Assumption of Mary (Wanlo)

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The branch church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt at Church 6 is in the Wanlo district in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It was built in 1752. The building was entered under no. A 034 on January 30, 1992 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

history

A church in Wanlo was first mentioned in the Liber valoris from around 1308. At that time Wanlo was already an independent parish . This church was a single-nave Romanesque building from the 13th century, which was largely preserved until the current nave was built in 1898. In 1729 this single nave church was enlarged by two small aisles and a new choir. The bell tower collapsed on April 4, 1752, after which the construction of a new tower began on June 14, 1752, which is still preserved today.

Since the old parish church had become too small, the church was demolished in 1898 and replaced by today's three-aisled building in neo-Gothic style by 1900 , only the baroque bell tower was taken over and in 1900 the fourth octagonal storey was added. The plans for the new building were created by the Neuss architect Julius Busch .

On January 1st 2010 the parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt / Wanlo was dissolved and merged with the also dissolved parishes of St. Antonius / Wickrath and Herz Jesu / Wickrathhahn to form the new large parish of St. Matthias. Parish church became the Wickrath church, since then St. Mary's Assumption is a branch church of this parish.

architecture

The three-aisled parish church with transept and west tower is in Wanlo. The west tower in brick under a pointed, slate-covered spire , built in 1752. Added a three-aisled nave with two-axis transept and choir from 1898–1900 in brick under slate roofs .

The west tower stands over a square floor plan , sandstone belts . West portal in grooved, ogival frame, double-leaf door with high skylight and tracery . Above that, a large, simple arched window. Lancet arch and lancet arch blind windows arranged in pairs over the second sandstone belt; surrounding parapet with tracery on the tower edges. Polygonal projectile with lancet arch and lancet arch window. Polygonal spire with four gable roof dormers .

The neo-Gothic nave is a nave with lower aisles and a two-axis transept, these with a lower ridge height than the main nave, hipped roofs and triangular dormers . Polygonal choir, accompanied by two two-storey connecting buildings with an almost square floor plan under separate hipped roofs. Lancet arched windows with modern glazing, sills in sandstone, stepped buttresses with sandstone covers (water hammer), door frames of the aisle access on the side of the tower in sandstone.

Bells

Surname Weight Strike tone
( HT -1/16) 		Caster Casting year diameter
1st bell - c 1 Johannes Mark, Eifel bell foundry 1973 -
2nd bell 1500 kg e 1 −3 Jan and Jacob van Venlo 1453 1330 mm
3. Trinity Bell 695 kg g 1 +1 Johannes Mark, Eifel bell foundry 1971 1026 mm
4. St. John's Bell 505 kg a 1 +1 Johannes Mark, Eifel bell foundry 1971 925 mm
5. Joseph Bell 350 kg h 1 +2 Johannes Mark, Eifel bell foundry 1971 817 mm
6th bell 160 kg d 2 +4 Cordt von Stommeln 1660 671 mm

Motif: Extended Salve Regina

The inscriptions of the bells

Bell I: unknown

Bell II: unknown

Bell III: TRINITY - BELL + SUB TUUM PRAESIDIUM CONFUGIMUS, SANCTA DEI GENITRIX (picture of Our Lady) WANLO 1956 On the hood: EIFELER BELLENGIEßEREI J. MARK BROCKSCHEID 1971

Bell IV: JOHANNES - BELL PARATE VIAM DOMINI JOHANNES BODEWIG ME FUNDAVIT WANLO 1956 (picture of St. John the Baptist) On the cover: EIFELER BELLENGIEßEREI J. MARK BROCKSCHEID 1971

Bell V: JOSEF - BELL HL. JOSEF, CARE FOR US! PROTECT THE CHURCH AT THIS TIME! LEAD WANLO TO ETERNAL SALVATION! (Picture of St. Joseph) WANLO 1971

Sound assessment of the peal

after music director Jakob Schaeben, Euskirchen near Cologne (1905–1980)

In order to achieve the absolute accuracy of the abandoned tuning line, the brass knuckles at III and IV, and at V a ring on the inner upper part were slightly re-ground after the casting. The structure of the new individual sounds is almost completely straight in the principal tone area, in the rich and uniformly occupied mixtures free of cheeky disturbing tones with harmoniously seated secondary tones. The measured vibration values ​​are around 50% above the required and thus indicate that the sounds develop with a lively temperament. All in all, the bells following the old sounds can be judged as being brought into the best possible musical form.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 45.6 "  N , 6 ° 24 ′ 45.4"  E