St. Vitus (Venhaus)

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St. Vitus in Venhaus

St. Vitus is the Roman Catholic church in Venhaus , a district of Spelle , Emsland district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the dean's office Emsland-Süd and is part of the parish community Spelle-Venhaus-Lünne-Schapen.

history

In 1619, a transverse wing was added as a mansion to the existing moated castle in Venhaus. This new building later served as a chapel. While the castle was almost completely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , the chapel was somewhat preserved. At the end of the 17th century, the former manor house was converted into a church. In the tower of the church there is a three-part ringing of bronze bells from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen. The bells were cast in 1948. The disposition of the bells is: g sharp '- b' - c sharp '. The bell has a total weight of 1175 kg.

On November 1, 1973, St. Vitus Venhaus became a curate of the parish of St. John the Baptist in Spelle.

Web links

Commons : St. Vitus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parish community on pfarierendengemeinschaft-spelle.de
  2. ↑ a b St. Vitus Venhaus is Church of the Month for July. Osnabrücker Zeitung, Spelle local editorial office, July 7, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2017
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 544 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 502 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '30.9 "  N , 7 ° 26' 49"  E