St. Marien (Pesch)

St. Marien church with chapel in the center of Pesch

St. Marien is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Pesch district of the city of Korschenbroich . The parish of St. Marien is part of the Community of Communities (GDG) Korschenbroich together with the other four parishes of St. Andreas Korschenbroich , St. Dionysius Kleinenbroich , St. Georg Liedberg and Herz Jesu Herrenshoff .

The parishes of Korschenbroich are part of the Diocese of Aachen , only the parish of St. Pankratius in the Glehn district is part of the Archdiocese of Cologne .

history

Church building and parish foundation

Shaft work when construction began in 1955

Pesch belonged to the parish of St. Andreas Korschenbroich until the 1950s . In May 1951 committed citizens of Pesch founded a church building association that had emerged from the chapel building association. In January 1955, the groundbreaking ceremony for a new church took place - the property had been donated by the Karl Deuss family, innkeepers and farmers in Pesch. Well over a hundred men and young people helped dig the foundations and the cellar with hoes , shovels and spades . The unusual thing about the church building was that the construction work was done exclusively by volunteers and lay people. A commercial or technical expert was not available. The architect Göddertz from Mönchengladbach only supplied the construction plan and the materials.

On June 19, 1955, the foundation stone was carried by Pescher scouts from the mother parish in Korschenbroich in a solemn procession to Pesch. On St. John's Day , June 24, 1956, the benediction of the new church was celebrated with Dean Pfaffenholz.

The bell tower was added in 1957. St. Marien Pesch was initially a parish vicarie and was raised to an independent parish on December 8, 1995.

The church was extensively renovated in 2015/16 with financial support from the Aachen diocese.

Furnishing

Interior view of the church after its remodeling in 1979

In the first few years, the interior of the church was quite simple. As was customary at the time, the altar stood in the raised choir. On the side of the sacristy was the pulpit . After the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1970s, the altar and church interior were redesigned according to the designs of the Kevelaer artist Will Horsten, which gave the church an unmistakable character. The altar was brought forward and thus became the central focus of the church. The pulpit and communion bench have been removed. Will Horsten made a baptismal font from the remaining stones from the altar . A 5 x 6 m tapestry was woven by the parishioners themselves.

In addition, the side windows were replaced by colored thick glass windows based on the artist's designs. On the right side of the church the windows show representations of creation and New Testament motifs. On the left, the images of the heavenly Jerusalem with its twelve gates guarded by angels ( Rev 21 : 9-27  EU ) and the tree of life are in the center. The windows above the entrance represent the rainbow with a sacrificial altar. In sunlight, the church windows shine brightly and the light that floods the church interior creates a unique spiritual atmosphere .

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  Church window on the right

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  Rainbow
  (Will Horsten 1978)

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  Crib
  (Will Horsten 1978)

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  Holy Three Kings
  (Will Horsten 1978)

The tabernacle designed by Will Horsten was made from cast bronze . The artist's death in the meantime put the completion of the total work of art in danger. His work was taken up by Johannes Herten and completed at the end of 1979 for an overall picture of the church.

organ

The church interior after the redesign, view from the altar, organ prospect

The church had been equipped with an electro-pneumatic Stahlhuth organ since 1959 , which over the years became very susceptible to repairs. On March 31, 2000, the organ building association was founded with the aim of purchasing a new organ. On November 8, 2003, the new organ was handed over to St. Marien after a solemn consecration of its intended use. The St. Marien Pesch Organ Building Association collected the required sum of 180,000 euros through donations.

The organ was built as a parapet organ with 14  registers and 51  pipes per register by the company Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn in Kevelaer. All wooden parts are made of solid wood. The design corresponds to that of an organ from the Baroque period of the 17th and 18th centuries. The artistic design of the organ case and front , however, is modern.

Disposition

I Werck C – d 3 Principal 8th' Pipe slack 8th' Viola douce 8th' Octav 4 ′ Transverse calm 4 ′ Super octave 2 ′ mixture Trumpet beds 8th'

II echo C – d 3 Coppel 8th' Idleness 4 ′ Sesquialtera Flageolet 2 ′ Channel tremulant

Pedal C – d 1 Sub-bass 16 ′ Trumpet 16 ′

• Coupling : II - I (sliding coupler), I - P, II - P
• Tuning temperature: Seifert 1 (slightly unevenly floating)
• Free wind turbine with automatic scooping device

Bells

Delivery of the new bells in 1968

In 1968, four new bells were purchased by the Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture , ceremoniously blessed and hung in the bell tower. Since then ringing every morning at 7 o'clock, at 12 noon and in the evening at 19 o'clock the church bells to Angelus . The bells regularly announce services , devotions , baptisms , weddings , burials and other ecclesiastical and secular occasions and call the congregation to the church.

Technical data and inscriptions

Bell jar	Surname	Ø (mm)	Weight (kg)	Nominal (16th note)	material	inscription
I.	Marienbell	1180	604	f sharp '± o	Cast steel	MARIEN - BELL MARIEN'S STRONG HAND SCHÜTZ PESCHER LEUT UND LAND 1 9 6 8
II	Peace bell	1045	430	g sharp '± o	Cast steel	PEACE - BELL LORD GIVE PEACE 1 9 6 8
III	Angel bell	930	332	h '+ 2	Cast steel	ANGELS - BELL ALL ANGELS OF THE LORD, PRESENT THE LORD 1 9 6 8
IV	Matthias Bell	820	216	cis '' ± o	Cast steel	MATTHIAS - BELL SAINT APOSTLE MATTHIAS, STRENGTHEN OUR FAITH 1 9 6 8

Chime motifs

• Bell I-IV G # F # G # h-cis-GIS: Christ is risen ( Gotteslob # 318).

Priest of the parish

• Father Johannes Dahmen SVD (1957 to 1975), Steyler missionary - was expelled from the People's Republic of China in the mid-1950s, like all foreign missionaries .
• Father Koos van Lent OMI (1975-1996) was a member of the Order of the Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary .
• Pastor Dr. Albert Damblon (1996 to 2003)
• Leading GDG pastors Frank-Josef van der Rieth (2003 to 2013) and Thomas Wieners (2003 to 2010)
• Leading GDG Pastor Marc Zimmermann (since 2013)

Church organs, organizations and associations

• Church council St. Marien Pesch
• Parish council of St. Marien Pesch
• Church choir St. Marien Korschenbroich-Pesch
• Catholic women's community St. Marien Pesch - kfd
• Friends of church and organ music "St. Marien “Korschenbroich-Pesch
• St. Donatus Brotherhood Pesch 1921 e. V.

Literature and media

Commons : St. Marien  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hans Georg Kirchhoff: Office Korschenbroich: History of the communities Korschenbroich and Pesch . Published by the Korschenbroich Office, Mönchengladbach 1974.
• Albert Damblon, Willibald Seppelt: The crystal clear sisters , Korschenbroich 2000, ISBN 3-9804104-4-7 .
• 50 years of St. Marien Pesch . Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of St. Marien Pesch. Ed .: Parish of St. Marien Pesch (Ges.-Red .: Martina Dappen). Korschenbroich 2006.
• 750 years of Pesch . Festschrift for the 750th anniversary; Contributions to the history and life in Pesch. Ed .: Pescher Dorfgemeinschaft e. V. (Ges.-Red .: Winfried Seppelt), Korschenbroich 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 50 years of St. Marien Pesch . Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of St. Marien Pesch. Ed .: Parish of St. Marien Pesch (Ges.-Red .: Martina Dappen). Korschenbroich 2006, p. 11f.
2. ↑ 50 years of St. Marien Pesch . Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of St. Marien Pesch. Ed .: Parish of St. Marien Pesch (Ges.-Red .: Martina Dappen). Korschenbroich 2006, p. 13.
3. ↑ 50 years of St. Marien Pesch . Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of St. Marien Pesch. Ed .: Parish of St. Marien Pesch (Ges.-Red .: Martina Dappen). Korschenbroich 2006, p. 14f.
4. ↑ 750 years of Pesch . Festschrift for the 750th anniversary; Contributions to the history and life in Pesch. Ed .: Pescher Dorfgemeinschaft eV [Ges.-Red .: Winfried Seppelt], Korschenbroich 2013, p. 134.
5. ↑ ^{a b} 50 years of St. Marien Pesch . Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of St. Marien Pesch. Ed .: Parish of St. Marien Pesch (Ges.-Red .: Martina Dappen). Korschenbroich 2006, p. 15f.
6. ^ Website from Stahlhuth, Aachen
7. ↑ 50 years of St. Marien Pesch . Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of St. Marien Pesch. Ed .: Parish of St. Marien Pesch (Ges.-Red .: Martina Dappen). Korschenbroich 2006, p. 22.
8. ^ Orgel St. Marien - Fa. Seifert, Kevelaer
9. ↑ ^{a b} Norbert Jachtmann: Bells ringing in the Mönchengladbach region PDF ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 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. . Pp. 69-71. 

Web links

• Website of the GdG Korschenbroich

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 4.2 "  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 46.6"  E