St. Aldegundis (Kaarst)
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The St. Aldegundis Church is located in the Büttgen district of the city of Kaarst , west of Düsseldorf . The Romanesque church dates from the 12th century and is an impressive testimony to the architecture of the Middle Ages.
location
The church is located in the center of the village and its tower can be seen from afar. To the south of the church is the town hall square, to the north of the church is the old cemetery.
history
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Already at the beginning of the 9th century there was a church on this spot, like the Vita of St. Ludgerus von Münster and an Altarmensa dated to this time shows. Since the 11th century there was a 7 x 11 meter hall church with a rectangular choir, on whose outer walls the current Romanesque church was probably built in 1166. The side aisles were added towards the end of the 12th century. The four-story tower was built between 1125 and 1250. The Michael's Chapel is on the first floor, a storage room above and the belfry above. Possibly the tower was also used as a refuge; Window slits indicate this. In 1439 the Romanesque choir was replaced by a Gothic one and the roof of the central nave was converted into a Gothic pitched roof. With the restoration from 1970 to 1983, this roof was removed again at a 45 ° angle, the pillars were given new foundations and the choir windows were given their original size. The church survived the Second World War without major damage; only the tower, in which a German observation post was temporarily set up, received eight artillery hits when the US troops marched in on March 1, 1945, but could be repaired by July 1945. After the tower cross was damaged in a storm in October 2011, it took until July 12, 2013 until the renovated tower cross could be reattached to the top of the church tower. In the period from June 2017 to probably July 2018, the slate roof of the church will be renewed.
Interior
ceiling
The wooden ceiling of the central nave was painted in 1896 by the painter Wunderwald . At the same time, the vaulted ceiling of the aisles was created by an unknown artist.
organ
On November 28, 1992 the organ of the Kreienbrink company (Osnabrück) was inaugurated in the old church. It stands at ground level in the rearmost arch between the central nave and the north aisle.
Disposition of the organ:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
The bell currently in the bell tower consists of five bronze bells that are tuned to the chimes C, D, F, G and A. Besides the St. Aldegundis bell, only the Marienglocke I from 1927 was spared from the Second World War. Three of the five existing bells, some from the former workshop of the von Trier family from Aachen, were melted down in 1944 to remedy the shortage of raw materials caused by the war.
Way of the Cross
The Way of the Cross decorates the side aisles of the old church and is a work of the Düsseldorf School from the 19th century. As with the Nazarenes, it was at times a peculiarity of this school that pictures were not signed because they represented the collaborative work of several artists.
The oldest 12th station of Wunderwald from 1848 was apparently included 44 years later in the overall composition of the Way of the Cross. Karl Müller can be assumed to have participated in the other stations.
The 11th station of the cross was lost during restoration work in the 1970s. It was repainted by Albert Müller.
Figures and other works of art
The wooden crucifix and tabernacle date from the 20th century. It is made of bronze and was created by the artist Hein Minkenberg and was formerly located in the Quirinus Minster in Neuss.
Many figures and paintings as well as the baptismal font can be traced back to some well-known artists from the 16th to 19th centuries.
New Church
Since the town of Büttgen expanded significantly in the 1950s, the new church was built in 1959/1960 according to plans by the architect E. Schiffer to accommodate the growing number of people attending church services. It connects to the west of the old Romanesque church through a low sacristy area. The interior furnishings (benches, altar, lighting, confessional) also come from E. Schiffer. The altar cross and the ambo were created by the sculptor Friedel Denecke . The figurative decorations are partly taken over from the old church.
window
The artist Franz Pauli from Cologne was commissioned to design the windows . The windows show the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, St. Ludger, St. Heribert, St. Sebastian, St. Monika, St. Cecilia and St. Aldegundis.
organ
The organ was made by organ builder Franz Joseph Schorn in 1886 and was initially in the old church on a gallery that no longer exists today. When this gallery was demolished with the renovation of the Romanesque St. Aldegundis Church in the 1970s, there was no longer any space in the old church to set up the organ at ground level. It was stored at the Seifert company in Kevelaer , where it was restored and expanded in 1974 and then installed in the new church.
Organ disposition:
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- Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Haas: Büttgen at zero hour, 1945 . In: Series of publications of the St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft Büttgen . 1st edition. tape 6 , 1984, pp. 73 .
- ^ Kunst-Kaarst: St. Aldegundis in Büttgen , accessed on June 20, 2017
- ^ Elisabeth Keldenich: A new roof for St. Aldegundi's report in the daily Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung on June 20, 2017, accessed on June 20, 2017
- ↑ www.kirchenmusik-kaarst.de
- ↑ www.kirchenmusik-kaarst.de
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ' N , 6 ° 36' E