St. Gertrud (Binsfeld)

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St. Gertrud zu Binsfeld
Epitaph in the church
Binsfeld-Nesselrode coat of arms

The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Gertrud is located in Binsfeld in the municipality of Nörvenich in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Parish cartridge

She is St. Consecrated to Gertrude . The second parish patrons are St. Hubertus and St. Nikolaus .

history

In a document from Emperor Otto I from 966 it is already confirmed that a virgin Ricburis bequeathed her entire inheritance including the church to the Nivelles Abbey as early as 785 .

In the 16th century Werner von Binsfeld converted the old church into a three-aisled hall church . In the middle of the 18th century, the Gertruden chapel, which was attached to the church, had to be demolished due to the risk of collapse. The sacristy was built at this point .

Since the merger of the former parishes of St. Medardus, St. Gertrud, St. Heribert, St. Mariä Visitation, St. Martinus and St. Viktor to form the parish of St. Josef, Nörvenich, St. Gertrud is no longer a parish church.

Building

The three- bay nave was extended by another bay and today's bell tower in 1877 according to plans by Heinrich Wiethase , after the old tower was demolished in 1876.

The three-aisled late Gothic hall church is about 25 by 10 m inside. On the nave, the three quarry stone yokes from the 16th century are raised with bricks . The fourth yoke, added later, and the tower, like the buttresses , are made entirely of bricks. The church has pointed arch windows with simple tracery and modern, partly colored glass . Inside the choir , which was newly built due to the war destruction , has the old pointed arched triumphal arch , which rests on fighters that are adorned with Gothic foliage. In the apex of the star vault with ribs of rails, an oval keystone above the altar carries the Binsfeld-Nesselrode marriage coat of arms.

Interesting are the Gothic wooden cross in the choir from around 1530 with an almost life-size body and the epitaph on the north wall of the choir with the larger-than-life figures of Johann von Binsfeld and his wife Anna von Nesselrode .

After major damage in World War II , it was rebuilt by the mid-1950s.

literature

  • Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X

Web links

Commons : St. Gertrud  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 41.7 "  N , 6 ° 32 ′ 29.9"  E