St. Vitus (Lette)
St. Vitus was originally a collegiate church of the Lette Premonstratensian monastery . Today the church is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Oelder district of Lette in the Warendorf district , North Rhine-Westphalia . Structurally, the church and parish belong to the Oelde pastoral care unit of the Beckum deanery in the Münster diocese .
history
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The establishment of the Premonstratensian near an already existing St. Vitus Chapel was initially a double monastery for men and women and was donated by Rudolf von Steinfurt in 1133. A year later, the foundation of Emperor Lothar III. approved. It was occupied by the Cappenberg monastery . The time as a double monastery ended a short time after the foundation as a result of the resolution of the General Chapter of the Premonstratensian of 1188, according to which men's and women's convents were to be separated. The men moved into the neighboring Clarholz. The Premonstratensian monastery there existed until the 19th century.
The Premonstratensian Sisters in Lette were under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Munster and were subordinate to the Provost in Clarholz.
The income and ownership of the monastery was low and the number of posts had been limited to only six since 1311. It is unclear when the facility was received. There is information that it was received as early as the 15th century. Others give the time between 1567 and 1571. The monastery buildings had completely disappeared by the 18th century.
church
In the 13th century, today's St. Vitus Church was built as a collegiate church. It was first mentioned as a parish church in 1251.
Around 1850 the tower was in poor condition, so a new tower in neo-Romanesque style was built from 1856 to 1858 according to plans by Emil von Manger . The arched portal was taken over from the previous building.
In 1921 the eastern yoke and choir were demolished. Eduard Goldkuhle from Wiedenbrück drafted plans for a transept, which existed until 1971. A hall with a gable ceiling and hipped roof was built here. An inner courtyard was created between the three-bay old building and the new building.
Building description
The Romanesque church, built with ashlar masonry, has one nave with three bays and is currently closed with a choir extension. The west tower was rebuilt in the 19th century. The church interior is spanned by a wooden ceiling that rests on the pillars between the pointed arches. The arched windows are one-piece and have been partially extended. The portal on the south side is also round-arched and with corner columns, on which a tympanum rests . The capitals of the columns are decorated with figures and foliage. A cross is depicted in the tympanum, the edge is provided with an edge frieze.
Furnishing
The furnishings include a ten-part baptismal font, which is cylindrical and decorated with pointed arches. A Renaissance chandelier is made of bronze, has two rows and has twelve arms.
Also preserved is a Romanesque wooden carrying altar with gilded copper plates in which the images of the twelve apostles are engraved in arched arcades. The names of the apostles are inscribed below. There is also a reliquary of the same type, which also bears the images of the apostles in gilded copper plates. On the hip roof of the shrine are depictions of the Annunciation, the birth of Christ, the crucifixion and burial on the long sides and the baptism and ascension of Christ in enamel on the front sides.
The three bronze bells were cast in 1948 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher. They measure 134, 104 and 88 centimeters in diameter and sound in the notes es', g 'and b'.
The organ has 39 registers and was manufactured in 1975 by the Speith-Orgelbau company from Rietberg . It was re-voiced during the last renovation at the beginning of the 21st century by Orgelbau Sauer from Höxter.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Prämonstratenser.de
- ↑ Handbook of Historic Places in Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Stuttgart, 1970 p. 458
literature
- Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments in the Wiedenbrück district . Schöningh, Münster i. W. 1901, p. 43–44 ( The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia 10).
- Johannes Meier: Clarholz monastery and the parish church in Lette ( Westfälische Kunststätten , issue 56). Munster 1990.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 5.1 ″ N , 8 ° 9 ′ 31.9 ″ E