St. Albanus and Leonhardus (Manheim)

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St. Albanus and Leonhardus in Manheim (2019)
St. Albanus and Leonhardus in Manheim (2009)
Interior (2016)

St. Albanus and Leonhardus is a former Roman Catholic parish church in the Kerpen district of Manheim in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was built between 1898 and 1900 according to plans by Franz Statz . The church was profaned on May 18, 2019 .

The church building is registered under No. 57 in the monument list of the Kolping town of Kerpen (see list of architectural monuments in Manheim ) and was dedicated to St. Alban of Mainz and St. Consecrated to Leonhard of Limoges .

location

The church building is located in the southern center of Manheim and thus in the mining area of ​​the Hambach opencast mine , which is to be finally dredged in 2022. The church stands on a slightly elevated position and is surrounded by a green area, which is bordered by a brick wall. The building is surrounded by streets on three sides. Buirer Straße runs on the west side, Sankt-Albanus-Straße on the south side and Blatzheimer Straße on the east side (Kreisstraße 4). In the second half of 2019 to the beginning of 2020, almost all the neighboring buildings were demolished, so that St. Albanus and Leonhardus are currently completely free.

history

A church in Manheim was first mentioned in 1356. The origins of this church go back to the Carolingian era. Initially, however, Manheim had no parish rights and has always been a subsidiary of the Blatzheim parish . It was not until 1751 that Manheim was finally separated from Blatzheim and raised to an independent parish in the Bergheim deanery , Archdiocese of Cologne . In the course of the French era and the associated restructuring of the church structures, Manheim, like the entire part of the archdiocese on the left bank of the Rhine, came to the newly founded diocese of Aachen . After the dissolution of this diocese in 1825, Manheim came back to the archdiocese.

On January 1, 2013, the parish of St. Albanus and Leonhardus, Manheim, was dissolved and the parish of St. Martinus in Kerpen was added, since the resettlement place Manheim-neu is in the parish of Kerpen. Since then, the church was no longer a parish church, but a subsidiary church .

During a final holy mass on May 18, 2019, the church was officially divorced.

Building history

Main portal of the church

The church mentioned in 1356, which was presumably built in the Romanesque style, was given a new choir in the Gothic style in the 15th century . In the 16th century, the old nave was replaced by a new two-aisled nave. A few years later, the nave was expanded into a three-aisle complex with the construction of a north aisle. In addition, vaults were drawn in all ships . A bell tower was built in 1656. This resulted in a late Gothic , three-nave hall church with a retracted west tower and a choir in the east. In 1751 it was elevated to parish church .

At the end of the 19th century, the old Manheim church was dilapidated and demolished.

Between 1898 and 1900, today's Manheim church was built according to the plans of the Cologne architect Franz Statz in neo -Gothic style on the place of the old church by the building contractor Jacob Schreiber from Buir .

Building description

St. Albanus und Leonhardus is a three-aisled building in the neo-Gothic style made of bricks with a four-story bell tower in front of it in the west, a pseudo transept and a two-bay , three-sided choir in the east. The interior is spanned by groin vaults, the choir has ribbed vaults .

Furnishing

In the church, some pieces of equipment from the time of construction had been preserved, all of which were removed after the profanation in 2019. These included the Herz-Marien-Altar (left side altar) and the Herz-Jesu-Altar (right side altar). Both altars have a stone canteen and wooden altarpieces . The wooden, neo-Gothic confessional , the pews, the stations of the cross and the brightly painted figures of saints had been preserved from the same period . In the choir there was a modern tabernacle column and a stone folk altar that was adapted to the architectural style of the church. Of these pieces of equipment, the figures of saints, the people's altar, part of the pews and the figures of saints are to be installed or set up in the new chapel at the resettlement site.

The windows in the choir depict the mission of the Holy Spirit , the Ascension of Christ and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise . These three stained glass windows are works by Hermann Gottfried from 1966. Hermann Gottfried also designed four windows in the aisles. The windows are to be partially reinstalled in the new chapel in Manheim-neu.

  • Herz-Mariä-Altar in the left side choir

  • Sacred Heart Altar in the right side choir

  • Baptismal font in the right side choir

  • Tabernacle column in the choir

organ

The organ is a work of the company Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn , Kevelaer and has 20 registers distributed over two manuals and pedal . It was expanded in 2019 and sold to a parish in France .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Metal flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
mixture IV
shawm 8th'
II subsidiary work C – g 3
Open flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Krummhorn 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Dacked bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Quintad 2 ′
Shawl bass 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, II / I Sub, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : trigger, hand register, free combination, tutti, storage

Bells

Bell tower

In the bell tower, three were bronze - bells . The bell-founder Karl Otto from the bell foundry F. Otto from Hemelingen created in 1899 three bells for Manheim. Fortunately, all three bells were not melted down for war purposes during World War I and could remain in the tower. Even in the Second World War, they have not melted, but the smallest bell shattered in 1945 by a fire. As early as 1946, Hans Hüesker, owner of the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from Gescher, was entrusted with the re- casting of this bell. All three bells were removed from the tower in mid-2019 and are to be hung in the tower of the new Albanus and Leonhardus Chapel in Manheim and will ring again there.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 
1 - 1,195 1,050 f ′ +5 Karl Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen 1899
2 - 1,070 900 g ′ −2 Karl Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen 1899
3 Albanus et al. Leonhardus 895 450 a ′ −2 Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher 1946

Motif: Pater noster

future

The now profane building is expected to be demolished by 2022 at the latest, as the entire site will have to give way to the Hambach open-cast lignite mine . The open pit mine is scheduled to reach the village in 2022. A chapel with 40 seats and an attached community center will therefore be built as a replacement in the Manheim-neu resettlement site .

The chapel in Manheim-neu is to be built according to a design by the Cologne architects Dirk Waldmann and Berthold Jungblut. In addition to the three bells, some of the pews, the altar , the baptismal font , the figures of saints, the cross and parts of the stained glass windows are to be taken over into the new building. In addition, grave crosses are to be built into the outer wall, which are currently around the church. Construction of the chapel began in December 2019 with the groundbreaking ceremony and is scheduled to be completed in the course of 2021.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Important dates. In: Manheim Online. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinland/tagebau-hambach-kirche-entweihung-100.html
  3. ↑ domradio.de: Protests during church professions in Kerpen-Manheim , May 20, 2019.
  4. ^ Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the Bergheim district. In: The art monuments of the Rhine province. Volume 4. Ed. Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1899, p. 124 f.
  5. ↑ Important dates. In: Manheim Online. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  6. ^ Georg Zingsheim: Church Manheim-new chapel with 20-meter tower. In: WerbePost. December 17, 2019, accessed February 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Kerpen-Manheim, Catholic Church of St. Albanus and Leonardus. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV. Accessed September 15, 2016 .
  8. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular p. 510 .
  9. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 476 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).
  10. ↑ Gerhard Hoffs: Glocken im Dekanat Kerpen , p. 52 ff.
  11. ↑ Framework data Manheim, City of Kerpen (Rhein-Erft district). In: rwe.com. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Desecration of the church in Manheim “This is a very difficult day for Manheimers”. In: WerbePost. May 14, 2019, accessed May 15, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Joachim Röhrig: Resettlement of Manheim - A tower for the old bells. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. April 15, 2014, accessed September 15, 2016 .
  14. ↑ 73_GZM community center with chapel in Manheim-Neu. In: office03. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  15. ^ Georg Zingsheim: Church Manheim-new chapel with 20-meter tower. In: WerbePost. December 17, 2019, accessed February 7, 2020 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 4.7 ″  E