St. Vincenz (Menden / Sauerland)
| St. Vincenz | |
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 Parish Church of St. Vincenz |
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| place | Menden (Sauerland) , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Construction year | from 1345; 15th century; 1868 to 1871 |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '17.8 " N , 7 ° 47' 46.8" E |
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| Tallest building in Menden (Sauerland) | |
The parish church of St. Vincent is a church building of the Catholic Church in Menden (Sauerland) and is since 3 March 1983 monument . The parish belongs to the deanery Märkisches Sauerland .
history
The community in Menden was one of the original parishes in the Westphalian part of the Archdiocese of Cologne .
The church is consecrated to Saint Vincent and Saint Walburga , which was also venerated in the parish church in Werl and in the old Meschede Abbey . It is possible that in the past the worship of Walburga predominated, today Vincenz dominates.
The parish originally extended beyond Menden to Hemer and beyond the Ruhr to Fröndenberg . During the Middle Ages, numerous parishes were parish off. Hemer, for example, was cut off to supply the Grafschaft monastery as early as the 12th century. But the Menden pastors retained certain privileges that were lost for the churches there with the implementation of the Reformation in the county of Mark, to which parts of the parish belonged. Until 1222 the respective Cologne cathedral provost was the archdeacon head of the annual broadcasting court . Since the 15th century this right has been in the hands of the respective pastor.
Before the church was built today, there were older buildings. It all started with a simple hall church. In 1200 there was a Romanesque hall construction.
This was plundered and badly damaged in 1344 during an attack by the Counts von der Mark and von Arnsberg . Parts of the older church building were integrated into a new building.
Since the second half of the 18th century, the church has been the starting point for the Menden cross costume , a procession during the Passion time.
architecture
The core of today's building is a Gothic hall church , which was built from 1345 during the reign of Archbishop Walram . The oldest part of the church is the west tower, the core of which goes back to the 14th century. This also served as a defense tower, the outer sign of this are the narrow loopholes.
The nave dates from the 15th century. The church has three naves and three bays with round pillars. The church has a cross vault with ribs and beautifully crafted keystones. The windows are ogival with tracery.
The architectural style of the church in this form is rather rare in Westphalia in the Electorate of Cologne. The St. Johannes Church in Attendorn and the St. George Town Chapel in Arnsberg are comparable .
In the years 1868 to 1871 the church was extended by the transept and choir in the late Gothic style by the architect Fischer. The spire has also been raised significantly.
The color scheme, the church windows and the room layout were changed several times, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries. The expressionist paintings by Wilhelm Remmes were removed in 1952.
In the 1970s, under the influence of the Second Vatican Council , the architect Heinrich Stiegemann redesigned the interior in a rather simple style. Among other things, the altar was moved in the middle of the crossing on a multi-level altar island. The formerly higher choir was lowered to the level of the nave.
Furnishing
The interior contains a wooden altar from 1628. It is a column structure with figures and reliefs.
There is also a figure of the Madonna made of painted oak. It dates from around 1460 and is similar in style to the Madonna in Lübeck's Marienkirche, which was destroyed in 1942. The equipment also includes a Gothic cross in the form of a triumphal cross. There is no longer a Gothic choir chair.
In 2009, four figures of saints from the Baroque era are grouped on pillars around the baptismal font set up in the middle of the nave, originally they were in various other places within the church building.
Parts of the original high altar were identified in the chair of the church tower in March 2009. In the tower chapel there is a crucifixion group from the 18th century. This was originally located at the Heilig-Kreuz- or St.-Antonius-Chapel on the Rodenberg. There is a copy there today.
Bells
Until 1917, three bronze bells with the tone sequence of 'es'-f' hung in the tower of St. Vincenz. The big bell was cast in 1767 and consecrated to Saint Michael. The two smaller bells were cast in 1638. In 1917 the big bell was confiscated and melted down. The bells from 1638 have been preserved. In 1924 the Petit & Edelbrock foundry in Gescher cast three new bells with the tones of ', as' and b'. In 1942 the four large bells were melted down, including the bells from 1638. The b'-bell from 1924 was allowed to remain in the tower. In 1946 the Junker foundry in Brilon cast a new five-part bronze bell made of special Brilon bronze. The b'-bell was not integrated into the new bell. The new bell sounds in b ° -des'-es'-f'-as' and is noticeable by a rather short reverberation. On the west side, two old bells for the clock strike in des "(1768) and b" (15th century) are still hanging on the spire.
organ
A first organ is mentioned in a council minutes in 1733. A new building was carried out in 1756 by the organ builder Balthasar König . This was expanded and rebuilt in 1861 before a new organ was purchased in 1896. After a fire, it was restored in 1852. A new organ was purchased in 1970, but it turned out to be prone to failure. In 2006 the current (2015) organ was installed. The instrument from the organ builder workshop Martin Scholz (Mönchengladbach) has 34 registers , three transmissions ( pedal ) and a deduction on three manuals and pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Super octave coupling: III / II
- Sub-octave coupling: II / P
- Secondary register: cup bells (I), Zimbelstern, gong, bell (stop by pressing a register)
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- ↑ From C to h 0 in 4-foot position (wide scale length), from c 0 in 8-foot position (narrow scale length).
In addition to the main organ, there is also a choir organ with 2 manuals with 7 registers on an alternating loop. This comes from the Späth company in 1987 and was in St. Raphael (Berlin) until 2005 .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- annotation
- W = register on alternating loop
See also
literature
- Alfred Ludorff: The architectural and art monuments of the Iserlohn district . Münster 1900, pp. 55-56.
- Hubert Schmidt: Parish Church of St. Vinzenz in Menden . In: Sauerland. Journal of the Sauerland Heimatbund. No. 3/1982, p. 86 ff.
- Andreas Wallentin (Ed.): St. Vincenz. Our church. An illustrated book with photos by Martin Swora. Texts: Bernhard Brackhane, Christian Rose. Verlag der Buchhandlung Daub, Andreas Wallentin: Menden 2010 (64 p., Numerous colored illustrations) [all German texts also in English. and French translation] - ISBN 9783928217897
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Törnig-Struck: Full of religious expressiveness. In: Märkisches Sauerland 117/2004
- ↑ Altarpiece discovered in the Vincenz Tower after 140 years , accessed on April 10, 2016.
- ↑ Veit Brinkmann: From Menden belfries . Ed .: City of Menden. Menden 2009.
- ↑ To the disposition of the main organ
- ↑ On the disposition of the choir organ