St. Mary's Visitation (Mülldorf)
Sankt Mariä Visitation is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Sankt Augustin district of Mülldorf ( Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ) in North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the Catholic pastoral care area Sankt Augustin in the Rhein-Sieg district dean of the Archdiocese of Cologne . Today's church building was consecrated in 1938 and is a listed building as a monument . It is one of the last churches in Germany whose construction was approved in the Third Reich . The architect of the building was Wilhelm Alexander Schneider.
history
Since the Christianization of the place it belonged to the parish of St. Martinus in Niederpleis . A separate chapel, which was attached to the Fronhof already existing in 1071, was first mentioned in a document in 1582. However, it is likely that there was a church building in the village earlier. This is indicated by the remains of the wall, two altar stones and a church tower, which were found after a flood in Sieg in 1635.
On April 25, 1705, the Niederpleis pastor Gabriel Blum laid the foundation stone for the first chapel of St. Mary's Visitation on today's Kapellenplatz in Mülldorf. Five years later, on July 2, 1710, the day of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , the building was consecrated. After the dissolution of the Siegburg Abbey in the course of secularization in 1803, many relics from the monastery came into the possession of the parish. In 1872 the old chapel was demolished and replaced by a new one at the same location. On April 1, 1920, Mülldorf was separated from the Niederpleis parish by the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte , and raised to the status of an independent parish.
In the 1930s the old chapel turned out to be too small. Pastor Gottfried Salz, who was transferred from Essen to Mülldorf in 1936, began planning the construction of today's parish church on what was then Schulstrasse that same year, which has since been named after Salz. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on March 18, 1938, although neither the state nor the church building permit was available. Because the youth home had not been approved by the authorities, Salz declared it an air raid shelter and received approval for it. On May 22nd, Pastor Salz, Dean Wilhelm Heppekausen and the Siegburg Abbot Ildefons Schulte-Strathaus laid the foundation stone for the church. The three bells were consecrated at the beginning of October. After just nine months, on December 18, 1938, the fourth Sunday in Advent, the church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Stockums . The old chapel was then torn down.
The fact that the church, the entire village of Mülldorf and the Steyler Monastery were not severely affected by war damage was mainly due to the efforts of Pastor Gottfried Salz, who in the last days of the war in 1945 prevented the German soldiers from blowing up the monastery, and also for this made sure that the American soldiers could march into the place without firing a shot.
Monsignor Josef Schlemmer was pastor of many years in Mülldorf from 1976 to 2002. Parish vicar residing in Mülldorf has been the former Provincial of the Steyler Missionaries , Bernd Werle , since July 1, 2018 .
architecture
The basilica sacred building originally had a simple brick masonry and was only provided with the current light exterior plaster in 1955. The north-east facing church tower with a hipped roof has two transverse structures with transverse gable roofs . Below the sound openings, a sgraffito adorns the facade of the tower, which depicts the Visitation of Mary. Between this picture and the entrance portal there is a window rosette made with reduced stone elements. The two lower floors of the church tower are open to the nave. On the ground floor there is a side chapel next to the entrance, above is the organ loft, on which the organ from the Eggert Organ Building Institute Anton Feith from 1962 is installed.
In the chancel there are two round choir windows in lighter pastel tones that were installed in 1959. The entire building has a quarry stone base, the building corners are designed with an irregular, head-high corner cuboid made of hammer-right quarry stone. The floor consists of Weidenhahner Trachyte and was re-laid in 1983.
Furnishing
A massive wooden crucifixion group with a 2.38 m high body hangs on the choir wall . The assistant figures Maria and Johannes were added in 1956. Under the cross is the tabernacle , which symbolizes the burning bush with thorns and luminous enamelled flames . The altar and ambo were redesigned in a simple form in 1976 and consecrated by the Siegburg Benedictine Abbot Placidus Mittler on November 6, 1976. The base of the altar consists of a large block of tuff . It carries the overlying tufa table top protruding on all sides. In 1983, the sculptor Hans Rams incorporated the motif of a spring into the front of the altar. On the right side altar there is a sculpture of St. Joseph , the corresponding figure of Mary on the left side altar was only erected in 1955.
The main portal was also created by Rams in 1988 and shows the risen Christ in the center image. On the inside of the portal, the fourteen spiritual and physical works of mercy, so named since the Middle Ages, are artistically represented. Directly behind the entrance in the church tower, there has been a bronze stele in the middle since 1995, which shows Mary with her cousin Elisabeth and thus symbolizes the patronage of the church .
Many items of equipment ended up in the church when the National Socialists had the St. Augustine Missionary House closed down in 1941 . These include figures of St. Augustine (from the 17th century), St. Gregory I (1790) and St. Nicholas (end of the 18th century). There is also a Gothic wooden figure of the risen Christ from Birlinghoven Castle , a 17th century Madonna and Child and an icon of Perpetual Help from the old Mülldorf chapel.
In front of the outer wall of the north aisle there is a so-called “ Marterl Cross” made of wood. A ceramic sculpture of the Immaculate stands on the forecourt .
literature
- Hans Lahr: 75 years of the Church of St. Mary's Visitation in Mülldorf . In: Contributions to the history of the city . tape 52 . Sankt Augustin 2013.
- Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 251/252. [not yet evaluated for this article]
- Robert Hartleib: The parish Niederpleis . Siegburg 1986.
Web links
- Parish church of St. Mary's Visitation - St. Augustin Catholic pastoral care area
- Virtual tour of the church
See also
- List of religious buildings in Sankt Augustin
- List of architectural monuments in Sankt Augustin
- Pastoral care areas and parish churches in the Rhein-Sieg district dean
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sankt Augustin-Mülldorf monument conservation plan. In: www.sankt-augustin.de. City of Sankt Augustin, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Martina World: St. Mary's Visitation - The parish church in Mülldorf is 75 years old . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . Bonner newspaper printer and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH, Bonn November 21, 2013 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed December 10, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Thomas Heinemann: Kapellenplatz in Sankt Augustin - A place with an eventful history . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . Bonner newspaper printer and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH, Bonn August 8, 2013 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed December 10, 2018]).
- ↑ City of Sankt Augustin: PM 294/2013 Sankt Augustin - Contributions to the city's history. November 13, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Lehnberg: Gottfried Salz: A courageous pastor . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . Bonner newspaper printer and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH, Bonn March 20, 2015 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed December 10, 2018]).
- ↑ https://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/region/sieg-und-rhein/sankt-augustin/josef-schlemmer-aus-sankt-augustin-ist-seelsorger-aus-leidenschaft_aid-43867079
- ↑ Martina Welt: Father Bernd Werle becomes vicar in Mülldorf . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . Bonner Zeitungsdruckerei and Verlaganstalt H. Neusser GmbH, Bonn, July 4, 2018 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed December 11, 2018]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 1.2 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 51.5 ″ E