St. Agatha (Mersch)

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St. Agatha in Mersch

St. Agatha is the Roman Catholic branch church of the Mersch district of the city of Jülich in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The church is entered under number 14 in the list of architectural monuments in Jülich .

history

A chapel in Mersch was first mentioned in the 14th century . This belonged to the parish Güsten . In the 16th or 17th century, Mersch finally became an independent parish . There is evidence that a Romanesque church already existed on the site of today's church around 1300 . Remnants of it can still be found in the masonry of the main nave of the old part of the church.

In 1463 the three-storey bell tower in Gothic style was added to the Romanesque nave. At the same time, the Romanesque nave was rebuilt and changed so that a two-aisled and three-bay Gothic church with a three-sided closed choir was created. The arcades between the main and side aisles were largely taken over from the old church. The renovation work was completed with the construction of a new sacristy in 1548.

Around 1900 the church became too small for the growing village population and so in 1913 a new three-nave, three-bay church with 3/8 choir closure in neo-Gothic style was built on the south wall of the old church according to plans by the architect Edmund Renard . During the Second World War, the aisle of the old church was destroyed. At this point, a vestibule with an organ gallery was built according to plans by J. Baumanns from Mönchengladbach in the 1950s.

Until December 31, 2012 Mersch was an independent parish. On January 1, 2013 the parish was merged with 13 other former parishes to form the parish of Heilig Geist Jülich.

Furnishing

In the church there is an Antwerp carved altar, which was made around 1520. Furthermore, the original painting of the church from the 1910s has been preserved. The organ is a work of the Hellenthal company Weimbs Orgelbau from the 1950s. The instrument has 13 registers .

Bells

In the bell tower there are 4 bronze bells from different centuries.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 
1 - 1,220 950 it ' Martinus Legros, Malmedy 1765
2 - 1,100 520 as ' Werner Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher 1925
3 - - - b ' Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher 1972
4th - - - c " Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher 1972

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Franck-Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich, in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Vol. 8, Ed. Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 188 ff.
  2. ↑ http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Dueren/DenkJue/Nr.%2014.htm (accessed on August 28, 2014)
  3. ↑ http://juelicher-pilgerweg.kibac.de/pilgerstations/mersch-pattern--st--agatha (accessed on August 28, 2014)
  4. ↑ (accessed on February 23, 2016) ( Memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://juelicher-pilgerweg.kibac.de/pilgerstations/mersch-pattern--st--agatha (accessed on August 28, 2014)
  6. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Glockenmusik in der Düren region, p. 175 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 43.2 "  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 36.3"  E