Old church tower (Büderich)

The old church tower

The old church tower is the preserved Romanesque tower of the former Roman Catholic parish church of St. Mauritius von Büderich , a district of the city of Meerbusch in the Rhine district of Neuss . Inside it houses the Büderich memorial for the dead of the world wars by Joseph Beuys from 1959, which can be seen through a partially open oak door that bears the names of 222 Büderich war dead.

history

The ruins of the burnt down church in 1891

The mighty four-storey Romanesque tower of Old St. Mauritius was made from tuff around 1300. A first written mention of the church took place in 1223, when Pope Honorius III. confirmed the possession of the church to the St. Gereon Abbey in Cologne . Around 1300 it was listed as a parish church in the liber valoris . In 1542 the nave was almost completely destroyed and then rebuilt. In 1837 the church was laid down except for the tower and rebuilt as a brick building. This building burned down in 1891 except for the tower.

In 1893 the parish church that had burned down was replaced by the neo-Gothic church of New St. Mauritius . The old church tower was converted into a transformer station in 1909 and prepared as a war memorial in 1959.

literature

Paul Clemen (Ed.): The art monuments of the Neuss district (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Vol. 3, 3). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895, p. 9 .
Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia. I Rhineland. Deutscher Kunst-Verlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
Manfred Becker-Huberti (ed.): Neuss churches. The Catholic churches in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss district deanship. Bachem, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-7616-1966-9 .

Web links

Commons : Alter Kirchturm (Büderich) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Brülls: No cross. The Büderich memorial for the dead of the world wars by Joseph Beuys (= series of publications of the Meerbusch History Association 1). History Association Meerbusch, Meerbusch 1995, ISBN 3-9804756-0-3 .

51.254073 6.698026Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '14.7 " N , 6 ° 41' 52.9" E

[Brülls5-1] Holger Brülls: No cross. The Büderich memorial for the dead of the world wars by Joseph Beuys (= series of publications of the Meerbusch History Association 1). History Association Meerbusch, Meerbusch 1995, ISBN 3-9804756-0-3 .