St. Donatus (fire)

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St. Donatus
Sanctuary of St. Donatus

St. Donatus (also called Brander Cathedral ) is the parish church of the Brand district belonging to Aachen . The parish district includes Bierstrauch, Brand, Brander Heide, England, Freund , Neuenhof and Niederforstbach.

history

Chapel as the previous building

After the imperial abbey Kornelimünster decided in 1750 to decentralize the parishes, the parishes of Brand, Breinig , Hahn , Venwegen and Walheim were established . As a result, in 1761, a separate chapel was built in what is now the Brand district . Shortly after the dissolution of the Benedictine abbey in 1802, the Brand chapel congregation received parish rights from Bishop Marc-Antoine Berdolet , and was thus separated from St. Stephen's Church in Kornelimünster and was subordinate to the main parish of St. Michael in Burtscheid .

The chapel was enlarged in 1847/48. The rapidly increasing number of believers in the growing district meant that it soon became too small.

Parish church

The plaque with an inscription to the right of the entrance

In the autumn of 1879 work began on building a new parish church. It took about 4 years to build before the first mass could be read on October 7, 1883. The church was consecrated on September 21, 1890. The architect of the church was Vinzenz Statz . At the same time, the new parish took over the old Vincenz chapel in the Niederforstbach district from the Imperial Abbey of Kornelimünster , which is dedicated to Vincent Ferrer and was intended as a place of prayer to protect against earthquakes. Since then, rosary devotions and prayer hours for the deceased as well as baptisms and once a year on April 5th, the anniversary of the death of St. Vincent, have been held there on request.

In 1966 St. Donatus' choir was rebuilt. In 1973 the deaneries were redistributed and the parishes of Brand and Forst have since formed their own deanery.

On October 7, 1983, St. Donatus received a new altar .

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built in 1998 by the organ builder Wilbrand (Übach-Palenberg) and reorganized and expanded in 2013 by the organ building company Weimbs . The slider chest instrument has 37 stops on two manual works and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions mechanical and electrical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Covered pommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Lull major 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. Covered 8th'
6th Octave 4 ′
7th Reed flute 4 ′
8th. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Super octave 2 ′
10. Cornett V (from f 0 ) 8th'
11. Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
13. shelf 8th'
14th Tromba Magna 8th' W.
15th Tromba Magna (from No. 14) 4 ′ W.
Tremulant W.
Bell chimes
Tubular chimes W.
II Swell C – g 3
16. Wooden principal 8th'
17th Reed flute 8th'
18th Salicional 8th'
19th Vox coelestis 8th'
20th Principal 4 ′
21st Transverse flute 4 ′
22nd Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Night horn 2 ′
24. Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
25th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
26th Mixture IV 2 ′
27. Sept-Non-Zimbel II 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′ + 8 ⁄ 9 ′
28. Basson 16 ′
29 Trumpet harm. 8th'
30th Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
31. Principal 16 ′
32. Sub bass 16 ′
33. Octave bass 8th'
34. Dacked bass 8th'
35. Tenor octave 4 ′
36. trombone 16 ′
37. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.
  • Further effect registers: Zimbelsterne I and II, cuckoo, nightingale (all added in 2013)

Remarks

  1. ↑ On a separate high-pressure cone drawer.
  2. ↑ Since 2013, previously Zimbel II 1 ⁄ 2 ′.
W = register 2013 added by Weimbs.

Bells

In 1913 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast four bronze bells for the St. Donatus Church with the chimes d '- f' - g '- a'. Except for the g-bell, the other three were melted down in the First World War. The ringing was supplemented by OTTO bells from 1927. Today the church has 11 bells: the four OTTO bells from 1913 and 1927 and four more bronze bells that were cast in the OTTO rib by Brother Michael Reuter from the Maria Laacher bell foundry in 2010. In the roof turret hang three bells from the Dutch bell foundry Petit & Fritsen from Aarle-Rixtel from 2008.

Church treasure

St. Donatus has numerous church treasures. These include reliquaries such as the Wendelinus reliquary from 1897. There is also a gold-plated, silver ciborium from 1891, the top of which shows the Lord's Supper. A cross reliquary, which contains a piece of wood from the cross of Christ, is of particular importance for the faithful. Another treasure is the Donatus reliquary, carved from wood, which dates from the 18th century, but whose exact origin is unknown. It holds a Donatus relic.

Nativity scene for fasting and Easter time

In addition to the Christmas crib , St. Donatus has been presenting a crib for Lent and Easter since 2009 . Between the first Sunday of Lent and Easter Sunday, the crib builders show changing images of the Gospels .

Web links

Commons : St. Donatus (Aachen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the parish of St. Donatus from January 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the organ builder. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weimbs.de
  3. ↑ Presentation of the reorganized organ on YouTube.
  4. ^ 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 73, 471, 519, 525, 529, 578).
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (especially pp. 90, 352, 339, 483, 487, 490).

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 51.3 "  N , 6 ° 9 ′ 56.7"  E