St. Michael (Granterath)

St. Michael in Granterath

The Church of St. Michael is the Roman Catholic branch church of the Granterath district of the city of Erkelenz in the Heinsberg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

history

Church building

Around 1859 there was a church building association in Granterath with the aim of building a new church. The Cologne architect Heinrich Nagelschmidt was commissioned to create a plan . In 1863 the plans were finally implemented. The foundation stone for the construction of the new church was laid on September 29, 1863 and the consecration took place on October 25, 1864. The church was consecrated on August 12, 1900. In 1923 the wooden flat ceiling was replaced by a vault . This single-nave hall church with a semicircular apse in the neo-Romanesque style became too small in the 1950s, so that in 1957 the right aisle was added. In 1967 the building on the left was added. The west facade was redesigned as early as 1952 and in 1956 the bell tower was added according to plans by the Erkelenz architect Josef Viethen, which replaced a roof turret.

Parish

Until 1864 Granterath was a branch of the parish of St. Dionysius Doveren and was split off from this in 1864 and raised to an independent parish. In 1962 the parish area was expanded to include the branches Commerden , Genehen and Scheidt .

On January 1, 2010 the parish Granterath was dissolved and has not been an independent parish since then. It was merged with some other former parishes to form the parish of St. Maria and Elisabeth Erkelenz. This in turn merged in 2015 with the parish of St. Lambertus Erkelenz to form the new large parish of Christkönig Erkelenz.

Furnishing

Inside the church there are two side altars from the time the church was built. Ludwig Schaffrath created the windows of the central nave in 1952 and those of the side aisles in 1962.

Bells

In 1926 the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast a bronze bell for St. Michael's Church, which was confiscated and melted down during World War II. Shortly after the Second World War, Otto delivered two new bronze bells in 1947. These were extended to a three-part ringing by a borrowed bell from the Middle Ages from Leipe in the Spreewald.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT -¹ /₁₆ )	Caster	Casting year	comment
1	Hosanna	930	440	c ′ ′ +2	-	1400	Loan bell from Leipe in the Spreewald
2	Michael	600	120	f ′ ′ −2	Karl (III) Otto, F. Otto , Hemelingen	1947	-
3	Maria	500	67	g ′ ′ +3	Karl (III) Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen	1947	-

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd Limburg's website
↑ Internet site research center for stained glass in the 20th century
^ 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, in particular pages 463, 527, 543 .
↑ 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. 455, 489, 501 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Heinsberg region, p. 49

51.0553 6.29511Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 6 ° 17 ′ 42.4 ″ E

[1] Bernd Limburg's website

[2] Internet site research center for stained glass in the 20th century

[3] 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, in particular pages 463, 527, 543 .

[4] 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. 455, 489, 501 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

[5] Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Heinsberg region, p. 49