St. Markus (Mausbach)

St. Markus in Mausbach

St. Markus is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Stolberg district of Mausbach in the city ​​region of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. Saint Mark the Evangelist consecrated. The parish also includes Diepenlinchen , Fleuth and Krewinkel with the Barbara chapel.

location

The church building is on the corner of Markusplatz (L 12) and Dechant-Brock-Straße in the center of Mausbach.

history

Bell tower

Mausbach originally belonged to the parish of Gressenich and did not have its own church. In neighboring Fleuth , which was always counted as part of Mausbach, there had been a St. Nicholas chapel for a long time, which also belonged to the parish of Gressenich.

Efforts to have an own church in Mausbach did not begin until the French era through the initiative of the Capuchin Father Wolfgang (bourgeois Johann Arnold) Salmagne. He was a priest in the Aldenhoven Capuchin monastery and had to leave it in 1802 because the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization . He then returned to his home village of Mausbach. On January 5, 1803, Bishop Marc-Antoine Berdolet from Aachen gave him permission to read mass and give catechesis in the St. Nicholas Chapel in Fleut. At the same time he had a new chapel built in Mausbach.

On March 1, 1804, Mausbach came to the Vicht parish in the course of the parish registrations . However, this did not correspond to the wishes of the Mausbachers and Pater Wolfgang, who strove for a rise to the parish. After persistent requests from Father Wolfgang Salmagne, Bishop Berdolet Mausbach separated from Vicht and finally raised it to an independent parish on September 14, 1805 .

Since the Diocese of Aachen was dissolved again in 1825, the parish came to the Archdiocese of Cologne . Since 1930 Mausbach belongs again to the newly founded diocese of Aachen.

Building history

The first church of mouse Bach was built in 1803/04 and on June 2, 1804 benediziert . In the course of the elevation to the parish church in 1805, the Aachen bishop Marc-Antoine Berdolet had items of furniture brought to Mausbach from abandoned monastery churches in the area. A bell tower was added in 1807.

In the second half of the 19th century this church became too small and demolished in 1868. At the same place a new parish church was built until 1870 according to the plans of a master builder named Esser, of which the outer walls are still preserved today.

This neo-Gothic church was blown up on October 7, 1944 by German troops for strategic reasons. The tower was completely destroyed, only the walls of the nave remained. Only the choir was only slightly damaged. The reconstruction took place in 1947 and 1948. The preserved masonry was secured and the church was rebuilt in a simplified manner according to plans by the architect Rudolf Dahmen from Stolberg. The nave was not divided into central and side aisles and the nave was left as a hall. Instead of the vault , a flat wooden ceiling was put in. Only in the choir could the vault be preserved. The tower was not rebuilt in modern forms until 1963 according to plans by the Düren architect Lutz Tappert.

Due to moisture damage, the interior of the church was fundamentally renovated and redesigned between 2016 and 2017. The plastering in the interior had to be completely renewed due to the damaged paint, the electrics had to be relocated and the choir room redesigned.

Building description

St. Mark's is a hall church from quarry stone with a pre-built four-storey bell tower, a four-axle long house , which has a three-nave before the war hall church represented, and a einjochigen and three-sided enclosed choir in the east. Only the choir still has the original ribbed vault . The ship is spanned by a wooden coffered ceiling. The windows are all ogival and have two to three lane tracery . In terms of external appearance, the church has retained its original neo-Gothic style, despite the major damage .

Furnishing

There is modern equipment in the interior. Of the original neo-Gothic furnishings, only a figure of the Lion of St. Mark from the former high altar from 1870, the 14 Stations of the Cross by Swiss artist Ferdinand Stuflesser from 1885 and a cross with crucifix from the 19th century have been preserved.

The celebration altar in the choir was made of stone in 1983. The Tabernacle of brass and enamel from 1950 and the ambo and the credence table brass from 1970 are the work of the Stolberg goldsmith Louis poppies. The Marian altar made of shell limestone was created by Matthias Esser in 1975 and contains a miraculous image of Our Lady by Ludwig Mohnen from 1966.

The stained glass windows are works by the glass painter Anne Schneider-Lang and represent free compositions.

organ

The organ was built in 1954 by the Aachen-based organ building company Stahlhuth with 19 stops on two manual works and a pedal , and expanded in 2005 by the building company. Today the slider chest instrument has 26 registers. The game and stop action are mechanical.

I positive C-g 3 1. Bourdon 16 ′ 2. Praestant 04 ′ 3. Reed flute 04 ′ 4th Nasard 00 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 5. Duplicate 02 ′ 6th Tierce 00 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 7th Larigot 00 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 8th. Siflet 01' 9. Cromorne 08th'

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 10. Bourdon 16 ′ 11. Principal 08th' 12. Gamba 08th' 13. Reed flute 08th' 14th octave 04 ′ 15th recorder 04 ′ 16. Fifth 00 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 17th octave 02 ′ 18th Cornet III 19th Mixture IV 20th Trumpet 08th'

Pedal C – f 1 21st Violon 16 ′ 22nd Sub bass 16 ′ 23. Covered bass 08th' 24. Flood bass 04 ′ 25th trombone 16 ′ 26th Trumpet 08th'

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.

Bells

In the bell tower of St. Markus there is a three-part bronze ring - bells . The two largest bells were cast in 1885 by Rudolf Edelbrock from the company Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher . Both were given up for armaments purposes during the Second World War , but they never melted down and the bells returned to Mausbach unscathed. The third and smallest bell was cast in Münster in 1960 and replaces a bell that was destroyed in the war and which was probably also cast by Rudolf Edelbrock in 1885.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	-	-	-	f '	Rudolf Edelbrock, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher	1885
2	-	-	-	g '	Rudolf Edelbrock, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher	1885
3	-	-	-	a "	Bell foundry Monasterium Eijsbouts , Münster	1960

Pastor

The following pastors have so far worked as pastors at St. Markus:

from ... to	Surname
1805–?	Johann Arnold Salmagne
? –1914	Unknown
1914-1937	Arnold Ortmanns
1937-1966	Alfons Brock
1966-1968	Leonhard Kehren
1968-1983	Nikolaus Cremer
1983-1986	Georg Stadeler
Since 1986	Norbert Bolz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 264.
2. ↑ Short chronicle. In: Parish website. Retrieved December 2, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 262.
4. ↑ St. Markus: The church is being renovated at full speed. In: Stolberger Zeitung. June 15, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 265.
6. ↑ Stolberg-Mausbach, Catholic Church of St. Markus. (No longer available online.) In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Archived from the original on March 14, 2017 ; accessed on December 2, 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.  
7. ↑ Information on the organ
8. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 264.

Web links

Commons : St. Markus (Mausbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the parish

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 27.1 "  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 34.4"  E