St. Martinus (Dom-Esch)

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St. Martinus in Dom-Esch
View from the gallery to the choir

The Catholic parish church of St. Martinus in Dom-Esch , a district of Euskirchen in the Euskirchen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), was built in the Middle Ages . The St. Martin consecrated church is a protected architectural monument .

history

The church emerged from a chapel of a fortified court estate , which was sold to the Cologne Cathedral Chapter in 1273 and remained there until the secularization in 1803. In the 14th century, the cathedral chapter probably expanded the main and side choirs. It is possible that in the 16th century, when the church had become dilapidated, the aisles were torn down and the arcades were walled up with the stone material. For structural reasons, buttresses were added to the north wall and a sacristy was built on the south wall .

architecture

St. Martinus has a single nave and is 6.30 m wide and 19 m long. In the west the tower is in front and the choir in the east has a 5/8 end . The three-bay nave is illuminated by pointed arch windows. The nave is wooden and the choir has a stone ribbed vault .

Furnishing

The choir vault was repainted in 1990. Larger fragments of Gothic wall painting have been preserved on the south wall of the sacristy and on the right conical arch .

Altars

Leaded glass window depicting St. Michael

The main altar, which has a figure of St. Martin owns and shows the coat of arms of the Cologne cathedral chapter above it, occupies the entire apse height . It closes the apse on both sides with passages, on the lintels of which there is an apostle figure. The side altars, the Marien and Johannes altars, are on the left and right in front of the triumphal arch .

Leaded glass window

Friedrich Lauten from Cologne created stained glass windows with figurative representations in 1935 . The light slits in the tower basement for the Johannes and Martin windows were enlarged. During the renovation of the tower, the Johannes and Martin windows were removed and the old light slits, which were provided with abstract glass painting , were bricked up again . In 1992 Paul Weigmann created a new St. Martin's window above the sacristy door.

organ

Franz Joseph Schorn from Kuchenheim built the organ with ten registers on two manuals and attached pedal in 1870 .

Bells

In 1989/91, the fourth and largest bell, the Petrus bell, was installed in the tower. There are also the old bells: St. Maria from 1414, St. Martinus from 1429 and St. John from 1517.

literature

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 32.2 "  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 43.5"  E