St. Martin (Aldenhoven)
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St. Martin is the Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of Aldenhoven in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The church is registered under number 58 in the list of architectural monuments in Aldenhoven and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Martin of Tours .
history
A church in Aldenhoven was first mentioned in a document in 1092. Around the year 1100 Aldenhoven was already an independent parish . Since the church was dedicated to St. Martin was consecrated, it can be assumed that the church was founded in the 5th or 6th century. Nothing more is known about the church at that time, but it was probably located in a different place, as today's church is outside the settlement at that time.
Around 1500 a new, Gothic brick hall church was built on the site of today's church. First the nave and the choir were completed around 1501 and the three-storey bell tower around 1516 . This building had three aisles and five bays and closed in the east with a choir closed on five sides . The entire building was spanned by ribbed vaults. The windows all had three-part tracery . Outside on the east side of the choir there was a calvary since 1542 . In the 1870s the church building was restored under the direction of the Cologne architect Heinrich Wiethase . When American troops approached in the course of the Second World War , the Gothic church was blown up by German troops in 1944 and thus completely destroyed.
From 1951 to 1953, the present parish church according to plans of was Rheydter architect Alfons Leitl in steel-framed building built. The consecration took place on May 31, 1953 by the Aachen auxiliary bishop Friedrich Hünermann . The church has a semicircular choir, galleries in the nave and two 42.5 meter high bell towers in the west . There is also a crypt under the choir .
Furnishing
The richly carved neo-Gothic high altar with its pulpit , baroque choir stalls , and some figures of saints, which were created around 1500, should be mentioned from the furnishings of the Gothic church that were destroyed in 1944 . The north side altar was a Rococo work from 1779. Outstanding, however, was the south side altar, an Antwerp reredos , which was created around 1510 and was relocated in good time before the demolition and thus escaped destruction.
In addition to the Antwerp reredos already mentioned, the present church furnishings also include a figure of Anthony, which was also saved from the historical furnishings. The bronze holy water basin on the main portal is a work by Hein Minkenberg and shows John the Baptist . The figure of Joseph is a work by the sculptor Peter Haak from Erkelenz from 1953. Between 1955 and 1960 the Cologne church painter Peter Hecker painted the gallery balustrades with a total of 85 images of saints. Ludwig Schaffrath created the windows between 1961 and 1969.
Pilgrimage
Every year there are three octave celebrations in Aldenhoven , as there is a miraculous image in the form of a statue of Mary in the neighboring chapel , whose predecessor Dietrich Mülfahrt found in a linden tree in 1654 and two people from Aldenhoven saw the statue glow twice. Since then , people have made a pilgrimage to Aldenhoven during the three octaves to see the miraculous image “Mary, the refuge of sinners”. These three festival weeks take place at the feasts of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , the Assumption of the Virgin and the Birth of Mary . During the three pilgrimage times, the miraculous image is in the parish church, otherwise it is kept in the grace chapel.
organ
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The organ was made from 1959 to 1960 by the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company from Bonn . The main organ is in the chancel above the altar in the east. A smaller gallery organ in the west belongs to the organ system. Both organ works are played from a general console. The organ has a total of 48 stops, 38 of them in the main organ and 10 in the gallery organ. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, IV / II, III / I, IV / I, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
- Playing aids : hand register; 2 free combinations, one of which can be switched separately; 2 pedal combinations; Shelf for 16 'labial voices on II and III; Racks for all tongues; roller
Bells
There is a four-part ringing of bronze bells in the two towers . It was cast by Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from Gescher in 1958.
| No. | Surname | Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Caster | Casting year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | 1,610 | 2,735 | h ° -1 | Hans Huesker; Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | 1958 |
| 2 | - | 1,344 | 1,458 | d ' -1 | Hans Huesker; Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | 1958 |
| 3 | - | 1,187 | 1.004 | e ' -1 | Hans Huesker; Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | 1958 |
| 4th | - | 1,048 | 688 | f sharp ' -1 | Hans Huesker; Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher | 1958 |
Motive: O Savior, tear open the heavens
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Franck-Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich, in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 8, Ed. Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 15 ff.
- ↑ http://www.sankt-martin-aldenhoven.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=35&Itemid=63 (accessed on September 26, 2014)
- ^ Karl Franck-Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich, in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 8, Ed. Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 19 ff.
- ↑ http://www.glasmalerei-ev.de/pages/b3126/b3126.shtml (accessed on September 26, 2014)
- ↑ http://www.kirchenmusik-dueren.de/phpkit/include.php?path=php/km/orgeln.php&id=45
- ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Glockenmusik in der Düren region, p. 13
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 42.5 " N , 6 ° 16 ′ 57.4" E