St. Cornelius (Lamersdorf)

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St. Cornelius in Lamersdorf
View from the northeast
Inner direction of the choir

St. Cornelius is the Roman Catholic branch church of the Inden district of Lamersdorf in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. Cornelius , as the second patroness of St. Consecrated to Catherine of Alexandria and entered under No. 24 on the list of architectural monuments in Inden (Rhineland) .

history

parish

A church in Lamersdorf was first listed in the Liber valoris around 1308 . At that time Lamersdorf was already an independent parish . The Duke of Jülich had the right of collation . In 1438, Duke Gerhard von Jülich-Berg transferred certain rights to the church to the Düren Wilhelminenkloster. Until 1802 the parish belonged to the deanery Jülich in the Archdiocese of Cologne . Since the archbishopric had been dissolved by the French, Lamersdorf came to the newly established diocese of Aachen until it was dissolved in 1821. Between 1821 and 1930 the parish belonged again to the archbishopric of Cologne and since then to the re-established diocese of Aachen. Until 1863 the parish also included Frenz as a subsidiary community with the Church of St. Nicholas, until the place was separated from the mother parish in that year and made an independent parish.

On January 1, 2012, the Lamersdorf parish was dissolved after its first mention for over 700 years and with the also dissolved parishes of St. Nikolaus Frenz, St. Clemens and St. Pankratius Inden / Altdorf and St. Nikolaus Lucherberg to form the new large parish of St. Josef, Inden merged.

Church building

Nothing is known about the church mentioned around 1308.

Today's church was built in the 15th century in the Gothic style from rubble stones. The vestibule was added in the 18th century. Between 1890 and 1894 the church building was completely restored under the direction of the Aachen architect Peters.

As a result of the Second World War , the church was very badly damaged on November 16, 1944. Grenade fragments can still be seen on a cross by the baptismal font. The damage could be repaired by 1950. The last restoration so far took place in 1990.

architecture

St. Cornelius is a two-aisled and three-bay hall church made of quarry stone in the Gothic style. The nave consists of a main nave and a smaller north aisle. In the west is the partially retracted, three-storey bell tower . It is crowned by an eight-sided spire. In the east, the main nave is joined by the two-bay choir , which closes with a 3/8 choir closure. The sacristy is attached to the east wall of the aisle and the north wall of the choir . The entire interior is spanned by ribbed vaults and the windows have two to three-lane tracery . Main and side aisle are pointed arch arcades separated resting on round pillars.

Furnishing

In the choir there is a sacrament niche from the time the church was built. The pulpit is a work from the year 1512. Other pieces of equipment are a chandelier from around 1600 , a figure of Michael made of clay from the 18th century, a wooden figure of St. Barbara of Nicomedia, probably from the 15th century, a figure of St. Hubertus von Liège from the 17th century, a figure of St. Cornelius from the 18th century and a neo-Gothic high altar from the 1890s.

There are also three stained glass windows in the main nave. They were made around 1530 by an unknown glass painter and represent St. Emperor Heinrich II. , St. Cornelius, St. Catherine, St. Clare of Assisi , St. Gertrud von Nivelles and St. Laurentius of Rome . The other windows are works by Josef Strater from 1954.

In 1997 the church received a mechanical slide organ with 14 registers. This organ was built in 1954 by the organ builder Walcker ( Ludwigsburg ) for the Protestant church in Fornsbach (Württemberg). Organ builder Reinhart Tzschöckel from Althütte expanded the organ by 2 stops and converted it for the Lamersdorf church.

Bells

Three bells date from 1400 and 1401. They were cast by Heinrich von Gerresheim. The fourth bell in the roof turret was cast in 1951 from the metal of the previous bell, cast in 1853, which was irreparably damaged by a bullet in World War II .

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 		 Others
 
1 - 910 440 a ' −2 Heinrich von Gerresheim (?) 1400 -
2 - 900 400 b ' −6 Heinrich von Gerresheim (?) 1401 -
3 - 650 160 it " Heinrich von Gerresheim (?) 15th century
4th - 450 58 h " Unknown 1853/1951 in the roof turret

Others

The Cornelius Octave is celebrated in September each year in honor of the church patron Cornelius . There is also a relic of this saint in the church .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to the website of the parish of St. Cornelius Lamersdorf. In: website of the parish of St. Josef Inden. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Great opportunities in the merger of the five parishes in Inden. In: Aachener Zeitung. March 5, 2012, accessed February 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Welcome to the website of the parish of St. Cornelius Lamersdorf. In: website of the parish of St. Josef Inden. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  4. ^ Catholic parish church of St. Cornelius in Inden - Lamersdorf. In: Bernd Limburg website. Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
  5. ^ Inden-Lamersdorf, Catholic Church of St. Cornelius. In: Website of the Foundation Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century. Accessed on February 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Düren region , p. 144 ff.

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 55.7 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 9.3 ″  E