St. Martinus (Birgel)

St. Martinus in Birgel

Choir view

St. Martin is a Roman Catholic parish church in Düren district Birgel in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia . The church was built between 1902 and 1903 according to plans by Franz Statz and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Martin of Tours . It is entered as an architectural monument in the list of architectural monuments in Düren .

location

The Birgel parish church is located on Bergstrasse and is surrounded by a meadow. Directly to the east of the church building, the area slopes down towards Rölsdorf.

history

Birgel was always a branch of the Lendersdorf parish . In the 17th century the castle chapel was built in the vicinity of Birgel Castle, which later received a vicar. These priests also took care of the pastoral care in Birgel, but they were subordinate to the pastor of Lendersdorf. It is possible that there was a church building in Birgel before that. As the church was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century, the desire for parish independence also grew. With effect from March 1, 1905, Birgel was finally separated from Lendersdorf and became an independent parish .

Building history

In the 1890s, efforts began to build a new church because the old castle chapel had become too small. The Maria-Bauverein was founded around 1895 by the then Vicar Friedrich Josef Pütz to finance the project. After sufficient funds had been collected, the current parish church of St. Martinus was built between 1902 and 1903 in the neo-Romanesque style according to plans by diocesan master builder Franz Statz from Cologne. The foundation stone was laid on June 22, 1902 by Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Antonius Fischer . The following year the church was completed. The church consecration took place on June 23, 1907, as did the laying of the foundation stone by Antonius Fischer, who was now Archbishop of Cologne and cardinal . During the Second World War, the top floor of the tower, which was crowned by a rhombic roof, was so badly damaged that it had to be completely removed after the war. As a result, in the 1950s, the current top tower floor was added in the style of post-war modernism with a tent roof . The facades are plastered and painted in color.

Building description

St. Martinus is a three-aisled basilica from Grauwacke in the architectural style of the neo-Romanesque . The bell tower built in front of the nave in the west is four storeys high and is crowned by a tent roof. The main portal is on the lower floor. To the east of the tower is the three-aisled nave. The central nave consists of two square bays , the side aisles are four bays, so that two bays of the side aisles meet one yoke of the central nave. In addition, there is a Rhenish column change in the arcades between the naves. The side aisles close straight to the east, the choir bay closes with a semicircular apse .

Furnishing

In the entrance area of the church there is a memorial with a portrait of Mary and the names of the war victims from both world wars . The inscription reads: “PRAY FOR THE VICTIMS OF WAR | YOU LIKE REST IN PEACE ”. Also worth mentioning are the stained glass windows , which still represent the original glazing from 1906 to 1910.

organ

The organ dates from the time the church was built and was made in 1907 in Edmund Fabritius' organ building workshop in Kaiserswerth . It has a romantic sound, the action is pneumatic . The instrument has a total of 13 registers distributed over two manuals and pedal.

I main work C – f 3 Principal 8th' flute 8th' Gamba 8th' Dumped 8th' Octav 4 ′ Cornet (here mixture) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′

II subsidiary work C – f 3 Prestant 8th' Quintatön 8th' Aeoline 8th' Vox celestis 8th' Transverse flute 4 ′

Pedal C – d 1 Sub-bass 16 ′ cello 8th'

• Pair : I / P, II / P, II / I, I / I Super
• Playing aids : hand registration, tutti, mezzoforte, piano

Bells

Two years before the church was consecrated in 1907, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast four bronze bells for St. Martin's Church in Birgel. All four bells fell victim to the destruction of the bells in the First World War. In the interwar period Otto delivered three more bells, only the smallest of which survived the Second World War.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	-	-	-	f sharp ' +6	Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum	1952
2	-	-	-	g sharp ' +5	Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum	1952
3	-	860	413	h ' +6	Ernst Karl, F. Otto , Hemelingen	1926

Motive: Gloria

Web links

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

• Parish St. Martin on the website of GdG St. Elisabeth

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Pawliczek: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1984. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 76, Düren 1987, ISSN  0416-4180
2. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 47 - 33rd year. Monday, February 27, 1905. Article: Local and District News .
3. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 141 - Monday, June 23, 1902. Article: Confirmation trip of the Auxiliary Bishop Dr. Fisherman .
4. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 143 - Tuesday, June 25, 1907. Article: Kirchliches .
5. ↑ St. Martin in Birgel. In: Internet site for church music in the Düren region. Retrieved April 2, 2018 . 
6. ^ Düren-Birgel, Catholic Church of St. Martin. In: Internet site research center stained glass of the 20th century. Retrieved June 12, 2018 . 
7. ↑ St. Martin Birgel. In: Internet site for church music in the Düren region. Retrieved June 12, 2018 . 
8. ^ 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, especially pages 514, 527 .
9. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 479, 496 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
10. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bell music in the Düren region

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 18 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 46.1 ″  E