St. Christophorus (Gerderath)

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St. Christopher

The Catholic branch church St. Christophorus is a listed church building in Gerderath , a place in Erkelenz in the district of Heinsberg ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

Choir view

The simple brick hall was built in 1782/1783 using the remains of the wall from the previous building. The presented four-storey west tower with eight-sided dome is from 1786. The builders were Lorenz Moll and Jakob Esser. The three-sided choir closure was added in 1864 according to plans by Heinrich Nagelschmidt from Cologne. A mirrored ceiling was installed in the interior. The neo-Gothic furnishings fit harmoniously into the baroque room.

In the period from November 1944 to February 27, 1945, the church building was damaged by the effects of the war and then restored under the direction of Johann Bartz from Heinsberg.

Since 2010 Gerderath is no longer an independent parish. It was merged with some other former parishes to form the parish of St. Lambertus Erkelenz. This in turn merged in 2015 with the parish of St. Maria and Elisabeth Erkelenz to form the new large parish of Christkönig Erkelenz.

Furnishing

  • A basin of a late Romanesque baptismal font made of Namur bluestone from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century. It is decorated with reliefs and palmettes between four heads. The brass lid is from the 17th century, it was restored in 1928.
  • The confessional and the organ front were made at the end of the 17th century.
  • In the vestibule, a wooden Meuse crucifix from the mid-15th century is attached to the mission cross . The composure is lost.
  • The wrought iron St. Mary's chandelier was made in 1869 and hangs in the middle of the church hall.
  • The carved high altar with towering elements was created in 1867 by the sculptors Heinrich and Johann Bong from Cologne. Figurative representations from the life of Christ are shown: the birth on the left, the Emmaus meal on the right and the lamentation in the middle .
  • The two side altars, St. Christopher and St. Mary's altars, from 1871 also come from the Bong workshop.
  • The twelve arched windows that exist today were made in 1953 based on the templates of the Krefeld painter Josef Strater. The ten windows in the nave are made of colored circular ornaments ( antique glass and lead). The two windows in the choir show the coronation of Mary on the left and the Ascension of Christ on the right . These two windows are made of colored antique glass, lead and black solder .
  • The carved pulpit is decorated with the representations of the four doctors of the church Ambrosius, Augustine, Hieronimus and Gregorius.

organ

By 1695 at the latest, the Gerderath parish already had an organ. The builder is unknown.

In 1788 the existing organ was replaced by Maximilian Schauten the Elder. Ä. from Jülich expanded.

The organ was rebuilt in the romantic style in 1877 on the initiative of Gerderath vicar and parish administrator Franz Nekes . Joseph Koulen from Heinsberg added another manual to nine registers to the originally single-manual organ.

In 1928 the organ builder Josef Breuer from Zülpich added the only independent pedal register, the Subbass 16 ', to the organ.

After careful consideration, it was decided in 1982 to commission the company Weimbs Orgelbau from Hellenthal in the Eifel with the dismantling of the organ to the presumed disposition of 1788. The Subbass 16 'added in 1928 has been retained.

The baroque organ is tuned to a medium tone and today has the following disposition:

manual
1. Principal 4 ′
2. Bourdon 8th'
3. Flauto 4 ′
4th 3-way cornett
5. Octave 2 ′
6th Sesquialtera 2-fold
7th 3-fold mixture 1'
8th. Trumpet bass / treble 8th'
pedal
9. Sub bass 16 ′

Chimes

Full bell

In 1954, the Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen renewed the three-part bell from Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock ( Gescher in Westphalia ) from 1922, which had been decimated by the bell annihilation of the Second World War .

Technical specifications

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Casting
year		 Caster
 		 Weight
( kg )		 Diameter
( mm )		 Nominal
(16th note)
 		 Audio
 
1 Christophorus Bell 1954 Bell foundry Otto 1,350 1,298 dis 1 -2
2 Marienbell 1954 Bell foundry Otto 830 1,097 f sharp 1 -1
3 Joseph Bell 1954 Bell foundry Otto 590 977 g sharp 1 -2
4th Michael's Bell 1922 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock 390 847 ais 1 +5

Inscriptions

No. Surname Inscriptions
1 Christophorus Bell Ad honorem S. Christophori, Mart (yris) et Ecclesiae Par (ochiae) Patroni. State in fide! Redimite tempus! Quae sursum sunt sapite!
(In honor of St. Christopher, the martyr and parish priest. Be steadfast in your faith! Use the time! Seek what's up!)
2 Marienbell Ad honorem B (eatae) Mariae V (irginis), immaculatae Reginae caeli et dioec. Aquisgrani Patronae. Sperate in Deum! Magnificate Dominum meum! Servite domino cum laetitia!
(In honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Queen of Heaven and Patroness of the Diocese of Aachen. Hope in God! Praise my Lord! Serve the Lord with joy!)
3 Joseph Bell Ad honorem S. Joseph, Sponsi BMV et Eccl. Univ. Patroni. Sectamini caritatem! Opus justitiae pax! Venite et gustate coenam meam!
(In honor of St. Joseph, the Bridegroom of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Patron of the Universal Church. Follow love! Peace is the work of righteousness! Come and taste my food!)
4th Michael's Bell paCatos honoro, reLICtos DepLoro, ChrIstUMqUe eXoro (1922)
(I honor the peacemakers, I lament the left behind, and I plead with Christ.)
Dono me ded (it) confraternitas St. Christophori
(The St. Christopher Brotherhood gave me as a gift .)

literature

  • Episcopal General Vicariate Aachen (Ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach. 3rd edition 1994. ISBN 3-87448-172-7 . Pp. 651-653.
  • Municipality of Gerderath (ed.): Gerderath in the past and present . Erkelenz 1971. pp. 53-88.
  • Hilderath, Hans: Bells and organs of the city area of ​​Erkelenz . Publication series of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande e. V., Vol. 7, 1985. pp. 47-51, 125 f.
  • Parish Gerderath (ed.): The baroque organ of St. Christophorus Church in Gerderath . Erkelenz 1982.
  • Sels, Leo: Contributions to the history of the mayorries Kleingladbach, Gerderath and Schwanenberg . Erkelenz History and Antiquity Association. 1925. pp. 36-41.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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, in particular pages 406, 552 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 379,508 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).
  3. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Heinsberg region ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 14, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherbaac.de

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Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 8 ″  E