St. Jakobus (Jakobwüllesheim)

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St. Jakobus in Jakobwüllesheim
Choir view

St. Jakobus is the Roman Catholic branch church of the Jakobwüllesheim district of the municipality of Vettweiß in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The church is consecrated to James the Elder and entered in the list of architectural monuments in Vettweiß under number Jak-5 .

history

General

A chapel in Jakobwüllesheim was mentioned for the first time in 1174. The Cologne Ursulastift owned rights to this chapel. In 1689 this building was destroyed. It was not until 1724 that a new church was built in the late Gothic style. This church was demolished in September 1891 because it had become dilapidated.

In 1804 Jakobwüllesheim, until then a branch of the Soller parish, was raised to an independent parish , but it was dissolved again in 1808 and assigned as a branch of the Kelz parish . The parish was not rebuilt until 1842. On January 1, 2010 the parish of St. Jakobus in Jakobwüllesheim was dissolved and with the former parishes of St. Gereon (Vettweiß), St. Amandus (Müddersheim), St. Antonius (Ginnick), St. Gangolf (Soller), St. Michael (Kelz), St. Johann Baptist (Sievernich), St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Disternich), St. Martin (Froitzheim), and St. Petrus (Gladbach) merged to form the parish of St. Marien, Vettweiß.

Church building

The current church was built from 1891 to 1893 according to plans by the Cologne architect and government master builder Heinrich Krings . On February 14, 1888, the parish council decided to build a new parish church . In the same year Heinrich Krings was commissioned to plan the new building. On August 15, 1888, Krings submitted a first draft to the church council, which in January 1889 was submitted for approval to the Vicariate General of the Archdiocese of Cologne , to which Jakobwüllesheim belonged until 1930. The then Strasbourg diocesan master builder Franz Schmitz then prepared an expert opinion on the planning and suggested some corrections, which Krings finally implemented in his planning. These plans were eventually approved by the Vicariate General. On July 26th, 1891, the groundbreaking ceremony began and construction work began. The solemn high mass on this occasion was celebrated by the President of the Cologne Seminary, Dr. Ludwigs. The foundation stone was laid on April 10, 1892 after the congregation had moved in procession from the Old Church to the festively decorated building site. The consecration took place on June 17, 1893 by the then Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne and later Archbishop Antonius Fischer .

As a result of the Second World War , the church was badly damaged in 1944, especially the brickwork and roof. In addition, all windows were destroyed. From 1947 the church could be used again for church services and around 1956 the interior got a new coat of paint.

architecture

St. Jakobus is a richly structured brick basilica in the neo-Romanesque style in a south-west-north-east orientation. In the southwest it has a two-storey vestibule that resembles a transept and in the northeast a choir closed on five sides . This is flanked by approx. 48 meter high and four-story twin towers, of which only one houses the bells. Between choir and West stem the three-bay extends nave . The interior nave is 6 meters wide and the side aisles are 2.30 meters wide in the first and third bay. The middle yoke of the aisles is a little wider. The entire interior is vaulted with cross ribs and groin vaults . The arcades between the central and side aisles are divided by columns made of polished red granite . In total, the structure is 30.50 meters long and 16 meters wide.

The Jakobwüllesheimer Kirche is one of three neo-Romanesque churches that government architect Heinrich Krings planned.

Furnishing

Almost all of the furnishings from the time of construction have been preserved in the interior. The neo-Romanesque high altar , as well as the two neo-Romanesque side altars, the pulpit and the communion bench , the frames of the stations of the cross and the floor, which consists of panels from the Sinzig mosaic plate and pottery factory, were also created according to plans by Heinrich Krings, like the church. This means that the fittings are matched to the architecture of the interior. The substructures of the altars, as well as the pulpit and communion bench, are made of Lahn marble .

The original painting from the time it was built has been preserved in the choir. This was restored in 1988 and depicts Jesus Christ on a rainbow , which is accompanied by Mary and Joseph . The rest of the largely ornamental painting was whitewashed in the 1950s. The benches and the wooden confessional also date from this period.

On the two side altars there are two figures by the sculptor Wilhelm Albermann . They represent Mary and Joseph. He also created a figure of St. Donatus in the right aisle.

Most of the windows in the church were created by Sr. Hildegard Birks in 1965 and 1966. Except for the rosette above the main portal, they depict geometric shapes. The rosette is dedicated to the five wounds of the Savior. The six windows in the upper storey are works by the Düren artist Herb Schiffer from 1981. They represent floral compositions.

Others

The church is also known as a kit model from the model railway accessories manufacturer Viessmann Modelltechnik , which sells the model under its Kibri brand and is one of the few two-tower model churches that can be found on many H0 model railway systems .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Kreuzau (with a mention of Jakobwüllesheim) on www.kreuzau.de, 23 September 2015
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (August 6, 2014)
  3. ↑ http://gdg-visitenkarten.kibac.de/5/gdg-noervenich-vettweiss- (August 6, 2014)
  4. ↑ General-Anzeiger for the city and district of Düren, Dürener Zeitung No. 61 - 19th year. Saturday August 1, 1891
  5. ↑ General-Anzeiger for the city and district of Düren, Dürener Zeitung No. 30 - 20th year. Wednesday April 13, 1892
  6. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857–1925). Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. Bonn 2005, pp. 174-175.
  7. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857–1925). Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. Bonn 2005, pp. 175-178.
  8. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857–1925). Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. Bonn 2005, pp. 178-179.
  9. ↑ Website of the Research Center for 20th Century Stained Glass Foundation, 23 September 2015

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 47.8 "  N , 6 ° 33 ′ 31.7"  E