St. Viktor (Damme)

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Aerial view of the St. Viktor Church in Damme.
Front view
inner space

The Catholic parish church of St. Viktor is in the town of Damme in the district of Vechta , Lower Saxony. Because of its size and importance for the region, it is popularly called Dammer Dom .

history

The Dammer Church was founded as the mother church of the old Saxon Gau Dersi by the first Osnabrück bishop Wiho in the 8th century. Church patron is St. Viktor von Xanten .

Ecclesiastically, Damme belonged to the Osnabrück diocese. Politically, it came to the monastery of Münster in 1252 with the rule of Vechta . In 1666, the Münster prince-bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen also acquired ecclesiastical responsibility in the Niederstift .

After the end of the spiritual principalities and the Wiener Congress of the Pope cops "are in execution De salute animarum " (1821) and " Impensa Romanorum Pontificum " (1824), Catholic parishes of Grand Duchy Oldenburg the Bishopric Munster assigned, the Vechta a Offizialat for established this area.

From the originally extensive parish of Damme were separated: 1159 Neuenkirchen with Vörden, 1187 Steinfeld, 1827 Holdorf, 1901 Osterfeine and 1925 Rüschendorf.

architecture

The neo-Gothic hall church with transept was designed by the architect and former Bremen building officer Heinrich Flügel and built between 1904 and 1906.

The previous building - an early Gothic hall church from 1435 (supplemented by a choir in 1501) - adjoined the tower to the east and was demolished in 1903. There was a long discussion about the mighty Romanesque tower from the 13th century, made of field stones, which it was finally decided to preserve. With its baroque hood, it towers over the deliberately slim and low towers of the new portal front.

In 1905, the neo-Gothic building by Heinrich Flügel was completed with the Dammer contractors Heinrich and Josef Römer, leaving the old tower in place. Regardless of this, there were plans for a new neo-Gothic tower at the time.

The exterior and interior of the church can be seen as a total work of art of historicism.

The old tower of St. Viktor towers over Damme like that of a medieval cathedral and is therefore the symbol of the city of Damme. Its base with a Romanesque arched portal, the early main entrance to the church, dates from around 1300, the middle part is Gothic, while the baroque hood was put on after the great Dammer fire in 1693.

Furnishing

In 1906, only the high-Gothic tabernacle from 1501 and the Romanesque baptismal font of the so-called Bentheim type from around 1150 were taken over from the furnishings of the previous church. The chapel in the old tower houses the memorial for the fallen of the two world wars.

Inside, the magnificent windows, the Romanesque font from the 12th century, the sacrament house from the 15th century and numerous other works of art from the 19th and early 20th centuries are particularly worth seeing .

organ

The organ was built in 1975 by the organ building company Alfred Führer (Wilhelmshaven). The instrument has 40 registers and a glockenspiel on three manuals and a pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically. Special features are the large French-romantic swell and the glockenspiel. The organ was renovated in 2013 by the organ building company Fleiter (Münster).

Führer organ in St. Viktor's Church in Damme (Dümmer), built in 1975
I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Metal dacked 8th'
2. Quintad 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th recorder 4 ′
5. Forest flute 2 ′
6th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Scharff IV 1'
9. Franz Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Praestant 8th'
11. Coupling flute 8th'
12. octave 4 ′
13. Pointed flute 4 ′
14th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th octave 2 ′
16. Mixture VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Trumpet 16 ′
18th Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
19th Drone 16 ′
20th Wooden dacked 8th'
21st Gemshorn 8th'
22nd Beat 8th'
23. Principal 4 ′
24. Reed flute 4 ′
25th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
26th Principal 2 ′
27. Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
28. Mixture IV-VI 2 ⁄ 3 ′
29 Bombard 16 ′
30th Trumpet harm. 8th'
31. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
Carillon
Pedal C – f 1
32. Praestant 16 ′
33. Sub bass 16 ′
34. octave 8th'
35. Dumped 8th'
36. Hollow flute 4 ′
37. Peasant flute 2 ′
38. Rauschbass V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
39. trombone 16 ′
40. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling: I / II, III / II, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : Electronic setting system (4096 combinations) with sequencers and 3 keys

literature

  • Wilhelm Gilly: Medieval churches and chapels in the Oldenburger Land. Building history and inventory. Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-126-6 , p. 50 f.
  • KJBade, J.Kessel, H.Oberpenning, A.Schindling: Damme - A city in its history, Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen 1993, ISBN 3-7995-4163-2 .
  • Wolfgang Friemerding, Ludger Migowski: Damme im Kaiserreich, Verlag des Stadtmuseum Damme, Damme 2000, ISBN 3-88441-171-3 .
  • Josef Schmutte: Damme in pictures - St. Viktor and his pastors - The "Dammer Dom" from the new building to 2005, self-published 2005, ISBN 3-00-017597-0 .

Web links

Commons : St. Viktor  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Viktor Damme ( Memento of the original dated December 10, 2014 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. . Website of the Catholic parish of St. Viktor. Retrieved February 9, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-viktor-damme.de
  2. ↑ In detail on the history of the organs in St. Viktor and on today's [1]

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '15.2 "  N , 8 ° 11' 52.4"  E