St. Brigida (Baal)

St. Brigida in Baal

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St. Brigida is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Hückelhoven district of Baal in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is St. Brigida von Kildare and entered under number 91 in the list of architectural monuments in Hückelhoven . The parish also includes the Ophoverhof and the Scherreshof.

location

The church building is located in the center of Baal on Aachener Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 56 ). Due to the space situation, the church is not easted, the tower is on Aachener Straße and faces southeast and the choir faces northwest. The Baaler Bach flows directly in front of the parish church along Aachener Straße .

history

Baal has always belonged to the parish of Doveren and only had its own church relatively late. It was not until the 1770s that a chapel was built in Baal, in which Holy Mass could be celebrated with the permission of Prince-Bishop of Liège Franz Karl von Velbrück on September 22, 1778 . Before that, the faithful had to visit St. Dionysius Church in neighboring Doveren to attend church services. At that time the Baal Bach formed the diocesan border between the diocese of Liège and the archbishopric of Cologne . As a result, the northern part of Baal, including the chapel, belonged to the diocese of Liège, just like the parish of Doveren, and the southern part belonged to the archbishopric of Cologne.

In the course of the restructuring of the diocesan and parish borders during the French era , Baal came to the newly founded diocese of Aachen in 1802 and has not been divided into two dioceses since then. After the dissolution of the Diocese of Aachen, Baal came to the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1825, but Baal was still part of the Doveren parish. The place gained ecclesiastical independence in the course of the elevation to a parish on September 17, 1848. Since 1930 Baal has belonged again to the re-founded diocese of Aachen.

Building history

A chapel in Baal was built in 1778, before that there seems to have been no church of its own in Baal. The Liège prince-bishop subsequently issued the building permit for this on September 22, 1778, because on September 3, 1778 the responsible pastor of Doveren, Johannes Schmitz, informed the bishop of the completion of the chapel. In 1835 the chapel, which was located on the site of today's parish church, was expanded. In the course of the parish elevation in 1848, the previous chapel received the status of parish church.

Due to the increase in population, the small parish church was no longer sufficient in the second half of the 19th century, so it was decided to build a new one at the same location. Between 1889 and 1890, today's parish church was built next to the old church according to plans by the Neuss government master builder Julius Busch . The old church was then torn down. The solemn church consecration took place 15 years after completion on July 17, 1905.

The Second World War caused severe damage to the parish church. The ribbed vaults all collapsed, the spire and the tracery of the windows were destroyed. The reconstruction lasted until 1951. The vaults were replaced by a flat wooden ceiling and instead of the eight-sided spire, the bell tower was given a pyramid roof .

Building description

Fleiter organ from 1989

St. Brigida is a single-nave, four-bay hall church made of bricks with a four-story bell tower in front of it and a retracted choir, closed on five sides, in the neo-Gothic style . After being destroyed in the war, the interior was rebuilt without the vaults and the windows have no tracery since then. The believers are offered 230 seats.

Furnishing

Since the original equipment was destroyed in the war, St. Brigida has modern equipment. Peter Haak, Erkelenz , created the altar in 1973 from Cristallina marble. The ambo and the sacrament house also come from him . The tabernacle , which is built into the sacrament house, consists of pit melt and is a work by Hubertus Förster, Aachen , from 1973. The cross behind the altar also comes from Förster. The organ from 1989 is the work of Orgelbau Fleiter from Münster- Nienberge and has 14 stops on a mechanical action . The stained glass windows in the nave are works by the Hinsbeck glass painter Johannes Beeck from 1959 and 1964, the windows in the choir were designed by glass painter Paul Weigmann in 1981.

Bells

The four-part bell for the church was cast in 1967 by Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher . The disposition is the so-called prefection motif or motif “O Savior tear open the heavens”.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Weight (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	inscription
1	Christ the King	1150	950	f ' + -0	+ CHRIST KING, YOUR KINGDOM COME!
2	Maria	970	550	as ' +1	+ MARIA, QUEEN OF PEACE, PRAY FOR US
3	Brigida	855	380	b ' + -0	+ HL. BRIGIDA, PROTECT OUR CHURCH!
4th	Joseph	763	270	c " + -0	+ HL. JOFEF, PROTECT THE CHURCH!

Pastor

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

from ... to	Surname
1923-1937	Franz Klein
1937-1942	Matthias Berg
1942-1965	Arnold Bauer
1965-1987	Henk Veldhuis
1988–?	Manfred Engels
2009-2014	José Kallupilankal
2014-2016	Vacant
2016-2018	Georg Kaufmann

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 763.
2. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 763.
3. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, pp. 763–764.
4. ↑ Hückelhoven-Baal, Catholic Church of St. Brigida. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on March 17, 2018 . 
5. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Glockenmusik in der Heinsberg region , p. 298 f.
6. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (Ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 763.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 43.6 ″  E