St. Martin (Derichsweiler)

St. Martin in Derichsweiler

St. Martin is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Düren district of Derichsweiler in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The church is dedicated to St. Martin von Tours and was built between 1908 and 1910 according to plans by Stephan Mattar .

history

A church in Derichsweiler was first mentioned in a document in 1283. This church was today's old church in the immediate vicinity of the parish church. At that time Derichsweiler was already an independent parish . Due to the strong population increase at the beginning of the 20th century, the old parish church became too small and it was decided to build a new one elsewhere.

Building history

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new parish church took place on August 15, 1908, and the foundation stone was laid on May 22, 1909. On August 21, 1910, the church was finally completed and was consecrated by the dean of the Derichsweiler dean and pastor of Lamersdorf Johann Bartz. At this ceremony, architect Stephan Mattar symbolically presented the church keys to the Derichsweiler pastor Franz Schiffers. The cost of building the church was 90,000 marks. The plans for the construction of the parish church were made by the Cologne architect Stephan Mattar . He also took over the construction management . The masonry work was carried out by the building contractor Leonhard Olbertz from Düren. The consecration took place on May 28, 1911 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Joseph Müller .

Building description

The parish church, built between 1908 and 1910 according to plans by Stephan Mattar, is a three-bay , three-nave hall church with a transept and a choir closed on three sides . The retracted, three-storey bell tower is in front of the right aisle. In the corner between the choir and the transept is the sacristy on the left . The organ loft is not located above the main portal of the central nave, as in most churches of this type, but in the left transept, which is quite unusual. The entire structure was built in the neo-Gothic style and clad with rubble stones. The interior is spanned by ribbed vaults and the windows have two to four-lane tracery .

Furnishing

There are still some historical pieces of equipment in the church. These include the baroque pulpit in the transept, which was already in the old church, two neo-Gothic wooden side altars from the 19th century and a crucifixion group in the left aisle. The design in the choir room with the celebration altar , ambo , tabernacle and bronze cross is modern.

All stained glass windows in the parish church were created by the glass painter Hermann Gottfried from Düren in 1960. In addition to abstract compositions, some windows also have figurative motifs. Above the main portal there is a window depicting the handover of St. Martin von Tours can be seen and the window above the organ gallery depicts the Annunciation . In the choir you can see sacrificial scenes from the Old and New Testaments , the crucifixion of Christ and the fall of man , the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan and the wedding at Cana .

organ

The organ is a work of the Aachen organ building company Karl Bach from 1957. It has 24 registers distributed over two manuals and a pedal, the action is electro-pneumatic. However, parts of the pipes still come from the previous organ , which was the work of Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn from Kevelaer . This instrument was not an ordinary organ, but a multiplex organ .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Principal 8th' Reed flute 8th' octave 4 ′ Gemshorm 4 ′ Night horn 2 ′ Sesquialtera Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Solo trumpet 8th' Schalmey 4 ′

II subsidiary work C – g 3 Dumped 8th' Willow pipe 8th' Sing. Principal 4 ′ recorder 4 ′ Super octave 2 ′ Pointed fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Cymbal I. 1' oboe 8th'

Pedal C – f 1 Principal bass 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' Dacked bass 8th' Choral bass 4 ′ Flat flute 2 ′ trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / II, Sub I / P, II / P,
• Playing aids : hand register, free combination 1, free combination 2, tutti, pedal octave

Bells

In the bell tower hangs a three-part bronze ring - bells . Two of the three bells were taken from the old church and date from the 16th century.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	-	1,218	1,200	f ' +8	Jan van Trier, Aachen	1525
2	-	934	500	as' +8	Josef Feldmann & Georg Marschel; Messrs. Feldman & Marschel , Münster	1952
3	-	559	120	g '' -3	Jan van Trier, Aachen	1594

Minor third

Pastor

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

from ... to	Surname
1853-1868	Heinrich Welter
1868-1886	Johann Theodor Breyen
1886-1888	Johann Adam Otten (Parish Administrator)
1888-1897	Johann Adam Otten
1897-1903	Peter Joseph Beuel
1903-1920	Franz Schiffers
1920-1937	Adam Zaun † February 15th, 1937
1937-1957	Johann Harmes † February 14th, 1963
1957-1957	Johann Frentzen † February 9th, 1958
1958-1982	Franz Ginnen † December 15, 1982
1983-1985	Anton Lintzen † August 15th, 2003
1985-2006	Heinz Josef Biste
2006-2010	Heinrich Plum
Since 2011	Norbert Glasmacher

Web links

• Community of St. Martin on the website of GdG Düren Nord

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St. Anna sheet. Sunday paper for the Catholic parishes in Düren. Published by the Düren parish clergy on August 20, 1910. Article: Completion of the new church in Derichsweiler .
2. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 190 - Tuesday, August 23, 1910 Article: Inauguration of the new church in Derichsweiler .
3. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 284 - Wednesday, December 15, 1909 Article: The new church in Derichsweiler .
4. ↑ St. Anna sheet. Sunday paper for the Catholic parishes in Düren. Published by the Düren parish clergy on June 3, 1911. Article: Consecration of St. Martinskirche in Derichsweiler .
5. ^ Düren-Derichsweiler, Catholic Church of St. Martin. In: Website of the Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century. Accessed on January 21, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Frank Grobusch: St. Martin Derichsweiler. In: Internet site for church music in the Düren region. Retrieved January 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bell music in the Düren region
8. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 305.
9. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 11, Cologne 1866, p. 82.
10. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 14, Cologne 1878, p. 65.
11. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 15, Cologne 1888, p. 83.
12. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 16, Cologne 1892, p. 74.
13. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 18, Cologne 1901, p. 66.
14. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 19, Cologne 1905, p. 92.

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 55.7 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 49.6"  E