St. Audomar (Frechen)
St. Audomar is the Roman Catholic parish church in Frechen ( Rhein-Erft district ) in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
In the biography of St. Audomar from the year 955 in the Acta Sanctorum , the Frechen church is expressly mentioned. The church was dedicated to this West Franconian bishop. The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Bertin and the canons of Saint Omer were entitled to the tithe and the income of the Frechen church according to a deed of Charles the Bald from the year 877. Since the founding of the church must be related to the West Franconian monasteries, this explains the Audomar patronage, which is unusual for the region . In 1553, Count Theodor von Manderscheidt took over the claims, which were probably difficult to control because of the distance, from the two spiritual institutions.
During the Truchsessian War the church was set on fire. The tower and nave were renewed in 1714, the choir remained. With the exception of the tower, the church was demolished in 1857 and rebuilt in neo-Romanesque form according to plans by the cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner . In 1909 the tower was laid down, the nave was extended by a yoke to the west and a new tower was added.
Historical tombs
Some very old tombs have been preserved in the entrance area of the church. For Hermann Spies von Büllesheim , lord of the no longer existing Spiessburg in Frechen, who died in 1571, there is a tomb made of brown sandstone (left of the entrance). On the right, in the Fatima Chapel, is the tomb with coat of arms for Johann von Lützenrath von Vorst and his wife Judith von Selbach, enfeoffed with manor Haus Vorst bei Frechen, who died in 1588 and 1591.
organ
Since 2005 the church has had an instrument with 3 manuals and a pedal over 38 registers made by Johannes Klais / Bonn . The organ has the following disposition :
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling : II / I, III / I, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Sub-octave coupling : II / I, II / II
- Super octave coupling : II / I, II / II
Bells
Before the Second World War, Frecheren parish church received five bronze bells from the renowned Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen in 1924 and 1930 . The four bells that were cast in 1924 were confiscated and melted down during World War II. The b 0 bell delivered in 1930 survived the World War and today hangs together with four Otto bells cast in 1950 in the tower of St. Audomar. The strike tone series of the five-part chime is: b 0 - c '- es' - f '- g'. The bells have the following diameters: 1770 mm, 1609 mm, 1352 mm, 1205 mm, 1074 mm. Their weights are: 4000 kg, 2550 kg, 1550 kg, 1050 kg, 750 kg.
literature
- Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the Rhine province , Vol. 4: District of Cologne, Düsseldorf 1897.
- Frank Kretzschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district , Cologne 2005.
Web links
- Parish of St. Audomar, Frechen ( Memento from March 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 158, 314, 315, 402, 406, 410 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 281, 282, 283, 487, 495, 504 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud University Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 35 " N , 6 ° 48 ′ 57" E