St. Barbara (Rurberg)

St. Barbara (Rurberg), south side with rectory

St. Barbara is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Simmerath district of Rurberg in the city ​​region of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Interior with a view of the altar

View to the organ gallery

The church is St. Martyred Barbara of Nicomedia . The Woffelsbach branch with the Wendelinus Chapel as well as the Hannesauel and the Wildenhof also belong to the parish .

location

The parish church is located in the center of Rurberg between Dorfstrasse and Friedhofstrasse in the Rur Valley .

history

The first church in Rurberg was built at the end of the 17th century. The Rurbergers asked the Cologne Vicariate to provide their own pastor for this chapel . The Vicariate General complied with the request and in 1701 sent the priest Theodor Stollenwerk to Rurberg. As rector, he was subordinate to the pastor of Simmerath. Rurberg has belonged to the parish of Simmerath since the Middle Ages . During the French occupation in the so-called French era , the parishes and dioceses were restructured. In 1804, Rurberg was detached from Simmerath and made an independent parish . The new parish came at the same time to the newly founded diocese of Aachen . With the dissolution of the diocese, Rurberg came back to the Archdiocese of Cologne as before . Since 1930 the parish has belonged again to the Aachen diocese.

Building history

The branch church , built before 1700, was officially recognized by the Archbishopric of Cologne on November 17, 1701. In 1804 the chapel was raised to parish church in the course of the parish elevation. The building was a four-bay hall church made of quarry stone in Baroque shapes , which was vaulted in the interior by ribbed vaults . In 1907 the church was expanded to include a vestibule in the west, which was built by the Steckenborn contractor Johann Nellessen. The plans for this came from the Cologne diocesan master builder Franz Statz .

At the end of World War II , the parish church was completely destroyed on February 4, 1945 by the detonation of an ammunition depot in the neighborhood .

After the rubble had been removed, the construction of today's parish church began in 1948 on the same site. The foundation stone was laid on July 13, 1948, and the new church was completed in 1950. The consecration took place on December 4, 1950. The plans come from the hand of the Düsseldorf architect Wilhelm Mohné .

Building description

St. Barbara is a single-nave hall church made of quarry stone with four window axes in modern shapes . The choir is narrower than the nave and is closed round. The bell tower is built in front of the nave in the west and has a tent roof . The interior is spanned by a flat wooden ceiling. There are 130 seats available for the faithful.

Furnishing

The interior is modern. The altar is made of bluestone and was made in 1950. The font was created in 1702 and has survived the destruction of the war. The organ is a work of the Aachener Orgelbauanstalt Karl Bach from 1957. The instrument has 15 registers and an electric action . All stained glass windows are works by Claus Kerwer from 1956.

Bells

In the bell tower there is a four-part bronze bell , which was cast by the Eifeler bell foundry Mark from Brockscheid .

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	-	-	-	f sharp 1	Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid	1960
2	-	-	-	a 1	Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid	1960
3	-	-	-	h 1	Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid	1960
4th	-	-	-	c sharp 2	Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid	1960

Pastor

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

from ... to	Surname
1930-1944	Hubert Wurth
1944-1952	Wilhelm Ziemons
1952-1981	Johannes Meurer
1981-1982	Robert Frings
1982-2000?	Thomas Census
2000-2010	?
Since 2010	Michael Stoffels

Web links

Commons : St. Barbara  - 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. 610.
2. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 610.
3. ↑ Rurberg. (No longer available online.) In: Website Geschichtsverein des Monschauer Landes eV Archived from the original on April 16, 2016 ; accessed on October 21, 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. 610.
5. ^ Simmerath-Rurberg, Catholic Church of St. Barbara. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on October 21, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 52.5 ″  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 54.1 ″  E