St. Michael (Opladen)

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St. Michael
Opladen st michael 2007.jpg
Patronage : archangel Michael
Construction time : 1938 to 1939
Consecration : September 26, 1954
by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ferche
Address: Sandstrasse 33
51379 Leverkusen

The church of St. Michael was built in 1939 in the north of the then city of Opladen and was the seat of the parish of the same name until 2009.

history

In 1937, the parish of St. Remigius in Opladen had to give in to pressure from the National Socialist city ​​administration and sell the Catholic clubhouse (today Opladen town hall) for 150,000 Reichsmarks . However, as part of the sale, the municipality succeeded in obtaining commitments from the city to build a church in the north of Opladen and to provide the relevant building materials. The cornerstone of the church was laid on November 13, 1938 and the church was built according to designs by Bernhard Rotterdam . It was consecrated on October 15, 1939.

The parish was set up on September 30, 1939, initially as the rectorate of St. Remigius, and on May 1, 1954, it was raised to an independent parish. In 1957 a kindergarten was built, in 1964 the parish and youth home. Since 1987 the parish has been looked after by priests from St. Remigius, since 1998 it has belonged to the parish association of Opladen.

On January 1, 2010, the parishes of St. Three Kings , St. Elisabeth , St. Engelbert , St. Michael and St. Remigius dissolved and merged to form the new parish of St. Remigius Opladen.

Bells

In the year of the consecration of the church, the Otto bell foundry delivered three bronze bells for the newly built Michael’s Church. Two of the three bells were confiscated and melted down shortly afterwards during World War II. Only the small c sharp bell remained for the community. Ten years later, two new OTTO bells were cast to make the chime a three-part chime.

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Caster
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 ) 		inscription
 
1 Michael bell 1959 Karl (III) Otto,
Otto bell foundry 		944 575 g sharp 1 +8 + MICHAEL, SCHÜTZE CHURCH
AND FATHERLAND + 1959
2 Don Bosco bell 1959 Karl (III) Otto,
Otto bell foundry		 795 350 h 1 +8 + DON BOSCO, LEAD THE
GERMAN YOUTH TO CHRIST
3 Mary Bell 1939 Ernst Karl (Karl II) Otto,
Otto bell foundry		 728 250 c sharp 2 +8 MARIA PLEASE FOR
OUR PARISH FAMILY

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Michael  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially pages 541, 556 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 499, 511 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 46.4 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 40.5 ″  E