St. Ambrose (Irrel)
St. Ambrosius is the Roman Catholic parish church of Irrel in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
parish
Irrel belonged to the parish of Echternach as a branch until the French era . Only in the course of the parish registrations by the French was Irrel raised to an independent parish in 1803 . Initially, the Irreler Mühle branches and the part of Prümzurlay on the right of the Prüm with the branch church of St. Nicholas belonged to the parish . In 1870, the part to the left of the Prüm was finally parished. In 2007, the Menningen branches with the St. Agatha branch church , which had previously belonged to the Edingen parish, and Minden with the St. Silvester branch church were re-parish to Irrel.
Church building
A church in Irrel was first mentioned in 1330. Around 1510 this church, about which nothing is known, was demolished and replaced by a new Gothic building. This was consecrated on October 28, 1510. The bell tower of this building is still preserved today.
The current parish church was built elsewhere in the years 1961 to 1962, because the old church was too small and badly damaged by the Second World War , so that only the bell tower could be preserved. The new church was on September 2, 1962 consecrated .
architecture
St. Ambrosius is a post-war modern building . The building has three aisles, with the two aisles being very narrow and low. In addition, the church was built in an east-west orientation and has a free-standing, hexagonal, slender bell tower. The choir is closed on both sides. The choir and main nave are spanned by a wooden ceiling that reveals the shape of the roof.
Furnishing
In the interior there are some pieces of equipment from the old church. The baroque high altar , the baroque pulpit and some figures of saints deserve special mention. The right side altar comes from the church of Prümzurlay and was also created in the baroque period.
organ
The organ is the work of the London organ builder Alfred Hunter from 1870. It was modified and restored in 1901 by organ builder James Ivimey from Southampton and in 1961 by the London company Degens & Rippin. Until it was dismantled in 2012, the instrument was in St. Simon's Church in Southsea , Hampshire and was rebuilt between 2012 and 2014 by the company Orgelbau Fasen from Oberbettingen and installed in Irrel in 2014. On September 6th, the organ was consecrated and put into operation by the Trier Auxiliary Bishop Helmut This . The instrument has 42 registers plus 14 transmissions, which result in a romantic sound.
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- Playing aids: typesetters, key chains, transposers
Individual evidence
- ↑ History on the website of the Irrel parish community, February 6, 2016 ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St. Ambrosius in Irrel on the website of the Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung, February 6, 2016
- ↑ Information on the organ and its disposition on the Orgelbau Fasen website, February 6, 2016
Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 43.9 ″ N , 6 ° 27 ′ 20 ″ E