St. Andreas (Setterich)

Church bell tower

St. Andreas is a Roman Catholic branch church in the Baesweiler district of Setterich in the city ​​region of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. Apostle Andrew consecrated. The church belongs to the large parish of St. Marien Baesweiler.

location

The church building is located in the center of Setterich on the corner of Hauptstraße (L 50) and An der Burg. The Maria Hilf nursing home and the castle park are directly behind the church.

history

A church of Setterich was first listed in a document from 1119, in which Udo von Mulsforth donated his share in the church of Setterich to the Rolduc Abbey . Setterich was probably already an independent parish at that time . Since a foundation fair for Heriberta von Heristal, a niece of Charlemagne , has been read annually in Setterich for many centuries , it can be assumed that a church in Setterich already existed in the Carolingian era . In 1270 Hapernus was pastor of Setterich. The patronage right had always belonged to the Lords of Setterich until the French era . In the Liber valoris from 1308, Setterich is listed as a parish in the Deanery Jülich in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

In 1804 the parish came to the newly founded Diocese of Aachen , but in 1825 it fell back to the Archdiocese of Cologne. Since it was re-established in 1930, Setterich has been part of the Aachen diocese again.

On January 1, 2013, the parish of St. Andreas Setterich, like all five other parishes in the urban area of ​​Baesweiler, was dissolved and merged into the new parish of St. Marien.

Building history

The parish church mentioned in 1119 was a Romanesque church. This structure was completely demolished in 1863.

At the same location, a new three-aisled hall church in the neo-Gothic style was built in 1863 according to plans by the Cologne diocesan master builder Vincenz Statz . During the Second World War , the church was completely destroyed on November 10, 1944.

Since reconstruction was out of the question due to the almost complete destruction and the necessary financial means were lacking for a new church, a wooden barrack for the Reich Labor Service was obtained in 1945 and an emergency church was set up in it . This was in use until September 30, 1961 and was then used for a few years by a clothing factory and various clubs. In 1979 it was finally demolished.

Since the emergency church was only intended as a temporary solution, the Settericher tried to build a new church, for which had been collected since the end of the war. In 1960 the financial means for a new building were finally available, so that architect Stefan Leuer could be commissioned with the planning for the new church. In the same year, construction work began on the same place where the old church had stood. The new parish church was completed in 1961. Finally, on October 1st, 1961, the church was consecrated by the Aachen Bishop Johannes Pohlschneider .

With the parish merger in 2013, the church lost the rank of parish church and has been a subsidiary church since then.

Building description

St. Andreas is an elliptical church with a flat roof and free-standing round campanile in modern forms . The sanctuary is on the south side. In the east, a Marienakapelle is attached to the main building.

Furnishing

There is modern equipment in the church. The altar made of trachyte was created according to a design by Stefan Leuer in 1961, as was the altar in the Marienkapelle. The cross in the chancel is a work by Sepp Hürten , the tabernacle was created by Gerd Thewis. These pieces of equipment also date from the 1960s. The organ from 1971 is the work of the organ building company Heinz Wilbrand from Übach-Palenberg and has 24 registers and a mechanical action . The stained glass windows were created by the well-known glass painter Ludwig Schaffrath in 1967.

Bells

Setterich has a very sonorous and voluminous peal. There is also a Michael Bell (death bell) used as a soloist.

Marienglocke ..... fis'-4 ...... Monasterium in Münster ............. 1959 ... 810 kg

Redeemer bell .... g sharp '- / + 0 .... Willibrord Sticky & Urbanus Mabilot ... 1781 ... 550 kg

Andreas bell .... h'-5 ........ Petit and Gebrüder Edelbrock .......... 1951 ... 300 kg

Michael Bell ... e "-4 ........ Wilhelm Hoerken ....................... 1458 ... 110 kg

Pastor

The following pastors worked at St. Andreas as pastors until the parish was dissolved in 2013:

from ... to	Surname
Around 1270	Hapernus
Around 1500	Wilhelm von Yssenheim
Around 1804	Franz Joseph Schick
1926-1935	Hermann Haller
1935-1946	Leo Havenith
1946-1981	Joseph Stegers
1981-1994	Dietmar Heckenbach
1995-2003	Burkhard Strerath
2003-2004	Werner Fölsing
2004-2006	Franz-Josef guests
2007-2010	Hermann Küppers and Burkhard Kroh
2011-2018	Ferdi Bruckes

Web links

• Homepage of the parish of St. Marien Baesweiler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (Ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 190.
2. ↑ Merger of the communities musically sealed. In: Aachener Zeitung. January 2, 2013, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
3. ↑ The Medieval Church. In: Setterich History Association website. Retrieved March 2, 2018 . 
4. ↑ The neo-Gothic hall church. In: Setterich History Association website. Retrieved March 2, 2018 . 
5. ^ The emergency church. In: Setterich History Association website. Retrieved March 2, 2018 . 
6. ↑ The New Church. In: Setterich History Association website. Retrieved March 2, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 191.
8. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 191.
9. ↑ Baesweiler-Setterich, Catholic Church of St. Andreas. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on March 2, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 187.
11. ↑ "Double top" warmly welcomed. In: Aachener Zeitung. August 5, 2007, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
12. ^ Pastor Ferdi Bruckes goes to Baesweiler. In: Aachener Zeitung. December 14, 2010, accessed March 2, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 21 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 10.6 ″  E