St. Maria Rosary Queen (Berkum)

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St. Mary Rosary Queen

St. Maria Rosary Queen Berkum 2016 1.jpg

Denomination : Roman Catholic
Patronage : Maria
Consecration year : October 24, 1971
Rank: Parish church
Pastor : Michael Maxeiner
Parish : St. Marien Wachtberg
Address: Am Bollwerk 7, 53343 Wachtberg

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '30.3 "  N , 7 ° 8' 13.3"  E

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Maria Rosenkranzkönigin is in the village of Berkum in the municipality of Wachtberg in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It has been the parish church of the newly founded parish of St. Marien Wachtberg since January 1st, 2010 .

history

The new church was consecrated in 1971 to the title of St. Mary of the Rosary Queen. The new building had become necessary because the old church of St. Gereon offered too little space. The architects were Nikolaus Rosiny (1926–2011) and HJ Kiesgen. Together with the church, a kindergarten, the rectory and two apartments for the church staff were built in the new parish center "Am Bollwerk".

Church building

Interior

Statues of John the Baptist and St. Barbara , a carved Madonna as a rosary queen and an oil painting by Cornelius Schut from Antwerp from the 17th century depicting the resurrection of Jesus Christ come from the old church of St. Gereon in Berkum .

organ

The Klais company from Bonn designed and built the organ in 1967 (opus 1334) for the St. Gereon Church in Berkum. With the completion of the new church of St. Maria Rosary Queen in 1971, it was moved there. Parts of the St. Gereon organ that was abandoned in 1967 were used for the new Klais organ. The instrument has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Bordunal flute 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
Sesquialter II
Mixture II-III
II Positive C-g 3
Concert flute 8th'
Transverse flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Nasard 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Flute bass II 8 ′ + 4 ′

Peal

The bell of St. Gereon's Church is used via a technical system. The three bells date from 1681, 1719 and around 1300.

Parish of St. Marien Wachtberg

Since January 1st, 2010 St. Maria Rosenkranzkönigin is the parish church of the newly founded parish of St. Marien Wachtberg for all Wachtberg villages. The Marien parish is the successor to the parishes of the Holy Three Kings ( Oberbachem ), St. Georg ( Fritzdorf ), St. Gereon (Berkum), St. Gereon (Niederbachem) , St. Margareta ( Adendorf ) and St. Simon and Judas ( Villip ). In the parish live approx. 10,000 Catholics. The six parishes formed a parish association since 2002.

With the reorganization of the deaneries in the Archdiocese of Cologne on January 1, 2017, the parish is directly part of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis district deanery . Before that she belonged to the Dean's Office Meckenheim-Rheinbach .

Churches and chapels

The parish has six branch churches:

  • To the holy Archangels, Pech (until 2010 branch church of the parish of St. Simon and Jude, Villip)
  • Holy Three Kings , Oberbachem
  • St. Georg , Fritzdorf
  • St. Gereon, Niederbachem
  • St. Margareta , Adendorf
  • St. Simon and Jude, Villip

  • Holy Three Kings, Oberbachem

  • St. Georg, Fritzdorf

  • St. Gereon, Niederbachem

  • St. Margareta, Adendorf

  • St. Simon and Jude Thaddäus, Villip

The parish has nine chapels:

Pastor

The first pastor was Hermann Josef Zeyen, who had previously been pastor for all six parishes in Wachtberg from 2006 to 2009. Pastor Michael Hoßdorf (2016-2019) was followed by Pastor Michael Maxeiner in 2019.

Catholic family center

The parish operates the three day care centers St. Maria Rosenkranzkönigin in Berkum, St. Georg in Fritzdorf and St. Raphael in Pech, which have joined together to form the Catholic Family Center St. Marien Wachtberg .

Libraries

The parish operates five Catholic public libraries in Adendorf, Berkum, Fritzdorf, Niederbachem and Villip.

Former parish of St. Gereon

From 1971 to 2009 inclusive, St. Mary of the Rosary Queen was the parish church of the parish of St. Gereon . Werthhoven and Züllighoven also belonged to the parish .

Pastor

From 1833 to 1839 the theologian and orientalist Franz Karl Movers was pastor in Berkum. Heinrich Steden (1976–2006) and Hermann Josef Zeyen (2006–2009) were the last pastors in the parish of St. Gereon.

literature

  • Franz Müller: Life around the Wachtberg. A journey through time through 30,000 years of history in a Rhenish landscape. Wachtberg 1993.
  • Ecumenical working group: Churches and chapels in Wachtberg (PDF)

Web links

Commons : St. Maria Rosenkranzkönigin (Berkum)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Barbara Hausmanns: Wachtberg - Thirteen villages become one community . Ed .: Municipality of Wachtberg. 2011, p. 48 .
  2. ↑ a b Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Piece 1, January 1, 2010, No. 37 (PDF).
  3. ↑ a b Ecumenical Working Group Wachtberg (ed.): Churches and chapels in Wachtberg . 2009, p. 7 .
  4. ^ Klais catalog raisonné
  5. ↑ Organ on Orgeldatabase , accessed on March 11, 2017.
  6. ^ Gerhard Hoffs, Achim Bursch: Bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach . 2014, p. 179–184 ( glockenbuecherebk.de [PDF]). glockenbuecherebk.de ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherebk.de
  7. ↑ Deanery Meckenheim-Rheinbach at a glance. (No longer available online.) Deanery Meckenheim-Rheinbach, April 2014, archived from the original on March 19, 2017 ; accessed on March 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dekanat-meckenheim-rheinbach.de
  8. ↑ Independence of the municipalities also preserved with Verbund. Kölnische Rundschau , December 22, 2002, accessed on March 11, 2017 .