St. Martinus (Borr)

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Parish Church of St. Martinus

The Catholic parish church of St. Martinus is a listed church building in Borr / Scheuren , a district of Erftstadt in the Rhein-Erft district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

location

The church stands in an abandoned churchyard , on which some gravestones are still preserved. It is separated from the streets by the churchyard wall.

Building history

The Martinspatrozinium refers to a foundation in Franconian times . The church probably emerged from an independent church .

Today's church is one of the early stone churches that were built in the 11th century, during the Romanesque period. Large parts of the old outer walls consist of rubble stones , tuff and second-hand Roman building materials . Cast blocks from the Roman Eifel aqueduct were used to build the cemetery wall .

After the Dutch War , as well as 50 years later after the Hessian War , the damage had to be repaired.

The oak portal was moved to its current location in 1656. During this time, the round and arched windows were also installed and the roof turret repaired. The vestibule and the choir closure, which serves as the sacristy , were built in brick in 1701 . In 1786 the windows received new ashlar frames and the church received new fittings.

The church was restored several times after the Second World War ; the last major renovation due to moisture damage took place in 1988–1989.

Building description and equipment

The small whitewashed church consists of a hall building , a narrower closed on three sides of the axis slightly to the south deviating choir and a porch in front of the portal. The nave has three arched windows on each side. The square roof turret has a pyramid roof topped by a cross and a weathercock .

Inside the church is kept in a simple baroque style with a flat stucco ceiling in the nave, a barrel vault in the choir and a wooden west gallery. The pulpit is still part of the furnishings from 1786/87. Doors leading to the sacristy were installed in the rectangular choir wall on both sides of the altar. The doors with bars in the upper part were used as confessionals . The canteen of the high altar from 1866 was consecrated by Bishop Johannes Baudri , as can be seen from the chronogram : IOHANNES BAVDRI EPISCOPVS CONSECRATOR PRIMI ALTARIS. The altar structure consists of a four-column altar with a copy of a late Gothic crucifixion group . In the nave there are baroque statues of the Madonna and Child and St. Matthias in side niches , in the choir there are baroque figures of St. Dominic and St. Brigida of Kildare . A tower monstrance , a goldsmith's work from Düren , dates from 1547.

The first organ in the church will be inaugurated on September 16, 2018. It was bought at a customs auction and has 508 pipes

Bells

Three bells hang in the roof turret. The oldest Marienbell was cast by Kerstgen von Unkel in 1605. It was cracked, but it was repaired in 1957 and the original sound was restored. In 1785, another Marienbell was cast by Peter Legros. The Martinus bell, cast by Gottfried Dinkelmeyer from Cologne in 1721, was recast in 1881 by Christian Claren from Sieglar. The two bells requisitioned in 1942 were returned unharmed in 1947.

literature

  • Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
  • Frank Kretschmar: Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Erftkreis . Cologne 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Kretschmar: Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Erftkreis. Pp. 12-15
  2. ^ Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (arr.): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, page 200, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
  3. ^ Frank Kretschmar: Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Erftkreis. Pp. 12-15
  4. ↑ Dieter Hoffsümmer / Hanna Stommel, Chapter 4.2 St. Martinus Borr. In: Frank Bartsch, Dieter Hoffsümmer, Hanna Stommel: Monuments in Erftstadt . Erftstadt 1998–2000.
  5. ↑ https://gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de/seelsorgebereich-erftstadt-boerde/kopfnavi/boerde-blog/Ein-besonderes-Highlight-fuer-Borr/
  6. ↑ Jakob Schaeben: Bells, bells and towers in the former district of Euskirchen , Cologne 1977. P. 34–35.

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 16 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 44 ″  E