St. Mary's Assumption (Weidesheim)

Assumption of Mary in Weidesheim

The Catholic parish church of the Assumption in Weidesheim , a district of Euskirchen in the Euskirchen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), was built in 1874/76. The church is a protected architectural monument .

history

The parish of Weidesheim is first mentioned in 1316. The donation of a wealthy widow made it possible to build the Church of the Assumption from 1874 to 1876 according to plans by the Cologne cathedral builder Vinzenz Statz .

architecture

The four- bay , three-aisled hall church made of brick was built in the neo-Gothic style according to the taste of the time . It has a retracted choir, closed on three sides, with sacristies built on both sides .

The four-storey west tower with corner pilaster strip and profiled ledges has a pointed arch fries upstairs. The bell storey has slender, pointed arched and coupled sound arcades and closes with a pointed, eight-sided helmet .

Two-lane, pointed-arch tracery windows with sandstone walls illuminate the church. Slender, stepped buttresses and a profiled eaves frame structure the outer walls. The gable roof is covered with slate .

Relief above the portal

Above the portal on the west side, Jesus is shown in a quatrefoil as a pantocrator . The evangelist symbols surround him.

The ribbed vault of the church room resting on slender columns with leaf capitals . The pointed triumphal arch connects the nave with the also cross-ribbed vaulted choir.

During the renovation before 1969, a new altar , an ambo and a sacrament stele were created by Olaf Höhnen , and new leaded glass windows by Paul Weigmann were installed in the choir.

Furnishing

The most valuable figure in the church is a Madonna and Child, which was made in Cologne around 1440. The altar cross is from around 1600.

organ

The organ from Karl Bach's Aachen organ building workshop was installed in 1935. It is set up in two parts on the organ gallery so that the view of the west window behind remains unobstructed. The instrument has 13 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are pneumatic.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Principal	8th'
2.	Open flute	8th'
3.	Night horn	4 ′
4th	Octave	2 ′
5.	Mixture III
6th	Bassoon oboe	8th'

II upper structure C – g ³
7th	Cello principal	8th'
8th.	Salicional	8th'
9.	Dumped	8th'
10.	Praestant	4 ′
	Tremulant

Pedals C – d ¹
11.	Sub bass	16 ′
12.	Subtle bass	16 ′
13.	Cello bass	8th'

Coupling : II / I (also as sub and super octave coupling), II / II (super octave coupling), I / P, II / P.

literature

Friends and sponsors of the Stadtmuseum e. V. (Ed.): The churches and chapels in Euskirchen. Euskirchen 2006, ISBN 3-00-019035-X , pp. 116-119.
C.-P. Joist, B. Bell: Assumption of Mary . Leaflet, 2006 (see www.erftmuehlenbach.de)

Web links

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

Parish Church of St. Mary of the Assumption. City of Euskirchen, accessed on February 10, 2016 .

Individual evidence

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50.659003 6.840617Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 32.4 " N , 6 ° 50 ′ 26.2" E

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