St. Maurinus (Lützenkirchen)
The St. Maurinus Church is a Catholic church in the Leverkusen district of Lützenkirchen and has been the parish church of the parish “St. Maurinus and Marien - Catholic parish for Lützenkirchen and Quettingen ”. As the only church in the Archdiocese of Cologne, it is dedicated to Saint Maurinus of Cologne , but little is known about his personality. Possibly he was an abbot and a martyr . His bones are venerated in the St. Pantaleon Church in Cologne .
history
A parish existed in Lützenkirchen as early as the 12th century. Around 1160 it is mentioned in the “Deutz manuscript” as a parish that the Benedictine Abbey of St. Heribert in Deutz regularly supported with monetary donations. The first church was built around 900. It stood above the Wiembach , a little below today's Annakapelle . In 1311 a "Klöckner" is mentioned. The oldest known bell, however, dates from 1519. Around 1600 the church must have been in a poor structural condition. In 1683/84 the nave was laid down, the tower was preserved.
The second church was built between 1683 and 1686 under Pastor Hermann Fabritius at the old location on the church tower.
From around 1695 to 1715, Franciscans helped out in pastoral care in Lützenkirchen because the pastor's post was not occupied. The Anna Chapel was built during this time .
After the secularization of church property in 1803, ownership of the Maurinus Church was also transferred to the state. The Prussian state replaced the resulting construction load with maintenance obligations on February 15, 1841 by paying 3870 Thalers to the church council. After receiving the transfer fee, the church council and pastor Klein started building the third, today's parish church. The existing church and the old tower near the Wiembach were demolished. The road builder Schmitz from Wermelskirchen was commissioned with the new building. The foundation stone was laid on September 30, 1844. Due to various structural difficulties and disputes, construction progressed only slowly. A choir arch collapsed and a construction worker fell from the scaffolding and was killed. The lack of money had to be overcome by a loan and a house collection in the Düsseldorf administrative district. On November 14, 1847, Dean Stephan Joseph Krey from Opladen consecrated the new church. It was only consecrated on June 10, 1976.
St. Maurinus is the mother parish of several neighboring parishes. Until it became independent under canon law, which was achieved between 1560 and 1582, the St. Nicholas Chapel in Steinbüchel was a subsidiary church of St. Maurinus. Parts of Burscheid also belonged to the parish. In 1860 - for the first time after the Reformation - a Catholic chapel was consecrated again; In 1888 St. Laurentius Burscheid became an independent parish. In 1914 a church was built in Quettingen , and in 1930 St. Maria Rosenkranzkönigin Quettingen was parish off as the rectorate parish of St. Maurinus. On January 1, 2011, the parishes of Lützenkirchen and Quettingen merged to form the Catholic parish of St. Maurinus and Marien .
Buildings and equipment
The present church was as wide nave bearing brick hall with a semicircular apse in the style of late classicism at the beginning of the Gothic Revival built. The nave is about 50 meters long, about 16 meters wide and 13 meters high inside. Due to the width of the church, the architect designed the Gothic ribbed vault not from stone but from wood for weight reasons, and so a continuous room without columns was created.
The tower has a height of 41.20 meters up to the ellipsoid, and on it rises the cross with a height of 4 meters with a weathercock. The tower clock has a weight of 300 kg per dial and is 1.30 by 1.30 meters in size. The church occupies a square of 700 square meters. The volume of the nave is approximately 6,018.67 cubic meters.
The choir room was redesigned in 1968. The altar, the cross and the tabernacle were created by Sepp Hürten from Cologne. The Mother of God of Lützenkirchen (approx. 1260) comes from the old Maurinus Church . Marga Wagner from Cologne painted the burning bush (1985) behind the tabernacle.
The 14 stations of the cross were designed by HAP Grieshaber . Hubert Spierling created new windows for the church in 1997/98. In 12 Jesus windows he presented the main themes of the Christian preaching according to Mark.
organ
The organ comes from Orgelbau Weyland from Leverkusen-Hitdorf and has 22 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
| 1 | Mary Bell | 1957 | Feldmann & Marschel, Münster | 1,322 | 1,450 | d 1 +8 |
| 2 | John's bell | 1519 | Jan van Nuisse, Aachen | 1,186 | 1,250 | e 1 +9 |
| 3 | Joseph Bell | 1691 | Johannes Bourlet , Jülich | 1,087 | 800 | f sharp 1 +4 |
| 4th | Margarethen bell | 2001 | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher | 990 | 475 | a 1 +2 |
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the parish of St. Maurinus and Marien
- Description and history on the website of the Internet Initiative Leverkusen eV (with picture)
- Description on the "Lützenkirchen & Quettingen" page
References and comments
- ↑ These and many of the following information can be found at: Rolf Müller: Upladhin - Opladen. City Chronicle. Opladen 1974.
- ^ Rolf Müller: Upladhin - Opladen. City Chronicle. Opladen 1974, pp. 42-46.
- ^ Rolf Müller: Upladhin - Opladen. City Chronicle. Opladen 1974, p. 45.
- ^ Rolf Müller: Upladhin - Opladen. City Chronicle. Opladen 1974, p. 46.
- ↑ St. Maurinus in Lützenkirchen , accessed on August 13, 2011.
- ↑ Gerhard Hoffs (Ed.): Bell music in the city dean of Leverkusen. P. 47 ff.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '54.3 " N , 7 ° 3' 17.9" E