St. Hubertus (Udenbreth)

St. Hubertus (Udenbreth), tower facade in the west

St. Hubertus (Udenbreth), view into the nave to the east

St. Hubertus is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Hellenthal district of Udenbreth in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. Dedicated to Hubertus of Liège . The Miescheid branch with the Immaculate Heart of Mary chapel is part of the parish .

location

Interior to the west with organ gallery

The church building is located in the northern part of the street village of Udenbreth. The primary school is right next to the church.

General

It is not known when exactly a church has existed in Udenbreth. In any case, Udenbreth originally belonged to the parish Kronenburg and already owned a church in the 16th century.

In the middle of the 16th century, Count Dietrich VI. von Manderscheid-Schleiden introduced the new teaching in his field during the Reformation . The count then appointed the Lutheran preacher Reiner von Kall as pastor in Udenbreth . Around 1597 Udenbreth became Catholic again and the place again became a branch of the Kronenburg parish.

In the second half of the 17th century, Udenbreth was finally separated from Kronenburg and raised to an independent parish . During the French era , the parish fell to the diocese of Liège and was reassigned to the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1821 , to which Udenbreth also belonged before. Since 1930 the place belongs to the diocese of Aachen .

Building history

Nothing more is known about the first church in Udenbreth. This building was renovated in 1730, but closed in 1823 due to disrepair. The service was then held in the neighboring villages of Ramscheid and Rescheid . In the meantime there was a plan to build a common parish church in the Kamberg between the villages of Udenbreth and Rescheid . After this plan was rejected, in 1828 the old Udenbrether church was torn down except for the tower. Under the direction of the municipal master builder Christian Wilhelm Ulich, a new single-nave church in the classicism style was built by 1832 , which was attached to the old tower. This church became dilapidated and demolished in the 1900s. In 1910, a new parish church was built in the neo-Romanesque style. The plans for this were made by the Cologne architect Franz Statz . During the Second World War , the church was so badly destroyed in the course of the Ardennes offensive in 1944 that only the outer walls of the nave and the choir remained .

During the reconstruction it was decided to keep the outer walls of the nave and choir. The reconstruction was carried out according to plans by Olefer architect Norbert Hieronymi between 1948 and 1951, who included the existing walls in the new building. The consecration of the new church took place on August 12, 1951. Between 1969 and 1970 the church was renovated.

Building description

St. Hubertus is a single-nave hall building with a transept in neo-Romanesque / modern forms. The walls of the nave and the choir are made of quarry stone and date from 1910, Franz Statz. The easted choir is rounded. The bell tower was rebuilt in modern arched designs after the war destruction, designed by Norbert Hieronymi 1948-1951. The tower is completely slated, has three floors and is crowned by a four-sided tower hood. The entire interior is spanned by a wooden ceiling. The church has 120 seats and 100 standing places.

Furnishing

There is modern equipment in the church. The organ is the work of the organ builder Weimbs from Hellenthal in 1957. The instrument has an electric action and 8 registers distributed over two manuals and a pedal .

Bells

There are three historic bronze bells in the bell tower .

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year	Others
1	-	-	-	of"	Gregor van Trier , Aachen	1513	-
2	-	-	-	it "	-	1776	Lending bell from the Evangelical Church in Kolzig , district of Grünberg i. Schles. ( Lower Silesia ) (Polish: Kolsko)
3	-	-	-	ges "	-	1902	Lending bell from the Evangelical Church in Kittlitztreben , Bunzlau district ( Lower Silesia ) (Polish: Trzebień)

Pastor

The following pastors have worked as pastors at St. Hubertus:

from ... to	Surname
? -1595	Rainer von Kall
1668-1689	Hubert Reuter
1758	Servatius Koepp
1786-1793	Matthias Haas
1807-1818	Hilarius Jost
1832–?	Nicolaus Müller
? –1841	J. Batta
1841-1856	J. Krumpen
1856–?	Heinr. Jos. Thyssen
1864, 1866	Joh. Jos. Strepp
1877, 1885	G. Hax
1909	Steffen
1917-1927	Karl Küffler
1928-1940	Josef Piepers
1940-1944	August Pütz
1945-1947	Josef Wolter
1947-1949	Karl Frings
1949-1966	Leopold Purschke
1966-1975	Johannes Nießen
1975-1986	Father Matthias Müller
1986-1989	Winfried Reidt
1989-2001	Otto Stephan
2001-2006	Christoph Weber
2006-2009	Lothar Tillmann
Since 2009	Philipp Cuck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 541.
2. ↑ Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, published by the Episcopal General Vicariate, Aachen 1994, p. 541.
3. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Hellenthal-Udenbreth, St. Hubertus . In: Bells in the Eifel region . S. 98 ( bistum-aachen.de [PDF]).
4. ↑ New pastor in Udenbreth. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. November 1, 2001, accessed October 9, 2017 . 
5. ↑ And there is only one more ... In: Kölnische Rundschau. August 8, 2006, accessed October 9, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : St. Hubertus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the parish

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 14.4 "  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 34.4"  E