St. Vitus (Visbek)

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The St. Vitus Church from the west, seen from Erlter Esch
View from the south over the main street to the St. Vitus Church
Abbot Gerbert Castus monument on the north side of St. Vitus Church

St. Vitus is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Lower Saxony municipality of Visbek , in the Oldenburger Münsterland . The church, which is under the patronage of St. Vitus (June 15), belongs to the deanery district of Vechta of the Bishop's Office of Münster . There is a branch church (St. Antonius) in the Visbeker peasantry Rechterfeld .

history

The Abbey Visbek was first in an award certificate from Kaiser on September 1 819 the Pious Ludwig mentioned as "fiscbechi". According to the text of the document, the early Visbek was granted immunity, since Emperor Ludwig the Pious granted Abbot Gerbert Castus , the “Apostle of the Oldenburg Münsterland” - for a “cellula” and the subordinate churches in Leri- , Hase- and Venkigau complete freedom from taxes. In the meantime, however, this document is regarded as a Corveyer total forgery from the late 10th century. Before that, from 780 AD, Charlemagne (* probably April 2, 747 or 748; † January 28, 814 in Aachen) had established nine mission districts to Christianize the subject Saxons , one of which was the cellula fiscbechi . The first church in the mission district, the so-called primeval church, was built in Visbek. From the year 855 at the latest, however, the place and its possessions in the mission area were subordinate to a gift from Ludwig the German to the Benedictine Abbey of Corvey .

In the same place today stands the verifiably seventh parish church in Visbeck, which was built between 1872 and 1876 by the architects Hilger Hertel the Elder. Ä. (Münster) and Franz Xaver Lütz (Osnabrück) built as an east - facing three - nave neo - Gothic hall church and consecrated St. Vitus Church on October 4, 1876. As early as 1891, however, it threatened to collapse due to insufficient foundations. As a result, the foundations were improved in 1892, and the pillars inside were replaced by stronger ones, and the vaults anchored and walled over. The consecration of the church took place on 24 July 1884. Bishop Johann Bernhard Brinkmann . It rises at the highest point of the village, in the center of the village, and can be seen from afar, even from the farmers . The tower, equipped with five bells and erected in 1883/1884, has a height of 65 m including the tower cross, the external length of the building is approx. 53 m. The interior of today's church has an area of ​​30.50 × 22 m. The length of the choir is 13.30 m. The church can accommodate around 800 people.

Through the connection to Corvey, where the relics of St. Vitus are, this saint became the patron saint of the parish church of Visbek. In 1937 Visbek received a Vitus relic from Corvey.

Furnishing

In the interior of the church there are six late baroque life-size sculptures created by the sculptor Johann Heinrich König (1705–1784). The figures of the four church fathers probably originally belonged to the high altar. Other statues are Mary with the Child and John the Baptist .

At Klosterplatz, on the north side of the church, there is a bronze sculpture by the Osnabrück cathedral sculptor Willi Witte from 1984. It depicts Abbot Gerbert Castus, Priest Folcard (a colleague of Bishop Willehad ) and a companion of the two, Count Emmig.

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Panoramic picture of the interior

Bells

The church has a tower bells with five bells made of bronze . Johann Groning's bell was cast shortly before the start of the Thirty Years' War. This bell bears the inscriptions after the names of the pastor and the provisional: “Leten Mi Dit Kespel zu Visbeke zu Gotes Eren Neiie umegeten dorch Johan Groning Von Oldenborg. Anno 1615 " and " Ick. Am Lonely Unde. Wretched. The . Started Mines. Herten. Is. Grot. Vore. Wed Ut. Mines. Nodes. See. On . Mines. Pity. Unde. Wretched. Forget Wed Mine. Sin. See. on . Date Mine. Sin. So Vel. Is. Turn. Tuesday Tho. Wed Unde. Wes. Wed Mercy. Wente ” . After the Second World War, the Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen cast . two new bells for St. Vitus, which were supplemented in 1979 by two more bells from the Mark Eifeler bell foundry.

  • d 1 (141 cm), cast in 1979 by Mark ( Brockscheid / Eifel )
  • es 1 (124 cm), cast in 1615 by Johann Groning von Oldenburg
  • f 1 (113 cm), cast in 1948 by Otto (Hemelingen)
  • g 1 (101 cm), cast in 1948 by Otto (Hemelingen)
  • a 1 (92 cm), cast in 1979 by Mark (Brockscheid / Eifel)

organ

The organ was built in 1972 by the Kreienbrink organ builder (Osnabrück-Hellern). The slider chest instrument has 29 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The game action is mechanical, the stop action is electric.

I main work C–
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Reed flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture VI
9. Cymbel III
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C–
11. Dumped 8th'
12. Willow pipe 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th recorder 4 ′
15th Night horn 2 ′
16. Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Sesquialtera II
18th Nonsept I – II
19th Scharff IV
20th Dulican 16 ′
21st Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C–
22nd Principal bass 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Octave bass 8th'
25th Choral bass 4 ′
26th Peasant pipe 2 ′
27. Rauschpfeife IV
28. trombone 16 ′
29 Clairne 4 ′
Tremulant

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Bönte: Abbot Gerbert Castus - A missionary from the second row. Church site ((former) online newspaper of the Münster diocese). October 29, 2004 ( Memento of May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved from the web archive on October 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kölzer, Theo: The documents of Ludwig the Pious for Halberstadt (BM2 535) and Visbek (BM2 702) - a serious misunderstanding , in: Archiv für Diplomatik 58 (2012) pp. 103–123 (here: pp. 119–121) .
  3. ^ Municipality of Visbek, Leisure & Culture, Sights, St. Vitus Church . Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  4. ↑ Willi Baumann and Peter Sieve on behalf of the Bischöflich Münsterschen Officialate (eds.): The Catholic Church in the Oldenburger Land . A manual. Commissioned by Plaggenborg Verlag, Vechta 1995, p. 645 .
  5. ^ Library of Princeton University The Architectural and Art Monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg Oldenburg, 1896/1900, Volume II, Amt Vechta, p. 374/194 /, Grand Ducal State Ministry, accessed on February 10, 2020.
  6. ↑ Navigator.Wildeshausen AK LGLN ​​- State Office for Geoinformation and Rural Development Lower Saxony . Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  7. ↑ Visbek municipality. In: Leisure & Culture, Sights, St. Vitus Church. Retrieved February 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Folkard. In: heiligenlexikon.de. Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
  9. ↑ State Library Oldenburg: Bio-Handbuch UZ . (PDF; 11.0 MB, p. 29, p. 790)
  10. ↑ oldenburger-muensterland.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Library of Princeton University The Architectural and Art Monuments of the Duchy of Oldenburg Oldenburg, 1896/1900, Volume II, Amt Vechta, pp. 375/195 /, Grand Ducal State Ministry, accessed on February 12, 2020.
  12. ^ 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, especially page 546 .
  13. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 503 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  14. ^ Organ on the website of the builder company ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 11.7 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 36.5"  E