St. John the Baptist (Ahrem)

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Portal facade of St. John the Baptist
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The Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist in Ahrem , a district of Erftstadt in the Rhein-Erft district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), was built from 1889 to 1891.

history

Ahrem belonged to the parish of Lechenich for centuries . The church, completed in 1891, was built as a single-nave church in neo-Gothic style according to plans by the Cologne cathedral builder Franz Schmitz . Because of the narrow width of the property, the church was not easted .

architecture

The brick building , the foundation stone of which was laid in 1889, faces the street with its gable front and its portal . The portal facade has a large round window with neo-Gothic tracery above the entrance, followed by a niche at the top. As a crowning the front ends in an incipient ridge diagonally mounted skylights . This has a lantern open on four sides , which ends with a pointed helmet and a weather vane .

The nave has five buttresses on either side, tapering halfway up , and high, ogival windows. The slate-covered gable roof was provided with a dormer on each side . At the nave is a semicircular choir with a 5/8 end , to which a sacristy was added at a later time . The choir also received an ornate dormer, which, like the truncated tent roof, was covered with slate.

The parish's plan to build a church tower failed due to funding.

In 2013 the church was extensively renovated.

Furnishing

The confessional and the pulpit , which is now at ground level, have been preserved from the original furnishings, which have been changed several times over the years . Today's leaded glass windows were designed in 1940 by the Cologne artist Hans Hansen . Its rose window was destroyed in the war and then bricked up and used as the background of a clock. It was reopened in 2013 and filled in with window glass until a redesign. The clock found another use. In 1954 Hubert Dürnholz (* 1882) created a way of the cross for the church. During the renovation in 1970, a new altar with a tabernacle stele was erected by Olaf Höhnen . The last organ from 1946 came from the Ernst Seifert workshop . It was replaced by an electronic instrument in 2004. The small bell in the roof turret could not be rung since the 1990s and was removed when the rotten bell cage was renovated in 2013. The church has an electronic loudspeaker chime that simulates four bells.

literature

  • Paul Huhnen: 100 years of the parish church of St. Johannes DT Ahrem. Long Legs 1991.

Web links

Commons : St. John the Baptist  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renovation plans at Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Rhein-Erft, May 3, 2013
  2. ^ Inauguration of the KStA on December 3, 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 4.4 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 46.1"  E