St. Martin (Oberzier)

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St. Martin in Oberzier

St. Martin is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Oberzier district of the Niederzier community in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The building is registered under number 22 as an architectural monument in the list of architectural monuments in Niederzier and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Martin of Tours .

history

Oberzier was an independent parish as early as 1122 . In the Liber valoris from 1308, Oberzier is listed as a parish in the Deanery Jülich in the Archdiocese of Cologne . At that time, however, only a single pastor was responsible for Ober- and Niederzier, although both places already had their own churches. From this it can be concluded that the Niederzierer parish very likely emerged from the Oberzierer, but became independent in the Middle Ages.

At that time the Cologne monastery Groß St. Martin owned the rights to the church . At the end of the 18th century, the Duke of Jülich also had rights to the church. These rights only ended with the French era . From its inception until the middle of the 19th century, the Oberzier parish still had the branches Huchem, Stammeln, Köttenich and Selhausen . These were only separated in 1864 and raised to the new parish of St. Josef Huchem-Stammeln .

Building history

There were already three previous churches on the square of the church. Nothing more is known about the parish church mentioned in Liber valoris 1308. It was replaced by a new church in the 16th century, of which only the two lower floors of the bell tower are preserved today. In 1753 this church was demolished, with the exception of the choir and bell tower. A new nave was built in Baroque forms and the bell tower was raised and got its current shape. In 1820 and 1821 the parish church received a new sacristy .

In the middle of the 19th century the baroque parish church became too small, whereupon the church council decided to build a new church. The approval for the new building by the Cologne Archdiocese was granted in 1869. First the nave and the choir were demolished and between 1870 and 1871 today's parish church was built according to the plans of the Cologne diocesan master builder Vincenz Statz in the neo-Gothic style , including the bell tower. In 1926 the main portal on the ground floor of the church tower was redesigned in neo-baroque forms .

During the Second World War , the central nave was destroyed to the ground. The tower and choir were only slightly damaged. The reconstruction was completed by 1950. The plans were provided by the Düsseldorf architect Heinrich Beck . In 1960 and 1961 the parish church was restored and redesigned according to plans by architect Jakob Hanrath from Düren . While the exterior of the parish church has remained almost unchanged from the pre-war state, the interior was changed significantly during the reconstruction. The central nave and the two side aisles were replaced by a single-nave room with a flat ceiling, with all of the preserved walls being integrated. Only in the choir has the vault been preserved.

In 1992/93 the church was completely renovated and brought as close as possible to the pre-war state.

Bells

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 
1 Joseph 1,473 1,900 c sharp 1 −9 Johannes Mark; Eifeler bell foundry , Brockscheid 1967
2 - 1,255 1,250 e 1 −3 Gueris van Trier & Jan van Trier, Aachen 1546
3 - 1,140 900 f sharp 1 −4 - 1434
4th - 635 145 e 2 −6 Gregor van Trier, Aachen 1498

Motif: Te Deum

monument

The church is registered under No. 22 in the list of monuments of the Niederzier community .

Pastor

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

from ... to Surname
before 1830-1835 Aegidius Knein
1835-1858 Heinrich Anton Hermanns
1858-1861 Matthias Joseph Hubert Nossen
1861-1895 Heinrich Bernhard Joseph Schweinheim
1895-1909 Peter Schnabel
1909–1930 (?) Kornelius Wirtz
1930-1952 Gustav Vaßen
1952-1960 Heinrich Zimmermann
1960-1967 Father Georg Haskamp
1967-1983 Father Hermann Krolage
1983-1993 Winfried Gehlen
1994-2000 Petro Stanusic
2000-2008 Rick van den Berg
Since 2009 Andreas Galbierz

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Mooren (arr.): Binterim and Mooren. The Archdiocese of Cologne until the French revolution. Volume 1, Düsseldorf 1892, p. 340.
  2. ^ Albert Mooren (arr.): Binterim and Mooren. The Archdiocese of Cologne until the French revolution. Volume 2, Düsseldorf 1893, p. 443.
  3. ↑ Parish of St. Josef Huchem-Stammeln (ed.): Chronicle. 150 years of the parish of St. Josef Huchem-Stammeln-Selhausen. 1864-2014, Huchem-Stammeln 2014, pp. 34–35.
  4. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 332.
  5. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 333.
  6. ↑ http://st-martin-oberzier.de/st-martin-im-netz/
  7. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bell music in the Düren region.
  8. ↑ http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Dueren/DenkNiz/Nr.%2022.htm
  9. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 332.
  10. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 3, Cologne 1833, p. 20.
  11. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 8, Cologne 1857, p. 110.
  12. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 9, Cologne 1860, p. 90.
  13. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 16, Cologne 1892, p. 84.
  14. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 20, Cologne 1908, p. 106.
  15. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 21, Cologne 1911, p. 110.

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 55.7 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 22.5 ″  E