St. Sturmius (Rinteln)

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Parish Church of St. Sturmius

St. Sturmius is the Catholic parish church in Rinteln in the Schaumburg district . It was in the neo-Gothic designed forms and on May 24, 1888 the Bishop of Fulda Joseph Weyland to the patronage of St. Sturmius ordained . The church stands on the northeast section of the historic city wall above the old Weser harbor (Kapellenwall 15). Her parish of the same name belongs to the Weserbergland deanery of the Hildesheim diocese , and the Catholic churches in Großenwieden , Hemeringen and Hessisch Oldendorf have also belonged to it since 2012 .

history

In the county of Schaumburg , which has been Lutheran since the Reformation , Catholic communities only gathered again in the 19th century. The Rintelner parish was built in 1869 and initially covered the whole to 1866 Hessian part of the Schaumburg country ( Grafschaft Schaumburg ). Ecclesiastically it therefore belonged first to the diocese of Fulda , and only since 1929 to the diocese of Hildesheim. This affiliation is expressed in the choice of the Fulda founder abbot Sturmius as parish patron.

At the end of the Second World War , the church was damaged when the nearby Weser Bridge was blown up. A comprehensive exterior and interior renovation took place in 1959–1971.

architecture

The Sturmius Church made of Obernkirchen sandstone is an east - facing three-nave hall church with a retracted, 3/8 closed choir . The central and side aisles have groin vaults , the ribs of which rise from the floral capitals of the slender columns. Two opposite polygonally closing side chapels suggest a transept. The slim, square west tower (51 m high) sets a striking urban accent with its four small pointed helmets that surround the high central helmet .

A Catholic church for Rinteln was a task in March and April 1882 in an extraordinary monthly competition of the architects' association in Berlin among its members with prize money of 450 marks . Of the six submitted designs, three were awarded: One by the architect Johannes Vollmer was awarded the cash prize, another by Vollmer and one by Karl Doflein were awarded a club souvenir. The design tasks of these competitions ( architectural competitions ) were not always related to specific building projects, but even if they did, the designs often did not form the basis for subsequent construction. The three designs that were awarded a prize in this competition, which are kept in the holdings of the Architectural Museum of the Technical University of Berlin , do not show any particular resemblance to the church building that began in 1884.

Furnishing

The main altar, made of dark marble from the third quarter of the 20th century, dominates the choir . The tabernacle in the north aisle and the three large picture windows in the apse date from the same period . The Marien and Joseph altars with the central statue of the saint, two flanking picture fields and rich tracery carvings have been preserved from the original furnishings of the church.

literature

  • Willi Stoffers: Patronage churches in memory of St. Bonifatius, the apostle of the Germans, in the Diocese of Hildesheim . Hildesheim 2004, pp. 44-46.

Web links

Commons : St. Sturmius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 16, 1882, No. 20 (from March 11, 1882), p. 118.
  2. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 16, 1882, No. 37 (from May 10, 1882), p. 216.
  3. ^ Drafts by Johannes Vollmer and draft by Karl Doflein in the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 20.2 "  N , 9 ° 5 ′ 4.5"  E