St. Martin (Flerzheim)

St. Martin in Flerzheim

Interior view with a view of the choir

St. Martin is a Roman Catholic parish church in Flerzheim , a district of Rheinbach in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

history

As early as 1200 there was a chapel in Flerzheim dedicated to St. Martin consecrated and the Abbey Heisterbach was incorporated. The initiative to build today's church came from Pastor Peter Hommelsheim, who came to Flerzheim in 1900. Since he thought the old church, built in 1773, was in disrepair , he began collecting for a new church. The now founded church building association had the necessary building costs together in 1908, and in May 1909 the foundation stone was laid . In 1912 the Romanesque and the new church tower stood side by side. Although the church had already been used for three years, the belated solemn consecration took place on May 18, 1913 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Joseph Müller .

Today the church forms with ten other churches in the city of Rheinbach the Catholic parish of St. Martin, Rheinbach in the deanery Meckenheim-Rheinbach ( Archdiocese of Cologne ).

architecture

The church, built in neo-Gothic style, has a 53-meter-high tower with tracery windows on all four sides, which can be seen from afar . A rose window with leaded glass is located above the magnificent portal .

Furnishing

Lecture cross on the tabernacle from the 12th century
Madonna enthroned from the 13th / 14th centuries century
Monstrance from 1717
Baptismal font from 1773
wooden baroque high and side altars from the 17th century with the relics of St. Paulinus, Gereon and St. Ursula
Figure of St. Martin from 1773

organ

The organ comes from the Klais company in Bonn. It was installed in 1913 and was one of the first electropneumatic organs. A special feature is that the organ is attached in two parts to the end walls of the two transepts , while the console is on the gallery at the western end of the main nave .

literature

100 years of St. Martin's Church in Flerzheim . In: Summer Parish Letter St. Martin Rheinbach 2010, pp. 17-19.
Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 449–453. [not yet evaluated for this article]

Web links

Commons : St. Martin - collection of images, videos and audio files

St. Martin Flerzheim. Catholic parish of St. Martin Rheinbach, accessed on February 2, 2016 .

Individual evidence

^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia , Volume 1: Rhineland. Darmstadt 1967, p. 192f.

50.64825 6.986017Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 53.7 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 9.7" E

[1] Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia , Volume 1: Rhineland. Darmstadt 1967, p. 192f.