Dominikanerkirche (Dominican Church), Munster

Dominikanerkirche (Dominican Church), Munster

The Dominikanerkirche (Dominican Church) was built by German architect, Lambert Friedrich Corfey, during a 17-year period (1708-1725). The Dominikanerkirche used to be the part of the Dominican Order Monastery, which was totally destroyed during a Second World War Allied bombing. Fortunately, the church building was less damaged. Its restoration was completed by 1974. Today, the Dominican Church is the genuine pearl of the eastern side of the historical center of Münster.

The building is designed in Baroque style, with a beautiful sandstone facade and two gracious towers at the eastern part of the construction. The church building consists of a raised central nave and transept and two low side aisles. The baroque dome over the crossing is round on the inside and octagonal on the outside.

The sandstone facade of the church has two floors and is designed with restrained pilasters. The central axis is dominated by a protruding aedicule portal with Doric columns. The statues of the patron saints of the order , Dominic and Thomas Aquinas , are in two round niches on the side of the portal .

When the church was rebuilt after the Second World War, the altar island was moved to the crossing below the dome. The original choir partition was restored, but is accessible through an opening towards the church. The choir room last served as a sacrament chapel and houses a baroque high altar (1699), which was originally built for the Gaukirche in Paderborn .

The church contains, among other things, the epitaph for the architect of the church, Lambert Friedrich Corfey, who was buried in 1733 in the crypt under the Dominican church. The design comes from Johann Conrad Schlaun .

An organ built in 1958 by the organ builder Paul Ott (Göttingen) for the large auditorium of the Fürstenberghaus on Domplatz was installed in the Dominican Church between 1975 and 2018.
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Sight Name: Dominikanerkirche (Dominican Church)
Sight Location: Munster, Germany (See walking tours in Munster)
Sight Type: Religious

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