St. Katharina (Alt-Huerth)
St. Katharina is the Catholic parish church in Alt-Hürth , it is a listed building .
history
For Hürth, today Alt-Hürth, the largest town of the Hürth mayor at the time , the church from 1695, which was mentioned in the 13th century and was last expanded in the 1780s, became too small towards the end of the 19th century. At that time, about 2000 "souls" belonged to the parish with the localities of Knapsack and Alstädten . The church had a floor space of only 119 m² and was in great need of renovation. In 1887, for example, a building association was founded that collected money for a renewed renovation and possible expansion of the church (contribution 5 Pfg. Per week) and also set up church models as money boxes in the inns. So in three years a remarkable 6,500 marks were raised. Not least because new churches had been built or were currently under construction in the neighboring towns of Fischenich , Berrenrath and Gleuel , the Bauverein decided at a general assembly in 1890 to build a new building on a school garden plot of the local community in the immediate vicinity of the old church and rectory along what would later become Lindenstrasse that was acquired in exchange. The architect Theodor Roß from Cologne was won , who was just building the church in Berrenrath. The construction costs were calculated as 67,000 marks, which were then exceeded by 10,000 marks. A diocesan collection was approved for financing, which brought in 7,781 marks and a secular collection in the administrative districts of Cologne, Aachen and Düsseldorf, which was obtained from the citizens of Hürth and brought in another 16,120 marks. The remaining amount was covered by a loan from Kreissparkasse Köln , which was repaid with additional monthly special collections . Building permission was granted on April 4, 1894, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 9, and the foundation stone was laid on June 20 by the dean Titz from Lindenthal . Despite the harsh winter weather, the church was ready after a year thanks to working hours from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. On 25 August 1895, the church was Bishop Hermann Joseph Schmitz consecrated . The church was only insignificantly damaged in World War II . It was last renovated in 2012.
Building description
The church is a three-aisled neo - Romanesque brick basilica with a transept and a western tower in front. The aisles are separated from the main nave by alternating stucco marble columns and pillars. The connecting arches are ogival, typical of eclecticism . In addition to the main gate in the tower, the church has two doors next to the tower to the smaller aisles, as well as a door to Lindenstrasse from the transept. In the west it has an organ gallery. A stair tower is built on the southwest side of the tower, and a two-story sacristy is built into the northwest corner of the choir. The tower is adorned with a rose window , the hexagonal pointed spire is crowned with a tower ball , cross and weathercock . A clock face of the tower clock can be seen in each of the four gables .
Furnishing
A large part of the furnishings could be taken over from the Church of Alt St. Katharina , in particular the baroque crucifixion group and the statues of St. Michael from the same period as well as those of St. Catherine and St. Matthias , the second saint venerated in the church, to which a pilgrimage to Trier is also dedicated. Others were bought in from the art trade, such as those of the Man of Sorrows or St. Joseph and Child.
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The windows of the transept are still original from the Linnicher Kunstanstalt Oidtmann from 1895, those in the choir are from the Cologne painter Remmel. The round column of the baptismal font (19th century) is made of limestone from the Eifel aqueduct .
The organ was installed in 1903 by the Ernst Seifert company in Cologne at a cost of 7,743 marks .
The tower clock was donated by the nitrogen works in Knapsack in 1916 at the instigation of the pastor von Conzen and an agreement with director Constantin Krauss .
Two bronze bells were taken from the tower of the old church, but they had to be surrendered in exchange for compensation during the First World War in June 1917, just like the tin organ front pipes. Pastor Conzen was fine with this, as both are impure in tone . A steel bell was borrowed from the Bochum club as a replacement. And on October 20, 1918, four cast steel bells were inaugurated by the bell foundry of the Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture . In addition, the church master Adam Becker († September 29, 1916) donated 5,000 marks in his will. This was noted on the Matthias bell, the largest bell. In addition to the patron saint, the Katharina bell is also named after the founder of the previous bell from 1845, Katharina Clouth. They sound as follows: Matthias (in d ' ), Katharina (in e ' ), Joseph (in f sharp ' ) and Maria (in a ' ).
literature
- 100 years of St. Katharina Church in Hürth 1895–1995 , ed. from the parish council, Storer Druck
- Heinz Firmenich: City of Hürth , Rheinische Kunststätten issue 36, 1981
- Robert Wilhelm Rosellen : History of the parishes of the deanery Brühl page 338–355; Readable online at the University of Toronto - Robarts Library : PDF online pages from 354
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Chronicle Conzen 1st World War in 100 years of St. Katharina, p. 25
- ↑ Kirchbauchronik at st-katharina-huerth.de
- ↑ Bells in the Deanery Hürth ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 366 kB) Bell books of the Archdiocese of Cologne on glockenbuecher.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '12.5 " N , 6 ° 52' 4.8" E