St. Barbara (Rescheid)

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St. Barbara is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Hellenthal district of Rescheid in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

View through the nave to the organ gallery

The church is St. Martyr Barbara and St. Consecrated to Nicholas . The parish includes the branches Giescheid with the St. Bartholomew chapel and Schnorrenberg with the St. Antonius chapel as well as the villages of Kamberg , Neuhaus and Schwalenbach .

location

The church building is in the center of Rescheid on the east side of Kreisstraße 68. The building is at a height of over 630 meters.

General

In 1624 there is evidence of a chapel with its own vicar for Rescheid. Until the French era, Rescheid was a branch of the Reifferscheid parish and was raised to an independent parish in 1803 . At that time Rescheid belonged to the Diocese of Trier and in 1825 it was assigned to the Archdiocese of Cologne . The parish has belonged to the Aachen diocese since 1930 . In 1995, the parish was significantly reduced in size by the elevation of the former Wolfert branch to an independent parish on December 3rd.

Building history

The chapel mentioned in 1624 became dilapidated in the middle of the 19th century and a new building was necessary. Between 1881 and 1882 a new church was built in neo-Gothic style, of which the tower and choir are still preserved today. The parish church was badly damaged between 1944 and 1945 by the effects of World War II .

The reconstruction took place until 1949 according to plans by the architect Peter Hensen. Hensen only received the choir , northern side choir and bell tower of the pre-war building and rebuilt the nave in modern forms . In 1975 and 1985 the church was renovated under the direction of Peter Lenzen, Hellenthal.

Building description

St. Barbara is a three-aisled hall church in modern forms with remains of the previous church. The chorus is geostete einjochig and closed on three sides and is supported by a ribbed vault spans. The three-storey bell tower with an eight-sided dome is attached to the south wall and a side choir closed on three sides on the north side. These components from 1881/1882 are built in the neo-Gothic style. This is followed by the three-bay and three-aisled nave from the late 1940s, which is covered with a plastered flat ceiling. The building is structured mainly by outer buttresses and arched twin windows. The outside of the church is plastered and whitewashed, as is typical of the church buildings in this region.

Furnishing

There is modern equipment in the church. The organ is a work by the Hellenthal organ builder Weimbs , Opus 4, from 1934. The instrument has a pneumatic action and 10 registers distributed across two manuals and a pedal .

Pastor

The following pastors have worked as pastors at St. Barbara so far:

from ... to Surname
1922-1932 Pure small
1932-1937 Anton Theissen
1937-1940 Wilhelm Haerten
1940-1944 Johann Meurer
1953-1985 Josef Wolter
1985-1987 Josef Witt
1987-1989 Winfried Reidt
1989–? Otto Stephan
1989-2009 Lothar Tillmann
Since 2009 Philipp Cuck

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 539.
  2. ↑ Church was consecrated in 1933. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved September 2, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 540.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 6.1 ″  E