St. Martinus (Niederembt)

St. Martinus in Niederembt

St. Martinus is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Niederembt district of the city of Elsdorf (Rhineland) in the Rhein-Erft district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The church is registered under number 151 in the list of architectural monuments in Elsdorf (Rhineland) and dedicated to St. Consecrated to Martin of Tours .

history

A church in Niederembt was first mentioned in a document in 1081. The tithe was transferred to the St. Pantaleon Abbey in Cologne . In 1274 Niederembt was already an independent parish . In the Liber valoris from around 1300, the Niederembter church was also listed as a parish church. There are no more traces of this building mentioned several times. It was probably a Romanesque church.

In the 1490s, the old Romanesque church was replaced by a two-aisled, Gothic new building with a flat choir , which was completed in 1496 or 1499. In 1512 a very massive bell tower was built in front of the main nave in the west . This probably had a crooked spire from the start , which over time also brought ridicule to the Niederembtern from the neighboring villages. St. Martinus existed in this form until 1893.

Since the church had become too small for the increased population, the two-aisled building was extended by a south aisle in 1893 and the previous choir was replaced by a new, three-sided closed choir. Both were implemented in the neo-Gothic style . The old Gothic nave and the north aisle were restored. In 1900 the current neo-Gothic bell tower was finally built. Both the extension in 1893 and the new construction of the tower were carried out according to plans by the Cologne architect Theodor Roß . In 1956 a new sacristy was added.

architecture

St. Martinus is a Gothic-Neo-Gothic four - bay hall church with a three-sided closed choir in the east and a three-story bell tower in the west. The entire church is spanned by ribbed vaults. The windows all have tracery and have two lanes. The tower is crowned by an eight-sided spire.

Furnishing

In the church there is a baptismal font from the 15th century, a confessional from the 18th century, a neo-Gothic communion bench from around 1900 and a neo-Gothic high altar and a stone pulpit from the same period.

Bells

Before the First World War , two bronze bells from the years 1619 (cast by François Raclé) and 1764 (cast by Martin Legros ) hung in the bell cage . Only the bell from 1619 remained in Niederembt, the other one was melted down for war purposes. After the First World War, two new bells were cast by Karl Richard Heinrich Ulrich from Apolda in 1922 and 1923 . These two bells were melted down during World War II . After the war, four steel bells were finally cast in 1947 by the Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, so that five bells now hang in the tower. The Trinity Bell is the second largest steel bell in the Archdiocese of Cologne

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	Trinity	2,246	4,600	g sharp ° −1	Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum	1947
2	Maria	1,887	2,700	h ° +6	Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum	1947
3	Joseph	1,681	1,900	c sharp ' +5	Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum	1947
4th	Martinus	1,498	1,340	dis ' +3	Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum	1947
5	Old Martinus	1,220	900	g " −1	François Raclé, Damblain	1619

Motive: O Savior, tear open the heavens

Web links

• Website of the parish of Niederembt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Bergheim, in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 4, Ed. Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1899, p. 512 ff.
2. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments - North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland; Edited by Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke, Munich-Berlin 1967, p. 509.
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 15, 2014) 
4. ^ Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Bergheim, in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 4, Ed. Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1899, p. 514.
5. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Glocken im Dekanat Bedburg, p. 93 ff.

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 55.8 ″  N , 6 ° 32 ′ 28.3 ″  E