St. Clemens and St. Pankratius (Inden / Altdorf)
St. Clemens and St. Pankratius is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Inden / Altdorf district of the municipality of Inden in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The church is dedicated to St. Pope Clement I (Patron of the Inden Church) and St. Martyr Pankratius (patron of the Altdorf Church) consecrated.
history
The churches in Altdorf and Inden
The current church was built as a replacement for the two parish churches St. Clemens in Alt-Inden and St. Pankratius in Altdorf . Both were dismantled in 1998 and demolished around 2001 because they had to give way to the Inden opencast mine .
Neither Altdorf nor Inden originally had a church. In both places there was only one chapel. The actual parish church was St. Remigius in Geuenich , which was mentioned for the first time in 1180. In addition to Altdorf and Inden, the Geuenich parish also included the town of Pattern , which later also had to give way to the opencast mine. Since a fire destroyed the place in 1678, only the church, the rectory, the sexton's house and a courtyard bear witness to the former place. Nevertheless, Geuenich remained a parish and the people from Altdorf and Inden as well as Pattern always had to go to Geuenich to attend church services.
The parish of Geuenich was only dissolved in 1804 when the parish was registered during the French period and the parishes of St. Clemens Inden and St. Matthäus Pattern were rebuilt from the parish area. Initially, Altdorf was still a branch of the Inden parish , but due to fierce resistance from the local population, Altdorf was finally raised to an independent parish in 1806.
In 1856, the old Altdorf church was destroyed in a fire. This made it necessary to build a new church. This place of worship was de-dedicated in 1998 and demolished around 2001. The St. Pankratius Church was a neo-Gothic , four-bay brick church with a three- story bell tower in front of it in the west and a choir closed on five sides in the east.
A new St. Clemens Church was built in Inden around 1900 because the old one had become too small. This building, too, was de-dedicated in 1998 and demolished around 2001. This church was a neo - Romanesque three-nave and six-bay basilica . A four-story bell tower was in front of the north aisle. To the east, the building closed with a semicircular apse . The church was built of bricks, but these were plastered.
The two parishes of St. Clemens / Inden and St. Pankratius / Altdorf were dissolved around 1998 and merged to form the new parish of St. Clemens and St. Pankratius.
Today's church
The Inden / Altdorf parish church was built from 1997 to 1998 according to plans by the Mönchengladbach architect Heinz Dohmen . The foundation stone was laid in January 1997. On September 27, 1998, the church was consecrated by the Aachen bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff .
In 2012 the parish of Inden / Altdorf was merged with the former parishes of St. Nikolaus in Frenz , St. Cornelius in Lamersdorf and St. Nikolaus in Lucherberg to form the new parish of St. Josef Inden. The parish church of this new parish became the church of St. Clemens and St. Pankratius Inden / Altorf.
Furnishing
In the church there are some pieces of furniture from the two old parish churches, but also new ones. The windows of the church consist of old windows from St. Clemens in Inden, which the artist Paul Franz Bonnekamp created in the 1950s, as well as windows from St. Pankratius in Altdorf, which Anton Wolff also created in the 1950s. The remaining windows date from 1998 and were designed by Hubert Spierling .
organ
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The organ was made by Orgelbau Martin Scholz , Mönchengladbach in 1998. The instrument has 24 registers distributed over two manuals and a pedal. The slider drawer is mechanical.
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Bells
The ringing of St. Clemens and St. Pankratius consists of seven bells that come from the previous churches in Inden and Altdorf. In addition to the medieval bell by Johann van Trier, four bronze bells come from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen. The large Christ bell is a new casting from 1998, but the casting material comes from a melted Otto bell from Inden and from Altdorf. Three of the bells from the post-war period were retuned to harmonize with the overall ringing.
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No. |
Surname |
Mass (kg) |
Diameter (mm) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Caster |
Casting year |
prior use |
| 1 | Christ | 1,650 | 1,385 | d ' −4 | Eifeler bell foundry Mark, Brockscheid | 1998 | - |
| 2 | Sebastianus | 1,100 | 1,225 | e ' −4 | Bell foundry Otto , Hemelingen | 1961 | in St. Clemens, Inden |
| 3 | Pancras | 770 | 1,090 | f sharp ' +1 | Bell foundry Otto, Hemelingen | 1959 | in St. Pankratius, Altdorf |
| 4th | Great Remigius | 700 | 1,050 | g ' −3 | Johann van Trier, Aachen | 1469 | in St. Clemens, Inden |
| 5 | Maria | 350 | 825 | a ' −2 | - | 1431 | in St. Clemens, Inden |
| 6th | Little Remigius | 325 | 815 | h ' +2 | Bell foundry Otto, Hemelingen | 1959 | in St. Pankratius, Altdorf |
| 7th | Mary Queen of Peace | 190 | 685 | d " +2 | Bell foundry Otto, Hemelingen | 1959 | in St. Pankratius, Altdorf |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Edmund Kahlenborn: Tabular overview of the result of the three French parish entries in the Roerdepartement. In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine in particular the old archdiocese of Cologne. Issue 92, Cologne 1912, p. 14.
- ^ Rheinbraun AG (Ed.): The resettlement of Inden and Altdorf , in: Rheinbraun informs , Cologne 1999.
- ↑ St. Clemens and St. Pankratius Inden / Altdorf. In: Homepage of the Catholic parish of St. Josef Inden. Retrieved October 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Great opportunities in the merger of the five parishes in Inden. In: Aachener Zeitung. March 5, 2012, accessed October 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Inden-Altdorf, Catholic Church of St. Clemens and St. Pankratius. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on October 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Dispositions - St. Clemens Inden. In: Homepage organ builder Martin Scholz. Retrieved October 18, 2016 .
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 106, 386, 387 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen (NL 2019, p. 556, but here. P. 122, 340, 341 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
- ^ Matthias poet (grub smoker): Inden / Altdorf (D), cath. Church of St. Clemens and Pankratius - full bells. In: Youtube. November 27, 2011, accessed October 18, 2016 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 29.9 ″ N , 6 ° 21 ′ 26.4 ″ E
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