St. Andreas (Glehn)

St. Andreas, view to the tower

St. Andreas, Glehn

St. Andreas is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Mechernich district of Glehn in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. Apostle Andreas consecrated and entered in the list of architectural monuments in Mechernich under number 121 . The parish also has a hostel with a chapel dedicated to St. Moors .

location

St. Andreas is located in the center of Glehn at the corner of Weberstrasse and Fronhofstrasse.

history

Glehn is an ancient parish . A pastor named Nikolaus is mentioned as early as 1291, so there was a church in Glehn even then. In the Liber valoris of 1308, Glehn is also listed as a parish in the Deanery Zülpich . The right of patronage belonged to the Andreasstift in Cologne from at least 1284 until the French times . The patronage of the parish church can also be traced back to this monastery . The parish was originally much larger, so the places Bergbuir , Denrath , Kalenberg and Lückerath also belonged to the parish. However, these places were repared in 1803. Kalenberg came to the parish Dottel , the other places mentioned came to the parish Bleibuir . So only hostel remained with Glehn. During this time the parish also came to the newly founded diocese of Aachen , in 1825 the Or fell back to the archbishopric of Cologne as before and since 1930 Glehn has been part of the re-established diocese of Aachen.

Building history

The tower of the church mentioned in Liber valoris is still preserved, it was built in the 12th century. In the 15th century the Romanesque nave was demolished and replaced by a two-aisled nave with a choir in the Gothic style . In 1866 a south aisle was added, creating a three-aisled hall . In this form, the parish church has remained almost unchanged to this day.

The Second World War caused only minor damage, but an earthquake in 1951 hit the building hard. The damage could not be repaired until 1961, the management of this work was headed by architect Werner Geyer from Mechernich. In 1984 the church was renovated again.

Building description

St. Andreas is a three-aisled and two- bay step hall church with a five-sided closed choir in Gothic forms with a Romanesque bell tower built in front with an eight-sided bent helmet. The interior is spanned by ribbed vaults.

Furnishing

Historical furnishings have been preserved in the interior. The two side altars in the side aisles are baroque and were made in the 18th century. The high altar in the choir dates from the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century and was made in the neo-Romanesque style. The organ is the work of the Müller brothers from Reifferscheid , who built it in 1850. It has 10 registers and was initially in a different church, but was moved to the parish church of Glehn in 1870.

The stained glass windows were all made before the war and not destroyed. The windows in the choir were created around 1900. They show Mary and John under the cross, St. Charles Borromeo and St. Julia of Corsica , St. Barbara of Nicomedia and St. Hilary of Poitiers . The windows in the side aisles were made by Dr. H. Oidtmann from Linnich employed around 1920. These windows also represent saints.

Pastor

The following priests have worked as pastors in the parish of St. Agnes:

from ... to	Surname
1924-1941	Nicholas Albertus
1941-1967	Karl Paulus
1967-1993	Otto Boehm
Since 1997	Heinz-Josef Arenz

Web links

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

Internet presence of the parish of St. Andreas Glehn

Individual evidence

↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 554.
↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 554
↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 554
↑ Mechernich-Glehn, Catholic Church of St. Andreas. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on December 11, 2018 .
↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 547.

50.60407 6.59468Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 14.7 " N , 6 ° 35 ′ 40.8" E

[1] Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 554.

[2] Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 554

[3] Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, Aachen 1994, p. 554

[4] Mechernich-Glehn, Catholic Church of St. Andreas. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on December 11, 2018 .

[5] Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 547.