St. Brigida (Venwegen)

St. Brigida, Venwegen

St. Brigida is the Catholic parish church of about Stolberg belonging resort Venwegen and the Roetgener hamlet Mulartshütte . The church is a listed building.

architecture

St. Brigida was built as a single-nave sacral building from the rubble stone that is common in the region . The 20.50 m long and 18.40 m wide church has three axes on the right and four on the left. The sacristy adjoins the front . Except for the arched entrance, the wedge of which reminds of the laying of the foundation stone with the date 1782, the western front is closed. There is an octagonal roof turret above the gable .

Two stained windows on the sloping side of the choir show the Holy Family on the left and the patron saint of the parish church, the abbess Brigida with the cow and St. Apollonia with the forceps . Both windows are foundations from 1901. The oldest windows, two lead-glazed rhombic windows from 1877, are located on both sides of the choir room.

history

The laying of the foundation stone of the church was dated to the year 1782. Due to missing or incorrect records, neither the exact date nor the cost of building the church are known. It is only known that money from the abbot of Kornelimünster and income from collections were used for the construction. The Benediction of St. Brigida took place on November 8, 1784 by the administrator of the imperial abbey Kornelimünster .

Due to a reorganization, St. Brigida became a parish church in 1804 .

It is known that in 1854 the choir was laid out with white and black marble stones, and in 1861 the floor was given a new covering.

Donations made it possible to buy a new way of the cross in 1903 . Due to donations, a statue of St. Brigida acquired.

Bells

In 1832 Jacob Frings lent the town of Venwegen 110 Reichstaler , 1 silver groschen and 5 pfennigs to purchase two bells in Maastricht, the Netherlands . These originally weighed 400 and 260 pounds, respectively. Both were recast in 1853 by the Aachen bell caster Josef Beduwe because they had cracks. The chime, inaugurated in 1853, weighed 608 and 385 pounds. At the end of the First World War they had to be given up. In 1924 Venwegen received new bells from the Maria-Himmelfahrt parish in Stolberg-Mühle . These had to be handed in in May 1942 as well. In 1945 Allied troops returned the Brigida bells that had been delivered. In 1965 all bells had to be melted down due to damage and replaced with three new ones a year later:

Name of the bell	volume	Weight	engraving
Bell in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary	"C"	300 kg	Gloria deo
Bell in honor of our patron saint Brigida	"D"	200 kg	In augmentum gratias
Bell in honor of St. Joseph	"it"	180 kg	Pax hominibus

organ

The first organ dates from 1858. Due to woodworm infestation and wear and tear, it could no longer be used from 1964 onwards. A new one was purchased, which also became unusable after 20 years and had to be replaced by a third in 1984. This is a mechanical organ with 572 pipes .

Church treasures

A precious, lined with gold leaf Drehtabernakel in rococo style oak probably dates from 1740 and was formerly part of the high altar of 1888 demolished ancient Aachener parish church of St. Jakob. The tabernacle was restored in 1974 by the Spanish artist Eliseo Guiterrez from Seville.

literature

• 200 years of the parish church of St. Brigida Venwegen 1784–1984. Ed. Working group for homeland and history of the parish St. Brigida Venwegen 1st edition 1–700

Web links

Commons : St. Brigida (Venwegen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The GdG Aachen-Kornelimünster / Roetgen

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 47.6 "  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 54.9"  E