St. Martinus (Niederpleis)

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Front view of the church
inside view

Sankt Martinus is the Roman Catholic parish church in Niederpleis , a district of Sankt Augustin ( Rhein-Sieg district ) in North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the Catholic pastoral care area Sankt Augustin in the Rhein-Sieg district dean of the Archdiocese of Cologne . The tower has been preserved from the Romanesque church.

The parish of St. Martinus also includes the two branch churches St. Georg in Buisdorf and St. Maria Himmelfahrt in Birlinghoven .

history

A Carolingian hall church was built in Niederpleis as early as the 9th century. The first documented evidence of the church, which at that time was still consecrated to St. George, dates from the 12th century, when the Bonn Cassius monastery and the Siegburg Abbey agreed in a settlement in 1132 on the ownership rights to the church. It was found that the Archbishop of Cologne, Anno II, had exchanged the church from the Cassius Foundation and given it to Siegburg Abbey when it was founded in 1064.

The oldest part of the church is the Romanesque west tower from the 12th century. Its tower spire and the upper floor were renewed from brick masonry in 1682. In 1689 the patronage of the church changed to St. Martin of Tours for unknown reasons . In 1824 the old nave was replaced by a new one based on plans by the important Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel . This was extended to the east in 1906 and a transept and choir were added.

Completed in 2000 Siegauentunnel the ICE - high-speed line Cologne-Rhine / Main runs directly beneath the church. During construction, both the church and several graves in the neighboring cemetery were damaged, including that of the St. Augustinian honorary citizen Andreas Schmitz, who had campaigned against the tunnel construction for years as a vice-church councilor for fear of disturbing the peace of the dead.

literature

  • Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the Siegkreis . Düsseldorf 1907.
  • Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the Siegkreis . Düsseldorf 1907.
  • Heinrich Adolphs: The Niederpleis Castle . In: Contributions to the history of the city . tape 3 . Sankt Augustin 1984, p. 12 .
  • Wilhelm Schumacher: Old Buisdorf grave crosses in the cemetery in Niederpleis . In: Contributions to the history of the city . tape 11 . Sankt Augustin 1989.
  • Wilhelm Schumacher: Old grave crosses in the cemetery in Niederpleis . In: Contributions to the history of the city . tape 31 . Sankt Augustin 1999.

Web links

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

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Welt: Architecture in Sankt Augustin - Niederpleis has a Schinkel. In: General-Anzeiger . May 7, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Axel Vogel: painter and stonemason fill the long cracks . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . Bonner newspaper printer and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH, Bonn August 13, 2003 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed December 1, 2018]).
  3. ↑ PIETÄT: Railway blows up the tomb. In: Der Spiegel . June 9, 1999, accessed April 7, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 11.8 ″  E