St. Willibrord (Wardt)

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St. Willibrord (Wardt)
View from the west

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Willibrord is a Gothic brick church in the Wardt district of Xanten in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the parish of St. Viktor Xanten in the diocese of Münster .

History and architecture

A chapel in Wardt is mentioned for the first time in 1258 and incorporated into St. Viktor's monastery in Xanten in 1380 . The church of St. Willibrord has been a parish church since around 1400.

The church is a single-nave hall building made of brick and tuff, which is closed with a cross-ribbed vault with a continuous central rib. A retracted, slightly stretched choir yoke with a five-eighth end is built on in the east, and a three-storey tower in front of it in the west. The church was built in three construction phases in the second half of the 15th century, partly using the foundations of a previous Romanesque building. During a restoration by Heinrich Wiethase in 1870, the cornices and window tracery were made of sandstone and the sacristy was added to the north side of the choir. The interior was repainted in 1986.

Furnishing

The sandstone sacrament shrine was created in the third quarter of the 15th century and was revised in 1987. The shrine is crowned by a keel arch , which intersects a blind arcade position and is similar to the one in Vynen .

The sandstone baptismal font shows a bulging basin with tracery panels on a twisted shaft. A sculpture of St. Lucia made of oak shows remains of the original paint and was created by Arnt Beeldesnyder around 1480. The left hand and the dagger are renewed. A wooden crucified from the end of the 15th century with a newer version can be seen on a modern cross.

The organ is a work by Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn with ten stops on two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is:

I. Manual C-g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Schwegel 2 ′
Mixture IV
II. Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sesquialter II
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Revelation 8th'

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , p. 1164.

Web links

Commons : St. Willibrord (Wardt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 18.6 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 3.4 ″  E