St. Martin (Froitzheim)

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St. Martin in Froitzheim
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St. Martin is the Roman Catholic branch church of the Froitzheim district of the municipality of Vettweiß in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The church is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Vettweiß under number Fro-6 and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Martin of Tours .

history

A church building has existed in Froitzheim since the 9th century. Today's church was built from 1868 to 1870 in the neo-Romanesque style according to plans by the Cologne architect Heinrich Nagelschmidt . The church is a three-nave hall church with a semicircular apse in the east and a four-story bell tower in the west.

Froitzheim has not been an independent parish since 2010 , as a result of which the church also lost the rank of parish church and was downgraded to a subsidiary church. The former parish was merged with the remaining parishes in the Vettweiß municipality to form the St. Marien Vettweiß parish .

Furnishing

There is a neo-Romanesque high altar and neo-Romanesque pews in the church. Furthermore, the painting from the time of construction has largely been preserved. The windows were created around 1970. The organ of the church dates from 1886 and is the work of the Bonn organ builder Johannes Klais . The organ has 13 registers and has been preserved in its original state.

Bells

In 1898, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast three bronze bells for the Martinskirche with the string of strikes: f sharp '- a' - h '. It was a casting by Karl Otto from the Otto foundry in Hemelingen. Two of the three bells were melted down during the First World War. In 1921, Werner Hüesker added from the foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from Gescher the ringing by two new bronze bells. The old OTTO bell and the two from Petit & Edelbrock were confiscated and melted down during World War II. Today there are three bronze bells in the bell tower from the F. Otto bell foundry from Bremen - Hemelingen , which Dieter Otto cast in 1962 with the same row of chimes as in 1898.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 
1 - 1089 720 f sharp 1 Dieter Otto, F. Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1962
2 - 915 450 a 1 Dieter Otto, F. Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1962
3 - 800 325 h 1 Dieter Otto, F. Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1962

Motif: Te Deum

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Froitzheim. In: www.vettweiss.de. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .
  2. ^ Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Vettweiß - Froitzheim. In: Homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Hahn: New parish St. Marien Vettweiß preserves the tradition. In: Dürener Zeitung. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .
  4. ^ Vettweiß-Froitzheim, Catholic Church of St. Martin. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on September 14, 2016 .
  5. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Düren region, p. 367 f.
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 510, 559 .
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 476, 513 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 46.7 "  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 14.9"  E