St. Andreas (Stockheim)

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St. Andreas (Stockheim) on the left, in the background on the right the "Old Church"

St. Andreas is the Roman Catholic parish church of Stockheim , Kreuzau municipality , in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. Apostle Andrew consecrated.

location

The parish church is located in the center of Stockheim at the highest point in the village. Andreasstrasse runs north of the church building and the old church is directly to the south .

history

On the basis of archaeological finds it could be established that there was a small wooden church in Stockheim as early as the 9th century . This was replaced around the year 1000 by a stone church, the main parts of which are still preserved today. There is written evidence of a parish church in Stockheim in Liber valoris from 1308. Stockheim was already an independent parish at that time . At that time, the parish was part of the Deanery Zülpich in the Archdiocese of Cologne . The Kollationsrecht had to Franzosenzeit the lords of Burgau . In 1804 the parish was assigned to the newly founded diocese of Aachen , but returned to the archbishopric in 1825 after the diocese was dissolved. Stockheim has been part of the Aachen diocese again since 1930.

Building history

At the beginning of the 20th century the old parish church became too small and it was decided to build a new church. Between 1935 and 1937, today's parish church was added to the north side of the choir of the old church. The plans for this come from the architect Hubert Hermann from Aachen . The parish only received the building permit from the National Socialist leadership because they planned to confiscate the new church in order to set up a cinema here. However, because of the war, this did not happen.

The parish church was badly damaged during World War II . The damage was repaired in the 1950s. In 1984 the church was renovated under the direction of Jean Joseph Keller.

Building description

St. Andreas is a two-aisled church made of quarry stone with a rectangular choir facing north-south. It was built in the form of homeland security architecture. There are 204 seats available for believers.

Furnishing

The altar is a work of dolomite and was consecrated on November 25, 1984 and is a work by Sepp Hürten. He also made the sacrament house with tabernacle . The chalice-shaped baptismal font from 1738 made of black marble , a cross with a crucifix from the same time and some figures of saints were taken over from the old church .

Pastor

The following pastors have worked in the parish of St. Andreas so far:

from ... to Surname
1928-1934 Anton Rocca
1934-1940 Heinrich Zimmermann
1940-1958 Anton Werth
1959-1981 Franz Bonnen
1981-1991 Rolf Knips
1991-2002 ?
Since 2002? Walter Hütten

Web links

Commons : St. Andreas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 404.
  2. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 404.
  3. ↑ Stockheim Old Church. In: Stockheimer Interest Group website . Retrieved on October 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 404.

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 21.7 "  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 41.4"  E