St. Michael (Meckenheim-Merl)

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St. Michael, Meckenheim-Merl: View from the Heroldspassage (2018)
Inside with chancel

The Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Meckenheim-Merl was built in the 1980s. It is located in a new development area on Zypressenweg . The parish of the same name forms with St. Jakobus Ersdorf , St. John the Baptist , Meckenheim, St. Petrus Lüftelberg St. Martin Rheinbach- Wormersdorf the parish community Meckenheim in the district dean of Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ( Archdiocese of Cologne ).

history

Until 1970 the village community in Merl was looked after by the Meckenheim pastor. The holy masses were celebrated in the St. Michael chapel (popularly: "Merler Dom") built around 1900 , the construction plans of which come from the Lüftelberg- born architect Anton Becker (1853–1899). At the end of 1970 the growing village received its own Catholic pastor . Initially, the Merler community remained part of the Meckenheim parish .

In 1971, the Merler parishioners wished to found their own parish. In August 1971, the responsible parish of St. John the Baptist in Meckenheim submitted a building application to the Archdiocese of Cologne for the construction of a church and a parish center. In the following year a church building association was founded. In June 1974 the Archbishop of Cologne approved the creation of an independent parish in Merl. In 1977 the newly built parish center St. Michael was inaugurated. It had a large hall in which Holy Mass was celebrated on Sundays; on weekdays the services continued to take place in the St. Michael chapel.

However, the construction of the church was delayed for financial reasons. The foundation stone was only laid in November 1984. In December, Auxiliary Bishop Josef Plöger consecrated the completed church - initially without a steeple. A fundraising campaign in 1985 then enabled the tower to be built until 1986.

Furnishing

The plans for the entire complex came from the Zülpich architect Karl-Josef Ernst (* 1934). The church bell consists of four bells that were consecrated on December 7, 1986. The Margareten and Wilhelm bells are named after the couple Margarete and Wilhelm Bürvenich, as both were very active in the parish and, in addition to building the church tower, also supported the financing of the Klais organ in the Michaelskapelle. There is also a Michael and a Marien bell.

The organ installed in 1996 comes from the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company (Opus no .: 1750). It has 27 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The designer of the instrument was Hans Gerd Klais .

  • Church with the folded roof, in front of it Heroldspassage building on Zypressenweg, to the left of the church the lower parish center (2013)

  • View to the organ gallery

  • The Klais organ

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels of the parish community Meckenheim. History - construction - equipment. Kall 2018, p. 107 .
  2. ^ Opus list , Johannes Klais Orgelbau

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 2.5 ″  E