St. Maternus (Breberen)

Parish Church of St. Maternus

The Catholic parish church of St. Maternus is a listed church building in Breberen , a district of the Gangelt community in the Heinsberg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

An excavation in 1950 resulted in a three-aisled wooden church from the 8/9. Century on an early Christian burial ground and a hall building from the late 9th century with its late Gothic extensions.

The hall with a choir apse closed on three sides was built between 1827 and 1890. It was badly damaged in World War II. The western single-tower facade was built in 1954, in the same year a flat ceiling was installed inside .

The Maasland triumphal cross group made of wood from around 1520 is noteworthy. It is attributed to the surroundings of the workshop of the master of Elsloo . The corresponding assistant figures are significantly smaller than the crucifixus.

Bells

1st bell ... dis' ... Feldmann and Marschel ... 1956

2nd bell ... f sharp '... Feldmann and Marschel ... 1956

3rd bell ... g sharp '... Feldmann and Marschel ... 1956

4th bell ... h '..... Feldmann and Marschel ... 1956

Ideal quartet

literature

• Georg Dehio (greeting), Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (editing): North Rhine-Westphalia, Vol. 1: Rhineland ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-x .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 36 ″  N , 5 ° 59 ′ 25 ″  E