St. Martinus (Kirchheim)

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Catholic parish church St. Martinus in Kirchheim
Catholic parish church St. Martinus in Kirchheim, interior

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Kirchheim , a district of Euskirchen in the district of Euskirchen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), was built between 1868 and 1870. The St. Martin is a protected cultural monument .

history

The earliest documented mention of the church can be found after 1300 in the Liber valoris . According to the designation pastoratuum of 1676, the pastor's position was alternately occupied by the Duke of Jülich and the Baron of Quadt auf Tomburg .

After the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , the church in Kirchheim, as in many other places, was damaged and robbed. In 1666 St. Martinus received a new ceiling and in 1704 the tower was renewed. In the 19th century, the decision was made to demolish the dilapidated old church and to build a new building, which was carried out according to designs by the Bonn architect KF Schubert. The master builder Karl Friedrich Schubert (Breslau 1826–1883 ​​Bonn) was a municipal master builder in several Rhenish districts since 1856, later professor at the agricultural college in Bonn (works: Bliesheim, 1860-63; Kirchheim, 1868–1870; Erp, 1872–1873; Ersdorf, 1877–1879; Effelsberg, 1881). From 1938 to 1975 Joseph Emonds was pastor here, and at the end of 1944 he hid the Jewish woman Hilde Barz with her husband Mathias Barz in the rectory.

architecture

The church has three naves and is made of brick . The four-bay hall with a retracted choir closed on three sides is flanked by sacristy extensions. St. Martinus has an upstream, five-storey west tower with red sandstone structures , ogival windows and ogival west portal in neo-Gothic style. Two-lane, pointed arched tracery windows with sandstone framing and concluding three passes illuminate the church. The narrow buttresses , once stepped, structure the long sides.

On the two tympana of the side portals there are mosaic representations that the local artist Heinrich Seepolt created in the mid-1950s. They show the burning thorn bush and the Lamb of God .

Above the right side altar is a large mural in fresco-secco the judgment is, in 1948 painted by Ernst Jansen angles . This artist also designed the Jesse root motif for a wall hanging in the aisle, embroidery on linen, in 1947. The weaver Elisabeth Walraf (1904–1978) woven or embroidered this “tapestry”. She was niece and heiress of the cloth manufacturer Bernhard Becker (1873–1938), who was a partner in the Euskirchener cloth factory B. & H. Becker and who built a villa in Kreuzweingarten in 1916 in order to be culturally and socially involved. His house on Burgberg was open to artists and writers. Elisabeth Walraf set up a weaving workshop there. A frequent guest was u. a. also the artist and Dominican priest Wolfram Plotzke and Dechant Emonds.

Romanesque console from the previous building

A Romanesque mask console from the previous building, which was located in the apex of the choir, was installed in the vestibule of the main portal in the 1990s. The dating has not been conclusively clarified.

Leaded glass window

Choir window in St. Martinus Church

The choir windows, whose scenic representations (crucifixion and resurrection of Christ; St. Martin shares his cloak with a beggar) from the 19th century have been preserved, were supplemented in 1981 with ornamental fields designed by Herb Schiffer .

The Miles christianus window was created in 1972 in the glass painting Oidtmann in Linnich based on a design by Heinrich Seepolt. Opposite is the window in the north wall, which was designed in 1953 by Wilhelm Felix Schlüter (1902–1976) from Münster. It shows in expressive colors the patron saint of the Holy Roman Empire and later Germany, the Archangel Michael, the conqueror of Satan.

organ

The organ from 1878 comes from the workshop of Franz Joseph Schorn . It was restored in the 1990s.

Bells

In 1991 St. Martinus received two new bells from the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg .

literature

  • The art monuments of the Rhine Province , Volume 4, Section 4: The art monuments of the Euskirchen district. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1900, p. 51f. (Reprint: Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-590-32119-9 )
  • Friends and sponsors of the Stadtmuseum e. V. (Ed.): The churches and chapels in Euskirchen. Euskirchen 2006, ISBN 3-00-019035-X , pp. 68-71.
  • TOGETHER in churches of the pastoral care area Erftmühlenbach, arr. by B.Bell / C.-P.Joist. Euskirchen 2016.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 12.4 ″  E