St. Laurentius (Oberdollendorf)

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St. Laurentius (2014)
The Romanesque choir tower with semicircular apse (2015)
Back of St. Laurentius
Elevation, floor plan and section of the Romanesque choir tower

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius in Oberdollendorf , a district of Königswinter , consists of a Romanesque east tower, a nave from 1792 and post-war extensions. It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The church building is located on the outskirts above the town center on the corner of Heisterbacher Strasse ( Landesstrasse 268) and Rennenbergstrasse at 77.81  m above sea level. NN . The current street layout around the church has existed since around 1870, when today's race mountain street, which runs past to the south, was replaced in its function as part of the road connection between Niederdollendorf and Oberpleis by the then newly created current Heisterbacher street on the north side of the church.

history

Oberdollendorf has a church that has been documented since 1144, which at that time belonged to Vilich Abbey with collation and tithe . Saint Laurentius , who has been venerated in what is now Germany since the 10th century, is considered to be a possible reference to the origins of the first Oberdollendorfer church building during this time. However, a church tower that was repaired in 1728 is definitely from the early 13th century. Work on the nave followed in 1730. In 1731 the area of ​​the parish of Oberdollendorf, including Römlinghovens, had 600 inhabitants, almost all of them Catholic. In 1750 the first rectory was built (Heisterbacher Straße 156), a half-timbered building on a solid ground floor. In 1771 the high altar was torn down.

At the end of the 18th century, the Oberdollendorfer church was closed due to dilapidation . The Vilich Abbey was obliged by a representative of the Duchy of Berg to build a new building. The new, simple hall church was completed in 1792 while preserving the Romanesque choir tower. 1852 replaced a newly created cemetery outside the village as a cemetery adjacent to the parish church cemetery . In 1896 the roof of the tower was replaced, the stairs attached to its north side by a narrow stair tower. The large increase in population since the second half of the 19th century led to new building plans that were prevented by war, inflation and the global economic crisis . In 1949 and again in 1954/56 the church was renovated and expanded, and a new rectory was built in the 1960s (Rennenbergstrasse 1).

A comprehensive renovation of the church began in September 2012 due to moisture damage. The renovation was carried out in three construction phases and required a total of 2.3 million euros. The tower, which dates back to the 13th century as the oldest part of the building, was renovated in late summer 2015. The mold infestation inside the building was removed and the slate roof was renewed. The organ gallery has been removed, the organ is now in the open space and can be heated from the rear to avoid renewed mold growth. Main and side aisles were optically separated from each other by two new pillars, so that smaller church services can also take place in the aisle in future. A new confessional room was built in the rear area of ​​the aisle. Exterior and interior plaster was completely removed. On August 12, 2017, the re-opening and performed consecration of a new altar under a Pontifikalamts by the Archbishop of Cologne Woelki .

Building description

The east-facing choir tower has three floors and is of Romanesque or medieval origin. Its construction period and that of its apse are dated to the beginning of the 13th century. Like St. Michael in Niederdollendorf, St. Laurentius belongs to the group of choir tower churches in the vicinity of the parish churches belonging to Vilich Abbey. The hall church is unplastered, its base is composed of greywacke quarry stones. The masonry on the ground floor consists of rubble stones, it was completely renewed during renovations including the apse. Tuff was used as building material on the second and third floors . On the third floor, arched frames, four larger sound windows are placed on each side of the tower, which are adorned with staggered triple arches. The basement of the tower, a groin vault , is structurally self-contained and is called St. Sebastianus Chapel.

The nave was originally single-nave and today has several side aisles and large arched windows. A tower-like extension of the nave to the west to Heisterbacher Strasse, in which a morgue and a soldiers' memorial were housed, dates from 1948–50. During this time, the main entrance was relocated to a new porch from the west to the south side. The north aisle and the sacristy were added to the following extension from 1954–56. The church hall includes a three-sided choir and a mirrored ceiling.

Since a redesign that was completed before 1988, the former churchyard has contained some grave crosses from the 17th and 18th centuries, mostly made of trachyte , some of which show high-quality reliefs. In front of the western extension of the nave there is a mission cross from 1858 and on the north side facing Heisterbacher Straße there is a renewed cross made of trachyte without inscription and body. At the new parsonage (Rennenbergstrasse 1) opposite the church tower is a trachyte walkway from 1781, which was moved here in 1976 from the ascent to Petersberg (Strasse An der Luhs ) and is closed at the top with a simple iron cross instead of the original stone cross.

  • View to Heisterbacher Strasse

  • Partial view

  • inside view

  • Mission cross from 1858

  • Way cross made of trachyte

  • Path stick from 1781

organ

The present instrument was fundamentally changed in 1975 by the company Orgelbau Weimbs from Hellenthal. The organ has electric action , a free-standing console and 25 sounding stops . Many of the registers still come from the old organ by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker (1901).

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
viola 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Vox coelestis II 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sesquialter I-III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff IV 1'
Rohrschalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Beard pipe 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Rauschbass III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Nursing trombone 16 ′

Bells

The parish church of St. Laurentius houses a total of five bells . Four of them hang in the east tower, cast by the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg in 1989. In the roof turret is a small bell from the 2nd half of the 12th century by an anonymous foundryman. The old steel bells from the post-war period are placed in front of the church.

No.
  		Surname
  		Diameter
(mm, approx.) 		Mass
(kg, approx.) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 Maria 1400 1650 d 1 -1
2 Laurentius 1240 1150 e 1 -1
3 Sebastian 1040 680 g 1 ± 0
4th Bernhard 930 480 a 1 ± 0
5 395 35 d 3 -4

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Laurentius  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 173
  2. ↑ According to the German basic map
  3. ↑ a b c Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.)
  4. ↑ Norbert Schloßmacher; Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (Ed.): Rheinische Kunststätten. Catholic churches in the valley area of ​​the city of Koenigswinter
  5. ↑ Hansjürgen Melzer: Damage from moisture in Oberdollendorf - church is being completely renovated , In: General-Anzeiger online, August 30, 2012
  6. ^ Hansjürgen Melzer: Construction work on Sankt Laurentius in Oberdollendorf - the saw screeches in the nave. In: General-Anzeiger online. April 23, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .
  7. ^ Altar consecration: Archbishop Woelki of Cologne in the Oberdollendorf parish church. In: Bonner Rundschau online. August 13, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  8. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland, arr. and exp. Edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 2005, pp. 844–846.
  9. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells in the dean's office in Königswinter . PDF; Pp. 69-75.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 56.8 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 29"  E