St. Mary's Conception (Mariadorf)
St. Mary's Conception is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Alsdorf district of Mariadorf in the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The Church is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of Mary . Since 2010 it has been the parish church of the newly founded large parish of St. John XXIII.
history
Originally there was never a church building at the site of today's parish church, and no place called Mariadorf. Only two farms existed in today's settlement area of Mariadorf, which belonged to the parish of St. Cornelius (Hoengen) . Since coal mining began in this area in 1848 and many workers needed living space, the Mariagrube settlement was founded, which was renamed Mariadorf in 1876. The residents first had to go to the neighboring Hoengen to visit the mass . This only changed in the years 1868 to 1869 with the construction of the Mariadorfer Church.
The foundation stone for the construction of today's parish church was laid on June 28, 1868 by the Hoengen pastor Jost. The benediction took place on December 26, 1869 by the Eschweiler dean Decker. On April 6th, Mariadorf received the first rector, Vicar Schetter. In 1891 Mariadorf was elevated to a chapel parish with its own asset management. However, the place still belonged to the parish of Hoengen. The church had the status of a branch church until the parish was raised . On December 1, 1903, Mariadorf was finally completely detached from the mother parish of Hoengen and raised to an independent parish .
The church building was very badly damaged during World War II . The ribbed vaults and the choir collapsed. During the reconstruction, a faithful reconstruction of the neo-Gothic church was dispensed with . The choir was rebuilt in modern forms in the 1950s, the vaults were replaced by a slightly curved concrete ceiling and the bell tower was provided with an incision on the west side that extends to the top floor. The tracery in the windows was not restored either. Nevertheless, the original architecture as a single-nave hall church in the neo-Gothic style has remained recognizable.
On January 1st, 2010 the parish founded in 1903 was dissolved and merged with the also dissolved parishes of St. Barbara / Broicher Siedlung, St. Cornelius / Hoengen, St. Jakobus / Warden and St. Michael / Begau. Although St. Cornelius / Hoengen was the oldest parish and mother parish of three of the four merged parishes, the Mariadorfer Church was designated as the parish church of the new large parish and not St. Cornelius in Hoengen.
On February 17, 2016, the church had to be closed due to severe damage to the roof structure. Since then, security measures have been carried out and the entire building has been restored. It is not known when the church can be used again for church services.
Furnishing
There is modern equipment in the interior. Worth mentioning are the stained glass windows, which the Hinsbeck glass painter Johannes Beeck designed in 1967 in abstract forms.
Bells
|
No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Caster |
Casting year |
| 1 | Joseph | 1,170 | 980 | f ' -1 | Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher | 1951 |
| 2 | Hubert | 965 | 600 | as ' -1 | Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | 1951 |
| 3 | Gerhard | 840 | 400 | b ' -2 | Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | 1951 |
| 4th | Xaver | 755 | 290 | of the " -8 | Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | 1951 |
Motif: ideal quartet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Beckers, Peter Dzinga: The parish of St. Mariae conception in Alsdorf-Mariadorf. (PDF) In: alsdorf-online.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016 (2001/2010).
- ↑ Jürgen Beckers, Peter Dzinga: Church of St. Marien Mariadorf to the current state of affairs. In: http://johannes-alsdorf.kibac.de/ . July 1, 2016, accessed December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Alsdorf-Mariadorf, Catholic Church of St. Mary's Conception. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on December 29, 2016 .
- ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Aachen-Land region, p. 32.
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 50 " N , 6 ° 11 ′ 26.5" E