St. Matthew (Alfter)

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Saint Matthew
Tower of the parish church of St. Matthew; in front the half-timbered house Hertersplatz 13

Tower of the parish church of St. Matthew; in front the half-timbered house Hertersplatz 13

Data
place Alfter
Construction year 1791-1792
Coordinates 50 ° 44 '18.5 "  N , 7 ° 0' 27"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '18.5 "  N , 7 ° 0' 27"  E
Parish Church of St. Matthew: side entrance
Cross and weathercock on the church tower

The Catholic parish church of St. Matthäus is a church building on Hertersplatz in Alfter , a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is the parish church of the same parish in the deanery Bornheim ( Archdiocese of Cologne ). The church building stands as a monument under monument protection .

History and architecture

The unadorned, originally flat-roofed hall church was 1791-1792 with beveled corners and one east tower in brick built. The transept and choir were added to the west in 1902. In 1964 a barrel vault was drawn into the baroque hall .

Furnishing

  • In the south side altar there is a wooden sculpture depicting Anna the third of herself from the beginning of the 16th century. She was new in later times passed .
  • Above the Baroque baptismal font a carved, gilded hanging antependium dating from around 1730. It shows the Hl. Florian in Regency -Ornamentik, with the coat of arms and the initials of the Elector Clemens August. It originally comes from the Florian Chapel of Bonn Castle.

organ

View of the organ

An organ with three manuals and 27 registers stands on the gallery . It was built in 1941 by the Georg Stahlhuth / Aachen company and reorganized in 2008 by the Johannes Klais / Bonn company . It has four transmissions and an electric play and stop action. The disposition is as follows:

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
2. recorder 4 ′
3. Principal 2 ′
4th Scharff III-IV 1'
5. Krummhorn 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
6th Drone 16 ′
7th Principal 8th'
8th. Wooden pipe 8th'
9. Octave 4 ′
10. Capstan whistle000 2 ′
11. Mixture V-IV 2 ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
13. Willow pipe 8th'
14th Asparagus pensilis
(floating)		 8th'
15th Reed flute 8th'
16. Singing Principal 4 ′
17th Night horn 4 ′
18th Gemshorn 2 ′
19th Super octave 1'
20th Sesquialtera I-III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Cymbel IV-III 1'
22nd oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
23. Principal 16 ′
24. Sub bass 16 ′
25th Gedackt bass
(attenuation from No.24) 		16 ′
26th Drone (number 6) 16 ′
27. Octavbass ((No.7) 8th'
28. Violbass (No.13) 8th'
29 Choral bass 4 ′
30th Rear set IV-III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
31. trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: I / II, III / II, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: I / II, III / II, III / III
    • Super octave coupling: III / P
  • Playing aids :

Bells

From the tower of St. Matthew's Church, 5 bells with the chiming motif Ad te levavi animam meam , the beginning of the Introit on the 1st Sunday of Advent in a Gregorian melody, ring out .

No. Surname Nominal
(16th note) 		Mass
(kg) 		Diameter
(mm) 		Casting year Caster
1 Matthew c sharp 1 −4 circa 1700 1432 1719 Peter Fuchs, Cologne
2 Joseph e 1 −2 1100 1227 1965 Mabilon bell foundry, Saarburg
3 Maria and Hubertus f sharp 1 +0 750 1080 1792 Clement I Drouot, Nicolas Simon, Claude de Forest
4th Donatus and Agatha g sharp 1 +7 400 0727 1791 Clement I Drouot, Nicolas Simon, Claude de Forest
5 Anna h 1 −3 300 0804 1965 Mabilon bell foundry, Saarburg

literature

  • Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .

Web links

Commons : St. Matthew  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the municipality of Alfter , number 35
  2. ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X page 76
  3. ↑ Alfter, St. Matthew. Retrieved on August 17, 2020 (organ disposition from the website of Orgelbau Klais).
  4. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells in the dean's office Bornheim. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Pp. 8–15 , archived from the original on January 12, 2016 ; accessed on January 24, 2016 .