St. Martin (Richterich)

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St. Martin in the coat of arms of Richterich
St. Martinus

The Catholic parish church of St. Martinus is a listed church building in Richterich , a district of the city of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The community emerged from a Palatine manor chapel that existed around the year 1000 . In the 15th century, a church building presumably from the 12th century was replaced by a new building. In the 18th century the church was again dilapidated and was considered too small. In 1791 a new church was built, whereby the square west tower from the 15th century, which was made in small cuboids and was stable enough, was preserved and connected to the new nave.

The five-sided east choir was added around 1855. The tower was later crowned with a pointed, octagonal dome . A flat stucco ceiling was drawn into the interior of the brick hall . The walls are divided by pilasters . There are still remnants of the baroque high altar , the organ was built in 1836 by G. Maaß.

The church survived the war years relatively unscathed. In 1951, two choir windows were renewed according to designs by Anton Wendling , and another six new windows were designed in 1958 by the Düsseldorf glass painter Herbert Kaufmann. The two bells of the church date from 1954 and are made of steel. The earlier bronze bells had been confiscated and melted down in the 1940s.

organ

The small organ in the gallery has 15 stops distributed over a manual and pedal. It was built in 1836 by the company of the Cologne organ builder Engelbert Maass (Maahs) and is the oldest organ in Aachen. In 1988 the instrument was restored by the Weimbs company . The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – a 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′ D.
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow whistle 8th' B / D
4th Viola di gamba 8th' B / D
5. Remote doldrums 8th' B / D
6th Octav 4 ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Cornett IV 4 ′
10. Trumpets 8th' B / D
11. Clairon 4 ′ B.
Pedal C – d 1
12. Sub bass 16 ′
13. Octavbass 8th'
14th Choral bass 8th'
15th trombone 16 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Simons: The history of the parish from its beginnings up to 1962 . In: St. Martinus Richterich - A parish through the ages . Aachen 1991.
  2. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 70 .
  3. ↑ Laura Beemelmanns: Clever Organ Art of the 19th Century. In: aachener-nachrichten.de. August 16, 2016, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  4. ^ Richterich, Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) - Catholic parish church Sankt Martinus - de Orgelsite | orgelsite.nl. Retrieved March 11, 2020 (Dutch).

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 3 ′ 31 ″  E