St. Cornelius (pipes)

St. Cornelius in Pipes

St. Cornelius is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Monschau district of Rohren in the city ​​region of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. It was consecrated to Cornelius of Rome and entered in the list of architectural monuments in Monschau under number 47 .

location

The church building is located in the center of Rohren and is surrounded by the streets Dröft, Am Pöhlchen and Borngasse.

General

Rohren originally belonged to the Konzen parish , but was assigned to the newly established Monschau parish in 1639. At the end of the 17th century, the residents of Rohrens asked for their own chapel for the place, which had not existed before. The demand was successful and on February 11, 1700 the Cologne Vicar General Werner von Veyder granted the building permit. In 1707 the chapel was completed and Rohren received a vicar . In 1804, Rohren was separated from Monschau and made an independent parish . Rohren originally belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne and has been part of the Diocese of Aachen since 1930 .

Building history

The first church in Rohren was built around 1707. It was a three-bay hall church made of quarry stone with a retracted four-story bell tower . The chapel was elevated to parish church in the course of the parish elevation in 1804. In the middle of the 19th century the parish church became too small and a new building was decided. The old church was demolished and a new church built between 1865 and 1867 according to plans by the Cologne diocesan master builder Vincenz Statz in neo-Gothic style. The consecration took place on September 24, 1871. In September 1944 the parish church was destroyed except for the outer walls as a result of the Second World War . Only the choir survived the fighting almost unscathed. The reconstruction took place between 1949 and 1954 in simplified and modernized forms while preserving the choir and the outer walls of the nave. The bell tower was rebuilt and a side aisle was added to the north. The pointed arched windows of the nave were converted into rectangular windows. The plans come from the hand of the Aachen architect Peter Hensen . On September 18, 1955, the altar could finally be consecrated.

Building description

Nave, view to the altar

Nave, view from the altar

St. Cornelius is a two-aisled and four-bay church with a two-bay and three-sided closed choir in the east and a three-storey bell tower in the west. The choir is spanned by a ribbed vault, the rest of the church has a flat roof. There is a continuous gallery in the side aisle. The windows of the choir have two-lane tracery and are pointed arches. The nave windows are rectangular.

Despite the severe damage caused by the war and a modified reconstruction, the neo-Gothic structure of the church planned by Vincenz Statz in the 1860s is still recognizable.

Furnishing

St. Cornelius, organ from 1958 (Karl Bach)

In the church there is a Cornelius reliquary as a stylized horn from 1709. The baptismal font is a foundation of the Förster couple from 1722. The organ is a work of the Aachen organ building firm Karl Bach from 1958 and has 12 registers. The windows in the choir were designed by Anton Wendling in 1939 and reconstructed after the war.

Pastor

The following pastors have worked as pastors at St. Cornelius:

from ... to	Surname
1925-1937	Matthias Gerards
1937-1954	Bernhard Pricking
1955-1964	Friedrich Kranz
1964-1967	Hubert Sieberichs
1967-1972	Father Antonius van Buuren
1972-1988	Father Theodor Weterman
1978-1988	Ignaz Hüpgen
1988-1995	Walter Haas
1995-2009	Karl Schnitzler
2009-2014	Karl-Heinz Stoffels
2014-2016	Philipp Cuck (administrator)
Since 2016	Heinz-Albert Schmitz (Administrator)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 584.
2. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 584.
3. ↑ Monschau-Rohren, Catholic Church of St. Kornelius. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on October 2, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 55.4 ″  N , 6 ° 17 ′ 2.1 ″  E