St. Martin (Langerwehe)

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St. Martin in Langerwehe

St. Martin is the Roman Catholic parish church of Langerwehe in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is registered under number 4 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Langerwehe and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Martin of Tours .

history

The church of St. Martin was built because the old parish church on the Rymelsberg had become too small. It was built from 1903 to 1907 according to plans by the Cologne architect Theodor Kremer as a three-aisled hall church with a bell tower in front , transept and a three-sided choir in the east in the neo-Gothic style. The groundbreaking ceremony for the building was on September 20, 1903, and the church was consecrated on May 5, 1907.

During the Second World War , the upper floors of the tower were blown up in 1944 for strategic reasons. After the war, the tower was rebuilt in simplified forms.

Furnishing

In the church there is an Antwerp carved altar from the 16th century. It comes from the church of Schwarzenbroich Monastery . The organ is a work by Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen from 2011. The organ has 22 registers , but 34 are planned.

The church contains a total of 36 stained glass windows , 28 by Jonny Lucius from 1956 to 1960 and five by Ernst Jansen-Winkeln from 1987 and 1988, as well as three windows in the baptistery by Ludwig Schaffrath from 1990. Mostly ornamental compositions are shown, but some windows also have biblical themes for content. For example, the six windows in the transept depict scenes from the lives of saints.

Bells

In 1928 the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen delivered three bronze bells with the tones h 0 - e '- g' and a total weight of 4.5 tons. All three bells fell victim to the destruction of the bells in World War II. As a replacement, the community bought three steel bells in 1957, which would not be confiscated in a possibly new war. In 1960, the Otto bell foundry was commissioned to cast a new bronze bell. However, its tone did not match the steel bells of the Bochum Association, which is why it hangs in the old Martinskirche today.

Surname Chime Caster Casting year
1. Christ bell c¹ +/- 0 Bochum association for cast steel manufacturing 1965
2. Apollinaris bell d¹ +/- 0 Bochum association for cast steel manufacturing 1957
3. Martinus bell f¹ +2 Bochum association for cast steel manufacturing 1957
4. Mary's bell g¹ +1 Bochum association for cast steel manufacturing 1957

Motif: "Christ has arisen"

All four bells only ring on the highest public holidays, on Sundays in the annual cycle a partial ring is heard.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 209 - Tuesday, September 15, 1903 Article: "Local and District News".
  2. ↑ http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Dueren/DenkLan/Nr.%204.htm (accessed on August 15, 2014)
  3. ↑ http://www.glasmalerei-ev.net/pages/b2891/b2891.shtml (accessed on August 15, 2014)
  4. ↑ http://www.kirchenmusik-dueren.de/phpkit/include.php?path=php/km/orgeln.php&id=58 (accessed on August 15, 2014)
  5. ^ Collection of photos of the stained glass windows of St. Martin. Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century, accessed on March 3, 2020 .
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular 530, 557 .
  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, here in particular pp. 491, 512 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 35.2 ″  E