St. Mary's Assumption (Bracht)

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St. Mary's Assumption (Bracht)
Bracht coat of arms from the 12th century with the patroness of the church

The Catholic parish church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt is a listed church building in Bracht , a district of Brüggen in the district of Viersen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The three-aisled , cross-vaulted pseudo-basilica stands on the former fortified abandoned cemetery. It was built in 1484 in brick and tuff with a 5/8 end choir . The west tower collapsed in 1830 and was then built as a four-story brick tower in early neo-Gothic forms . The damaged part of the nave was renewed. The glass painting cycle from 1890 comes from a Roermond workshop. The frames in the aisles were added by E. Pauli before 1970.

Furnishing

  • The high altar from the middle of the 18th century comes from the collapsed Kreuzbrüderkirche in Dülken
  • The Madonna figure was probably made in the workshop of JF van Helmont
  • The side altars are from the middle of the 18th century, the altar leaves from around 1900
  • In the north altar there is a figure of St. Katharina by Friedrich Stummel
  • The pulpit was almost completely renewed in 1830
  • Two confessionals were built towards the end of the 18th century, and the third was added
  • The choir stalls from 1783 are probably from the Kreuzbrüderkirche in Dülken
  • The organ , which was badly damaged in 1830 , was restored in 1832 by P. Müller with a movement and case in the baroque tradition. During the restoration in 1968, the mechanical action and the console were replaced
  • A carved Enthroned Mother of God from around 1420 stands in an 18th century case. The child's arms and one of Mary's arms were renewed in baroque style. The base and the bench were 1,894 neo-Gothic revised and the figure was newly adopted
  • The rural figure of Ecce homo was made around 1500
  • In 1949 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen delivered a four-part bronze bell ring. The bells ring out: es '- f' - g '- as'. Their diameters are: 1340 mm, 1180 mm, 1050 mm and 890 mm. The bells have the following weights: 1650 kg, 1160 kg, 820 kg and 690 kg.

literature

  • Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (arr.): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X . Page 38
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 437, 463, 549 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 414, 415, 503 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 11 ′ 44 ″  E