St. Pankratius (Beggendorf)

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St. Pankratius is a Roman Catholic branch church in the Baesweiler district of Beggendorf in the city ​​region of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. Martyr Pankratius consecrated and entered under number 17 in the list of architectural monuments in Baesweiler . The church belongs to the parish of St. Marien Baesweiler.

location

The church building is located in the center of Beggendorf on the corner of Hubertusstrasse and Pankratiusstrasse.

history

The Church of Beggendorf was first mentioned in a document in 962. Here it is stated that Archbishop Bruno of Cologne donated the Church of Beggendorf to the Cäcilienstift in Cologne. The church in Beggendorf is also listed in the Liber valoris from 1308. Even then, Beggendorf was an independent parish in the deanery Jülich , Archdiocese of Cologne . On April 8, 1346, the parish church was given to the St. Cäcilien women's monastery in Cologne by Pope Clement VI. incorporated . The St. Cäcilien-Stift retained the rights to the parish church until it was dissolved in 1802.

In the course of restructuring during the French era , the Beggendorf parish was dissolved in 1808 and the Loverich parish was added. Thus Beggendorf was only a branch municipality. Already in 1804 the place came to the newly founded diocese of Aachen . Only after the diocese of Aachen was dissolved again and Beggendorf came back to the archbishopric of Cologne, the parish was re-established on July 26th, 1834. Since 1930 the place belongs to the diocese of Aachen.

On January 1, 2013, the parish of St. Pankratius Beggendorf, like all five other parishes in the urban area of ​​Baesweiler, was dissolved and merged into the new large parish of St. Marien. The church of Baesweiler was designated as the parish church of this new parish.

Building history

The parish church mentioned in the Liber valoris burned down in 1678. The reconstruction dragged on until 1688. This church was completely demolished in 1861 and replaced by the current church building. The foundation stone was laid on September 1, 1861 and the following year the new church was completed and the first service was celebrated on October 16, 1862. The actual church consecration took place on October 5, 1867. The Aachen master builder Julius Kruse created the construction plans .

During the Second World War , the church suffered severe damage from artillery fire. Further damage was caused by a storm in 1946. After the war, the parish church was restored in its old form. A comprehensive renovation took place between 1980 and 1981.

Building description

St. Pankratius is a single-nave and five-bay hall church made of bricks in the neo-Gothic style . The choir, closed on five sides , connects to the nave in the east. The bell tower is built in front of the ship in the west. It has four floors and a pyramid dome, which is accompanied by four small corner turrets. The windows all have two-lane tracery, the interior is vaulted with ribbed vaults .

Furnishing

The oldest piece of equipment is the font from the middle of the 18th century. Some of the painted figures of saints date from the 19th century. They represent the Heart of Jesus, Heart of Mary, St. Joseph, St. Agnes, St. Pancratius and St. Hubertus. The organ from 1954 is the work of the organ building company Karl Bach from Aachen and has 20 stops. The stained glass windows in the nave are abstract works by Franz Melchior from 1959/60, the windows in the choir were designed by Josef Strater in 1952. They show the birth of Christ, the crucifixion and the resurrection.

Pastor

The following pastors worked for St. Pankratius as pastors until the parish was dissolved in 2013:

from ... to Surname
1925-1932 Franz Coenen
1933-1958 Franz Conrads
1958-1974 Johannes Forster
1975-1988 Father Jan Peter Quax
1989-2004 Father Hubert Engelhard
2004-2007 Franz-Josef guests
2007-2010 Hermann Küppers and Burkhard Kroh
2010-2011 Ferdi Bruckes

Web links

Commons : St. Pankratius (Beggendorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the districts Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen. In: The art monuments of the Rhine province. Volume 8, Ed. Paul Clemen, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 362.
  2. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 184.
  3. ↑ Merger of the communities musically sealed. In: Aachener Zeitung. January 2, 2013, accessed February 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 184.
  5. ↑ Baesweiler-Beggendorf, Catholic Church of St. Pankratius. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV. Accessed on November 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 184.
  7. ↑ "Double top" warmly welcomed. In: Aachener Zeitung. August 5, 2007, accessed November 20, 2017 .
  8. ^ Pastor Ferdi Bruckes goes to Baesweiler. In: Aachener Zeitung. December 14, 2010, accessed November 20, 2017 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '25.3 "  N , 6 ° 9' 53.4"  E