St. Gereon (Boslar)

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St. Gereon in Boslar

St. Gereon is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Linnich district of Boslar in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is entered under number 8 in the list of architectural monuments in Linnich .

history

A church in Boslar was first mentioned in a document in 1274. This church was a Romanesque building from the 12th century. Remnants of this church building can still be found in the central nave, in the basement of the tower and in the north aisle. The Boslar parish was first mentioned in the Liber valoris from around 1300. In the 15th century, today's church was built in the Gothic style. Only a few remains of the previous church have been preserved. At that time, the Lords of Paland had the right of patronage. In 1750 the bell tower was rebuilt in baroque forms and thus received its present appearance. A lightning strike in 1803 caused the spire to fall on the nave and also destroyed the vaults. In the following years the spire and the vaults were restored. In 1868 the southern sacristy was added and in 1875 the main choir and the northern sacristy according to plans by the Cologne architect Heinrich Wiethase . The vault in the south aisle was renewed in 1870.

architecture

St. Gereon is a three-aisled brick hall church with five bays in the Gothic style. In the west is the retracted, three-storey Gothic-Baroque bell tower. The two-bay, three-sided closed choir in neo-Gothic form is built onto the nave to the east . A sacristy is added to the north and south sides. A ribbed vault spans the entire church space .

Furnishing

The high altar in the church is a Flemish carved altar from around 1520. It originally comes from the church of the Schwarzenbroich monastery and came to Boslar in 1804 after the monastery was dissolved. Between 1848 and 1849 the altar was restored by Leonhard Kauff from Rödingen . Furthermore, pews from around 1900 have been preserved. The church also has some brightly painted figures of saints.

Bells

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Weight
(kg, approx.)		 Strike tone
(a ′ = 435 Hz)		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 		 Remarks
 
1 Great Maria 1,520 2,200 es' - 3 / 16 Heinrich von Oedt 1338 Until 1805 to St. Maria im Kapitol , Cologne
2 Gereon 1.106 830 ges' - 4 / 16 Christian Claren, Sieglar 1855 -
3 Little Maria 867 400 b '- 6 / 16 Christian Claren, Sieglar 1855 -

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Franck Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich , in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 45.
  2. ^ Karl Franck Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich , in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 46.
  3. ↑ http://www.linnich.de/unsere_stadt/kultur_freizeit/sehenswuerdheiten.php (accessed on September 7, 2014)
  4. ↑ accompanying Youtube video of the peal, October 27, 2015

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 21.2 ″  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 57 ″  E