St. Antonius (Hambach)

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Parish Church of St. Antonius

The Catholic parish church of St. Antonius is a listed church building in Hambach , a district of Niederzier in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The parish church is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Anthony the Great .

history

Hambach originally belonged to the Niederzier parish , a smaller part belonged to the Selgersdorf parish . At first the place did not have its own church, only Hambach Castle had its own chapel. Hambach received its own church in 1419 and was now a subsidiary of St. Cäcilia, Niederzier. On February 22, 1576, Niederzier and its elevation to a parish were completely separated . The dukes of Jülich were collators of the parish church until the French era .

During the Reformation , Anabaptists tried to gain a foothold in Hambach and the surrounding area, but they did not succeed. Hambach remained Catholic. Until 1802 Hambach was a parish in the deanery Jülich in the Archdiocese of Cologne and then came to the newly founded diocese of Aachen . The Archdiocese of Cologne was dissolved. In 1825 the Archdiocese of Cologne was re-established and the Diocese of Aachen dissolved, so Hambach came back to the Archdiocese. Since 1930 the parish has belonged again to the re-established diocese of Aachen.

Building history

Since there was no church in Hambach, Duke Rainald I of Jülich decided to have a church built for the Hambach population. The dukes of Jülich owned a hunting lodge here. The old part of the parish church, which has remained almost unchanged to this day, was created around the year 1419. The solemn consecration took place much later on February 22, 1576 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Theobald Craschel . At the same time the branch church was elevated to a parish church.

In the two years 1879 and 1880 the parish church was thoroughly restored. The Cologne architect Heinrich Wiethase was in charge . In doing so, u. a. the tracery of the windows renewed. Otherwise the building fabric remained almost unchanged.

The damage caused by the Second World War could be repaired by 1958. Since Hambach increased significantly in population after the war, the medieval parish church was too small and an extension was decided. In 1971 and 1972, a large concrete extension was built on the south side of the parish church according to plans by the Mönchengladbach architect Willi Decker . This extension is connected with three passages to the old church, which has served as a weekday church ever since.

Building description

The cross-rib vaulted brick hall is located with the choir in the 7/12 end under one roof. The west tower is crowned by a slate pyramid. The dazzling structure is typical of late Gothic towers on the Lower Rhine . The tracery are renewed. The effect of the late Gothic building is significantly impaired by the concrete extension built in 1972 on the south side. In the interior, the walls in the nave and in the choir are divided by niches. The keystones are adorned with the Lamb of God , the Cross of St. Anthony and the coat of arms of Duke Rainald I and his wife Maria von Harcourt.

The extension is a modern three-aisled hall church in four bays . The choir in the east is closed on both sides and has the width of the central nave.

Furnishing

In the old church there is a neo-Gothic interior that was acquired after the renovation in 1880. These include the high altar with a stone cafeteria and wooden reredos , the 14 stations of the cross , the figures of the Sacred Heart , the Sacred Heart of Mary , the Mother of God and St. Joseph . Also worth mentioning is the historicist ornamental painting in the vault and the window niches from the second half of the 19th century.

In the new part of the church there is modern equipment from the 1970s. The people's altar was created from marble in 1974 based on a design by the architect Willi Decker. The hanging cross in the chancel is a bronze cast by artist Peter Bücken from Kohlscheid in 1974. On the north and south walls there is an ornamental painting that the artist and glass painter Ernst Jansen-Winkeln created around 1980.

organ

The organ was built by the Bonn company Johannes Klais Orgelbau as MV 87 in 1898 and is located in the old church. In 1955, the instrument was rebuilt by the builder company and its disposition changed significantly. Since then it has had 15 registers and one transmission . The originally fully pneumatic organ has had electro-pneumatic cone chests since 1955 .

The disposition since 1955 has been as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Wooden flute 8th'
Soft flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 '
mixture III-IV
II Positive C-g 3
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Transverse flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Schalmey 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 '
bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, II / I Sub, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : Trigger, hand registration, free combination I, free combination II, tutti

Bells

The late Gothic bell tower are 5 bells of bronze . The oldest and largest bell is the Antonius bell from 1419. It is a joint effort by the two Cologne bell founders Christian Kloit and Johann Wael. The second oldest and smallest bell was cast by Christoph von Trier in 1672. He was a member of the well-known von Trier bell foundry family from Aachen . The three middle bells were cast in Brockscheid in 1973 by Johannes Mark, owner of the Eifeler bell foundry Mark .

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 
1 Antony 1,330 1,530 e ' Johann Wael & Christian Kloit 1419
2 - - - g ' Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 1973
3 - - - a ' Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 1973
4th - - - c " Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 1973
5 - 720 225 e " Christoph von Trier, Aachen 1672

Pastor

The following pastors have been pastors to St. Antonius so far:

from ... to Surname
before 1830-1833 Johann Hommerich
1833-1874 Karl Anton Caspar Ignatius Minderjahn
1874-1886 Friedrich Engels (parish administrator)
1886-1889 Christian Lussem (Parish Administrator)
1889-1900 Christian Lussem
1900-1908 Franz Münstermann
1908-1934 Josef Jülich
1934-1961 Heinrich sheep goose
1961-1991 Josef Melchers
1992-1993 Winfried Gehlen
1994-2000 Petro Stanusic
2000-2008 Rick van den Berg
Since 2009 Andreas Galbierz

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Niederzier Church at: st-caecilia-niederzier.de
  2. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 324 f.
  3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 325.
  4. ^ Organs in the region - St. Antonius Hambach. In: Kirchenmusik-Dueren.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bell music in the Düren region
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqdkGZ9G_1E
  7. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 324.
  8. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 2, Cologne 1830, p. 28.
  9. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 13, Cologne 1872, p. 163.
  10. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 14, Cologne 1878, p. 167.
  11. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 15, Cologne 1888, p. 206.
  12. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 17, Cologne 1895, p. 206.
  13. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 19, Cologne 1905, p. 190.

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 51.4 "  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 44.4"  E