St. Mary's Assumption (Kalrath)
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St. Mariä Himmelfahrt is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Kalrath district of the municipality of Titz in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
The church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary into Heaven and entered under number 7 in the list of architectural monuments in Titz .
history
General
The first chapel in Kalrath was built around 1775. At this time the place belonged as a branch to the parish of St. Pankratius , Bettenhoven . After the parish of Bettenhoven was dissolved in the course of the parish registration by the French in 1804, Kalrath fell to the parish of Rödingen . It was not until 1839 that the Bettenhovener parish was rebuilt and Kalrath was added to it as a branch. Around 1860 Kalrath received its own vicar . In 1895 Kalrath was finally separated from the Bettenhoven parish and raised to the status of an independent parish.
Today the parish is part of the Community of Communities (GdG) Titz .
Church building
After the chapel from 1775 became unsightly, the siblings Josepha and Joseph Lommertzheim donated a building site and the majority of the building costs to build a new church. A remnant of this chapel is still preserved. After the parish council of the Bettenhoven parish had approved the construction project, the Cologne architect Hans Hubert Dreher was commissioned to plan the new building. The foundation stone was laid on July 27, 1890 and the consecration took place on September 17, 1891 by the then Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne and later Archbishop Antonius Fischer . In 1895 the church was finally elevated to parish church in the course of the parish elevation.
During the Second World War , the church was damaged mainly on the roof and masonry by shell hits. The repair of the damage began as early as the late 1940s and the renovation work was completed in 1955. Between 1971 and 1972 the slate roof was renovated.
architecture
St. Mariä Himmelfahrt is a brick hall church in the neo-Gothic style with a west-east orientation, which was built between 1890 and 1891 according to the plans of Hans Hubert Dreher. In the west, in front of the nave, there is a hexagonal, three- story bell tower with the main portal in the basement. Two small porches are built on the left and right of the tower, with two side entrances on the south and north sides. The three-aisled and four-bay nave adjoins the tower . The two aisles are half the width of the central nave. On the east by the nave, the five-sided closed includes choir at. All windows have two lanes and, typical of the neo-Gothic and Gothic styles, have tracery . The nave has a groin vault and the choir is spanned by a ribbed vault . The sacristy is located in the corner between the south side of the choir and the east side of the south aisle .
Furnishing
In the church there is a rich neo-Gothic interior from the 1890s. The high altar is an oak work with a representation of Christ on the Mount of Olives and another representation of the Entombment of Christ . The two associated side altars are dedicated to St. Heart of Jesus and St. Consecrated to Joseph . These three altars, as well as a small Maria-Hilf altar, the frames of the Stations of the Cross and the wooden pulpit are works of the art joinery J. Bugten & Sons from Düsseldorf . The pews, the communion bench and the confessional come from the same time and are the work of a carpenter from Hasselsweiler . Particularly noteworthy is the completely preserved ornamental painting from 1901, which is the work of the painter Fritz Hoegen. Some stained glass windows from 1891 by the Hertel & Lersch company in Düsseldorf have also been preserved. The middle choir window shows the coronation of Mary . The remaining windows date from 1954 and were created by the Krefeld glass painter Pitt van Treeck .
organ
In addition, there is an organ in St. Mariä Himmelfahrt from the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company from Bonn from 1893. This organ has 10 registers distributed over two manuals and a pedal. In 2012 the instrument was restored by Philipp CA Klais. The instrument has been preserved in its original condition and has the opus number MV39.
Bells
|
No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Caster |
Casting year |
| 1 | Heart of jesus | 820 | 325 | c " | Theodor Hugo Rudolf Edelbrock; Messrs. Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher | 1891 |
| 2 | Maria | 730 | 250 | d " | Johannes Mark; Eifeler bell foundry , Brockscheid | 1984 |
| 3 | Joseph | 680 | 173 | e " | Gebr. Ulrich , Apolda | 1928 |
Others
An almost identical church that differs from the Kalrath church only in a few details is the parish church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus in Thorr , a district of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft district . It was built between 1893 and 1895 and is also the work of the architect Hans Hubert Dreher.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kalrath website, here: Prehistory of the parish, September 24, 2015
- ↑ Kalrath website, here: Building of the Church in 1890, September 24, 2015
- ↑ Kalrath website, here: Construction of the Church in 1890 and History of the Church from 1900-1983, September 24, 2015
- ↑ Internet site of the 20th Century Glass Painting Research Center, September 24, 2015
- ^ Opus list Orgelbau Klais, page 48
- ↑ Kalrath website, here: History of Bells, September 24, 2015
St. Cosmas and Damian (Titz) | St. Nicholas (Ameln) | St. Pankratius (Bettenhoven) | St. Vitus (Gevelsdorf) | Holy Cross (Hasselsweiler) | St. Catherine (Hells) | St. Maria Sorrowful Mother (Jackerath) | St. Mary's Assumption (Kalrath) | St. Urban (Mündt) | St. Peter (Müntz) | Maria Hilf Chapel (Ralshoven) | St. Kornelius (Rödingen) | St. Gereon (game)
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 23.7 " N , 6 ° 27 ′ 41.2" E