St. Martinus (Kirchherten)

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St. Martinus, view to the tower
View from the south

St. Martinus is the Roman Catholic church of Kirchherten , a district of Bedburg ( Rhein-Erft district ) in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The beginnings of the Church of St. Martinus are not clear. In 1287 Gerhard von Jülich transferred partial patronage to the parish church to the Cologne cathedral chapter. In 1350 the patronage was divided between the cathedral chapter and the Rellinghausen monastery when the church was incorporated into the Cologne cathedral choir. Since the 16th century the patronage was due to the sovereign.

In the 15th century, the Romanesque church of St. Martinus was replaced by a single-nave building in the late Gothic style , which received side aisles in 1513. In 1642 the church was burned down by Weimar-Hessian troops and the nave was rebuilt in the following years. The nave was so dilapidated in 1857 that it was replaced by a three-aisled neo-Gothic basilica while retaining the late-Gothic tower from the 15th century.

When the church was rebuilt, the three-storey tower received an enlarged west portal in the basement. The two upper floors have a fine panel structure with delicate Gothic tracery .

Bells

In the tower of the Martinus Church there are three bronze bells from the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen. The bells are tuned to: d '- e' - f sharp '. They have the following diameters: 1426 mm, 1278 mm, 1136 mm and weigh: 1890 kg, 1354 kg, 976 kg.

literature

  • Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the Bergheim district. Düsseldorf 1899, p. 490f.
  • Frank Kretzschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district. Cologne 2005, p. 22f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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, here in particular pp. 344, 345, 414, 507, 577 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 309, 310, 390, 475, 535 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 23.4 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 11.9"  E