St. Agnes (Merten)
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The Church of Saint Agnes in Merten (Eitorf) was probably built around 1170. It was originally the church of the Merten monastery and became a parish church after secularization in 1803 .
history
During the Thirty Years' War , the convent had to move to Birlinghoven for two years in 1625 because the Swedes raided the monastery.
In 1699 the monastery and church burned down. The church was restored in 1704 and received a baroque interior .
In 1799 the monastery was occupied three times by French revolutionary troops and everything portable was looted.
Building description
The church is a three-aisled, flat-roofed building with three east apses . The pillar basilica with the double-towered west facade is an impressive Romanesque building for the Rhineland . The south tower was built with five stories, the north tower only three stories.
The length of the church is 34.8 m, it is 16.7 m wide. The masonry consists of greywacke , tuff , trachyte and andesite were also used for the design.
Towers of St. Agnes with entrance
Layout
Furnishing
Baroque altars
The three baroque altars were given away when they were dismantled for Romanesque furnishings . The high altar, a foundation of the prioress Catharina Ursula von Quadt, showed a representation of the Trinity with the donor and St. Augustine , bordered by winding columns. A square attachment with the round image of the playing baby Jesus forms the top. The structure was given to Erftstadt- Gymnich in 1955 , only the brick-built Romanesque cafeteria remained.
The Joseph altar of the south aisle, also with twisted columns, showed Joseph with the baby Jesus. A group of figures has been preserved from this.
The Marien altar in the north aisle dates from 1740 and had smooth columns next to a small painting. In 1953 the essay was given to Overath- Marialinden and there to the altar of grace .
Statues
The statue of Our Lady in the north nave floats on clouds and the crescent moon, one foot crushes a snake. In her arms she holds the baby Jesus with the globe, in the other a scepter .
The figure of Joseph with the fearful baby Jesus has been preserved from the Joseph altar.
Statues of St. Agnes and St. Augustine as bishop stand between the naves . St. Nicholas , St. Nepomuk and Sebastian are also standing on the pillars of the nave .
Bells
Two bells ring in the tower of St. Agnes
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No. |
Caster |
Casting year |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
| 1 | Christian Claren, Sieglar | 1870 | 770 | 270 | c 2 -8 |
| 2 | Petit & Edelbrock, Gescher | 1927 | 640 | 165 | it 2 +0 |
organ
In the gallery is the instrument built in 1955 by the Sattel Speyer company with 15 registers , a free-standing console, cone drawer and electric action .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
literature
- Helmut Fischer: The former Augustinian monastery church in Eitorf-Merten an der Sieg. (= Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 224). 2nd Edition. Society for book printing, Neuss 1980, ISBN 3-88094-336-2 .
- Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 291-292.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells in the deanery Eitorf / Hennef . PDF; Pp. 83-88. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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.
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 57.5 ″ N , 7 ° 23 ′ 50.7 ″ E