St. Johannes Evangelist (Gürzenich)

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The church
Interior with organ

St. Johannes Evangelist is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Düren district of Gürzenich in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church building is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Düren under number 6/11 and is dedicated to St. Evangelist consecrated to John .

history

A church in Gürzenich was first mentioned in writing in the Liber valoris from 1308, but there was probably a church in Gürzenich much earlier. At that time the place was already an independent parish . Initially, the Knights of Echtz had the right of collation . In 1359 the church was incorporated into the Wilhelmite monastery Zum Paradies in Düren. After the monastery was destroyed in 1543, the Schellards, a family from Gürzenich, acted as patrons.

Building history

The parish church mentioned in 1308 was a simple Romanesque hall building . In 1575 the church got a new tower, 30 years later a choir was added. In 1729 Wilhelm von Schellard gave the church a new main altar. In 1806 an extension was added to the church. In the middle of the 19th century, the church became too small and also dilapidated, so that the construction of today's parish church was decided.

The foundation stone of today's parish church was laid on September 5, 1856. Two years later the new church was completed, so that in 1858 the old, Romanesque-Gothic church was demolished. This previous church was located in the old cemetery roughly where the war memorial stands today. The solemn church consecration and consecration was carried out by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri on October 7, 1860. The plans for the construction of the parish church came from the hands of the later Cologne diocesan master builder Vincenz Statz .

In the 1920s or 1930s the tower was structurally changed by removing the balustrade on the fourth floor and the four branch towers. The church was badly damaged in World War II . In particular, the south side of the nave and the tower were affected. So all tracery of the windows on the south side were destroyed and the main portal in the tower. After the war, the main portal was rebuilt and new tracery was not installed on the south side.

Building description

View from the east

St. Johannes Evangelist is a three-aisled hall church made of bricks in the neo-Gothic style . The nave consists of six bays . This is followed by the one-yoke and five-sided choir . The four-story bell tower is built in front of the nave in the west . While the lower three floors are square, the upper floor, on which the bells also hang, is octagonal and crowned by an eight-sided tower dome. Due to the distance between the balustrade and the branch turret around the fourth floor, the transition between square and rectangle (third to fourth floor) appears quite hard. The nave is vaulted with cross ribs and the choir with star vaults .

Furnishing

Particularly noteworthy is the triptych altar, a Dutch work from 1520, which was taken from the old church. The neo-Gothic furnishings were almost completely removed in 1955, so that today's furnishings are modern. The windows are works by Johannes Beeck from 1955. While the windows in the nave show ornaments, the windows in the choir depict Mary , Christ as Judge of the World , John the Evangelist and Hubertus von Lüttich .

organ

The organ is a work of the organ building company Karl Kamp from Aachen from 1951 and has 22 registers . It replaces the previous organ that was destroyed in the war. The instrument was renovated and slightly changed in 1977 by master organ builder Peter Berretz from Eschweiler.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Quintadena 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Wooden flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 13
Trumpet 8th'
II subsidiary work C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Wooden dacked 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Sesquialter II 2 23
Zimbel III
Krummhorn 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Coarse 8th'
Chorale flute 4 ′
Back set III
trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : hand register, free combination 1, free combination 2, tutti, roller

Bells

In the tower there is a five-part bronze ring - bells . In the tower there are still two valuable historical bells by Sifart Duisterwalt from the two years 1445 and 1446, which were taken from the tower of the previous church. The remaining three bells were cast in the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg in the 1950s.

No.
 
Surname
 
Diameter
(mm)
Mass
(kg, approx.)
Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
Caster
 
Casting year
 
1 Hubertus 1,350 1,350 it 1 -2 Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon; Mabilon & Co., Saarburg 1958
2 Great Maria 1,120 850 f 1 -4 Sifart Duisterwalt, Cologne 1445
3 Middle Mary 985 650 as 1 -5 Sifart Duisterwalt, Cologne 1446
4th Little Maria 880 400 b 1 -4 Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon; Mabilon & Co., Saarburg 1956
5 Barbara 710 230 of 2 -3 Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon; Mabilon & Co., Saarburg 1957

Motif: ideal quartet

Pastor

The following priests have been pastors to St. John the Evangelist:

from ... to Surname
-1329 Jordan de Egze
-1358 Johann von Gürtzenich
-1496 Lodewych Cruder
-1636 Werner Müller
1687-1688 Peter Randerath
1688-1698 Martin Koch
1698-1717 Johann Adam Koch
1717-1739 Johann Wilhelm Fuckard
1739-1776 Johann Pütz
1776-1801 Ludwig Parren
1801-1824 Theodor Boddem
1824-1839 Johannes Wolters
from ... to Surname
1839-1855 Franz Joseph Quitter
1855-1895 Peter Joseph Zander
1895-1916 Josef Eschweiler
1917-1930 Paul Hecker
1930-1952 Robert Puetz
1952-1962 Felix Kaufmann
1962-1966 Gerhard loves
1967-1970 Heinrich Dentel
1971-1998 Heinrich Gasper
1998-2011 Frank Michael Mertens
Since 2011 Hans Tings

literature

  • Werner Schroeder, Josef Werner, Johann Cremer, Hans Gottschalk: Our home in Gürzenich. Published by the Heimatbund Gürzenich. Gürzenich-Cologne 1955.
  • Kreissparkasse Düren (Ed.): The Dürener Land. Image atlas of the Kreissparkasse Düren. Düren 1971.
  • Ferdy Hake: Gürzenich and his story. Published by the Heimatbund Gürzenich. Düren 1987.

Web links

Commons : St. Johannes Evangelist (Gürzenich)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ferdy Hake: Gürzenich and his story. Published by the Heimatbund Gürzenich, Düren 1987, p. 211.
  2. Ferdy Hake: Gürzenich and his story. Published by the Heimatbund Gürzenich, Düren 1987, p. 229 ff.
  3. Frank Grobusch: St. Johannes Evangelist Gürzenich. In: Internet site for church music in the Düren region. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  4. Norbert Jachtmann: Bell music in the Düren region

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 38.3 "  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 46.9"  E