St. Georg (Seelscheid)

St. Georg zu Seelscheid

Inner direction of the choir

St. Georg is the Roman Catholic parish church of Seelscheid in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Today it belongs to the parish association Neunkirchen-Seelscheid in the district dean of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ( Archdiocese of Cologne ).

history

The Romanesque west tower of St. Georg was built in the 12th – 13th centuries. Century. The first documentary mention of the church did not take place until 1398 as a chapel belonging to St. Margareta in Neunkirchen .

In 1624 and later, St. George was shared by Evangelicals and Catholics. A Simultaneum was officially established there in 1677 , which lasted until 1824. The Evangelicals established their own Evangelical Church in Seelscheid in the 1850s .

Parallel to the construction of the Evangelical Church, the nave of St. Georg was laid down and a single-nave neo-Gothic church was built on a cross-shaped floor plan, while retaining the old tower according to plans by Vincenz Statz . In 1872 a new Romanesque bell storey with a slate pyramid was added to the tower .

Bells

The well-known Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast two more bronze bells in 1923 for the three partly medieval bells of St. Georg from 1495 (caster unknown), 1519 (Heinrich II von Querraide) and 1818 (Gebr. Claren, Sieglar) with the striking notes e 'and a'. The larger e-bell was melted down during World War II. Instead of this bell, the Mabilon foundry from Saarburg cast a new e-bell.

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland, arr. and exp. Edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 2005. p. 1092
Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the Siegkreis . Düsseldorf 1907, p. 183 f .

Web links

Commons : St. Georg (Seelscheid) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

St. Georg on the homepage of the parish association Neunkirchen-Seelscheid

50.875132 7.319679Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 10.8 ″ E

Individual evidence

^ 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. 78, 345, 446, 524 .
↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here especially 97, 310, 487 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

[1] 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. 78, 345, 446, 524 .

[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, here especially 97, 310, 487 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).