St. Gereon (Vettweiß)
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St. Gereon is the Roman Catholic parish church of Vettweiß in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
The church is dedicated to St. Gereon of Cologne consecrated and parish church of the St. Marien Vettweiß parish, built in 2010.
history
A church in Vettweiß was first mentioned in a deed of donation from the Archbishop of Cologne from around 988. It was an episcopal own church . In this document, the own church was given to the St. Martin monastery in Cologne. In 1508 the Vettweiß parish was incorporated into the Groß St. Martin Abbey in Cologne.
Nothing more is known about the church mentioned around 988. In the 12th century a new bell tower in the Romanesque style was built. This is very likely followed by a small Romanesque hall church . The tower was a choir tower . Between 1852 and 1853 the old church was replaced by a new neo-Gothic building, with the old tower remaining. This building was a single-nave, five-bay hall church with a 5/8 choir closure . The windows all had two-lane tracery . During the Second World War , the parish church was initially not destroyed, but in 1945 the occupying forces blew up the entire structure in order to obtain building material for an airfield.
Between 1949 and 1951, today's church was built on the site of the old church according to plans by the Cologne architect Josef Op Gen Oorth . It is a modern hall church made of bricks, which spans a wooden barrel vault. Based on the old Romanesque choir tower, a choir tower with a four-sided helmet was also integrated in this new building .
2010 is the parish of St. Gereon in Vettweiß with the former parishes of St. Gangolf (Soller), St. Michael (Kelz), St. Antonius (Ginnick), St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Disternich), St. Jakobus the Elder (Jakobwüllesheim) , St. Johann Baptist (Sievernich), St. Amandus (Müddersheim), St. Martin (Froitzheim) and St. Petrus (Gladbach) have been merged to form the parish of St. Marien, Vettweiß. Since then, the Church of St. Gereon has been the parish church of the parish of St. Marien.
Furnishing
There is modern equipment in the church. The high altar in the choir tower, the two side altars and the pulpit date from the 1950s. The stained glass windows are free compositions by the artist Marianne Hilgers from 1980 to 1982.
In addition, there is a memorial plaque in the interior for the fallen and missing of both world wars.
Bells
In the tower of St. Gereon hang three steel - bells from 1954, by the Bochum Association for cast-steel have been poured into the so-called trial rib 7 (V7). They replace three historic bronze bells that were destroyed in the Second World War. The largest bell was cast by Jan van Alfter in 1518. It had the strike note f ' . The middle bell was cast by Franz Hemony from Utrecht in 1640. It had the strike note f sharp ' . The smallest bell was a work by Martin Legros from Malmedy in 1757. It had the strike tone g ' .
|
No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Caster |
Casting year |
| 1 | - | - | - | d ' | Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum | 1954 |
| 2 | - | - | - | f ' | Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum | 1954 |
| 3 | - | - | - | g ' | Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum | 1954 |
Motif: Te Deum
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vettweiß, St. Gereon. (No longer available online.) In: st-marien-vettweiss.de. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on September 15, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Christoph Hahn: New parish St. Marien Vettweiß preserves the tradition. In: Dürener Zeitung. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
- ^ Vettweiß, Catholic Church of St. Gereon. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV. Accessed September 15, 2016 .
- ^ Vettweiß community Vettweiß district Düren. In: ehrenmale-kreis-dueren.de. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Düren region, p. 362 f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 24.5 " N , 6 ° 35 ′ 48.7" E
Antonius Chapel (Müddersheim) | Trinity Chapel (Jakobwüllesheim) | Trinity Chapel (Vettweiß) | Petronella Chapel Dirlau | St. Amandus (Müddersheim) | St. Antonius (Ginnick) | St. Gangolfus (Soller) | St. Gereon (Vettweiß) | St. Jakobus (Jakobwüllesheim) | St. Johann Baptist (Sievernich) | St. Mary's Assumption (Disternich) | St. Martin (Froitzheim) | St. Michael (Kelz) | St. Nicholas Chapel (Lüxheim) | St. Peter (Gladbach)