St. Lambertus (Witterschlick)

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St. Lambertus in Witterschlick

The St. Lambertus Church is the Catholic parish church of Witterschlick , a district of the municipality of Alfter in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

At the current location, two predecessor churches can be identified, the first in the form of a wooden chapel for the time of Charlemagne and the second from 1180 as a Romanesque stone church. The latter was demolished in 1875 and a new, neo-Gothic church building was erected as a three-nave hall church by 1877 .

During the Second World War , the church building was destroyed except for the bell tower in 1944. Four of the five bells were destroyed, a bronze bell from 1927 was preserved. The reconstruction took place until 1954 with the addition of a small nave to the bell tower. Due to the rapid growth of the community, the church was expanded in 1968 to include a rectangular choir . Today the church has five bells again.

organ

The church has a two-manual Sandtner - organ with 27 stops on a balcony above the main entrance. The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Covered 8th'
4th Transverse flute 8th'
5. Salicional 8th'
6th Octave 4 ′
7th Covered 4 ′
8th. Duplicate 2 ′
9. Cornett V 8th'
10. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
12. Wooden flute 8th'
13. Viola da gamba 8th'
14th Unda maris 8th'
15th Flûte octaviante 4 ′
16. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Flageolet 2 ′
18th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
19th Fittings IV 2 ′
20th Trompette harmonique 8th'
21st Basson-Hautbois 8th'
22nd Voix humaine 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Octavbass 8th'
25th Covered bass 8th'
26th Choral bass 4 ′
27. Bombard 16 ′

Bells

In 1927 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast a four-part ringing of bronze bells with the chimes: es '- ges' - as '- b' for St. Lambertus. After the three larger bells fell victim to the Second World War, it was decided in 1951 to cast four new steel bells for the parish church in Versuchsrippe (V7). The small Otto bell from 1927 from the inter-war bell is still there.

No. Surname Nominal
(16th note)		 Weight
(kg)		 Diameter
(mm)		 Year of casting
(mm)		 Caster
1 Barbara d 1 -7 1273 1,510 1951 Bochum association for cast steel production
2 Heart of jesus e 1 -6 926 1,350 1951 Bochum association for cast steel production
3 Lambertus g 1 -7 657 1,180 1951 Bochum association for cast steel production
4th Jesus, Mary, Antonius and Joseph a 1 -7 470 1,050 1951 Bochum association for cast steel production
5 Quirinus h 1 -7 410 840 1927 Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen

Others

The "St. Lambertus Church Choir" celebrated its 270th anniversary in 2007, making it the oldest church choir in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

The parish today comprises around 2,400 Catholics. She belongs to the pastoral care area Alfter in the dean's office Bornheim (Archdiocese of Cologne).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the municipality of Alfter , number 39
  2. ↑ a b c d Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district
  3. ↑ a b St. Lambertus Witterschlick , Parish Community Alfter
  4. ↑ More information about the organ
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 345, 529 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 309, 490 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud University Nijmegen).
  7. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells in the dean's office Bornheim . PDF file. Pp. 34-37.

literature

  • Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 231-232.

Web links

Commons : St. Lambertus (Witterschlick)  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 30.5 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 24.8 ″  E