Holy Three Kings (Oberbachem)

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Holy Three Kings

Church of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem from the south 2012.jpg

Denomination : Roman Catholic
Patronage : Holy Three Kings
Consecration year : 1790
Rank: Filialkirche
(parish church until December 31, 2009)
Parish : St. Marien Wachtberg
Address: Am Bollwerk 7, 53343 Wachtberg

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 12.8 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 36.2"  E

The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Three Kings is in the village of Oberbachem in the municipality of Wachtberg in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). She was until 31 December 2009 parish church of the same parish in Oberbachem. Since January 1, 2010 it has been a branch church of the newly founded Catholic parish of St. Marien Wachtberg in the district dean of the Rhein-Sieg district in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

The church stands as a monument under monument protection and is under number 42 list of monuments in Wachtberg entered.

Previous buildings

The first church building mentioned in Oberbachem is a wooden chapel, which was donated during the Franconian period around the year 830 and was consecrated to Saint Mary . It was part of the Blankenheim Fronhof in Bacheim , around which other settlements were grouped with Ließem , Gimmersdorf , Kürrighoven and what was then Hochheim . This area formed an independent parish at the end of the 13th century, later the parish of the Holy Three Kings . The respective owners of the Fronhof held the patronage rights for the Marienkapelle and the successor buildings until the end of the 18th century . From 856 on this was the imperial abbey of Prüm and from 1301 the Lords of Blankenheim and their successors, the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim and von Sternberg-Manderscheid. "One can assume that (at the end of the 13th century) the old wooden chapel (...) was replaced by a stone building."

The predecessor church of the present one was a Marienkirche around the turn of the century 1700. Apparently accompanied by an extensive restoration, the Three Wise Men became patrons of the church. The centuries-old patronage of Mary is still present today through the date of the fair for the feast of the birth of Mary in the second week of September in Gimmersdorf, Ließem and Oberbachem. In 1778 the church building was so dilapidated that it collapsed. In 1782, the builder Michael Leydel was commissioned by Countess Augusta von Manderscheid-Blankenheim to build a new building on the existing foundations.

Building description

The new building of the church in the form of a classical hall church was completed in 1790. This was preceded by a dispute over the location of the tower. The parishioners who financed the tower and the pastor, who was responsible for financing the sacristy , created the facts and built the foundations of the five-storey tower and at the same time the sacristy, contrary to the plans of the builder behind the choir . Thus, the church tower is not in the west as is traditionally the case, but in the east of the church building. There is a Madonna figure in a niche above the entrance.

Due to a lack of space, there were plans in 1916 and 1917 to extend the church based on the model of St. Stephen's Church in Leimersdorf , to add a transept as a new main nave or to rebuild it based on the model of the new baroque church of St. Mary's Assumption in Herzogenrath . Also because of the hyperinflation until 1923 these plans could not be implemented.

location

The church is centrally located in Oberbachem. Around the church there is a cemetery with some old grave crosses made of trachyte . The Fire Route themed hiking trail in the southern Rhineland Nature Park leads past the church. Immediately next to the church is a listed half-timbered house from around 1840, which was built up to the beginning of the 20th century. a. home to the village school and now serves as a parsonage (number 44 in the list of architectural monuments in Wachtberg ).

  • Oberbachem

  • Pfarrheim Oberbachem

  • Trachyte grave cross

  • Epiphany, aerial view (2015)

Interior

Altars

The baroque high altar shows a picture of the Adoration of the Magi in the center, above is a statue of the Madonna. The left side altar is dedicated to St. Sebastian , the right side altar to St. Mary. The altars are said to come from the Marienforst monastery in Godesberg , which was secularized in 1802 .

Church window

The eight windows are from the Oidtmann workshop for glass painting in Linnich and show in two large windows the Adoration of the Magi and the Sorrowful Mother . The saints: Gregory the Great , Francis of Assisi , Joseph of Nazareth , Scholastica of Nursia , Elisabeth , John the Baptist , Anthony of Padua and Cecilia of Rome are depicted in the eight window tops. The windows were installed in 1897.

organ

The baroque organ comes from the organ builder Mauritz Hermann Böntrup from Vreden , who built it in 1710 for the local St. George's Church. The sculptor Elsbeck created the prospectus . The parish of Oberbachem acquired the organ in 1850. It was transported by ship from the Lower Rhine to Mehlem and set up by Ludwig Hünd in a modified and rearranged form.

The organ was rebuilt in 1957 by the organ construction company Klais from Bonn and expanded to 23 registers, including six registers for the pedal mechanism. A restoration followed in 1998. The instrument has about 1,350 pipes. It is the oldest still preserved two-manual organ in the Bonn / Rhein-Sieg region. Ten registers from the 18th century registers have been preserved. The instrument has the following disposition:

I Rückpositiv C–
Hollow pipe 8th' K
Gamba 8th' H
Principal 4 ′ B.
Reed flute 4 ′ B.
Octav 2 ′ B.
Cornett IV K
Sharp III – IV 1' K
Krummhorn 8th' K
Tremulant
II main work C–
Bordon 16 ′ K
Principal 8th' B.
Hollow pipe 8th' K
Octav 4 ′ B.
Covered flute 4 ′ B.
Quint 3 ′ B.
Forest flute 2 ′ H
Mixture III-IV 2 ′ B.
Trumpet 8th' B.
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 ′ K
Principal bass 8th' K
Pointed 8th' K
Chorale flute 4 ′ K
Octav 2 ′ B.
Wooden trombone 16 ′ K
B = Böntrup (1710)
H = dog (1850)
K = Klais (1957)

Peal

Until 1942, the ringing consisted of three bells cast from Gescher by Werner Hubert Paul Maria Hüesker in 1932 , of which the Christ-König-Bell and the Dreikönigen-Bell had to be given for war purposes in 1942. A bell cast by Georg Claren in Sieglar in 1823 was already confiscated during the First World War . The Marienglocke from 1562 was not part of the ringing from 1932 to 1947. The ringing has consisted of two bells since 1947:

No. Surname Casting year Foundry,
casting location 		Nominal Weight
(kg) 		Diameter
(mm) 		inscription
1 Mary Bell 1562 Dederich von Cöllen
 as 1 -4 480 947 Jhesus MARIA Hischen I, tzo the thine Gotz I roiffen, you sunder proclaim yourself, as geiff you got to be, eternally in the year 1562, Iasper Melgor Baltasar
2 Mary Bell 1932 Werner Hubert Paul Maria Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher b 1 +3 350 835 Our Lady of Sorrows, keep us in your heart. Mother of God, pure maiden, blessed be you
formerly Christ the King bell 1932 f 1 1024 1170 I am consecrated to Christ the King, I always praise him. King of Glory, give us your peace
formerly three kings bell 1932 as 1 577 960 You kings of the Orient, graciously guide us with a wise hand. O star so bright and clear, shine on us forever

Former parish of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem

The villages of Gimmersdorf , Kürrighoven , Ließem and Oberbachem belonged to the parish of the Holy Three Kings . Church buildings in the parish were, in addition to the parish church, the St. Josef Chapel in Gimmersdorf, the Scholastica Chapel in Kürrighoven, the St. Marien Chapel in Ließem and the Wegekapelle in Oberbachem. The rectory from 1848 was in Oberbachem. On January 1st, 2010 the parish was absorbed into the newly founded Catholic parish of St. Marien, Wachtberg .

  • Chapel of St. Josef in Gimmersdorf

  • Scholastica Chapel in Kürrighoven

  • Marien Chapel in Ließem

  • Path chapel in Oberbachem

  • Former rectory in Oberbachem

Pastor

From 1914 to 1920 the later Jesuit and author of spiritual writings Paul Rondholz was a pastor in Oberbachem. Rolf Berchem (1985–2006) and Hermann Josef Zeyen (2006–2009) were the last pastors in the parish of the Holy Three Kings.

literature

  • Franz Müller: Life around the Wachtberg. A journey through time through 30,000 years of history in a Rhenish landscape. Wachtberg 1993.
  • Parish of the Holy Three Kings: Chronicle of the parish of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem with Gimmersdorf, Ließem, Kürrighoven. Loose-leaf chronicle, 1984–1991.

Web links

Commons : Holy Three Kings (Oberbachem)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Piece 1, January 1, 2010, No. 37 (PDF).
  2. ^ Catholic parish of St. Marien, Wachtberg
  3. ^ A b Franz Müller: Life around the Wachtberg. A journey through time through 30,000 years of history in a Rhenish landscape . Wachtberg 1993, ISBN 3-925551-60-3 , pp. 149 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Franz Müller: The Oberbachmer parish church from its beginnings in the 9th century to the new building in 1790 . In: Parish of the Holy Three Kings (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the parish of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem with Gimmersdorf, Ließem, Kürrighoven . Loose-leaf chronicle, 1984–1991. Wachtberg, S. 3-20 .
  5. ^ Paul Clemen : Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt und der Kreis Bonn (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz . Volume 5, Abt. 3, S. 620). Schwann Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-590-32113-X . (Unchanged reprint of the 1905 edition, p. 323 f. Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ History sheets of the Catholic parish . In: Parish of the Holy Three Kings (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the parish of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem with Gimmersdorf, Ließem, Kürrighoven . Loose-leaf chronicle, 1984–1991. Wachtberg, S. 45, 46, 58, 68 .
  7. ↑ Rhineland Nature Park: Fire Route
  8. ^ Paul Giersberg: Contribution to the history of interior design . In: Parish of the Holy Three Kings (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the parish of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem with Gimmersdorf, Ließem, Kürrighoven . Loose-leaf chronicle, 1984–1991. Wachtberg, S. 3 f .
  9. ^ Frank Hüllen: Baroque altars in the Drachenfelser Ländchen . In: Norbert Kühn, Bruno P. Kremer (ed.): 600 years of the Drachenfelser Ländchen. Forays into natural and cultural history . Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-88094-893-3 , p. 178-180 .
  10. ^ Foundation Research Center for Stained Glass in the 20th Century: Wachtberg-Oberbachem, Catholic Church of the Holy Three Kings
  11. ^ Paul Giersberg: Contribution to the history of the church window . In: Parish of the Holy Three Kings (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the parish of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem with Gimmersdorf, Ließem, Kürrighoven . Loose-leaf chronicle, 1984–1991. Wachtberg, S. 3-7 .
  12. ↑ Volker Tschuschke: The organ maker family Böntrup-Martens and the monastery organist Johann Balthasar Söntgen in Vreden . Ed .: Heimatverein Vreden. 2004, ISBN 3-926627-41-7 , pp. 51-53 .
  13. ^ Paul Giersberg: Contribution to the history of the organ . In: Parish of the Holy Three Kings (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the parish of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem with Gimmersdorf, Ließem, Kürrighoven . Loose-leaf chronicle, 1984–1991. Wachtberg, S. 13 .
  14. ↑ Municipality of Wachtberg: Report on the Open Monument Day 2012
  15. ^ Organ on organ database , accessed on May 8, 2015.
  16. ^ Paul Giersberg: Contribution to the history of the bells . In: Parish of the Holy Three Kings (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the parish of the Holy Three Kings Oberbachem with Gimmersdorf, Ließem, Kürrighoven . Loose-leaf chronicle, 1984–1991. Wachtberg, S. 3-11 .
  17. ^ Gerhard Hoffs, Achim Bursch: Bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach . 2014, p. 199–202 ( glockenbuecherebk.de [PDF]). glockenbuecherebk.de ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherebk.de