Church of the Holy Sepulcher and Resurrection of St. Cyriakus

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Church of the Holy Sepulcher and Resurrection of St. Cyriakus
Interior before renovation (2011)

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher and Resurrection of St. Cyriakus is a branch church in the Niederau district of Düren . It was built between 1904 and 1905 according to plans by Theodor Roß and has served as the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for the entire parish of St. Lukas since 2015 , but is also still used for church services.

location

The church is located in the center of Niederau on Cyriakusstrasse. Behind the church is the cemetery. The house of God is aligned in such a way that Cyriakusstraße runs as an axis directly onto the high bell tower.

history

The origins of the old church are in the 12th century. However, this building became too small for the rapidly growing population around the turn of the century, so a new building was decided. The St. Josef Bauverein was founded as early as 1887 and from then on collected money for the new church. In the same year the two sisters Anna and Catharina Bernards donated a piece of land to the parish, on which the current church was built. It would take more than 10 years before the construction of the new church could really begin.

The plans for the new building were drawn up by the architect Theodor Roß from Cologne . The new church was finally built in the years 1904 to 1905, the groundbreaking ceremony was on March 19, 1904. The address for this event was given by Arnold Steffens, the then Cologne Cathedral Chapter. On August 14, 1904, the foundation stone was laid , which was celebrated in a festive manner under the direction of the dean of Düren's office, Otto Josef Lohmann . In the course of 1905 the construction work was finished and the new parish church was completed. The solemn conclusion and climax of the new church project was the consecration of the church on October 1, 1905, carried out by Auxiliary Bishop Josef Müller from Cologne.

During the Second World War , St. Cyriakus also suffered damage, especially in the war years 1944 and 1945, but this could be repaired by 1948. In 1957 the interior was renovated, with the painting from the time of construction being whitewashed completely. In 1973 the interior was renovated again and the chancel redesigned according to the needs of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council according to plans by architect Wolfgang Bley. The renovation work was completed with the consecration of the new people's altar on November 3, 1973. From 1990 to 1992, the exterior of the church was completely renovated. Around the year 2000, the paintings that had been painted over in 1957 were exposed and restored so that the original appearance of the interior was largely restored.

On January 1st 2010 the parish St. Cyriakus / Niederau was dissolved and merged with the also dissolved inner city parishes to form the new parish St. Lukas. Parish church was St. Anna, St. Cyriakus is no longer a parish church , but only a branch church.

Conversion to the Holy Sepulcher

Due to the austerity measures of the diocese of Aachen, the subsidies for church buildings were cut by 1/3. The parish of St. Luke was forced to make decisions about which buildings would continue to be financed and which would not. In 2012 the decision was made to take the Church of St. Cyriakus out of funding and to convert it into the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The decision was made to use the Old Niederau Church again for church services. The renovation began in July 2015 after the previous parish church had been desecrated on July 4, 2015 for the period of renovation. The conversion to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and Resurrection Church was implemented according to the designs of the offices of the two Aachen architects Mathias Paulssen and Axel Maria Schlimm. It can hold up to 1,111 urns. The pews still preserved from the construction period were removed and sold for the renovation. Instead of the benches, there are now places for urn burials. In the crossing in front of the people's altar there are 80 places for church services. The consecration as a Church of the Holy Sepulcher took place on November 1st, 2015 by Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Bündgens from Aachen.

Building description

The bell tower with its height of 58 m one of the highest in Düren . The three-aisled and three-bay basilica made of ashlar consists of neo-Gothic forms of a transept with a western tower in front . The slated roof has a slender roof turret over the crossing . The building is entered under No. 2/004 in the list of monuments of the city of Düren.

Furnishing

Left side altar, former high altar of the old church

Inside there are still some pieces of equipment taken over from the old church. These include the left side altar in the Baroque style , it was the former high altar in the old church, the right side altar, also a work of the Baroque, and the rococo seating .

The original painting of the church from the beginning of the 20th century, the cafeteria and parts of the retable of the neo-Gothic high altar, the communion bench from 1905 from the workshop of the Cologne sculptor Josef Fink and some figures of saints have also been preserved.

Most of the stained glass windows were designed by the local artist Willi Rixen in 1968. The two windows on the west side of the aisles (next to the tower) were designed by Niederau's last own pastor, Franz Schleiermacher, in 2002.

organ

The present organ was built in 1963 by the company Weimbs Orgelbau from Hellenthal . It was restored in October 1997 and replaces an organ built in 1912 by the Müller brothers in Reifferscheid . Today's instrument has the following disposition:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Capstan flute 2 ′
Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Pointed fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sharp III 1 ⁄ 2 ′ ′
Rohrschalmey 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Open bass 8th'
Pommer 8th'
Piffaro 4 ′ + 2 ′
Lb. trumpet 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, II / I Sub I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : hand register, free combination I, free combination II, roller

Bells

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 foundry
 		 Casting year
 
1 - - - f ′ Bochum Association 1948
2 - - - as ′ Bochum Association 1948
3 - - - b ′ Bochum Association 1948

Motif: Te Deum

Pastor

The following priests were pastors at St. Cyriakus until the parish was dissolved in 2010:

from ... to Surname
approx. 1831– approx. 1833 Caspar Vehres (Rector)
approx. 1833-1843 J. Arnold Derichs (Rector)
1843-1858 Heinrich Joseph Huett
1858-1872 Engelbert Berrisch
1872-1888 Hubert Jakob August Dormans
1888-1924 Georg Heinrich Hansen
1924-1936 Ludwig Menniken-Holley
1936-1969 August Jansen
1969-1979 Peter Fenners
1979-1983 Ludwig Gieswinkel
1983-1983 Heribert Kleemann
1984-1988 Bernhard Gombert
1988-2008 Franz Schleiermacher
2008-2010 Ernst-Joachim Stinkes (dissolution of the parish in 2010)

Web links

Commons : St. Cyriakus (Niederau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 67 - 32nd year. Wednesday, March 23, 1904, article: Local and District News.
  2. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 184 - 32nd year. Wednesday, August 15, 1904, article: Local and District News.
  3. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 225 - 33rd year. Tuesday, October 3, 1905, article: Local and District News.
  4. ↑ St. Cyriakus in Niederau. In: Internet site for church music in the Düren region. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  5. ↑ St. Cyriakus is converted into a Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Aachener Zeitung , June 21, 2015, accessed on April 1, 2017 .
  6. ↑ St. Cyriakus opens on All Saints Day after renovation. Aachener Zeitung, October 28, 2015, accessed on April 1, 2017 .
  7. ^ Herbert Pawliczek: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1984. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 76, Düren 1987, ISSN  0416-4180
  8. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 225 - 33rd year. Tuesday, October 3, 1905, article: Local and District News.
  9. ^ Düren-Niederau, Catholic Church St. Cyriakus. In: Website of the Foundation Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 68 - 40th year. Friday, March 22nd, 1912. Article: From the city and the district.
  11. ↑ St. Cyriakus Niederau [Betr. Organ]. In: Internet site for church music in the Düren region. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bell music in the Düren region
  13. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 346.
  14. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 2, Cologne 1830, p. 21.
  15. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 4, Cologne 1840, p. 16.
  16. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 8, Cologne 1857, p. 110.
  17. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 12, Cologne 1869, p. 73.
  18. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 14, Cologne 1878, p. 73.
  19. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 21, Cologne 1911, p. 109.

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 56.2 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 33.5 ″  E