St. Michael (Blessem)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Michael is located in Blessem , a district of Erftstadt .
history
For centuries, the St. Servatius Chapel in Heddinghoven , a branch of the St. Kilian Church in Lechenich , was the parish church for Blessem and Konradsheim . After the establishment of a rectorate in Frauenthal for the hospital chapel service in 1869, financed by the Münch Foundation , the residents of Blessem attended the service there. The development into a parish took place gradually. In 1908 the residents of Blessem were given the right to have their children baptized in the chapel in Frauenthal, and in 1909 they had their own cemetery. In 1923 the chapel in Frauenthal became the rectorate parish for Blessem and Frauenthal.
In 1961, according to the plans of the architect Werner Ingendaay, a new Catholic church was built and consecrated for Blessem and Frauenthal with the parish priest St. Michael , which received the neo-Gothic font from the Marienkapelle in Frauenthal for further use.
description
The walls of the east-facing church are made of concrete . Their outer walls are faced with bricks . The west side of the building, which is covered with a gable roof, was given a glass façade that reached to the top of the gable and was structured by concrete ribs with a representation of Mary as Queen of Angels . The main portal was made of wood and covered with a cladding embossed in copper . The work was created in 1967 based on designs by the Köttingen sculptor Jakob Riffeler . The representations give an overview of the church history of the place based on the selected motifs. The artist depicted the saints Kilian , Apollonia and Servatius under the enthroned Christ as references to the parish patrons of Lechenich and Heddinghoven. Maria and Brigitta refer to the Frauenthal monastery and chapel and the depiction of St. Michael the Archangel refers to the parish patron of the church himself.
The tower, which stands separately as a campanile , was poured from concrete like the church and faced with "Dutch clinker bricks".
Sankt Michael west side
inner space
Neo-Gothic font
In the interior, the large concrete wall ends in a gable top on the east side. The wooden ceiling in the form of a gable roof extends on the north wall to the light shafts that run above the concrete wall. The southern outer wall consists of concrete strips with small square glass blocks , alternating with sections of bricks , up to the transverse wall . A concrete ceiling was drawn in from the transverse wall dividing the interior space on both sides, halfway up the nave, parallel to the southern outer wall. The concrete wall that was erected on top of it in the church nave created space for a side chapel underneath. To the south of the choir is a prayer room, and above it is the organ gallery with the organ.
The baptistery on the north side of the entrance with the neo-Gothic baptismal font from the church in Frauenthal is similar in its design (walls made of brick and plastered concrete and one side glass windows) to the southern sacristy of St. Lambertus in Bliesheim. Both buildings were designed by architect Ingendaay, the windows by glass painter Franz Pauli .
The organ with 12 registers was supplied by the Helmut Seifert Cologne company in 1963 .
Six bells from the Mabilon bell foundry hang in the 21-meter-high tower with five staggered sound openings on all sides .
The representations in the glass wall between the church and the tower are related to the local associations and their patrons.
Furnishing
- Stained glass window on the east facade Paul Weigmann , made by Oidtmann stained glass .
- Stained glass window on the north side in the baptistery, artist Franz Pauli .
- neo-Gothic font
- Altar made of Italian greenish grained marble by Toni Zenz 1975.
- flat hanging cross by Egino Weinert , today in the tower room.
- Tabernacle (bronze) by Egino Weinert .
- Tabernacle door by Toni Zenz .
- Madonna and Child ( late Gothic ), acquired in the art trade.
- Christ on the Scourge Column ( Baroque ), acquired in the art trade.
- Petrus ( Rococo ), acquired in the art trade.
- Michael, linden wood, around 1980, artist unknown.
literature
- Frank Kretschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district. Cologne 2005. ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Kretschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district, p. 89
- ^ Albert Esser: 40 years of the parish of St. Michael Blessem-Frauenthal. Blessem 2001. pp. 3-13
- ^ Erftstadt city archive: Image archive, Blessem
- ^ Albert Esser: 40 years of the parish of St. Michael Blessem-Frauenthal. Blessem 2001. pp. 14-16
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 40.4 " N , 6 ° 47 ′ 56.2" E
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