St. Marien (Gillrath)

This article is about the Marienkirche in Gillrath. See also: Maria am weg chapel (Gillrath) .

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Marien is located in the Gillrath district in the city of Geilenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The three-aisled church is the center of the village of Gillrath and forms the religious center for the surrounding villages of Hatterath , Nierstrasse and Panneschopp .

history

The first chapel was built in 1782. Around 1790 a single-nave hall church with a three-sided choir was built . A tower was added in 1846 and a new helmet was added in 1878 . On June 12, 1851, the church was solemnly consecrated . After the First World War , an expansion of the church became necessary and so Eduard Endler's plans from Cologne were implemented and the church enlarged. In 1954 the rear wall of the choir was painted by Peter Anton Weber from Düsseldorf with the representation of Mary in the wreath of angels . After a renovation , a new altar was consecrated on October 16, 1976 . In 2013 the spire was renewed.

architecture

The church is a three-aisled brick building that was expanded after 1922 according to plans by Eduard Endler from Cologne . The church consists of four bays with a choir closed on three sides. Behind it is a two-story tower . The four yokes of the aisles have pent roofs . There are barrel vaults inside the church .

Furnishing

• The organ with 17 registers and mechanical action from 1962 was built by Heinz Wilbrand from Übach-Palenberg .
• In the church tower are bells from 1928 and 1954.
• A tower clock is built into the church tower .
• Rococo altar with tabernacle structure, stone celebration altar, proclamation desk, several figures of saints
• Stained glazing

Bells

In 1927 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast three bronze bells for the Marienkirche in Gillrath with the chimes: d '- f' - g 'and a total weight of 3.4 tons. Only the small h'-bell pondered the bell seizure of the Second World War. The two larger bells were melted down. In 1954 the community acquired two steel bells that would not be confiscated again in a possible new war. Today, like many other bells, old bronze bells hang next to younger steel bells in the tower of St. Mary's Church.

1. Christ the King bell ..... d '+/- 0 ... Bochum Association .............. 1954 ... 1250 kg ... 1517 mm

2nd Marienglocke ............. f '+/- 0 ... Bochum Association .............. 1954 ... 770 kg ... .1268 mm

3.Josefsglocke ............. g '+ 4 ..... Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen ... 1927 ... 712 kg .... 1028 mm

Motif: TeDeum

Bronze bells can also go with steel bells!

literature

• Episcopal General Vicariate Aachen (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen, B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7
• Volume Eight 1904: The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province by Paul Clemen

Web links

Commons : St. Marien (Gillrath)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Late medieval wooden sculptures in St. Marien (Gillrath)
• St. Marien in the Gdg St. Bonifatius Geilenkirchen
• Bells ringing at the Church of St. Marien (Gillrath)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The brave take a look at the renovated steeple (AZ of October 2, 2013)
2. ↑ Geilenkirchen-Gillrath, Catholic Church of St. Marien. on the website of the 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation Foundation
3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular 529 .
4. ↑ 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 p. 490 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 50.5 "  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 34.7"  E