St. Margareta (Eschweiler)
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The Catholic Church of St. Margareta is a neo-Gothic hall church from the beginning of the 20th century in Eschweiler , a district of Bad Münstereifel in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The parish belongs to the pastoral care area Bad Münstereifel of the Archdiocese of Cologne . The patronage lies with St. Margaret of Antioch .
location
The wood Straße leads from the west of the historic town center to which rises to the east. On the raised area, the church stands on a piece of land that is fenced in with a wall .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1115. At that time the residents were already liable to pay taxes and paid their tithe to the collegiate church of St. Chrysanthus and Daria in Bad Münstereifel. It is not known when the first church was built. It is certain that a previous building was elevated to a parish church in 1804 . The sacred building existing in the 21st century was built in 1901 and 1902.
Building description
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The choir is slightly drawn in and has a five-eighth ending . At the corners of the choir, a double-stepped buttress provides additional stability. In between is ever a split tracery windows with an overlying quatrefoil . Above the base is a surrounding cornice ; at the transition to the slate-covered roof is a circumferential haunch . In the roof there is a small, tall rectangular window facing east; a wrought-iron cross on the ridge.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan, which is supplemented by two cross arms. The long sides of each are supplemented with three stepped buttresses, with a further tracery window in between. They are each supplemented by another tracery window to the west. There is also a tower staircase on the north side. At the southeastern transition from the nave to the choir is a small sacristy. It has a rectangular floor plan and small, ogival windows.
The west tower has a square floor plan and is strongly drawn in opposite the ship. It can be entered from the west through a portal. On the north and south sides of the ground floor there is a small, ogival window. On the floor above there is a quatrefoil on each of the three accessible sides. The bell storey rises above it. It is separated from the rest of the building by a surrounding cornice. The corners are emphasized by pilaster strips . This creates four fields that are optically separated from one another by another cornice. In the lower area there is a narrow window on each of the three accessible sides, in the upper area an ogival arcade of sound in all four fields . A rounded arch frieze opens at the bottom . Above it rises the eight-fold kinked tower helmet , which ends with a weathercock .
Furnishing
The church furnishings come from the construction time. The windows on the gallery in the tower, in the nave and some in the transept come from the German glass painter Hermann Gottfried . In 1975 he created several free compositions from antique glass, lead and black solder . The windows in the transept were created by Heinrich Oidtmann II in 1903 during the construction period ; he also used antique glass, lead and black solder for his work. Oidtmann also designed the choir windows from cathedral glass. They show the birth of Christ , the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the sending of the spirit . According to an inscription, the latter is a foundation by Franz Jos. Eschweiler from Coeln in 1903.
A memorial to the south-east of the building commemorates those who fell in the world wars.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eschweiler , website of the city of Bad Münstereifel, accessed on November 24, 2018.
- ↑ Bad Münstereifel-Eschweiler, Catholic Church St. Margareta , website of the Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting, accessed on November 25, 2018.
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 19.9 ″ N , 6 ° 44 ′ 22.5 ″ E