St. Agatha (Alendorf)

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Trees in the High Fens Nature Park. St. Agatha in the foggy background
St. Agatha
View into the nave

St. Agatha is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Blankenheim district of Alendorf in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is St. Dedicated to Agatha of Catania . The parish also includes the St. Dionysius branch church in Waldorf .

location

The church building is located in the center of Alendorf on Wendelinusplatz.

history

The parish of Alendorf was first mentioned in 1253 together with today's old church. The right of patronage was initially held by Malmedy Abbey , and in 1253 it was transferred to the Cistercian convent in Frauenkron . In 1289 the Steinfeld Abbey received patronage, from 1317 it was owned by the Order of St. John.

In the course of the restructuring of the ecclesiastical landscape during the French era , membership of the diocese also changed. Until 1802 Alendorf was part of the large Eifel deanate of the Archdiocese of Cologne and was then assigned to the Diocese of Trier . In 1825 the parish came back to the Archdiocese of Cologne and since 1930 the parish has belonged to the Diocese of Aachen .

Building history

The church mentioned in 1253 was located in the center of Alendorf and was a simple hall church with three window axes, apse and west tower in the Romanesque style . In the 16th century, this church no longer met the demands of the community and today's old church was built outside the village. The Romanesque church in the center of the village was preserved for centuries, but was finally demolished in the 1860s.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the outside parish church became too small and it was decided in 1915 to build a new parish church in the center of the village. First of all, diocesan architect Franz Statz was commissioned to plan a new parish church. However, these plans were rejected. In 1918 the Cologne architect Edmund Renard designed a new parish church. These plans were revised several times. It was not until the mid-1920s that construction of today's parish church in the center of Alendorf could finally begin. In 1929 the building was completed and was on 27 October 1929 benediziert be. So far the church has not been consecrated by a bishop . In 1967 the church was restored and the choir room was converted. The old church has served as a cemetery chapel since the new parish church was built.

Building description

St. Agatha is a single-nave and three-axis hall church made of plastered limestone in the style of reform architecture with a choir tower in the east, which is crowned by a high pitched roof. Only the choir in the basement of the tower is vaulted with a groin vault, the nave is spanned by a wooden ceiling. The windows are ogival.

Furnishing

The interior is kept simple, in the choir the tabernacle is on a granite top, in front of it is the altar. The organ was made in 1930 by Orgelbau Fabritius from Kaiserswerth and has 6 registers . The stained glass windows in the nave are from 1970, the window in the choir shows Christ the King and was created in 1930.

Pastor

The following priests have worked as pastors in the parish of St. Agatha:

from ... to Surname
1925-1935 Leonhard Havenith
1935-1951 Karl Werner
1951-1961 Peter Timberg
1961-1987 Johannes Bertram
1987-2003 Josef Kraus
2003-2007 Karl-Heinz Stoffels
2007-2014 Hans-Peter Meuser
2014-2018 Josef Berger
Since 2018 Andreas Züll

Web links

Commons : St. Agatha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 502.
  2. ↑ Blankenheim-Alendorf, Catholic Church of St. Agatha. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on August 15, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 11.1 ″  E