St. Pankratius (Floisdorf)

Parish Church of St. Pankratius

St. Pankratius is a Roman Catholic parish church in Floisdorf , a district of Mechernich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia and is a listed building. She is the St. Pankratius consecrated.

history

A church in Floisdorf, which was already settled in Roman times, is documented for the first time in 1291. This certifies that Floisdorf is a branch of the parish of Eicks . Kollator were the owners of Eicks Castle, and the sacrament of baptism was allowed to be donated in the Floisdorf Church . In a visitation protocol from 1559 it is reported that all sacraments except the anointing of the sick were allowed to be donated in the branch church of Floisdorf . Around 1732 Floisdorf actually received all the rights of a parish , but was not managed as such. In the parish registrations during the French period , Floisdorf was raised to an independent parish in 1804, but the parish was dissolved again in 1808 and assigned as a subsidiary parish of the parish of Eicks. It was not until April 4, 1856 that Floisdorf was finally separated from Eicks and made a parish.

Building history

A previous church at this point is said to have been built in the 11th century. Lore tells of a Pankratius pilgrimage church. In 1742 the church was partially rebuilt, between 1856 and 1857 it had to be restored. Around 10 years later, in 1868, the community pursued a new church, but this was rejected by the responsible authorities. It was not until 1890 that plans for a new building could be resumed.

The pastor at that time Ceslaus Schneider commissioned the Cologne architect Theodor Kremer to plan a new parish church. In 1890 Kremer presented the plans for a new Romanesque church, so that today's parish church could be built from 1890 to 1892. The construction management was not carried out by Kremer himself, but by Aloys Hergersberger from Stotzheim . The building stands on a walled cemetery. The bricks needed for the construction were burned on site; the clay required for this was extracted from the Floisdorf corridor. The master distiller Josef Weimer undertook to deliver 350,000 stones of good quality. The church portal remained unfinished for lack of money, in the tympanum there is St. P (for St. Pankratius). The stone carvings were carried out by members of the Drach family. The family also supplied an old gable cross for the roof over the choir ; it was destroyed in the Second World War in 1945 and then replaced by a new cross that was torn down by a hurricane in 1960 . The roof of the church was refilled in 1961 , at the same time a copper ridge cross was put on.

The first major changes to the building were made in 1934. Some of the ornamental paintings were painted over, they were exposed again during the restoration in 1974 by church painter Börger from Zülpich . The church was affected in an earthquake in 1992. Investigations showed the risk of collapse of the vaults . In 1995 the building was closed to the public and then extensively renovated until 1996 for 1.7 million DM .

Building description

St. Pankratius is a three-aisled step hall church made of bricks in the neo-Romanesque style. The nave has two bays and the tower is in front. It leads from a square to an octagon. The transept is indicated and only protrudes slightly. The walls are divided by three long, narrow arched windows that have been combined to form a wide window. Since the construction of another yoke was rejected by the Cologne archbishopric, the organ loft protrudes into the nave, disrupting the space. In the east, the building closes with a single-bay choir and an adjoining semicircular apse .

Furnishing

Floisdorf Madonna

The original equipment is completely preserved.

• The organ was built in 1900 by Franz Joseph Schorn from Kuchenheim , it was restored in 1988/90 by Weimbs Orgelbau .
• The enthroned Mother of God made of wood, 80 cm from 1400. It was newly painted in 1912 and gilded. It comes from a saint's house . It is probably the oldest work of art from the Mechernich area.
• A wooden figure of St. George on horseback from around 1700 is revered as Pankratius.

Pastor

The following priests have been pastors to St. Pankratius since the elevation to the parish in 1856 :

from ... to	Surname
1856-1862	Peter Josef Spelthahn
1862-1889	?
1889-1908	Ceslaus Maria Schneider
1920-1938	Josef Weather
1938-1949	Wilhelm Helling
1949-1956	Johannes Harff
1957-1966	Friedrich Feldhaus
1966-2002	Heinrich Jumpertz
Since 2003	Heinz-Josef Arenz

literature

• Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (edit.): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
• Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the Mechernich deanery . History - construction - equipment. Kall 2003, p. 57-64 .

Web links

• History and photos (accessed March 14, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 551.
2. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 552.
3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 551.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 8 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 48 ″  E