 23

50.968877 7.873823Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 8 ″ N , 7 ° 52 ′ 26 ″ E

[1] Community membership

[2] 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. 584 .

[3] Christian Binz: The organist and organ maker Joseph Anton Boos (1727–1804) , In: Acta Organologica . Volume 34, 2015, p. 23