St. Martin (Wormersdorf)

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St. Martin
Interior of the church

St. Martin is a Catholic parish church in Wormersdorf , a district of Rheinbach in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The parish of St. Martin forms with St. Jakobus Ersdorf , St. Johannes Meckenheim , St. Petrus Lüftelberg and St. Michael Merl the parish community Meckenheim in the district dean of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

history

A chapel and later a church existed in Wormersdorf since the Middle Ages, possibly since the 11th century or earlier, initially as a separate church of manors. They were the predecessors of the existing Church of St. Martinus, consecrated in 1717, in the district of Ipplendorf (now called "Ipplendorfer Church"). In 1724/25, the Hubertus chapel was also built in the center of Wormersdorf.

St. Martin Ipplendorf (from 1256 parish Wormersdorf) was a branch church of St. Martin in Rheinbach until 1317 . Both were under the patronage of the monastery in Münstereifel from around 1200 and were subject to a tithing obligation to the monastery and the Cistercian abbey of Himmerod . Since both churches, St. Martin Ipplendorf and the Hubertus Chapel, were no longer sufficient for the larger community, a church building association was founded in 1913 with the aim of obtaining the necessary funds for a new church in Wormersdorf. The innkeeper Peter Corzelius, who died in 1919, bequeathed his house with an adjacent four- acre property in the center of the village to the church. The house was intended as a pastor's apartment and the vacant property was intended for the new church.

The cornerstone of the new church was laid on October 14, 1934 . Local men gave free handwork during construction to save costs. The architecture is reminiscent of the Bauhaus style, the interior is modeled on a Romanesque hall basilica . The two bells from the Ipplendorfer church were brought into the new church, the Martin bell from 1514 and the Marien bell from 1858. The latter is now hanging again in the Ipplendorfer church. In 1963 the bell was extended to include three new bells.

On June 30, 1935, the dean Franz Kreiten from Meckenheim gave the solemn consecration of the church. The consecration took place on November 17, 1935 Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Stockum .

In the 1970s the church was completely renovated inside and out, in 1989 the nave and tower were re-covered with slate and the interior redesigned. In the same year the church tower received a tower clock.

The Hubertus Chapel was almost completely destroyed by an aerial mine on February 4, 1945, as was the school and adjacent residential buildings, and demolished in 1949 when the road was widened. A segment of the side wall with three window openings was designed as a memorial. The Ipplendorfer church next to the cemetery on the outskirts was closed in 1935, thoroughly renovated in the 1960s and 1970s and reopened on September 12, 1976; it is still used for church services.

List of the known pastors of Wormersdorf and Ipplendorf
time Surname annotation
1654-1668 Johann Reifferscheid
1668-1720 Petrus Wadenheim (Builder of the Ipplendorfer Church)
1720-1760 Heinrich Wirtz (During this time, the Hubertus Chapel was built in Wormersdorf in 1724/25)
1760-1805 Matthias Kerzmann (donated the cemetery cross and was buried in the crypt under the cross in 1826)
1806-1843 Matthias Krautwig
1844-1866 Peter Nikolaus Steinnut
1866-1867 Karl Josef Heimbrodt
1867-1896 Andreas Josef Hubert Isenkrahe from 1883 dean of the Rheinbach dean's office
1896-1917 Johann Wilhelm Hubert Borka
1917-1921 Georg Reinartz (Parish Rector)
1922-1929 Josef Hoffmann
1929-1956 Ludwig Krull
1956-1982 Sebastian Wirtz (died 1997)
1982-1994 Robert Kreuzberg Student councilor, district dean, Msgr.
1994-1997 Karl-Wencel Heix
1997-2004 Jan Opiéla
2004 Lambert Schäfer
2004-2005 Father Antoni Trojak CSMA (Parish Administrator)
2005-2008 Michael Jung Definitor
2008-2010 Bernhard Auel District Dean, Msgr. (Parish Administrator)
from 2010 Reinhold Malcherek (Parish administrator, leading pastor since November 1, 2012), Definitor

Furnishing

organ

Today's organ comes from the company Romaus Seifert & Sohn, Kevelaer and was inaugurated on January 17th, 1960. The old organ is in the Ipplendorfer church.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Unda maris 8th'
Octave flute 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
Sesquialter II
Mixture IV
II Swell C – g 3
Gedacktpommer 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Nasat 1 13
Cymbel II
Schalmey trumpet 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Dacked bass 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, Sub II-I, Super II-P
  • Playing aids: trigger, hand register, free combination, tutti, tongue holder

Bells

The oldest bell, the Martinsglocke , cast by Johan van Alfter, originally hung in the Ipplendorfer church and dates from 1514. On September 22nd, 1963 three bells were consecrated, which had been cast by the Eifeler bell foundry Mark in Brockscheid :

No. Surname Diameter
(mm)
Mass
(kg)
Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
Godparents inscription
1 Heart of jesus 1235 1210 e 1 +0 Leo Masshöfer, Peter Zavelberg Sacred Heart of Jesus,
how with this bell sound encircles
us all!
2 Martinus 1085 0800 g 1 -3 My name is Martinus, in de (er) Goctes I invite, I
roifen the living, de Doden.
Johan van Alfter guicer me in Jaren our Hern
MCCCCCXIIII
3 Maria 0939 0510 a 1 +0 Wilh. Feldmann, Mrs. F. Papert Holy Mary, mother and helper.
Protect the parish family of Wormersdorf!
4th Hubertus 0820 0350 h 1 -1 Anton Handrup, Kunigunde Heck Holy Hubertus, great village patron,
keep us from going astray!
Let God see us with you forever!

Church window

The glass painting Oidtmann in Linnich created the lead glass windows based on designs by Anton Wendling . The round windows were supplied by Schmitz-Steinkrüger. After being destroyed in the war, the windows could be restored because the old templates from Oidtmann were still there.

literature

  • 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. 461-462.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ipplendorferkirche. Wormersdorf online, accessed on January 17, 2016 (private website).
  2. Parish Church. Wormersdorf online, accessed on January 17, 2016 (private website).
  3. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells in the deanery Meckenheim / Rheinbach. (PDF) (No longer available online.) January 28, 2014, p. 113 ff , archived from the original on October 6, 2013 ; accessed on January 17, 2016 (all information about the bells). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherebk.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 20.9 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 26.3 ″  E