St. Apollonia (Steckenborn)

St. Apollonia in Steckenborn

St. Apollonia, interior

Interior with a view of the organ gallery

St. Apollonia is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Simmerath district of Steckenborn in the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is St. Apollonia of Alexandria , consecrated to an early Christian martyr and entered under number 70 in the list of architectural monuments in Simmerath . Hechelscheid also belongs to the parish .

location

The parish church is located in the center of Steckenborn at the confluence of the street Auf der Höhe with the street In Steckenborn (L 128). There is an inn in front of the church and the youth home behind the church.

history

Steckenborn has belonged to the Simmerath parish since the Middle Ages . At the end of the 17th century, the residents of Steckenborn wanted their own place of worship, because until then the place had no church of its own. The then Simmerath pastor Peter Richartz supported this project. The foundation for a church building was created by the foundation of a piece of land by the married couple Maria and Peter Gerards. The first church in Steckenborn was built by 1702, which was now a branch church of the Simmerath parish. In 1705 the place got its own vicar .

During the reorganization of the parishes and dioceses in the French era , Steckenborn was separated from Simmerath in 1804 and raised to the status of an independent parish . This parish was assigned to the newly founded diocese of Aachen . Since this diocese was dissolved again in 1825, the parish came back to the Archdiocese of Cologne . Since the re-establishment of the diocese of Aachen, Steckenborn has belonged to this diocese again since 1930 .

Building history

The first church in Steckenborn, completed between 1700 and 1702, was designed by the local builder Hubert Nießen. The church was a simple hall construction in forms of Baroque and was built in August 1702 benediziert . At the turn of the 20th century this church became too small and it was decided to build a new and larger church on the site of the old parish church.

The current parish church was built from 1905 to 1906 according to plans by the Cologne diocesan master builder Franz Statz in neo -Gothic style. The solemn consecration of the new church took place on July 9, 1907.

During the Second World War , the church was blown up by German soldiers in 1944, the roofs collapsed and the vaults in the nave . In 1950 and 1951, the reconstruction took place in slightly simplified forms. The roofs were rebuilt lower and a new barrel vault was inserted in the nave. Otherwise the building remained unchanged. Architect Carl Hermes from Kesternich directed the reconstruction. In 1963 the church received a much larger sacristy . Leo Weber from Kesternich provided the plans.

Building description

St. Apollonia is a single-nave hall church in three bays with a single-bay and three-sided closed choir in the east. The windows are ogival and the three-storey bell tower is built in front of the nave on the west side. The nave is spanned by a pointed barrel vault, the choir has a ribbed vault .

Furnishing

The altar is designed in the shape of a chalice and was created in 1968. The tabernacle is a work by the Cologne artist Maria Schlicker , also in 1968. The font is made of sandstone and was taken from the old church. It was created in 1702 and the brass lid in 1824. There is also a wooden cross from 1856 in the church and several painted wooden figures of saints. The organ has 19 stops on an electric action and was made by the Aachen organ building firm Karl Bach . The stained glass windows from 1970 are works by Heinrich Geuer .

Bells

In the bell tower there is a three-part bronze bell . The two larger bells were cast by Feldmann & Marschel in Münster in 1952. The smallest bell is the work of bell founder Jakob von Trier from 1652. It was in the parish church of St. Rochus in Wollseifen until 1946 .

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	-	-	800	f 1	Josef Feldmann and Georg Marschel, Feldmann & Marschel, Münster	1952
2	-	-	460	as 1	Josef Feldmann and Georg Marschel, Feldmann & Marschel, Münster	1952
3	Michael	767	265	c 2	Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher	1652

Pastor

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

from ... to	Surname
1928-1944	Bernhard Freischheim
1944-1953	Bernhard Schmitz
1954-1980	Wilhelm Laufenberg
1981-1993	Robert Frings
1993-2010	Hermann van Gorp
Since 2010	Michael Stoffels

Web links

Commons : Saint Apollonia Church (Steckenborn)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, edited by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, pp. 613–614.
2. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 616.
3. ↑ Steckenborn. (No longer available online.) In: Website Geschichtsverein des Monschauer Landes eV Archived from the original on May 10, 2016 ; accessed on October 20, 2017 . 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.  
4. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 616.
5. ↑ Simmerath-Steckenborn, Catholic Church of St. Apollonia. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on October 20, 2017 . 
6. ^ Matthias Dichter: video description Simmerath-Steckenborn (D), cath. Church of St Apollonia - Michael's Bell c. In: YouTube. January 12, 2011, accessed October 20, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 11.3 ″  E