St. Simeonis (Minden)

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The St. Simeoniskirche in Minden
Floor plan 1902

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Simeonis or Simeoniskirche in the East Westphalian city ​​of Minden is a church building that stands in the southern old town of Minden. Your tower is one of the buildings that characterize the cityscape of Minden. The direct neighboring building is the Catholic Church of St. Mauritius with the convent of the Sisters of Christian Love . In 1529 Heinrich Traphagen preached in the Simeonskirche and thus triggered the Reformation in Minden. Since Pentecost 2004, the Church of St. Simeon is an "open church" of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and without their own parish .

history

On June 1, 1214, the church was consecrated as a branch church of St. Martini . She got the name from Simeon von Trier . The initially single-aisle building was extended in the 13th century by the north aisle, and in the 14th century by its counterpart the south aisle.

With the relocation of the St. Mauritius Monastery next to the Simeonskirche, it became a parish and monastery church at the same time from 1434 to 1475. This required further construction work, such as the hall choir in the east of the church for the monks' choir prayer . In 1475 the new monastery church of St. Mauritius was completed right next to St. Simeon and the function of the monastery church was handed back to the monastery of St. Mauritius. At the same time, the pastoral position was no longer appointed from the secular church community, but from the monastery.

However, this did not last. In September 1529 it was again a Benedictine monk who preached here. Heinrich Traphagen gave a sermon from the pulpit of the Simeonskirche, which was shaped by the writings of Martin Luther . The abbot of the monastery, Heinrich Keppelen, had him put in the city prison for this offense. The citizens, who were angry about it, secretly released Traphagen at night and made him their advocate. Traphagen was demonstratively reinstated as pastor by the evangelical citizens of the city of Minden and on October 3, 1529, he was back on the pulpit of the Simeoniskirche. From there he attacked the abbot and convent of St. Mauritius sharply. His audience then threw in the windows of the abbot's official apartment in the monastery. The Reformation began with the support of the citizens , a committee of 36 men was formed, twelve each from the three parishes of the city. As a result, the council of the city of Minden was reshuffled and expanded, the Church of St. Simeons became Protestant. The convent of the St. Mauritius Monastery had to flee to Rinteln in 1529 , but came back in 1552. The mother church of St. Martini changed to a Protestant church in December 1529.

The Simeonsgemeinde made their church available to the infantry regiment "Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands" (2nd Westphalian) No. 15 for the holding of garrison services.

After the Franco-Prussian War , the emperor decreed that a plaque should be erected in every church of the monarchy, which should contain the names of those who fell in the last three campaigns with the inscription: "From this church game died for king and fatherland". It hangs next to the plaque from 1813/15 in the Simeonskirche. Around 1900, Professor Alexander Linnemann from Frankfurt created 5 glass windows for the church according to the catalog of works from 1902.

organ

The St. Simeonis organ was built in 1974 by the Danish organ builder Marcussen & Søn (Appenrade). The instrument has 24 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The game actions and stop actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Quintatön 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th Nasard 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Scharff III 1'
8th. Dulcian 16 ′
9. Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Principal 8th'
11. Reed flute 8th'
12. octave 4 ′
13. Pointed flute 4 ′
14th Flat flute 2 ′
15th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Mixture V 2 ′
17th Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
18th Sub bass 16 ′
19th octave 8th'
20th octave 4 ′
21st Night horn 2 ′
22nd Rauschpfeife IV
23. bassoon 16 ′
24. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P; Super octave coupling I / P

monument

tower

The tower of the Simeonskirche, built in 1912, is 60.5 m high and has a pointed, copper-covered roof. For a long time it was the seat of the southern tower keeper of the city of Minden, who looked out for enemies in the Porta Westfalica and for fire from here . The tower has five bells, four of which were built in the 20th century, and two were donated by the cathedral community .

Civic association

In May 2010 committed citizens founded the association “Save St. Simeonis”. The aim is to preserve the monument and above all to renovate the tower.

local community

Well-known pastors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Hülsmann: The St. Simeon Church in Minden. An architectural historical consideration. Communications of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 49 (1977), pp. 94–120.
  2. ↑ Hans Nordsiek: The Reformation in St. Simeons ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2016 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. ; accessed in November 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mindenmagazin.de
  3. ↑ History of the Church on the website of the Open Church of St. Simeons ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed in May 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.offene-kirche-st-simeonis.de
  4. ↑ Christin Borgmeier: Church and Reformation in Minden around 1530, p. 10 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ^ Alfred Cramer : "History of the Infantry Regiment Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands (2nd Westphalian) No. 15"; Berlin 1910, Verlag R. Eisenschmid, publishing bookstore for military science.
  6. ^ To the organ atlas: Marcussen organ accessed in December 2010
  7. ↑ Little Church Leader Open Church of St. Simeonis ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2016 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. (PDF; 155 kB) accessed in February 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.offene-kirche-st-simeonis.de
  8. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of May 26, 2010, accessed in May 2010.
  9. ^ David Meier : Johann Rabe , in ders .: Kurtzgefaste message from the Christian Reformation in churches and schools of the old city of Hanover… Hanover: Nicolaus Förster and Son, 1731, p. 235f .; Digitized via Google books
  10. ↑ Notes on Hans Graff, who also showed the political backbone against the Nazis and war criminals in Minden (PDF; 131 kB), accessed in May 2010.

literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 8.7 "  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 46.5"  E