Assumption of Mary (Mülheim-Kärlich)
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The Catholic parish church Maria Himmelfahrt in Mülheim-Kärlich ( Diocese of Trier ) was built between 1888 and 1890 after the founding of the Mülheim parish in July 1887 under pastor Heinrich Roedelstürtz. The architect of the church, which is part of the Andernach-Bassenheim dean's office, was Caspar Clemens Pickel .
history
Until the founding of the independent parish, Mülheim belonged to the neighboring community of Kärlich for pastoral care purposes. Church services in Mülheim were held by chaplains in the old chapel from the early 14th century, which over time had become too small for the steadily increasing number of residents. The chapel was to be demolished and replaced by a larger new building. Contrary to this original plan, however, the new church was built about 150 meters further south on a small hill, so that the chapel was preserved.
On May 2, 1891, the Bishop of Trier Michael Felix Korum consecrated the Mülheim parish church, which - like the old chapel - is consecrated to Mary, the mother of Jesus. The day of the patron saint is the feast of the Assumption of Mary on August 15th.
architecture
The south-facing three-aisled hall church is built in neo-Gothic style and shows typical features of the Gothic : among other things, buttresses on the outside, high pointed arched windows and ribbed vaults with a ring-shaped keystone , 14.50 meters above the floor. It is 56.5 meters long and 34.5 meters wide. The tower is 60 meters high; its floor plan is 8 × 8 meters. The masonry consists of lava stones ( locally called Krotzen ) and is clad with tuff except in the base area .
Furnishing
The interior of the church is largely from the time it was built. Some things like the pulpit , communion bench and confessionals were irretrievably removed in 1965/66 in the course of the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council .
altar
The high altar in neo-Gothic style is the work of the sculptor Caspar Weis , Frankfurt, and was completed in 1901. It was a winged altar with abundant carving, to the left and right of the tabernacle four statues each in niches with carved gables and panel paintings on the back of the wings. On the predella , the plinth on which the altar shrine is built, the twelve apostles are depicted as half-figures. At the top, the altar closes with a three-part split , in which there are figures of Christ as enthroned Teacher of the World, Mary and John the Baptist on the left and right, as well as two angels each on the left and right.
In 1965 the altar in the choir was moved to the rear in order to be able to set up a stone altar ( trachyte ) in front of it , at which the priest celebrates facing the community. Due to the 5/8 end of the choir, which is narrower in the rear, there was no space for the opened wings. They were therefore removed and sold.
Side altars
The two side altars also come from the workshop of Caspar Weis. They were made in 1903 and have the same shape as the high altar. The left altar, which is designed as an altar of Mary , shows a Pietà in the middle , the apostle John on the left and Maria Magdalena on the right . The death of St. Joseph is depicted in the right side altar .
Church window
The windows of the nave are glazed white with small colored pictures almost only in the tracery . Three of the five choir windows are colorfully glazed, mostly in red and blue tones. They each show nine pictures from the life of Mary - the Annunciation of the Lord as the main motif in the left window , the birth of Jesus on the right and the Assumption of Mary as the central motif in the middle window. Two choir windows, which cannot be seen from the nave, have light glass with a neutral pattern and a small pictorial representation only in the tracery.
organ
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In the early years of the church - from 1890 to 1898 - a harmonium accompanied the services until the congregation was able to have an organ built thanks to a donation from the local savings and loan fund . Organ builder was Eckert in Paderborn. The instrument had 18 registers and around a thousand pipes in a neo-Gothic case by the Cologne sculptor Jaeger, matching the style of the church. This organ was renovated in 1934 by organ builder Klein, Obersteinebach, and two stops were added.
The organ of the Mülheim church has stood on the gallery on the north wall between the nave and the bell tower since 1898. In order to create enough space for the church choir, which had grown to around 90 members in the 1950s, the organ was divided into three parts in 1954 and pulled apart. It also received four additional registers.
In a further renovation in 1968 it was expanded to 36 registers, received an electric action and a second console , which was in the front left of the nave. Some time later an electronic organ was added to the pipe organ, which expanded the console on the gallery by two manuals to five.
After the organ had to be dismantled in 1987 in the course of an extensive interior renovation, according to the report of the Trier cathedral organist Wolfgang Oehms , rebuilding and further repairs proved to be uneconomical. Therefore a positive or a small choir organ was used until a new organ was purchased .
In 2000 Hugo Mayer Orgelbau, Heusweiler, delivered a new organ with two manuals and pedal , 1812 pipes and 31 registers. The instrument has mechanical key actions and couplings, the stop actions are electric.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : Electronic setting system
Bells
The first bells of the parish church Maria-Himmelfahrt were consecrated on March 16, 1890 to Our Lady, Saint Joseph, Saint Heinrich (namesake of the builder of the church) and the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The heaviest, the Marienglocke, weighed 31 quintals, tone c sharp, the second heaviest 17.5 quintals, tone e, the smaller 13 quintals, tone f sharp, the smallest 2.2 quintals. The smallest bell was not in the main tower, but in the right choir tower. They were bronze bells (77.5% copper, 22.5% tin) from the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen near Bremen.
During the First World War , three of the four bells had to be handed in according to the ordinance on the delivery of bronze for war purposes. In order to still get an acceptable bell, the parish bought a cis steel bell in 1917 .
In 1921 Mülheim received a new bell or the addition to the remaining e-bell, which in turn was supplied by the Otto bell foundry. To achieve a cleaner tone, the new bells were heavier than the previous ones; the c sharp bell weighed 2194 kg and the f sharp bell 910 kg. Two of these bells were drafted during World War II in 1942; the church sold the remaining bell before buying a new bell.
The new ringing of three cast steel bells from the Bochum Association came in 1948. The community wanted to make sure not to lose bronze bells again. The heaviest of these bells, the Christ the King's Bell, weighs 56 quintals, tone d, the Marienglocke 34 quintals, tone f, the Michael bell 25 quintals, tone g. In 1960 the civil parish of Mülheim donated a fourth bell, weighing 10 quintals, tone b.
literature
- Winfried Henrichs: 100 years of the parish Maria Himmelfahrt Mülheim . Commissioned by the parish of Mülheim, Mülheim-Kärlich 1987.
- Winfried Henrichs: City chronicle Mülheim-Kärlich . Ed. City of Mülheim-Kärlich, Mülheim-Kärlich 2009.
Individual evidence
- ^ ADAC city map of Mülheim-Kärlich, ISBN 3-8264-0774-1 .
- ^ W. Henrichs: 100 Years Parish Maria Himmelfahrt Mülheim. Pp. 97-99.
- ↑ a b c d W. Henrichs: 100 years parish Maria Himmelfahrt Mülheim. P. 112
- ↑ a b c Festschrift for the organ consecration on June 17, 2000
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 505, 521 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 472, 484 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud University Nijmegen).
- ^ W. Henrichs: 100 Years Parish Maria Himmelfahrt Mülheim. P. 90.
- ^ W. Henrichs: 100 Years Parish Maria Himmelfahrt Mülheim. P. 117.
- ^ W. Henrichs: 100 Years Parish Maria Himmelfahrt Mülheim. P. 123.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 7.3 " N , 7 ° 29 ′ 50.6" E