St. Germanus (hair)
The Catholic parish church of St. Germanus is a listed church building in Haaren , a district of the city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the parish Christ our Brother of the Catholic parish Aachen-Nord since 2009 and is consecrated to Germanus von Auxerre .
history
In the Middle Ages, Haaren belonged to the parish of Würselen and the local St. Sebastian Church . Haaren was only raised to a parish in 1623, but had its own church building many years earlier. A document from 1483 shows that this church was already called Germanus at least around this time.
Previous construction
Immediately next to today's church, a previous church stood north of it until 1892, a much smaller quarry stone building from the mid-14th century. The old church had a tower with two bells cast in 1357 and 1384. The tower was also used as a defense tower at times.
In 1704 the church was expanded to include a five-sided choir and a sacristy . Brick masonry pillars were also installed and new windows set in bricks were installed.
At the end of the 19th century the building had become too small and the church council decided to build a new church. Until it was finished in 1892, the old church continued to be used, but its tower had already been demolished so that the stones could be used for the foundation of the new building, and because the floor plans of both churches overlapped at this point. Then the old main house was also torn down. Parts of the furnishings from the beginning of the 18th century - altar , confessional and pulpit - were given to the then emergency church of St. Antonius in Oberkassel and later moved to St. Anne's church in Düsseldorf-Niederkassel , where they are still located today. The stained glass windows from 1710 to 1716 were given to the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, the two bells came to the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum in Cologne.
New building in 1890
The Haaren architect and builder Heinrich van Kann was commissioned with the new building in 1889 . He planned a much larger church close to the old church and facing exactly the opposite. The foundation stone was laid on May 11, 1890, the inauguration took place on May 3, 1892. The three - aisled neo - Gothic brick building with a transept had a bell tower with a clock tower, a high spire and four flanking turrets.
Reconstruction after the Second World War
The church was initially only slightly damaged in the Second World War , but in October 1944 heavy artillery fire caused the roof of the church and the church tower to go up in flames and burn out completely.
After the first provisional protective measures, reconstruction began in 1952. The church was given a new roof, the windows were redesigned and buttresses were raised. However, the tower remained a stump without a point for a long time. It was not until 1966 that a pointed tower was built on a tapered roof according to the plans of the Aachen architects Willy and Karlheinz Rommé. The tower is therefore significantly smaller and has a different style than the original tower, but has a certain similarity to the older church.
Furnishing
In the new building in 1892, the interior should also shine again. And so little was taken from the old church. The newly created altar was a victim of the war in 1944. In 1952 the church received a new main altar with a marble altar plate .
A Radiant Madonna (after 1600) and a baptismal font made of bluestone from 1598 still come from the old church. A triumphal cross, the middle part of which probably dates from the 17th century and the ends of which show the four evangelists , was only found after the renovation in 1955 hung up. A bronze cross, which was created by the sculptor Bonifatius Stirnberg , hangs above the altar .
All the windows in the church were designed between 1955 and 1975 by the church artist Ernst Jansen-Winkeln in Mönchengladbach and made in Linnich in the Oidtmann glass painting workshop.
organ
The organ was built in 1967 by the Weimbs company . The abrasive loading -instrument has 33 registers , on three manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : hand register, two free combinations , tutti, two free pedal combinations, crescendo roller , tongue holder
Bells
In the old church there were two bells, one from 1357 and the other from 1384. The latter has the same inscription as the Bell of St. Sebastian from the same year. Both churches belonged to the same parish at the time. In 1823 a third bell was cast for St. Germanus. But it was melted down again because of a crack. The two old bells were sold to the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum in 1891.
The new church from 1892 received four bells with the names Maria, Germanus, Aloisius and Valentin. Of these bells, three were confiscated and melted down in 1917. In 1927 new bells were commissioned from Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher . But two of them were also confiscated in 1942.
Only the Germanus bell from 1927 survived and hangs in the tower today, together with a loaned bell that was given to the community from the Hamburg bell cemetery after the war, and a bell donated in 1972 that was made by the Eifel bell foundry in Brockscheid .
literature
- Heribert Reiners : The art monuments of the district of Aachen (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 9, Section 2). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1912, pp. 110-111.
- Hans Sturm: The old church of St. Germanus in hair. In: Hair at the gates of the city of Aachen. Volume 3, Heimatverein Haaren-Verlautenheide e. V., Aachen 1984, pp. 26-36.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Church of Haaren on www.haaren-verlautenheide.de , accessed on February 2, 2016.
- ↑ www.haaren-verlautenheide.de , accessed on February 7, 2016.
- ↑ H. Sturm: The old church of St. Germanus in hair. 1988.
- ^ H. Reiners: The art monuments of the district of Aachen. 1912, p. 111.
- ↑ Information about the organ on the municipality's website
- ^ The parish church of St. Germanus in Aachen at christus-unser-bruder.de, accessed on February 2, 2016.
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 46.8 " N , 6 ° 7 ′ 31.1" E