St. Margareta (Neukirchen)

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West view of the church and rectory in 2011
The interior of the Margaretenkirche
Pietà in the anteroom, 2011

The Catholic parish church of St. Margareta in the town of Neukirchen , which belongs to the town of Rheinbach, dates from the 18th century. Together with the also historic rectory, it is located at Neukirchener Str. 16 and has been a listed building since December 1993. Noteworthy are the Romanesque baptismal font and the chiming , which has a bell from the 12th century.

history

In the region known as Sürst (including the villages of Groß-Schlebach , Merzbach and Scherbach ) on the northern edge of the Eifel , a rural settlement area emerged from an original hunting area of ​​the Rhineland Count Palatine from the eleventh century , in which the parish village of Neukirchen became the center. Neukirchen was founded after clearing by the Cistercians . The monks of the Himmerod monastery erected the first church building here in the 12th century. In the 13th century ownership passed to Heisterbach Abbey . A documentary mention of the parish of Neukirchen takes place in a deed of lease from the Archbishop of Cologne from 1388, with which he transferred the jurisdiction for Neukirchen (then called Nuwenkirchen ) to Gerhard von Buschhoven .

A stone church building from around 1405 had a floor plan of around 22 × 7.60 meters; it was illuminated through three windows with flat arches. A new nave was built on the foundations of the old church in 1734. Around 1787 the building was rebuilt. At the same time, a bell tower was also added on the west side. Under J. Josephus Helden, who was pastor in Neukirchen from 1805, extensive renovation work was carried out on the interior of the church. Around 600 panels for the production of a floor in the nave were delivered from Münstereifel to cover the previously unpaved ground. The old pulpit was replaced in 1807 by a pulpit of the former monastery in Schweinheim, which was installed on the opposite side of the nave, which had become vacant through secularization and was preserved by the Prefect of Koblenz . The worm-eaten side altars were also replaced. In addition, the old high altar of the Rheinbach parish church of St. Martin was taken over; he was transferred from Rheinbach to Neukirchen on June 18, 1808.

The Neukirchen parish today belongs to the Rheinbach parish of St. Martin.

Architecture and equipment

The baroque hall church is a simple, plastered quarry stone building in the Cistercian style. It has a nave with the tower on the west side and a polygonal choir closure with adjoining sacristy on the east side. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret of Antioch . The baptismal font placed in the simple and bright interior is believed to date from the 12th century. In the church, next to a Way of the Cross, there are two statues from the 19th century (including a Madonna and Child) and a Pietà .

window

The church has eight glass windows, four on each long side. The six windows in the nave contain geometric compositions by Maria Katzgrau and date from 1977. They consist of antique , opal and lead glass . The two choir windows were created by an unknown artist around 1900. They are made of cathedral glass that has been refined with black solder and silver yellow painting .

organ

The organ with one manual and six registers was built in in 1890 by the organ builder Johannes Klais . In 1976 the organ builder Weimbs expanded it to eleven registers .

Peal

The parish church has five bronze bells . Underneath is a small, very old bell that probably dates from the 12th century. It is a sugar loaf bell with a rib thickness of heavy rib . It weighs 100 kg and has a diameter of 53.2 centimeters.

In addition, two larger bells were acquired at the beginning of the 19th century. In the early 1830s, the larger of these bells (probably cast in 1809) burst and had to be cast around. This casting was carried out in 1835 by Christian Claren (bell foundry Claren) from Sieglar , the bell was dedicated to St. Sebastian and St. Margaret. Another inscription read: Renovatum sub domino pastore Roderburg 1835 . In 1918, shortly before the end of the First World War , the two large bells were withdrawn for armament purposes, the material value of 630 kg was credited with 2835 marks.

It was not until the mid-1920s that two large bronze bells were procured for the parish church. In June 1926, the two bells cast under August Mark by the Eifeler bell foundry from Brockscheid were consecrated for 3,645 marks. One of the bells was donated by the Neukirchen pastor Leonhard Tesch. In 1942 one of the two bells was drawn in again for raw material extraction. After the Second World War , the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg was commissioned to cast two bells. The bells, constructed by Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon with a medium-weight rib , were consecrated in 1954. The diameter of the bell dedicated to St. Margaret is 88 cm, its weight 420 kg; the bell dedicated to St. Sebastianus is 67 cm in diameter and weighs 180 kg. On September 13, 1959, another bell, the so-called Marienglocke (although dedicated to Mary and Joseph) was consecrated. It is the greatest bell of peal; it has a diameter of 107 cm and a weight of 700 kg.

Bell inscriptions:

"HL. MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, AND YOU, ST. JOSEF ASKS FOR US IN THE ATOMIC AGE TO MAINTAIN WORLD PEACE AND THE REUNIFICATION OF GERMANY IN PEACE AND FREEDOM, NEUNKIRCHEN IN SURST, ANNO DOMINI 1959 "

- Mary and Joseph bell

"OUR 45 FALLEN FROM 1914-18, NEUKIRCHEN 1954"

- Margaret Bell

"OUR 65 FALLEN AND MISSING FROM 1939-45, NEUKIRCHEN 1954"

- Sebastanius bell

Rectory

The rectory five meters to the west (address: Neukirchener Str. 18 ) has three floors. A half-timbered building is built on a massive ground floor , the crooked hip roof of which includes a second floor. The high rectangles windows have jambs from Trachyt equipped. The building was built in 1731 and is also a listed building. In the adjacent parish barn there are five murals depicting the Palatinate near Kaub , the Rheinbach forest chapel , the Mäuseturm , a view of Neukirchen and Heck's little house in Neukirchen.

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments in accordance with Section 3 (6) DSchG, Rheinbach List of Monuments, Part A Hilberath, No. 105
  2. ↑ a b First World War: The World War in the villages of Sürst , October 30, 2014, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  3. ↑ Robert Koch: History of the Sürst . In: Places and hamlets in the Sürst. Rheinbach 1985, p. 2, p. 13-14 and p. 19, at: Website of JGV Neukirchen / Merzbach
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Robert Koch: Neukirchen . In: Places and hamlets in the Sürst. Rheinbach 1985, pp. 26–129, abbreviated from: Website of JGV Neukirchen / Merzbach
  5. ^ Parish of St. Martin ( Memento of October 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , website of the Archdiocese of Cologne
  6. ^ Profile of St. Margareta Neukirchen , website of the Meckenheim-Rheinbach dean's office
  7. ^ Rheinbach-Neukirchen, Catholic Church St. Margareta , Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV
  8. ↑ Catalog raisonné, status X / 2016 , Johannes Klais Orgelbau, p. 51.
  9. ^ Opus list ( Memento from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), No. 126, catalog raisonné, website of Weimbs Orgelbau
  10. ↑ a b c Gerhard Hoffs, Achim Bursch: Bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach , based on studies by Jakob Schaeben (1905–1980) a. a., 2014, pp. 85–90 ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ a b List of monuments according to Section 3 (6) DSchG, Rheinbach Monument List, Part A Hilberath, No. 205

See also

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 40.1 ″  E