Coesfeld (St. James)

Title

Coesfeld (St. James)

Dedication

James

Affiliation

Varlar

Medieval Diocese

Münster

Circary

Westphalia

History

A parish church which was dependent on the Premonstratensian house of Varlar. In the Middle Ages it functioned as a waypoint for pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago.

The medieval church was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1945.

Status

Parish church

Bibliography

Kirchenführer St. Jakobi Coesfeld. Coesfeld: St. Lamberti Gemeinde, 2017. https://www.lamberti-coe.de/images/download/kirchenfuehrer_jakobi.pdf.

Nagel, Norbert. “Zwei Inventare der St. Jakobi-Kirche in Coesfeld aus dem 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Mit einem Nachtrag zum ‘Handschriftencensus Westfalen.’” Geschichtsblätter des Kreises Coesfeld 31 (2006): 29–62.

Wenning, Wilhelm. “Der Schrein des ehemaligen Marienaltars der Kirche St. Jakobi in Coesfeld.” Jahrbuch Kreis Coesfeld, 1985, 86–88.

———. Pfarrkirche St. Jakobi in Coesfeld. Kleine Deutsche Kirchenführer. Munich: Schnell & Steiner, 1985.

Wipper, Heinrich. “St. Jakobi in Coesfeld.” Die Kalebasse 51 (2012): 63–70.

Image Credit

Church of St. Jakobi, Coesfeld, 1907. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Westphalia

Citation

“Coesfeld (St. James),” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/1221.

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