St. Anthony's Basilica is a neo-Romanesque church building in Rheine - Eschendorf . The church was built between 1899 and 1905 in the style of a Romanesque imperial cathedral and dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua. It lies to the right of the Ems on Osnabrücker Straße and is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Antonius (also called the parish on the right of the Ems ) in Rheine. With 650 seats, a total length of 90 meters and a maximum width of 39 meters, the representative building is the largest church in the cityand dominates the image of the district with its imposing dimensions. The St. Antonius Basilica is considered to be one of the most elaborate and important church buildings of late historicism in Germany.
Building Specification
St. Antonius is a three-aisled basilica with a retracted, wooden flat ceiling, an east and a west transept, two crossing towers, four flank towers and two choirs . With the two side aisles and the main aisle windows in the clerestory, it meets the architectural requirements for classification as a basilica . It is the work of the German-Dutch architect Franz Klomp .
The architect was largely based on the Hildesheim churches of St. Michael from the 11th century and St. Godehard from the 12th century. The west tower was designed based on the tower of Paderborn Cathedral . With a height of 102.5 meters, it is the highest church tower in the Münsterland and thus towers over the towers of St. Lamberti in Münster (90.5 meters), St. Nicomedes in Borghorst (99 meters) and the Propsteikirche St .Ludgerus in Billerbeck (100 meters). At the four corners of the crossing towerthere are plastic representations of figures from Rheinenser history: Charlemagne, Bishop Ludwig II, Bishop Christoph Bernhard Graf von Galen and Johannes von Grüter, Gograf in Rheine in the second half of The richly ornamented portal hall is in front of the west choir; down to the last detail it resembles medieval portal structures with the function of a place of law . In contrast to the imperial cathedrals, the west choir does not appear inside the basilica. It houses the baptismal/Antonius chapel in the north and the sacristy in the south.the 15th century.
The richly ornamented portal hall is in front of the west choir; down to the last detail it resembles medieval portal structures with the function of a place of law . In contrast to the imperial cathedrals, the west choir does not appear inside the basilica. It houses the baptismal/Antonius chapel in the north and the sacristy in the south.
Amenities
The predominantly white space is structured by the alternating red and gray arches between the parts of the room and above the columns. In the east choir, which is surrounded by an ambulatory, is the high altar, created between 1925 and 1929 in the workshop of Ferdinand Langenberg ( Goch ) based on a design by Joseph Windhosen. It is crowned with the image of the Crucified, in the altarpiece underneath four other biblical scenes from the Passion to the Pentecost event . The central altar represents the mercy seat ( God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit). Despite post- Vatican II considerations, as in many other churches, to remove the high altar from its place and place the pictorial panels elsewhere in the church, it remained in place due to protests from the community.
The location of the side altars is a bit strange; the altar of Mary stands on the eastern end of the southern aisle, which was traditionally reserved for men. Accordingly, on the opposite side in the northern aisle (i.e. the original women's aisle ) is the rest of the Joseph altar. Another eye-catcher in the choir (and almost the only figural decoration on the walls of the church interior) is the image of Christ the King in the apse. Originally planned as a mosaic, a painting by the artist Peter Hecker was made for cost reasonscreated from Cologne. However, he added some pieces of the jigsaw puzzle to his picture. In contrast to the outside, sculptural building decorations can only be found very sporadically in the interior, e.g. B. in the form of angel representations in the spandrels of the choir arches.