St. Aegidius (Oberdrees)

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View from the east of the choir and sacristy of St. Aegidius, 2005

The Catholic parish church of St. Agidius in the Rheinbach district of Oberdrees goes back to a Romanesque church building from the 12th century. The building at Oberdreeser Straße 21 has belonged to the parish of St. Martin in Rheinbach since 2010 and has been a listed building since 1994. The baroque baptismal font and the generous window fittings from the 20th century are well worth seeing .

history

Bell tower, linden tree and library (half-timbered building), 2011

The Kirchort Oberdrees is mentioned for the first time in 1274 and again four years later in a church tax register (the Liber valoris ). Today's eastern part of the choir has been preserved from the Romanesque church that existed at the time and was built in the early 12th century . The village itself is older, it is already mentioned in a document in the year 856. Presumably, a small, half- timbered chapel already stood in Oberdrees before the Romanesque church was built.

Under the pastor Johann Stein (1640–1690) there was a largely new building in 1688, the structure of which has largely been preserved. The single-nave church building took over the choir of the previous building and received a west tower in front of it. The ship comprised five bays , the windows were in floor-to-ceiling niches. The interior was furnished in baroque style. Kollator was a member of the baronial von der Leyen family who lived at Adendorf Castle .

Pastor Heinrich Dieregsweiler pushed through an expansion of the church in the 20th century. According to plans by Jakob Stumpf (an architect of several churches in the Rhineland from Bonn), the renovation began in May 1921. The addition of two aisles on the north and south sides led to the interior being doubled. A new, massive alluvial stone vault now supported the extended roof. The floor covering came from the Sinziger mosaic works . A war memorial chapel was also built on the men's side in the right aisle at the Joseph's altar; After a memorial outside the church was built in 1926, the memorial in the church was removed. The consecration of the church and the consecration of the high altar took place on August 27, 1922 by Auxiliary Bishop Hermann Joseph Sträter .

After the Second World War there were long discussions about the need to renovate the church building; Time and again, smaller repair jobs were awarded, especially in the outdoor area. A larger investment for the interior renovation of the church was decided in 1989, the decision was not implemented until September 1992. The moist soil and walls were drained , among other things, by installing a drainage system. A new floor covering was created from diagonally laid basalt lava slabs and syenite strips . The pulpit and confessional from 1921 have been restored and put up again. The newly designed altar was consecrated in 1994 by Auxiliary Bishop Norbert Trelle . During the approximately one-year renovation work, the service was held in a former stable building, a few meters from the church.

In 2007 the parish of Sankt Antonius Niederdrees was dissolved and merged with the parish of Sankt Agidius in Oberdrees . This amalgamated parish existed until the end of 2009. Since 2010, the Catholics of both localities have formed the parish of St. Martin Rheinbach with most of the previous parishes in the urban area of ​​Rheinbach.

At the turn of the year 2015/2016 the church was temporarily closed due to mold growth on the heating system and in the organ. Mold had attacked the heating system and from there it got into the organ. During the cleaning measures, the believers had to go to the church in Niederdrees .

Architecture and equipment

The church building consists of a three-aisled nave with a choir and attached sacristy and a bell tower. The church is a plastered quarry stone building . The nave and the eight-sided tower spire in Julius Echter architecture are covered with slate . At the level of the bell chamber , the tower has arched sound arcades on all sides . The choir, dating from the 12th century, is a medium-sized room with a barrel vault, designed in the form of an apse . A bright, spacious sacristy is built on the north side of the choir. The parament is stored in the loft . The boiler room is in the basement.

Of the original interior from the 17th century, only the baroque granite baptismal font with a brass helmet as well as the figure of the church patron Egidius and depictions of Saints Anna , Ursula and Agatha still exist . The pulpit and confessional from 1921 come from the Rheinbach master carpenter Müllenbruck. The altar from 1994 is made of the natural stone Selterser Trachyte . The cemetery wall dates from the 14th century.

Church window

The expansion of the church in 1921/22 made it necessary to install new windows. Pastor Dieregsweiler had it designed by the young Bonn glass artist Gerhard Jörres after consultation with the Bonn university professor Wilhelm Neuss . They are made in the style of the Nazarenes .

In total, Jörres created four windows in the main nave, five windows in the transept, one of two windows in the choir, four rectangular windows in the adjoining sacristy and two windows each under the gallery and two on the gallery (including the depiction of Saint Hubertus of Lüttich ). The windows were completed by Jörres in 1923. The artist Paul Weigmann added the second window in the choir in 1970.

organ

The organ of the upper Dreeser church was in 1934 by the Bonn organ building company Johannes Klais organ building on the past at the west end of the nave organ loft built. The instrument (Klais-Opus 812) has two manuals and 13 stops .

Bells

The church bell consists of three bronze bells . They are made in the form of a medium-weight rib and date from the 20th century. The history of the peal can be traced back to the 18th century. After Heusgen, two bells were made by the bell founder Johann Heinrich Dinckelmeyer in 1740 , which had a Pietà on the bell curve and the lettering JH Dinckelmeyer 1740 . Another was built in 1800 in Peter Boitel's Westphalian bell foundry (symbolism: crucifix and Madonna). In 1928 new bells were purchased. The foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock manufactured the 1050 kg, 577 kg and 387 kg bells. The two larger bells were requisitioned during the Second World War as part of the state bells confiscation . Nothing is known about the whereabouts of these bells, they are considered to no longer exist due to the war. Two new bells were purchased as replacements in 1956.

Aegidien bell : 1928, Bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher , diameter 855 mm, weight 387 kg; not drafted in the war, still in the bell service today; Inscription:

"SCTE AEGIDI ABBAS ET ECCLESIAE CARTRIDGE NOSTRAE OBERDREESIENSES REGE ET DEFENDE"

- Hoffs / Bursch, 2014 Bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach :
Translation: Saint Giles, abbot and patron of our church in Oberdrees, rule and defend it

Dead bell : 1956, Josef Feldmann and Georg Marschel, Feldmann & Marschel , Münster , diameter 1152 mm, weight 950 kg; Inscription next to reference to bell foundry and date of casting:

"VOX MEA COMMENDAT DEO MILITES ET CIVES OCCISOS VEL QUAESITOS 1 9 1 8 ET 1 9 4 5"

- Hoffs / Bursch, 2014 bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach :
Translation: My voice recommends God the fallen soldiers and citizens and also the missing from 1918 and 1945

Josephs bell : 1956, Josef Feldmann and Georg Marschel, Feldmann & Marschel, Münster, diameter 957 mm, weight 520 kg; Inscription next to reference to bell foundry and date of casting:

"IN HONOREM S. JOSEPHI ET S. CATHARINAE DONAVERUNT ME CONIUGES CASTENHOLZ 1 9 5 6"

- Hoffs / Bursch, 2014 bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach :
Translation: In honor of St. Joseph and St. Catherine. The Castenholz family donated me

Linden tree

There is a winter linden tree in front of the church . In 1991 she was estimated to be 150 years old; at a height of 14 meters, a trunk circumference of 310 centimeters and a crown diameter of 11 meters were determined. The tree is three meters away from the church tower, which limits the space for the tree to develop. According to § 22 of the law for safeguarding the natural balance and for the development of the landscape (Landscape Law NRW) the linden tree is registered as a natural monument in the Rhein-Sieg district. The value of the linden tree was estimated at around 65,000 euros. In 2014, the soil around the tree was rehabilitated in order to facilitate the oxygen supply to the roots. The surrounding basalt pavement and concrete were broken up, gravel sand and soil were replaced by four and a half cubic meters of tree substrate (a coarse-pored lava mixture). The cost of the renovation was around 3300 euros.

Traditions

The Oberdreeser parish has several traditions; this includes:

Jassekirmes

On the weekend after the Assumption of Mary , believers form a fire procession , called “Jassekirmes”, to thank them for being saved from a fire . The procession commemorates the miraculous extinction of a large fire in the village, which broke out around the end of the 17th or beginning of the 18th century on the feast of the Assumption. The nightly arson at the house in Burggraben 36 quickly spread to many other houses in the narrow alley. When the pastor at the time, with the monstrance removed from the tabernacle , went in solemn procession to the center of the fire and prayed there and called the Holy Trinity , the fire went out shortly afterwards.

Rattling

Church bells have always not been rung in Oberdrees on Good Friday and Holy Saturday ; only on Easter vigil does the festival bells commemorate the resurrection of Jesus. Earlier rattled altar boy with wooden rattles and instead of the usual times indicating bells. This tradition is still maintained during the Easter days, even if the rattling is now taken over by parents and children. Self-made instruments, which consist of a board with a handle and movable wooden hammers, are rattled in groups through all the streets of Oberdrees in the morning at 6 a.m., at noon at 12 p.m. and in the evening at 6 p.m.

See also

References and comments

  1. a b c List of monuments according to Section 3 (6) DSchG, Rheinbach List of Monuments, Part A Niederdrees, No. 127
  2. a b c d e St. Agidius Oberdrees: From the castle chapel to the parish church ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholische-kirche-rheinbach.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. , according to a commemorative publication at the end of the renovation work: Parish Church St. Agidius Oberdrees , 1995, on: Website of the Catholic parish of St. Martin, Rheinbach
  3. a b c Profile of St. Egidius Oberdrees , website of the Meckenheim-Rheinbach dean's office
  4. Gabriele Immenkeppel, Church in Ippendorf: Churches and their treasures presented in a new series , April 15, 2014, General-Anzeiger (Bonn); Gabriele Immenkeppel, Churches and their treasures in Dransdorf: Under the protection of the hermit , April 1, 2015, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  5. Renovation and restoration of our church from 1922 to 1992 ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholische-kirche-rheinbach.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. According to a commemorative publication at the end of the renovation work: Parish Church St. Agidius Oberdrees , 1995, on: Website of the Catholic parish of St. Martin, Rheinbach
  6. a b c Restoration and choir room design of the Catholic parish church of St. Agidius in Oberdrees ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholische-kirche-rheinbach.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. According to a commemorative publication at the end of the renovation work: Parish Church St. Agidius Oberdrees , 1995, on: Website of the Catholic parish of St. Martin, Rheinbach
  7. Notkirche 1992–1993 ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholische-kirche-rheinbach.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. According to a commemorative publication at the end of the renovation work: Parish Church St. Agidius Oberdrees , 1995, on: Website of the Catholic parish of St. Martin, Rheinbach
  8. Gerda Saxler-Schmidt, Two Rheinbach parishes dissolve , September 6, 2006, General-Anzeiger (Bonn)
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  10. ^ Church of Sankt Giles in Oberdrees Mold infestation: No church services at Christmas , December 10, 2015, General-Anzeiger (Bonn)
  11. Hans-Peter Fuss, Church in Oberdrees closed: Mold growth in the heating system leads to the blockage , December 4, 2015, General-Anzeiger (Bonn)
  12. a b c d e St. Agidius Oberdrees: The four large church windows ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholische-kirche-rheinbach.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. , Website of the Catholic parish of St. Martin, Rheinbach
  13. Hubertus legend , website of the shooting club Eichenlaub Kraham , Dorfen
  14. ^ Rheinbach-Oberdrees, Catholic Church of St. Giles , Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting eV, Mönchengladbach
  15. ^ Opus list as of 2011 , Johannes Klais Orgelbau
  16. Episode 36/1935 , Johannes Klais, Orgelbau Bonn
  17. ^ Paul Heusgen, The parishes of the deaneries Meckenheim and Rheinbach , in: History of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Friedrich Wilhelm Lohmann (ed.), JP Bachem , Cologne 1926
  18. a b c d e Rheinbach-Oberdrees - St. Agidius , in: Gerhard Hoffs and Achim Bursch (arrangement), Glocken im Dekanat Meckenheim / Rheinbach , 2014, p. 96 ff. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in 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
  19. Entry on winter linden tree at the church of St. Agidius in Oberdrees (natural monument number 47 in Oberdreeser Straße) in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 8, 2017.
  20. a b Gabriele von Törne, Tree Care: Winter linden tree breathed new life into it , November 5, 2014, Bonner Rundschau
  21. Traditional fire procession: the parish of St. Giles thanks for being saved from the fire , 23 August 2016, Blickpunkt Meckenheim, Rhein-Sieg-Werbungblatt GmbH
  22. Gerda Saxler-Schmidt, Easter: The bells fly to Rome , April 7, 2007, General-Anzeiger (Bonn)

Web links

Commons : St. Giles  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Website St. Egidius Oberdrees of the Catholic parish of St. Martin, Rheinbach

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 26.6 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 12.6 ″  E