St. Johann Baptist, Medieval church in Brechten, Dortmund, Germany.
St. Johann Baptist is a medieval church in Brechten, a neighborhood in Dortmund, featuring typical North Rhine-Westphalian brick architecture with a peaked roof and tall windows. The interior contains colored glass windows, wooden elements, and a decorated altar area.
St. Johann Baptist was built around 1250 as a three-aisled, two-bay hall church on a nearly square plan with a rectangular choir. The west tower is probably older than the nave. Around 1500 a sacristy was added, and the interior paintings uncovered during the 1960/1962 restoration date from the church's construction period.
The church gives Brechten its name and remains the village's focal point within Dortmund's Eving district. Its two bronze bells are still rung: the smaller, cast in 1451 by an unknown founder, sounds in G sharp, while the larger was cast in 1652 by Antonius Paris and sounds in E flat.
The church stands at the centre of Brechten, in Dortmund's Eving district, and is listed as a Baudenkmal in the city's monument register. It is an active Protestant parish church, so visits fit around services; the two historic bronze bells, cast in 1451 and 1652, still hang in the west tower.
In the tower hang two historic bronze bells: the smaller, cast by an unknown founder in 1451, sounds in G sharp, while the larger was cast by Antonius Paris in 1652 and sounds in E flat. The small Klais organ has stood in the church only since 2011 and has 10 stops.
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