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Saint Vitus Church

Saint Vitus Church, Roman Catholic parish church in Visbek, Germany.

Saint Vitus Church is the Catholic parish church of Visbek, built in neo-Gothic style from 1872 to 1876 by architects Hilger Hertel the Elder and Franz Xaver Lütz. The east-facing, three-aisled hall church is about 53 meters long outside, with a 65-meter tower topped by a cross and five bronze bells. Its interior measures 30.5 by 22 meters and seats around 800 people.

A charter of 819 names Visbek as 'fiscbechi' and grants Abbot Gerbert Castus immunity; scholars now consider it a Corvey forgery from the late 10th century. From 780 Charlemagne set up nine mission districts, one of them Visbek, where the first church was built. By 855 Louis the German had given the site to Corvey Abbey. The present church, the seventh at this spot, was built 1872–1876 by Hilger Hertel the Elder and Franz Xaver Lütz and consecrated in 1884.

The patron saint Vitus links the parish to Corvey Abbey, where his relics are kept; Visbek received a Vitus relic from Corvey in 1937. At Klosterplatz on the north side stands a 1984 bronze group by Osnabrück cathedral sculptor Willi Witte, showing Abbot Gerbert Castus, the priest Folcard and Count Emmig.

The church stands on the highest point of Visbek's village centre, visible from the surrounding farmsteads, with the bronze sculpture group of Abbot Gerbert Castus at the Klosterplatz on its north side. The tower holds five bronze bells, the oldest cast in 1615 by Johann Groning of Oldenburg. The interior seats about 800 people.

The 1615 bell by Johann Groning of Oldenburg survived the Thirty Years' War and still hangs in the tower; its Low German inscription asks God to look upon the donor's misery and sin. Two bells were added in 1948 from the Otto foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen, and two more in 1979 from the Mark foundry in Brockscheid in the Eifel.

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