St. Laurentius (Laurensberg)

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St. Laurentius-Laurensberg
View of the church building from the 18th century.
View of the church from Vetschauer Berg

The Catholic Church of St. Laurentius is a listed church building in Laurensberg , a district and urban district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The church building is located on a road leading from Heerlen to Aachen in Roman times , at 200 m above sea level - and thus significantly higher than the surrounding area. A church in Laurensberg was first mentioned in a document in 870. King Ludwig the German , a son of Louis the Pious , gave the church ad antiquum campum to Abbot Ansbald von Prüm . Until the beginning of the 11th century, Horbach was also part of the parish of St. Laurentius. During the foundation work for the construction of today's church, a Roman stone of the four gods and stones with mortar from the 9th century were found. No further documents exist until 1218. The patronage of St. Lawrence of Rome was mentioned for the first time in a document from Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne . A priest was first mentioned in 1240.

A new church in late Gothic style was built in the 15th century, of which the tower from 1482 is still preserved, the tail hood of which was put on in 1780. In the event of a fire in 1780, only the choir and tower remained ; the first school in the village was added to the tower in 1807. It was not until 1912 that the old building was demolished and replaced by a new church. In a new fire in 1975, the building was so badly damaged that it had to be closed. Professor Erich Heyne was responsible for the redesign of the interior, he took into account the liturgy of the Second Vatican Council . The three-aisled hall church was built by cathedral builder Joseph Buchkremer . Provincial curator Paul Clemen was responsible for the Gothic elements such as the vaults and the windows .

In 1991 the glass windows by Ludwig Schaffrath were installed. The sculptures belonging to the furnishings date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Church records in the parish archives have been handed down since 1686.

literature

  • Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X
  • Thomas R. Kraus : Laurensberg in the Middle Ages - 800 years of the parish church of St.Laurentius . In: Laurensberger Heimatblätter , No. 8, 2018

Web links

Commons : St. Laurentius (Laurensberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History
  2. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 38 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 7 ″  N , 6 ° 3 ′ 12 ″  E