Conradus flakes

Conradus Flocken (* 1622 in Hasselsweiler ; † August 27, 1694 in Nörvenich ) was a pastor in the Düren district .

Life

Flocken was born to the presumably wealthy parents Abel Flocken and Christina Habrix. The father is listed in the visitation report in 1631 among the jury , which suggests a great fortune .

In 1646 he came to Nörvenich as the successor to Pastor Henricus Foller. He found the parish there in terrible condition after the Thirty Years' War . The parish farms and the other fields were not cultivated, and some villages had been uninhabited for more than five years. Flakes did not even get its rightful tithe . Between 1647 and 1653 he tilled the fields in Nörvenich, Rath and Dorweiler himself . Then he began to plan the new building of the Nörvenich parish church . With donations , handicrafts and tension services from the residents and high financial resources, he not only had the church built, but also furnished the church. The pews are still in use today. The church was founded on October 5, 1664 consecrated . In Cologne, the pastor received a relic from the parish priest Medardus . In 1668 he traveled to Arnstein Monastery to get a Sebastianus and a Fabianus relic . He also had valuable sacred objects made. He also donated the altars.

Flocken was also the dean of Christianity Bergheim for 45 years . His successor was his nephew Hermannus Isenkraedt.

Honors

Due to the merits of Conradus Flocken, a street in Nörvenich was named after him, the Dechant-Flocken-Straße.

literature

• Karl Heinz Türk : Conradus flakes, pastor in Nörvenich. 2006, booklet created and published by copying