St. Laurentius (Uedem)
St. Laurentius is the Roman Catholic parish church of Uedem in the Kleve district . It stands on the market square and shapes the townscape with its high pair of towers.
history
The foundation of the Uedemer church with the patronage of the Roman deacon and martyr Laurentius is assumed for the 12th century. The oldest documentary evidence dates from 1266. The modest Romanesque building had been a parish church since 1300.
In the second half of the 19th century, industrialization also made the Uedem community grow by leaps and bounds, so that the old church was no longer sufficient. After intensive discussions, the decision was made to tear it down and replace it with a large neo-Romanesque basilica . This was completed in 1886.
The Second World War hit the Laurentiuskirche in Uedem, like the entire town, hard. Only the towers have been restored. The rest of the church was completely rebuilt in 1960 according to plans by Denis Boniver .
On November 16, 2015, the church was entered in the list of monuments of the municipality of Uedem under the number 051540560100023 - despite initial concerns from the parish about potential barriers to subsequent use.
architecture
The two high neo-Romanesque towers made of dark red brick have a square floor plan. They are divided into five floors with arched friezes , pilaster strips and round arched windows arranged in pairs and are reminiscent of the towers of the cathedral of Münster .
The modern portal of the Boniver building is located between the towers. This takes up the scheme of the three-aisled basilica with transept, but realizes it in the forms of the late 1950s. The crossing roof rider is a long, slender copper helmet that stands on four concrete feet. The building material of the masonry is red brick, which is sparingly structured with light gray horizontal and vertical concrete strips. The flat ceiling is supported in the crossing by a star-shaped network of steel struts, in the nave by concrete struts arranged at right angles. In the crossing is the altar, behind it a brick-ornamented triumphal arch leads over to the apse with the sediles . The bronze tabernacle stele stands on the right in front of the choir arch . The organ is located in the left arm of the transept. Light falls through large window fields in the right upper storey, which consist of clear-glazed round and square windows in a concrete grille. Small circular stained glass windows with square concrete frames depicting scenes from the Gospel are set into the opposite wall at wide intervals .
organ
The organ of St. Laurentius was built in 1967 by the organ building company Romanus Seifert & Sohn (Kevelaer). The instrument has 43 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.
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- Coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : free combinations, typesetting system , register crescendo
Individual evidence
- ↑ 50 years of St. Laurentius Uedem; WAZ from October 15, 2010
- ^ Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius . In: Municipality of Uedem (ed.): List of monuments of the municipality of Uedem . Uedem November 16, 2015 ( uedem.de [PDF]).
- ↑ derwesten.de Protection for St. Laurentius NRZ from October 29, 2015
Web links
- Internet presence of the parish
- To the building history
- The core of the community - the place Uedem - is one of the oldest Franconian settlements on the Lower Rhine
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 5.4 " N , 6 ° 16 ′ 22.2" E