St. Nicholas (Gangelt)

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St. Nicholas in Gangelt
Crucifixion group under the triumphal arch

St. Nikolaus is a Roman Catholic parish church in the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Gangelt ( Heinsberg district ).

history

The three-aisled Gothic basilica was built in the 14th and 15th centuries partly from limestone (tower), but mostly from brick . The four-storey tower made of limestone blocks dates from the 14th century, the nine-bay nave from the first half of the 15th century and the west building that encloses the tower from the beginning of the 16th century. The vault of the high vessel is supported above the aisles of flying buttresses. In the upper aisle of the tall nave windows in the form of pointed arch fields, in the upper aisle of the westwork, however, rose windows from the time before 1904. The current appearance of the church is characterized by the restoration of 1860. By 1951, the damage caused by the Second World War was repaired.

The church is a listed building .

Furnishing

Among other things, a crucifixion group standing on a beam under the triumphal arch from around 1520, which was created by the master of Elsloo , is worth mentioning . The organ prospect from 1750 stands on a classical substructure. The other neo-Gothic furnishings were created by Heinrich Wiethase .

Bells

No. Surname Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster Casting year
1 Marienbell 1353 1600 it 1 -6 Otto company, Bremen-Hemelingen 1959
2 Rosary bell 1150 930 f 1 -6 Joseph Perrin Voigt 1819
3 Annaglocke 1800 776 g 1 -10 Johannes Rutgers 1781
4th Charles Borromeo 980 550 as 1 -11 Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon, Mabilon & Co., Saarburg 1994
5 Nicholas bell 903 475 b 1 -12 Otto company, Bremen-Hemelingen 1959
6th Hermann Josef 760 270 c 2 -8 Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon, Mabilon & Co., Saarburg 1994
7th Leonhard 650 165 it 2 -8 Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon, Mabilon & Co., Saarburg 1994

Motif: "Veni, Creator Spiritus"

The Catholic Church of St. Nicholas zu Gangelt has the largest number of bells in the entire Heinsberg district.

literature

  • Paul Clemen (Hrsg.), Edmund Renard (editor): The art monuments of the Rhine province . 8th volume, III: The art monuments of the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 141 ff.
  • Reclam's art guide . Volume II: Rhineland and Westphalia, architectural monuments . 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 , p. 217

Web links

Commons : St. Nikolaus (Gangelt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , pp. 427–428.
  2. ^ 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, here in particular pp. 84, 556 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 102, 511 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 32 "  N , 5 ° 59 ′ 48"  E