St. Aloysius (Oberbruch)

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Aloysius is located in the Oberbruch district in the town of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The church is the center of the place. It is in Oberbruch on the corner of Anton-Schürkes-Strasse and Boos-Fremery-Strasse. The free-standing church building allows viewing from different perspectives .

history

The first chapel dates from 1859. Plans for a new building or an extension were submitted by Peter Bartz from Heinsberg. After the founding of the St. Aloysius-Building Association in 1900 it was decided to demolish the old chapel and build a new church. The foundation stone was laid on June 16, 1907 . The church was completed in 1907 on January 24, 1945 blast destroyed. The church was rebuilt in 1951/52 according to plans by architect Peter Salm from Aachen . The still standing south aisle was included. The solemn consecration was on July 1, 1956. In 1966 a wooden ceiling was put in, and in 1976 the church was renovated.

Today St. Aloysius belongs to the community of communities (GdG) Heinsberg-Oberbruch ( Diocese of Aachen ).

architecture

The church is a reinforced concrete frame with brick filling and a southern, low aisle. The top is slightly arched. The sanctuary is closed with a round arch. To the north of the chancel is the four-sided tower with a four-sided pyramid helmet.

Furnishing

• The organ with 33 registers , with an electro-pneumatic action ( cone shutter ) from 1955, was built by Johannes Klais from Bonn . A renovation was carried out in 1979 by Wilbrand from Übach-Palenberg . It was not until 2017 that the organ was completely renovated by organ builder Romanus Seifert & Sohn , Kevelaer , while retaining the original technology .
• A tower clock is built into the church tower .
• The church has stained glass .
• Altar of Blaustein, Tabernacle of bronze , several saints

Bells

The Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast a bronze bell for the old, destroyed St. Aloysius Church as early as 1907; However, this hangs today in the Chapel of the Holy Family in Erkelenz-Oerath. In 1931 Otto cast four bronze bells for St. Aloysius. Of these, only the largest bell, tuned to d ', has been used. The three smaller bells were melted down during World War II. In 1957 Otto added three bells with the same intonation to the ringing.

Surname	Chime	diameter in mm	Weight in kg	Caster	Casting year
1st bell	d¹	1470	2060	Bell foundry Otto , Bremen-Hemelingen	1931
2nd bell	it¹	1295	1445	Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen	1957
3rd bell	f¹	1153	1041	Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen	1957
4th bell	as¹	970	625	Bell foundry Otto, Bremen - Hemelingen	1957

Motif: "Filled out des¹ major triad"

gallery

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  South side

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  Southwest side

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  Northeast side

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  Northwest side

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  East Side

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  Bell tower

literature

• Episcopal General Vicariate Aachen (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen, B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7
• Volume Eight 1904: The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province by Paul Clemen

Web links

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

• 75 years of the parish of St. Aloysius Oberbruch 1918-1993
• St. Lambertus in the Gdg Heinsberg-Oberbruch
• The community of communities Heinsberg-Oberbruch
• The parish of St. Aloysius Oberbruch

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinsberg-Oberbruch, Catholic Church of St. Aloysius. on the website of the 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation Foundation
2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 515, 537, 555 .
3. ↑ 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 pp. 480, 496, 510 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 40 ″  N , 6 ° 8 ′ 48 ″  E