St. Germanus (Wesseling)

St. Germanus Church

The St. Germanus Church is a Catholic church in Wesseling in the Rhein-Erft district . It is the seat of the parish of the same name in the Wesseling pastoral care unit.

history

The first mention of a church in "Waslicia" (Wesseling) comes from the 10th century. This building was renewed in 1733/34 at the latest. The current church was built by the architect Theodor Kremer between 1891 and 1894 as a three-aisled basilica with two towers. It is probably 500 m south of the previous buildings on a flood-proof site directly on the Rhine. The only structural change is the sacristy room built in 1966 on the south side.

Furnishing

The painter Eduard Horst made eight windows in the side aisles, two in the transept, five in the choir and two in the upper aisle as well as the rose window on the organ gallery from the years 1958 to 1963. Two windows in the confessional chapel were created in 1963 by the Cologne artist Will Thonett . The altar designed by the Wesselingen artist Paul Nagel dates from 1977 . A height mark of the Prussian land survey 1911 is next to the western entrance.

organ

The organ gallery

In 1820 the parish acquired a small, used organ with three registers from the Cologne organ builder Engelbert Maaß, which was taken over in the new church in 1894. In 1925 Johannes Klais built a new instrument as Opus 640 in the style of the German late Romanticism with pneumatic cone chests and 23 stops on two manuals and pedal. In 1964 the organ was expanded to three manuals and 30 sounding voices, in 1976 two registers were renewed and in 2013 four registers from a discarded Klais organ were installed. Since then the disposition with 32 registers and two transmissions has been as follows:

I breastwork C – g 3 1. Wooden dacked 8th' 2. Solo viol 8th' 3. Praestant 4 ′ 4th Reed flute 4 ′ 5. Principal 2 ′ 6th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th Tercept II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′ 8th. Sharp Zymbel IV 9. Krummhorn 8th' tremolo

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 10. Principal 8th' 11. Concert flute 8th' 12. Octave 4 ′ 13. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 14th Forest flute 2 ′ 15th Mixture IV 16. Trumpet 8th'

III Swell C – g 3 17th Drone 16 ′ 18th Violin principal 8th' 19th Bordunal flute 8th' 20th Principal 4 ′ 21st Transverse flute 4 ′ 22nd Piccolo 2 ′ 23. Cornett III 24. Beat II 8th' 25th Acuta II-IV 26th horn 8th'

Pedal C – f 1 27. Principal bass 16 ′ 28. Sub bass 16 ′ 29 Principal 8th' Drone 8th' 30th Salicetbass 8th' 31. Principal 4 ′ Horn 8 ′ 32. trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
• Playing aids : 100,000-fold typesetting system , 3 free and 3 fixed combinations (p, f, tutti), free pedal combination, tongue holder, swell step III, register crescendo (roller)

Web links

Commons : St. Germanus (Wesseling)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• "Kath. Church of St. Germanus in Wesseling " ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• "20th Century Research Center for Stained Glass Foundation"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The organ from St. Germanus in Wesseling , accessed on May 15, 2015 (PDF file; 643 kB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '32.3 "  N , 6 ° 59' 2.2"  E