Holy Cross Church (Großvernich)

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Holy Cross Church
Holy Cross Church
Holy Cross Church

The Catholic parish church Heilig-Kreuz is a listed church building on Trierer Straße in Großvernich , a district of Weilerswist in the Euskirchen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The brick hall was built from 1723 to 1732 with a three-sided choir closure . The five-storey west tower was put in front. The church was renovated in 1934 and from 1951 to 1953. In the interior, a ribless star vault rests on consoles.

Furnishing

Albertus Magnus Cross

Godefridus Schwingeler was the last abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Heribert in Cologne-Deutz , which was closed in 1804 . He left the community a crucifix made of wood, which measures 2.30 m both in height and in the span of the arms. The attitude of Christ is regal and the modeling speaks for a high artistic quality. Originally it was assumed that the abbot took the crucifix with him when he left the monastery. However, there is no recorded or documented information about the existence of such a reliquary work. Presumably the abbot acquired the cross during the last seven years of his life, he died in 1815. In the parish of St. Andreas in Cologne, such a magnificent reliquary cross has been reported missing since secularization . The Dominicans had the valuable items, including the bones of St. Albertus Magnus , relocated to St. Andreas from their monastery church, which was demolished in 1802. Albertus Magnus had probably received the cross from the French King Louis the Saint in 1248 and placed cross particles and other relics in the cavity of the back of the body. From 1979 to 1985 the large sculpture was freed from the versions of the past centuries in the workshop of the Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation . The older layers of paint from before 1800, the oldest from before 1250, have been left in place. A closed color version is therefore missing. The hands were renewed in 1896. All of the plastic except for the head was preserved with a glue solution. The relics were removed from the corpus in earlier times and are considered lost, the cross relic has been in the Dominican Church of the Holy Cross in Cologne since 1904. The early Gothic work was hidden for a long time in the 19th century; its discovery after 1852 probably contributed significantly to the change of the title of the church. First the cross hung outside on the tower and was then attached to new oak beams as a triumphal cross on the vault in 1896 . In 1934 it was attached to the east wall of the nave.

Other equipment

  • The high altar , the side altars and the pulpit date from the time the church was built. They were exposed on the original paint version in 1959 .
  • An epitaph by Field Marshal Johann Friedrich von Orsbeck made of white and black marble is a work from the beginning of the 18th century with a coat of arms and a trophy structure.

Bells

In the tower of the Holy Cross Church hangs a three-part bell from different foundries. In 1921 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast two bronze bells for the community. The larger of the two bells was melted down for war purposes during World War II. Otto's small c '' bell hangs in the tower today as bell 3. After the war, the community received a loan bell from Upper Silesia that had been cast in 1777. The largest bell today is a bell cast in Gescher in 1954 by the foundries Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock. The bells have the following chimes: e '- h' - cis ''.

literature

  • Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X
  • Franz Schorn: The Catholic parish church Weilerswist-Vernich. Neusser Druckereeit u. Verlag, Neuss 1987 (Rheinische Kunststätten 325), ISBN 3-88094-582-9 .
  • Blooming erudition: an exhibition on the foundation of the Studium generale of the Dominicans in Cologne 750 years ago. Catalog by Walter Senner ..., Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne 1998, p. 18.

Web links

Commons : Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Vernich)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 77, 436, 445, 521 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 99, 311 383, 413, 484 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '22.1 "  N , 6 ° 50' 7.6"  E