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Church and cemetery in Stockkämpen
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Stockkämpen is the name of an approximately 4.1 hectare church complex in the Hörste district of Hall in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It includes the St. Johannes Evangelist Church , the associated parsonage and parsonage as well as a cemetery and is station 4 of the “Laibachweg” cultural trail . Stockkämpen is located in the Tatenhauser Wald nature reserve , but is not part of it.

The parish is the oldest post-Reformation Catholic parish in the old district of Halle , after the previously existing parishes had become Protestant during the Reformation. All other communities arose from this.

history

The number of Catholics had become smaller and smaller as a result of the Reformation , which gradually also took hold in the County of Ravensberg , and the formerly Catholic places of worship were used by Protestants. The church in Borgholzhausen was the first to become Protestant in 1538 . Essentially only the residents of the four manors and castles Tatenhausen , Holtfeld , Brincke and Halstenbeck and a few citizens remained Catholic. The number of Catholics in the district ranged between 400 and 600 people. The only Catholic church was the castle chapel of Tatenhausen, where the Franciscan Dionysius Budde officiated as the chaplain of the castle from 1666.

On June 15, 1689, the two noble houses of Holtfeld (Franz Wilhelm Freiherr von Wendt) and Tatenhausen (Friedrich Matthias Freiherr von Korff-Schmising) bought a piece of land on the Stockkampe for 560 Reichstaler - according to legend, exactly in the middle between their castles and therefore in the free area overgrown with heather and oak forest - to build a church there. First the parsonage was built, which served the construction workers as accommodation, then from 1691 the church. Protestant farmers from the area closed the excavations again at night, later they tore out the young trees planted by the priests; Only a threat of punishment by the responsible Drosten ended this hustle and bustle.

The church was founded on September 30, 1696 after five years of construction by Otto Wilhelm Freiherr von Bronckhorst to Gronsfeld, auxiliary bishop , in Osnabrueck ordained . The evangelist John became patron . For the choice of the church patron, it was decisive that the Protestant church in Halle is also consecrated to St. John, although it is not clear whether this is John the Baptist or John the Evangelist. The noble houses undertook to take responsibility for the upkeep of the church and the pastors. Tatenhausen was to pay 50 thalers a year, Holtfeld 110 thalers.

Pastoral care was taken over by the Franciscans of the “ Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross ”, who in Stockkämpen had a “residence”, a smaller monastery with a lower canonical status than a “convent”, initially with two and later with three fathers and one lay brother each occupied. They lived in the rectory. The monastery superior bore the title "Praeses" and was the pastor of the new parish. The establishment of a monastery with the rank of a convent under the direction of a guardian would not have been in accordance with the existing religious treaties of the County of Ravensberg. The first Franciscans in Stockkämpen were Father Hieronymus Boller, Father Bonifatius Brandis and Brother Simon Kock. The parish included Halle, Hörste, Versmold, Borgholzhausen, Brockhagen and Werther. In addition to pastoral care, the Franciscans continued to exercise the role of house chaplain in the noble houses.

Stockkämpen was initially not directly affected by the dissolution of the monasteries as a result of secularization at the beginning of the 19th century, as it was probably not considered a monastery by the authorities. However, the orders were not allowed to accept any new novices . The Franciscans withdrew from Stockkämpen in 1848 due to a lack of staff. The second pastor had been a secular clergyman since 1825. From 1849 diocesan priests performed the service. In 1826 the parish of Stockkämpen was transferred from the Diocese of Osnabrück to the Diocese of Paderborn, after it was initially forgotten as part of the new delimitation of the diocese areas in Prussia in 1825. In 1849 the new parsonage was built because the "little monastery", structurally always rather simple, was very shabby; one of the Franciscans once referred to it as tugurium , dovecote , and many of them lost their health in stick combat . The rectory, rebuilt several times, was now entirely available as a school building and today serves as a rectory.

In the 19th and 20th centuries the number of Catholics in Ravensberg increased again. In 1862 the parish of St. Michael Versmold was the first to be separated from Stockkämpen and established. In 1908 the foundation stone for the Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Halle was laid, the local parish vicarie became an independent parish in 1949. Today the “Stockkämpen Pastoral Association” in the Archdiocese of Paderborn includes the five parishes of St. Marien u. St. Nikolaus Borgholzhausen-Brincke, Herz-Jesu Halle with St. Michael Werther, St. Hedwig Steinhagen, St. Johannes Evangelist Stockkämpen and St. Michael Versmold. Stockkämpen is, so to speak, their mother parish and gave the pastoral association its name. Therefore, the Catholics in the Altkreis celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi with a common procession in Stockkämpen.

church

The simplicity of the exterior of the Catholic Stockkämper Church reveals the tradition of the typically Franciscan mendicant churches . This also includes doing without a church tower. The interior still shows late Gothic echoes with its belt arches , but the interior fittings, which were gradually expanded in the decades after the construction, correspond to the contemporary baroque style , as do the roof turrets . The interior has been renovated and changed several times. In 1908 a sacristy was added.

The oldest work of art in the church, a late Gothic double figure "Maria with the child" and " Anna selbdritt ", can be dated around 1525 and was created by a Lower Saxon or Westphalian carver who is not known by name and who is the master of the Stockkämper double figure based on this picture is called. The window behind the high altar and the round window above the entrance were used when the church was rebuilt in 1696, the other windows between 1886 and 1900. The baroque high altar was donated in 1715, the Marien altar in 1760. The picture in the high altar was made by an artist the Osnabrück School from the middle of the 17th century; Because it was damaged, it was replaced in 1931 by a crucifixion group that is now in the adjacent mausoleum. Added to this were the baptismal font from 1704, the pulpit and confessional from 1750 and the Way of the Cross from 1758. This has since been stolen. The Pietà on the Marien Altar is likely to date back to the time the church was built. In 1871, Countess Paula von Kroff-Schmising donated a first painting out of gratitude for the safe return of her son Max from the Franco-German war. In 1831 the church was repainted by the Osnabrück church painter Beermann.

A first organ was donated around 1780 and restored in 1867, but had to be replaced by a new one in 1884. By 1864 at the latest, the church had two bells , interrupted by the confiscation in the Second World War. One of today's two bells was cast by HL Lohmeier in Gütersloh in 1864 and bears the inscription "Soli Deo gloria - Alone for God's honor" , the other is from 1955 with the inscription "Veritate et Caritati - The truth and charity" .

graveyard

The cemetery was laid out during the last phase of the church building. However, some members of the Korff-Schmising family and the first Franciscans were buried in the church itself. The best-known grave in the cemetery belongs to Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg , a friend of Goethe who converted to Catholicism in 1800 and lived at Tatenhausen Castle from 1812 to 1816. The graves of the Korff-Schmising family from Tatenhausen can also be found. The family's former mausoleum with an arcade porch now serves as a cemetery chapel .

school

The church also had a Catholic school. The lessons were given in a room in the rectory by the Fathers, as no teachers were employed. The number of students included 40 to 60 children. The spatial situation and equipment left a lot to be desired. With the construction of a new rectory in 1849, the old “little monastery” was then entirely available as a school house. When the Franciscans left, teaching was given by other clergymen. The students were recruited from a comparatively large area. This included the entire present-day municipality of Halle (Westphalia) and parts of the municipality of Borgholzhausen south of the Teutoburg Forest .

In 1868 the “private school” was converted into a public Catholic denominational school, from 1883 the teachers were trained lay people. After the school was closed by the National Socialists in 1939 , school operations were resumed in 1947. In 1961, after years of negotiations, a new building was built, but school operations were finally closed in 1968 and the students were distributed to larger, non-denominational schools as part of a school reform. The school building was taken over by the city of Halle and is still used today as a municipal kindergarten .

Personalities

gallery

Side view of the church
mausoleum
Parsonage and parsonage (school)
Rectory

literature

  • Walter Fronemann (pastor): Listen through the ages .
  • Ulrike Hauser: The Stockkämpen Chapel - Catholic enclave in the Evangelical Ravensberg . In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Gütersloh . 1992.
  • Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes Evangelist (Ed.): 300 years of the Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes Evangelist Stockkämpen 1696–1996 . Dreisparrdruck, Borgholzhausen, undated (Halle-Stockkämpen) - (undated [1996]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Bittner: The history of the Catholic parish St. Johannes Evangelist zu Stockkämpen in: Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes Evangelist: 300 years Catholic parish St. Johannes Evangelist Stockkämpen 1696-1996 , o. O. (Halle-Stockkämpen), o. J . (1996), pp. 12-63, also on the following
  2. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Stockkämpen in LWL-GeodatenKultur
  3. ↑ Files of the chapter of the Saxon Franciscan Province of October 13, 1687 in: Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes Evangelist: 300 years Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes Evangelist Stockkämpen 1696–1996 , undated (Halle-Stockkämpen), undated (1996 ), P. 29
  4. ↑ Heinrich Bittner: The history of the Catholic parish St. Johannes Evangelist zu Stockkämpen in: Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes Evangelist: 300 years Catholic parish St. Johannes Evangelist Stockkämpen 1696-1996 , o. O. (Halle-Stockkämpen), o. J . (1996), p. 46
  5. ↑ P. Diodor Henniges OFM: History of the Franciscan Mission Stockkämpen in: ders .: Contributions to the history of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross , VI. Volume, Düsseldorf 1913, pp. 69-118, here pp. 72-95
  6. ↑ P. Diodor Henniges OFM: History of the Franciscan Mission Stockkämpen in: ders .: Contributions to the history of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross , VI. Volume, Düsseldorf 1913, pp. 69–118, here p. 85
  7. ↑ Karl Schaefer: Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg Stolberg in: Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes Evangelist: 300 years Katholische Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes Evangelist Stockkämpen 1696-1996 , undated (Halle-Stockkämpen), undated (1996), Pp. 73-79
  8. ↑ Hanna Berheide: The Stockkämpen School - despite its poor beginnings - little monasteries in the "Residenz" in: Catholic parish of St. Johannes Evangelist: 300 years of Catholic parish of St. Johannes Evangelist Stockkämpen 1696–1996, above (Halle-Stockkämpen), no J. (1996), pp. 87-100
  9. ^ Archbishopric Paderborn: Auxiliary Bishop em. Paul Consbruch is buried in Stockkämpen. Retrieved April 26, 2014 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 21 ″  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 30 ″  E