St. Martin (Euskirchen)

St. Martin

View of the choir

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin is a listed church building in Euskirchen , a district town in the southern Rhineland in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

history

The first church was probably built around the year 700 on a Franconian cemetery. The hall made of wood and stone had a rectangular end of the choir. This was replaced at the end of the 12th century by a three- bay pillar basilica with a choir in the east and a bell tower in the west. The nave was structured with round arch friezes and pilaster strips. The entire central nave and the basement of the tower were preserved from this church and are now part of the building. At the end of the 13th century, a yoke was added to the choir and, together with the nave, Gothic windows were added. In the 14th century the central nave was equipped with net vaults . In 1490 the church tower was raised. In 1939 the baptistery was added, which today serves as a treasury. The church was affected by an earthquake in 1951, the spire is still slightly crooked.

Furnishing

• The carved altar , today's high altar of the church, (Flanders or Antwerp) with a representation of the holy clan is a work of the master von Overbeck and was created around 1510. It is the "first artist's work to be evidenced by pictures". Today's altar is essentially the former St. Anne's altar with elements from the former Petrus altar. The remains of the Petrus altar can be admired today in the northern side choir and in the original polychrome plating. It is also an Antwerp carving that was created around 1490.
• Baptismal font from the 12th century with roughly hewn lions and dragons made of Namur bluestone.
• Crucifix in which a natural tree trunk forms the shape of the Latin cross , from 1290.
• Sacrament house from shortly after 1500.
• 15th century choir stalls
• Pieta, wooden sculpture in the original color, from the 1st half of the 15th century.
• Roman matron stone
• Renaissance epitaph from the 16th century for Heinrich von Binsfeld and his wife Elisabeth von der Horst
• In the church treasure there is a missal from the second half of the 15th century, a monstrance , silver, gilded with enamel work and decorative stones, from 1500, as well as the oldest Gothic chalice in the Rhineland and a chasuble from the 16th century.

Bells

In the tower hangs a historically significant ring of eight bells ; the old wooden belfry is still there. Up until 2005 there were two so-called loan bells on the tower that came to St. Heribert in Cologne-Deutz. The Königliche Eijsbouts bell foundry cast two new bells, the large bell being a reconstruction of a previously existing bell.

No.	Surname	Casting year	Foundry, casting location	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )
1	John	2005	Royal Eijsbouts, Asten	1,490	1,756	h 0  +1
2	Great Anna	1520	Jan II van Trier	1,315	≈1,450	dis 1  +6
3		1335	Magister Sifride	1,093	≈850	f sharp 1  +7
4th	Martinus	2005	Royal Eijsbouts, Asten	977	593	g sharp 1  +6
5	Avebell	1409	unmarked	922	≈540	ais 1  +5
6th	Catherine	1520	Jan II van Trier	819	≈380	h 1  +10
7th	Genoveva	1520	Jan II van Trier	660	≈175	d 2  +8
8th	Little Anna	1513	Johann von Alfter (attrib.)	452	≈55	a 2  +4

literature

• Reclam's Art Guide, Volume III, Rhineland and Westphalia, Architectural Monuments, 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6
• Dorothea Eimert: Catholic Parish Church St. Martin Euskirchen, Art Guide No. 1380, 2nd edition, Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7954-5091-5

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Euskirchen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description and photos of the parish of Euskirchen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reclam's Art Guide, Volume III, Rhineland and Westphalia, Baudenkmäler, 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6
2. ↑ Gerhard Hoffs: Glocken im Deanery Euskirchen , pp. 18–30.

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 44 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 6 ″  E