St. Nicholas (Frenz)
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The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Nikolaus is in Frenz , a district of the municipality of Inden in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The building is registered under No. 8 in the list of architectural monuments in Inden (Rhineland) and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Bishop Nicholas of Myra .
history
The St. Nikolauskirche was originally a so-called own church of the noblemen of Frenz . Outside the church you can still see tombstones of this noble family. Hartpern von Frenz is named as a witness for the first time in a document in 1104.
In the Liber valoris from 1308, a chapel was listed in Frenz that belonged to the Jülich deanery . In 1533 the chapel belonged to the parish of St. Kornelius Lamersdorf . It was not until January 5, 1863, that Frenz was separated from the mother parish of Lamersdorf and made an independent parish , so that the chapel was raised to a parish church .
A church building has been handed down in Frenz since the 13th century. Around 1700 a two-aisled church was built in the Baroque style. This building was badly damaged by an earthquake on August 26, 1878, but it was restored to such an extent that services could take place again. However, the building no longer met the needs of the parish, so that a church building association was founded in 1888 under the pastor Matthäus Königs, who died in 1900. It took until 1903 before the construction of the new parish church could begin. The last Holy Mass in the old church was read as early mass on August 7, 1904; the high mass on that day was already taking place in the new church.
The current church was built between 1903 and 1904 according to plans by the Aachen architect and later master builder Joseph Buchkremer . The foundation stone was laid on August 30, 1903. In August 1904, after only one year of construction, the parish church was completed and could be ceremonially appointed on the morning of August 7, 1904 . Subsequently, the high mass and thus the first St. Mass celebrated in the new church.
It is a two-aisled and three- bay step hall church with a five-sided closed choir in the east and a porch in the west, which consists of the three-storey bell tower , the organ gallery and a small chapel. The consecration took place on May 28, 1906.
Furnishing
Furnishings were taken from the old church - for example the so-called votive stone 'Dea Sunucsal', figures of saints and pictures. Most of the furnishings, however, date from the 1900s. These include the neo-Gothic high altar , a corresponding side altar in the side aisle, the pews, the stations of the cross and the choir stalls in the choir.
In 1999 the church received a new organ from the workshop of the Swabian organ builder Reinhart Tzschöckel . It has 16 registers distributed over two manuals and a pedal.
The stained glass windows are works by Franz Pauli from 1962.
Monument protection
The church has been entered in the list of architectural monuments in Inden (Rhineland) under No. 8 . The entry has the following wording:
New building in 1904 by J. Buchkremer from Aachen; 2 - nave brick hall church, higher and wider main nave in the south, separated by round pillars with a capital zone and ogival arcades; Set north-west corner tower, square tower with attached stair tower, 3-storey in neo-Gothic shapes with a pointed octagonal hood. Church building in neo-Gothic forms with short buttresses and sparse tracery, on the south outer wall inserted grave slabs from the 16th to 18th centuries; Choir with 3/8 - end; in the north contemporary sacristy annex; common gable roof; Interior in good neo-Gothic forms with altars; Organ prospectus new, organ gallery in the substructure renewed; Ribbed vaults on wall brackets, pointed arches, built-in Gothic sacraments niche with original lattice in the choir, remnants of a Roman matron stone walled in in the entrance yoke, in the choir Hieronymus image from the 16th century; New floor and choir window; Associated: churchyard with newly erected gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries. predominantly bluestone; Cemetery area protected by quarry stone wall with inserted grave cross from the 16th century.
Reorganizations
The merged parish of St. Josef has existed since January 1st, 2012. It includes the parishes: St. Clemens and St. Pankratius, Inden / Altdorf as parish church, St. Cornelius Lamersdorf, St. Nikolaus Frenz and St. Nikolaus Lucherberg in the Community of Communities (GdG) Inden / Langewehe. St. Barbara Schophoven has been part of the Heilig Geist Jülich parish since January 1st, 2013.
Bells
There is a four-part bronze bell in the tower of St. Nicholas - bells from the 1950s. It was cast by Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon from the company Mabilon & Co. from Saarburg . The four bells replace a four-part chime from 1931, which Werner Hüesker from the company Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from Gescher had cast and which had to be given in the course of the Second World War and was finally melted down for war purposes.
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No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Caster |
Casting year |
| 1 | Nicholas | 1,160 | 1,000 | f ′ +3 | Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon, Mabilon & Co., Saarburg | 1959 |
| 2 | Maria | 1,040 | 650 | g ′ +3 | Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon, Mabilon & Co., Saarburg | 1959 |
| 3 | - | 930 | 470 | a ′ +4 | Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon, Mabilon & Co., Saarburg | 1957 |
| 4th | Angel | 870 | 400 | b ′ +4 | Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon, Mabilon & Co., Saarburg | 1959 |
Motif: Veni sancte spiritus
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 198 - 31st year. Wednesday, September 2, 1903. Article: Local and District News.
- ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 179 - 32nd year. Tuesday, August 9, 1904. Article: Ecclesiastical.
- ↑ St. Nikolaus Frenz. In: Homepage of the Catholic parish of St. Josef Inden. Retrieved October 18, 2016 .
- ^ Inden-Frenz, Catholic Church of St. Nikolaus. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on October 18, 2016 .
- ^ Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus in Inden - Frenz. In: Homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. Retrieved October 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Home. In: Homepage of the Catholic parish of St. Josef Inden. Retrieved October 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Düren region, p. 138 ff.
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 18.6 " N , 6 ° 20 ′ 29.8" E
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