St. Pankratius (Bettenhoven)

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St. Pankratius in Bettenhoven

St. Pankratius is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Bettenhoven district of Titz in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The church is registered under number 16 in the list of architectural monuments in Titz and is dedicated to the Roman martyr Pankratius .

history

A church in Bettenhoven was first mentioned in a document in 1216. This document mentions that Hermann von Alfter's patronage rights have been transferred to the monastery in Füssenich . In 1550 a monastery called Hameren had patronage rights. By 1216, Bettenhoven was probably already an independent parish . In the course of the parish registration during the French period , the parish was dissolved in 1804 and incorporated into the Rödingen parish . The Bettenhoven parish was not rebuilt until 1840. Up until 1895, Kalrath belonged to the Bettenhoven parish as a branch, but in that year it became a parish itself.

The Bettenhovener parish is now part of the community of parishes (GdG) Titz and can probably be counted among the smallest parishes in the diocese of Aachen , as the place only has around 50 inhabitants. As early as 1908 it was mentioned that Bettenhoven, with 72 souls at the time, was the smallest parish in the Archdiocese of Cologne . The parish has only been part of the Aachen diocese since 1930, which was established that year.

Building history

The church in Bettenhoven was built between the 11th and 19th centuries, so it existed long before it was mentioned in a document. The three lower floors of the Romanesque bell tower and the central nave of the small hall church were built around 1030. The consecration of the church was carried out by the Archbishop of Cologne , Pilgrim . This is evidenced by a consecration seal that was in the church's altar until the 1860s. The choir was added in the 15th century and the current central nave was given a vault. In the 17th century the tower was given the fourth floor and in 1817 the current spire. In 1843 the north aisle was added in 1863. With the addition of the sacristy behind the choir in 1865, the parish church received its present form.

architecture

St. Pankratius is a three-aisled and two- bay stepped hall church with a four-story bell tower in front of it in the west, which is accompanied by two smaller porches on the north and south sides. In the east of the nave is the three-sided closed choir, on the east side of which there is the hexagonal sacristy. The bell tower and the central nave were built in the Romanesque style. The choir is Gothic , as is the ribbed vault in the choir and central nave. The two side aisles and the sacristy were built in the neo-Gothic style.

Furnishing

In the choir of the church there are two stained glass windows by the artist Wilhelm Ruprecht from 1957. The left shows scenes from the life of St. Martyr Pancras and the Right Scenes from the Life of St. Hermann Joseph von Steinfeld . Of the church furnishings , the baroque high altar should also be mentioned, the two late baroque side altars and the neo-Gothic pulpit with depictions of the four evangelists . Also worth mentioning is a figure depicting Mary with the baby Jesus. It was created around 1300 and has French influences.

Bells

No. Surname Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster Casting year
1 Martinus and Pankratius 781 320 b ′ +1 Jakob van Venrath 1465
2 Matthias 699 235 it ″ −5 Johann Wael 1434
3 Death bell 464 60 f ″ −3 François Raclé 1620

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Franck Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich; in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 41.
  2. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 194 - 36th year. Wednesday, August 26, 1908, article: Ecclesiastical. Digitized
  3. ^ Karl Franck Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich; in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 41–42.
  4. ^ Karl Franck Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich; in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 42.
  5. ↑ Internet site of the Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting, October 11, 2015
  6. ^ Karl Franck Oberaspach and Edmund Renard: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Jülich; in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 43.
  7. ↑ accompanying Youtube video of the peal, October 11, 2015

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 31.7 ″  E