St. Mary of the Assumption (Rees)

Catholic Parish Church of St. Mary of the Assumption Rees

The Church of St. Mary of the Assumption is the Catholic parish church in downtown Rees . It is a rare example of classical church architecture on the Lower Rhine .

The church is visible from afar, surrounded by residential and commercial buildings in the city center, near the market.

The classical style determines the interior and exterior appearance of the church. It has three naves and a barrel vault over the central nave. It is supported by Corinthian columns .

The portal in the central risalit , on the tower front, is protruding , crowned with a cornice in a high wall niche that ends with a round arch .

history

Today's church had different predecessors. The first church building made of wood can be traced back to the Franconian times around 700 AD. The patron saint of this first Reese church was St. Dentlinus from the Merovingian royal family .

In 1012 the construction of a stone church began. The church was founded by St. Irmgard von Aspel , completed in 1040 and consecrated to Our Lady .

Before her death, she transferred the collegiate foundation and her property Aspel to the Archbishop of Cologne, Anno von Steusslingen .

In 1458 the late Gothic high choir was added, which towered over the five-aisled church. The nave was not rebuilt. This church was a collegiate church and also a parish church .

After the collapse of the dilapidated old collegiate church in 1817, today's classical parish church was built between 1820 and 1828 according to plans by the building inspector Karl Gottlieb Herrmann from Kleve .

During the Second World War , the church was destroyed on February 14 and 16, 1945, except for the outer walls, and with it the entire city. In 1949 an emergency church was built. The reconstruction in the classical style took place until 1970.

Furnishing

The interior is determined by Corinthian columns that support the barrel vault with the coffered ceiling .

The baptismal font with a copper lid is a foundation of the Counts von Spee from 1953. The church is the baptistery of Blessed Karl Leisner .

The bronze doors in the main portal are a work by Ulrich Henn . They were inserted in 1970. The 28 fields on the doors represent the events of Jesus , his coming into the world, his preaching, his suffering and death and his resurrection.

The model was probably the portal doors of the Marienthal monastery church with the depiction of Edwin Scharff's creed .

organ

The organ with three manual works and a pedal work was built by Romanus Seifert in Kevelaer in 1974/75 . It contains almost 3000 pipes and 37 registers .

Main work
Drone	16 ′
Principal	8th'
Reed flute	8th'
octave	4 ′
Flute	4 ′
Super octave	2 ′
Mixture IV-VI
Cymbel III
Cornett V
Trumpet	8th'

Swell
Wooden principal	8th'
Viola di gamba	8th'
Unda Maris	8th'
Italian principal	4 ′
Wooden truss	4 ′
Nasat	2 ² / ₃ '
Capstan flute	2 ′
Overtone III
Scharff V
bassoon	16 ′
Trumpet Harmonique	8th'
Field trumpet	4 ′
Tremulant

positive
Lead-covered	8th'
recorder	4 ′
Principal	2 ′
Sif flute	1 ¹ / ₃ '
Sharp Cymbel II
Cromorne	8th'

pedal
Principal	16 ′
Covered bass	16 ′
octave	8th'
Pommer	8th'
Beard pipe	4 ′
Night horn	2 ′
Backset V
trombone	16 ′
Clairon	4 ′

Other equipment

The Polders goldsmith's workshop in Kevelaer made the tabernacle , candlesticks and the eternal light . A bas-relief on the doors of the tabernacle shows the image with the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary , which forms the center. The proclaimed secret of faith is confirmed in a Latin inscription : “ And the word became flesh ” ( John 1:14 ).

To the right of the choir is the representation of the Mother of God with the child. It comes from a Cologne workshop in the second half of the 14th century.

In the right side chapel there is a wooden sculpture of St. George . Under the rearing horse , the dragon winds under the thrust of the lance. The portrait of the dragon slayer is a carving from around 1530, probably created by a master of the Kalkar altars .

A depiction of the mourning Maria Magdalena under the cross is in the left aisle. It dates from the first half of the 16th century.

Bells

There are currently six bells in the east tower.

Name of the bell	Caster	year	Chime	Weight
Marienbell	Christian Diederich Voigt	1789	h ⁰	2,280 kg
Michael's Bell	Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock	1956	d ′	1,750 kg
Pius bell	Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock	1956	e ′	1,150 kg
Irmgardis bell	Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock	1956	f sharp ′	810 kg
Cyriac bell		1782	G'	670 kg
George Bell		1404	g sharp ′ ′	60 kg

literature

Gabriele M. Knoll: The Lower Rhine; Landscape, history and culture; Du Mont Buchverlag Cologne; 3rd edition 1997; ISBN 3-7701-2283-6

Individual evidence

Web links

Commons : St. Mary of the Assumption - Collection of images, videos and audio files

51.757861 6.39772Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 28.3 " N , 6 ° 23 ′ 51.8" E

[1] rwesten.de letter brought the end for Dentlinus WAZ from April 21, 2011

[2] rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de Irmgardis von Süchteln, Volksheilige

[3] rl-leisner.de Karl Leisner in World War I.

[4] rmel-marienthal.de The portal doors of the monastery church

[5] rgelsite.nl; Kerken29 Rees

[6] ressa.de, bell ringing of the parish church of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Easter 2019)

[7] rp-online.de, bell history for over 1000 years, from September 20, 2018, by Michael Scholten

[8] tkreis.com, The Voigt family, 98 years of bell casting in the German-Dutch region