St. Martinus (Ollheim)

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East side in 2013
The stairwell on the west side of the tower, 2011

Sankt Martinus in Ollheim is a church built in 1906 and 1907 in neo-Romanesque style. The church serving the Catholic community is located in Kirchstr. 25 and has noteworthy church windows as well as a historically important organ. The building was included in the list of monuments of the municipality of Swisttal in 1993.

history

In the Franconian Empire , around nine kilometers away from Flamersheim, there was a royal estate ( Villa regia nomine flameresheim ), built on the ruins of a Roman fort. The farmyard of this property was named Hockebur . At the end of the 9th century the villa and the estate were destroyed by invading Normans .

Since St. Martin von Tours was the favorite saint of the Franconian house men and kings, the Hockebur court chapel was dedicated to this patron. Most of the chapels in the Hockebur subordinate goods in the area were also dedicated to St. Martin; In addition to Ollheim, this also affected the villages of Hilberath , Rheinbach , Ipplendorf, Esch , Euskirchen and Stotzheim .

A Catholic church was first mentioned in Ollheim in 1064. It was the large chapel of the largest local court at the time. In the year mentioned, the newly founded Benedictine Abbey in Siegburg was endowed with half of the patronage of the Ollheim Church. This church building was a Romanesque pillar construction ; the church was consecrated in 1732 . Before the revolution , Siegburg Abbey was the tithe and patron of the church. In Friedrich von Restorff's topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province from 1830, the Catholic parish church of St. Martin is mentioned. Because of its dilapidation, it was finally demolished.

In 1906/1907, the current building was built in the neo-Romanesque style in the same place. A comprehensive renovation took place in 1974/1975. The 40 meter high church tower is a visible landmark of the place today. The parish is cared for by pastors of the Michaelite Order as part of the Swisttal Parish Association ( district dean of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Archdiocese of Cologne ) .

architecture

The church has three neo-Romanesque naves ( central nave and two lower aisles ) and a transept and is made of brick . The choir, closed on three sides, is flanked by sacristy extensions. The upstream, rectangular south tower running across the width of the central nave with its two-column, neo-Romanesque step portal is covered by a rhombus helmet. On the west side of the tower there is a half-height, stone stair tower with a spiral staircase. The tracery windows are set in a sandstone frame. The two ends of the transept and the tower ( organ gallery ) have large rosettes . A small rose window is located above the east entrance in the tower.

Church window

The windows of the church in Ollheim were supplied by the company Glasmalerei W [ilhelm] Derix Kevlar and Goch in 1908 (so signed). Friedrich Stummel designed the windows. Design forms used are ornaments (this also: braid -Ornamente, floral ornaments, Floralee ornament with putti heads and birds) and motives: Maria in the Pop Art , The Saint Anne with Mary , Christ - the Good Shepherd , with St. Martin, his coat the beggar shares , Cäcilia of Rome with an organ (patroness of church music, in a rosette ) and the archangels and guardian angels Raphael and Michael , the latter depicted as the patron saint of Germany (both in rosette).

Bells

Saint Martin has three bronze bells. Of the original cast in 1928 in Apolda bell the two larger (Christ the King Bell, Martin Bell) were the course of government Glockenbeschlagnahmung during the Second World War removed and taken away. There are no documents about the whereabouts of these two bells, it can be assumed that they were melted down. Only the smallest bell (anniversary bell) remained in the church at that time. The bells have been added after the war by two 1,959 cast in Gescher bells.

Today all three bells are used in the ringing service. Music director Jakob Schaeben (1905–1980) carried out a tonal assessment of today's bells. According to this, the vibration energy and the singing temperament of the old bell are 35% below the value required since 1951 - not untypical for poor quality inter-war bronzes. The two new bells, on the other hand, were very successful.

No. Surname Casting year Caster Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 Anniversary bell 1928 Gebr. Ulrich , Apolda 1005 670 g sharp ' +3
2 Christ the King bell 1959 Hans Georg Hermann Maria Hüesker
Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher 		1310 1400 dis ' +1
3 Martinus bell 1959 Hans Georg Hermann Maria Hüesker from
Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher		 1008 800 f sharp ' +2

The jubilee bell from 1928 is designed in the heavy rib construction type , its decay process is "restless". It has a floral decoration as an ornamental frieze on the bell shoulder and the following inscription:

“THIS THREE CHIME BRINGS THE HIGH ANNIVERSARY - 1903 - CARL SCHÜTZ PRIOR OLLHEIM - 1928 - AS A CERTIFICATE - THE CATH. LOCAL COMMUNITY"

The large Christ-König bell from 1959 (construction type: medium-heavy rib , decay: "floating") shows as an inscription:

"† CHRISTE, REX NOSTER ET SALVATOR NOSTER, MISERER NOBIS. - 1 9 5 9 - PRIEST HERMES DEDICATED TO THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRIEST IN 1952

The medium-sized Martinus bell from 1959 (construction type: medium-heavy rib , decay: "stands") bears the following inscription:

"† SANCTE MARTINE, PROTECTOR NOSTER, OPN 1 9 5 9 - PRIOR HERMES DEDICATED TO THE 25TH LOCAL ANNIVERSARY - 1958"

Christian Ludwig Koenig organ

The organ of the church is historically and nationally important. It is an instrument made by the Cologne organ builder Christian Ludwig König , a prominent organ builder of the Rhenish Baroque who worked in the northern Rhineland in the 18th century. At that time, König had already built the organ of the Hofkirche St. Maximilian in Düsseldorf and that of the castle church in Schleiden , his father that of the Steinfeld monastery . In 1768 he made the organ that is now in the Ollheim church. It is considered to be the faithfully preserved of the 30 or so organs that König made alone or in collaboration with his family in his Cologne workshop.

The casing of the instrument, the wind chest and most of the pipework including the prospect pipes and parts of the mechanics (such as the manual keyboard ) are original. The pewter prospect pipes are the only remaining pipes of their kind from König. They bear the original signature of their pitch and are particularly precious and rare because they did not have to be handed in in 1917, as was common at the time. They probably escaped the fate of the meltdown because the organ was still in storage at the time.

The original disposition of the organ with its nine registers on the manual:

Manual C – d 3
Bordun D 16 ′ original
Hollow pipe 8th' original
Gamba 8th' partly original
Principal 4 ′ original
Slack 4 ′ original
Fifth 3 ′ original
Super octave 2 ′ original
Mixture III 1' Replaced in 1948/2014
Trumpet B / D 8th' 1948 Schalmey 8 '/ 2014
Pedal C – f 0 , since 1968 C – c 1
Sub bass 16 ′ attached since 1963
Octavbass 8th' 2014

History of the organ

The organ was originally a donation from the wealthy von Brackel zu Breitmar family from Cologne to the Schillingscapellen monastery . The canoness Maria Lambertina Freiin von Brackel zu Breitmar (1705-1790) had been elected abbess of Schillingscapellen in 1767 . Out of gratitude, the ladies' monastery of the Augustinian Choir Women financed the organ from the fortune of their father, the patrician Johann Lambert Freiherr von Brackel zu Breitmar († 1727). The organ was built and delivered until 1769.

When Schillingscapellen was secularized in 1802 , the Ollheim community acquired the organ. In 1806, the organ was first installed in the former Ollheim church and, after being temporarily stored, moved to the newly built church in 1917.

Restoration of the organ

In 1948/1949 the system was revised by the Bonn-based organ builder Kaes, including two stops being replaced. Later, the Schulte company from Kürten carried out further renovation measures. In 1964 it was overhauled and partially repaired by Kaes; the instrument was extended by a previously attached pedal with subbass 16 '. The organ also received a new console using the old keyboard. The origin of the device was not checked in detail; the organ expert of the archbishopric at the time , the church music director Hans Hulverscheidt, estimated that it was built between 1760 and 1780.

In 2007 the church council in Ollheim decided to have the organ tuned by the Klais organ builder workshop in Bonn . As part of this work, a need for repair was identified. Initially, only a repair of the air supply was planned, after the organ was classified as valuable due to the high original inventory and the knowledge of the origin, the investment requirement grew to around EUR 200,000 in the following period. In December 2013, Ilka Freifrau von Boeselager , member of the state parliament, took over the patronage of the organ renovation. The aim of the parish was to finance around half of the renovation costs from public funds, the other half should be shared between the Archdiocese of Cologne and the parish. The Cologne district government approved a subsidy of EUR 25,000. The Archdiocese of Cologne, the Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland and the Rhineland Regional Association also contributed to the financing of the costs. Residents from the municipality of Swisttal raised around EUR 20,000 as private donations.

The responsible monument protection authority approved the positioning of the instrument as a parapet organ in connection with the addition of an Octavbass 8 'pedal register. The almost a year-long restoration by organ builder Hans-Wolfgang Theobald from the Klais workshop was completed in late autumn 2014. During the restoration, the technical area was brought closer to the original state. The wind chests, the pipework and the mechanics were brought together again within the historical dimensions. The reconstruction of the play area was subordinate to the specifications that result from the valuable manual keyboard. The fan motor for the organ's newly installed wind supply is now in the tower room behind the pedals; it has been fitted with a new magazine bellows, from which the pedal is supplied with wind. There is now a wedge bellows under the manual drawer, which serves as a pressure compensation and at the same time ensures a breathing wind.

Since the instrument has been significantly revised, a re-inauguration was necessary. This took place on November 9, 2014 on the occasion of the patronage festival.

The branch church in Mömerzheim

The Mömerzheimer Filialkapelle, 2013

In the Swisttaler hamlet of Mömerzheim there is a branch church of the Ollheimer Martinskirche. The Chapel of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was built in the early 1880s and was opened on May 4, 1885 by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the rank of pilgrimage chapel . The consecration took place in 1886. The reason for the recognition as a place of pilgrimage was the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the chapel , a widespread copy of a well-known icon from the 14th century.

Since then, the chapel festival in the octave from the 1st to the 2nd Sunday in September has been an integral part of the church festival calendar of the parish of St. Martinus. Since 1886 the miraculous image has been carried into the chapel in a procession in late summer - formerly through the village of Mömerzheim, and for about ten years from the parish church of Ollheim through the fields to the Mömerzheim chapel.

The single-nave chapel, built in the neo-Gothic style, has eight windows in the four window axes and a semicircular window above the entrance. The six windows of the nave show a diamond pattern with frame stripes. The two choir windows contain depictions of Saint Anna with Maria and Saint Hermann Joseph von Steinfeld . The choir windows date from 1886. The 40 kg Josefs bell (lower outside diameter 42 cm) of the chapel, hung in the turret, comes from Christian Claren from Sieglar and was cast in 1885. Just like a smaller bell from the chapel from 1928 (Gebr. Ulrich in Apolda ), it was removed in the course of the state bell confiscation and transported to the bell cemetery in Hamburg in June 1942 . The larger bell, however, was not melted down and returned to Mömerzheim in the post-war period. In 1995 the chapel was extensively renovated. The Marienkapelle was registered on May 7, 1993 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Swisttal.

See also

Web links

Commons : Sankt Martinus (Ollheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Ollheim, serial no. 13 , monument protection record, part A of the list of monuments of the municipality of Swisttal , acc. Monument Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (DSchG NRW) .
  2. ↑ a b c Franzjosef Habitz: From the Rhine to the Ahr. In: Heimatblätter of the Bonner Rundschau. No. 10/1957, under: St. Martins churches in the Rheinbach district , at: www.flerzheim.de (Local Committee Flerzheim eV).
  3. ↑ a b Marie Antoinette di Donato: Nice history, little hustle and bustle Local mayor Matthias Simon guided through Ollheim , January 8, 2014, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  4. ↑ Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg district. Bouvier, 1990, ISBN 978-3-41680-6-060 .
  5. ^ Paul Clemen, Ernst Polaczek: The art monuments of the district of Cologne (= art monuments of the Rhine province , Volume 4). L. Schwann, 1897, p. 338.
  6. ^ Hans-Paul Müller, Die Herrschaft Tomburg and their lords up to the end of the Middle Ages , Bonn, 1970, p. 233
  7. ↑ Christian, Stramberg and Anton Joseph Weidenbach: Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius: which represents the most important and pleasant geographical, historical and political peculiarities of the whole Theinstrom, from its outflow into the sea to its origin. Part 3, Volume 13. RF Hergt, 1867, p. 101
  8. ^ Friedrich von Restorff, Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 286
  9. ↑ Website ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2016 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. of the Archdiocese of Cologne . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzbistum-koeln.de
  10. ↑ Swisttal-Ollheim, Catholic Church St. Martinus , Foundation Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV
  11. ↑ a b c d Gerhard Hoffs, Achim Bursch: Bells in the Dean's Office Meckenheim / Rheinbach ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherebk.de 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. , 2014, p. 161 ff.
  12. ↑ a b c d Heiner Meurs: The development of an organ - from monument to unique. On a website of the Catholic parish of St. Martinus Ollheim: www.koenigorgel.de .
  13. ^ A b Heiner Meurs: On the rededication and history of the König organ in Ollheim. In: Parish Council Swisttal (Ed.): Together on the move - parish letter of the Catholic pastoral care area Swisttal , edition: July 2014, p. 12f.
  14. ^ A b c Gem of the Rhenish organ building trade in Swisttal-Ollheim: the Christian-Ludwig-König-Organ in St. Martinus. We in Swisttal , Rautenberg Media & Print Verlag, January 17th, 2015.
  15. ↑ a b The restoration of the König organ on a website from St. Martinus Ollheim, 2015.
  16. ^ Hermann Fischer , Hans-Wolfgang Theobald : The Rhenish organ builders Balthasar and Christian Ludwig König. P. 20, serial no. 43 .
  17. ↑ a b c Gerda Saxler-Schmidt: Ollheimer König organ: The pipes are currently being restored by the Klais company in Bonn. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , July 29, 2014.
  18. ↑ a b Swisttal-Ollheim / DE, St. Martinus , website of Johannes Klais Orgelbau GmbH & Co. KG
  19. ↑ a b Annette Stolz: Unique stroke of luck: the organ in the St. Martinus Church in Ollheim turns out to be a sensation in church music. In: The selection. Quarterly bulletin for church and cemetery. March 1, 2015, pp. 24-28
  20. ^ Sankt Martinus Ollheim: District government supports organ renovation. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , July 28, 2013.
  21. ^ Gabriele von Törne: St. Martinus Ollheim: Powerful tones from the church organ . In: Bonner Rundschau , November 10, 2014.
  22. ↑ Profile on the website of the Meckenheim-Rheinbach dean's office .
  23. ↑ a b Bettina Thränhardt, Swisttal-Mömerzheim: Large crowd at the chapel festival, September 2, 20143, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  24. ^ Website of the parish of Ollheim
  25. ^ Website of the Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation
  26. ↑ Gerhard Hoffs, Achim Bursch, Glocken im Deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherebk.de 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. , 2014, p. 150 ff.
  27. ↑ Ollheim, serial no. 6 , monument protection record, part A of the list of monuments of the municipality of Swisttal , acc. Monument Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (DSchG NRW) .


Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 17 "  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 40.9"  E