St. Albertus Magnus (Leversbach)

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St. Albertus Magnus in Leversbach

St. Albertus Magnus is the Roman Catholic chapel in the Kreuzau district of Leversbach in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The chapel belongs to the parish of St. Gereon , Boich .

The building is registered under number 112 in the list of architectural monuments in Kreuzau and is dedicated to St. Dedicated to Albertus Magnus .

history

Until today's chapel was built, Leversbach never had its own church. The place always belonged to the parish of St. Martin , Drove . Since the population of Leversbach and Boich had risen sharply in the middle of the 19th century , both places together received the status of a rectorate within the Drover parish on June 11, 1863 . At that time there was already a chapel in Boich. On April 24, 1953, Boich was finally separated from the parent parish Drove and raised to an independent parish. Since then Leversbach has belonged to the parish of St. Gereon, Boich.

Since Leversbach did not have its own house of worship and the believers had to go to the neighboring Boich to attend church services, a chapel building community was founded in 1904 . A building application was submitted to the authorities even before the First World War , but it was not granted. The reason for the rejection was the insufficient assets to be able to build a church.

Thanks to the commitment of the Leversbacher teacher Hans Hilger and the pastor Josef Außenem after the war, who were both members of the Quickborn working group and because Hans Hilger knew the Cologne architect Rudolf Schwarz , also a member of the reform-oriented Quickborn working group, personally, Schwarz was able to help Chapel building project. Between 1931 and 1932 Rudolf Schwarz made the plans for the chapel and on August 14, 1932, one year after the canonization of the chapel patron Albertus Magnus, the foundation stone was laid. The church was inaugurated on November 20, 1932.

During the Second World War , the structure was badly damaged, especially in the east in the area of ​​the altar. At the end of 1949, Hans Hilger asked Rudolf Schwarz to draw up reconstruction plans. In mid-1950, Schwarz prepared the plans that included some changes to the structure. So the window walls, which until then had reached the floor, were walled up in the lower area so that they no longer occupy the entire height of the room and the small bell tower was raised a little so that a second bell could be attached. Besides these two changes, the building remained unchanged.

Between 1993 and 1994 the chapel was completely renovated, with the inner pillars being restored to their original color.

The small church is an important example and testimony to the liturgical reform movement and modern church building in rural areas between the First and Second World Wars. In addition, the St. Albertus Magnus Chapel is only the second church building ever designed by Rudolf Schwarz. Rudolf Schwarz himself described the chapel as the “little sister” of St. Corpus Christi in Aachen , his first church building.

Furnishing

In the interior there is still some equipment from the 1930s. Some pieces of equipment were made to designs by Rudolf Schwarz. This included the altar and the edition for the missal; they were destroyed in the war. The (lost) Eternal Light , the (still existing) altar candlesticks, baptismal crockery and verse lantern come from Fritz Schwerdt . Also still there are the monstrance and ciborium by Anton Schickel and the tabernacle by an unknown hand. In the 1950s, today's altar and baptismal font were laid out on a three-tiered altar island .

architecture

St. Albertus Magnus is a rectangular, elongated hall church in modern forms made of irregular quarry stone masonry made of local sandstone . The sacristy , which is also rectangular, is built onto the north side . At the southeast corner of the sacristy there is a very small, open bell tower . In front of the main entrance on the west side there is a small vestibule with a pent roof . The nave is spanned by a very slightly inclined gable roof .

literature

  • Rudolf Schwarz: Small stone church in Leversbach (Eifel). In: The builder. Issue 9, September 1933. W. Callwey Verlag, Munich 1933.
  • Contribution to the editor: Picture supplement The Leversbach Chapel. In: The shield comrades. Issue 3, year 13, 1934. Rothenfels Castle am Main 1934.
  • Rudolf Schwarz: Church building. World before the threshold. Kerle, Heidelberg 1960.
  • Godehard Hoffmann, texts. Jürgen Gregori, photos: Modern churches in the Rhineland. Workbook of the Rhenish Monument Preservation. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Worms 2014. ISBN 9783884623466 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Albertus Magnus Chapel in Kreuzau - Leversbach. In: Homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. Retrieved September 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Nolden and Reiner Nolden: Appendix 8 on “Settlement history in the area of ​​the Kreuzau community” The organization of the Catholic Church (PDF file). In: Contributions to the history of Kreuzau, 1794–1988. Retrieved September 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b The St. Albertus Magnus chapel in the Leversbach district. The youngest architectural monument in the Kreuzau community. (PDF) August 17, 2010, accessed on September 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ P. Gregor Hexges (Ed.): ANNO SANCTO 1933/34 - EQUIPMENT ART IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1934. p. 61.
  5. ↑ P. Gregor Hexges (Ed.): ANNO SANCTO 1933/34 - EQUIPMENT ART IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1934. p. 46.
  6. ↑ a b c d Raphael Schwerdt: FRITZ SCHWERDT - Modern sacred art from four decades. Self-published, Tübingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-00-056210-5 . Pp. 36-39.
  7. ↑ Anton Henze: The arts and crafts in the service of the church. Paul Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg 1963. p. 48.
  8. ↑ a b Godehard Hoffmann, texts. Jürgen Gregori, photos: Modern churches in the Rhineland. Workbook of the Rhenish Monument Preservation. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Worms 2014. ISBN 9783884623466 . P. 48.
  9. ^ Rudolf Schwarz: Small stone church in Leversbach (Eifel). In: The builder. Issue 9, September 1933. W. Callwey Verlag, Munich 1933. pp. 325ff.
  10. ↑ Signed in the foot: "ANTON SCHICKEL 1933".

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 1.6 ″  E