City Church St. Pankratius (Warstein)

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Aerial photograph (2014)

The Catholic parish church of St. Pankratius am Markt is a listed building in the town of Warstein in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

St. Pancras

After the great city fire of 1802, the majority of the citizens settled in the valley, so that the building of a new church became necessary. A church building committee began with the first planning. Lengthy negotiations about financing and design were necessary until the foundation stone was laid on August 24, 1853 . The first mass was celebrated in 1857. Bishop Konrad Martin consecrated the church in 1873.

The large, neo-Gothic hall church with an 86 m high, slender west tower , built from 1852 to 1857 according to plans by Friedrich Heinrich Kronenberg , is a brick building with impressive proportions and individual shapes. Details such as pinnacles , finials , portals , tracery on the windows are examples of neo-Gothic architecture of the 19th century in Westphalia . The three-nave, fünfjochige construction opens a choir with 5 / 8 -Schluss. The church got its current appearance after extensive renovations in 1957, 1972, 1985 and most recently in 2010.

Furnishing

  • Font from the time the church was built
  • Parts of the sacramental altar with representations of the saints Pankratius and Sebastian as well as the four doctors of the church and the statues of the saints on the pillars of the central nave date from the time of construction.
  • The main marble altar from 1957 forms a unit with the triumphal cross from the beginning of the 20th century.
  • The tall, slender choir windows were created in different decades of the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • The apostle windows in the nave were installed in 1906.
  • A baroque crucifixion group comes from an older time.
  • A painful mother probably dates from the 15th century.
  • Liturgical devices from the 15th to the 20th century complete the equipment.

organ

View of the organ
View of the organ

The large organ was built in 1964 by the Anton Feith organ workshop from Paderborn. The instrument has 64 registers (4716 pipes ), divided into four manual works and a pedal, and is distributed over the entire rear wall of the church: the main work and the upper work as well as the back positive are in the central nave, the swell and pedal work are housed in the side aisles.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
01. Principal 16 ′
02. Principal 08th'
03. Gemshorn 08th'
04th Covered 08th'
05. Fifth 05 13
06th octave 04 ′
07th Coupling flute 04 ′
08th. Nasat 02 23
09. Super octave 02 ′
10. Rauschpfeife IV 0
11. Mixture VI-VIII
12. Cornet III
13. Dulcian 16 ′
14th Trumpet 08th'
15th zinc 04 ′
II upper structure C – g 3
16. Cane quintad 8th'
17th Pointed flute 8th'
18th Dulz flute 8th'
19th Singing principal 4 ′
20th recorder 4 ′
21st Night horn 2 ′
22nd Chamois fifth 1 13
23. Sharp III
24. Sesquialter II
35. Krummhorn 8th'
26th Hopper shelf 4 ′
III Swell C – g 3
27. Covered 16 ′
28. Italian principal 08th'
29 Reed flute 08th'
30th Viol flute 08th'
31. Pointed Gamba 08th'
32. Prefix 04 ′
33. Soft flute 04 ′
34. Fifth flute 02 23
35. Schwiegel 02 ′
36. Third flute 01 35
37. Sif flute 01'
38. Seventh 017
39. Bell tone IV
40. Mixture V-VI
41. Rankett 16 ′
42. oboe 08th'
43. Head trumpet 04 ′
IV Rückpositiv C – g 3
44. Lovely Gedackt 0 8th'
45. Quintad 8th'
46. Wide principal 4 ′
47. Pointed flute 4 ′
48. Forest flute 2 ′
49. Quintzimbel III
50. Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
51. Principal bass 0 16 ′
52. Sub bass 16 ′
53. Subtle bass 16 ′
54. Quintbass 10 23
55. Octave bass 08th'
56. Dacked bass 08th'
57. Flute bass 04 ′
58. Piffaro II 02 ′
59. Back set IV
60. Contrabassoon 32 ′
61. trombone 16 ′
62. Trumpet 08th'
63. Schalmey 04 ′
64. Singing cornet 0 02 ′

Bells

In the tower of St. Pankratius there is a very melodious bell , consisting of four bronze bells. The bell comes from the Junker bell foundry (Brilon) and was cast in 1948.

No.
 
Surname
 
Diameter
(mm)
Mass
(kg)
Nominal
 
Inscription, notes
 
1 St. Peter 1950 4,100 g sharp 0 Also called the citizen bell
“I was baptized in the name of Peter in honor of the high patron of the city of Warstein. Marked in front of my siblings by greatness, I urge the citizens of the city again and again to be faithful to Christ and his Church, as the ancestors held it in a pious sense, and to stand together in unity to protect justice and freedom, for the well-understood good the city."
2 St. Pancras 1650 2,500 h 0 Also known as the death
knell "Pankratius, our patron saint, pray for us to God's throne, implore us for bravery and virtue, always be the patron of our youth."
3 St. Mary 1470 1,700 cis 1 "No wise man can be worthy of her majesty when praising her: no ornament is like dignity that she alone receives."
4th St. Agatha 1330 1,070 e 1 "St. Agatha, rich in honor, show you helpful to our city. Stop the poisonous flames of body, soul, house and property, protect 'us all' together, through the blood of Jesus Christ. "

literature

  • Ursula Quednau (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 1155.
  • Peter Vormweg: The neo-Gothic in the Westphalian church building. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2013. S. 155 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothea Kluge, Wilfried Hansmann (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1969, p. 582.
  2. St. Pankratius - City Church in Warstein. on: pastoralverbund-warstein.de (history and equipment)
  3. Video recording of the peal

Web links

Commons : Stadtkirche St. Pankratius (Warstein)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 34.7 "  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 9.7"  E