Sankt Vinzentius, Bochum

St. Vincent's Church is now a Protestant church in the Harpen district of Bochum, whose origins date back to the year 1000. The church's great age is indicated by the fragment of an old tombstone; it is a witness to the death of the lay brother Ludolf. The ornamentation and letter form of the inscription are dated to the year 1000 to 1050. The church was under the control of the Werden monastery. The patron saint of the church is St. Vincent, deacon to the Spanish bishop of Saragossa, who died as a martyr during the last great Roman persecution of Christians under Diocletian in 304. St. Vincent is depicted in a sculpture from 1470.

The altar slab of the antechurch was made around 1000, the baptismal font in 1050, the sacrament niche around 1300, the Epiphany relief around 1400. The baroque altar dates back to 1699. The twin bells are tuned in semitone intervals: the Vincentian bell was cast in 1483 and the Marian bell in 1484 by Johann von Dortmund. Johann von Tremoniae, as he later called himself, was a famous bell founder at the end of the Middle Ages. Since 1567 the church has been owned by the Protestant parish of Harpen. The extension in 1905/06 was directed by the architect Gerhard August Fischer. A special feature from modern times are 4 miners' windows, designed in 1942/43 by the Berlin artist Helene Stark and executed by the glass workshop August Wagner, Berlin. These stained glass windows depict the working world of the miners.