St. Peter (Birkesdorf)

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St. Peter is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Düren district of Birkesdorf in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. Apostle Peter consecrated and entered under No. 12/1 as an architectural monument in the list of architectural monuments in Düren . It is the parish church of the St. Joachim and St. Peter / Düren parish, founded on January 1st, 2010. The parish also includes the church of St. Joachim in Düren-Nord.

history

In liber valoris from the year 1308 a church in Birkendorf is first mentioned. At the same time, the place was already an independent parish in the Deanery Jülich of the Archdiocese of Cologne . But it is possible that a church existed before. In 1430 a Nikolaus chapel was mentioned, which was located in front of the parish church at that time.

As a result of the restructuring of the dioceses and parishes during the French era , the parish came to the newly founded diocese of Aachen in 1804 . After the diocese was dissolved, the parish returned to the Archdiocese of Cologne. Birkesdorf has been part of the Aachen diocese again since 1930.

The parish was dissolved on January 1, 2010 and merged with the also dissolved parish of St. Joachim in Düren to form the new parish of St. Joachim and St. Peter. The Birkesdorf church became the parish church of the new parish, the Joachimskirche a subsidiary church .

Building history

In the first half of the 19th century, the construction of a new and larger church became necessary because the old church building, which was located on today's Friedensplatz, had become too small. The Cologne cathedral master builder Vincenz Statz planned the new building, which was to be erected on Hauptstrasse, now Nordstrasse. The foundation stone was laid on September 14, 1853, and the new church was completed by 1855. The solemn church consecration and consecration took place on September 26, 1855 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri . The old church was demolished in 1855/56. The result was a three-aisled, five-bay basilica with a bell tower in front of it in the west and a choir closed on five sides in the east in neo-Gothic styles .

Around 50 years later, Birkesdorf had grown so much due to increasing industrialization that the church had become too small again. So it was decided to expand the parish church to the east. The Cologne diocesan master builder Franz Statz , son of Vincenz Statz, was entrusted with the planning . First the choir and the sacristy annexes were closed, then a transept was added to the nave and a monumental new choir with sacristies was added. The construction work was carried out in 1911. The consecration of the extension was on June 9, 1912 and was carried out by Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Müller .

The church suffered severe damage in the Second World War , but could be used again in its old form in the 1950s.

In 1959 the first investigations for a reconstruction of the church took place. In 1963 the transept and the sacristies were demolished and a new transept and sacristy were built by 1964. The bell tower from 1853/55 was demolished in 1965 and replaced by the current tower. The Rheydt architect Alfons Leitl provided the plans for the far-reaching renovation measures . At the end of 1967 all construction work was completed and the church could be used in full. The consecration of the rebuilt church and the consecration of the new altar took place on May 1st, 1967.

Building description

St. Peter is a three-aisled basilica made of bricks with a five -bay nave in the neo-Gothic style (1853/55), a front bell tower in a four-sided tower hood in modern forms (1965), a three-bay transept in modern forms (1963/64) and a single-bay and choir in the east, closed on five sides, in neo-Gothic style (1911). The neo-Gothic parts of the building are spanned by ribbed vaults, the windows of these parts have two-lane tracery .

Furnishing

Hardly anything has been preserved from the historical furnishings. Only the wooden canteen of the old high altar in the choir from the 19th century, the triumphal cross , the baptismal font from 1855 and some wooden saints have been preserved from the neo-Gothic furnishings. The altar and ambo date from 1996, the tabernacle and side altar were probably made in the 1960s. A special piece of equipment is a figure of the Madonna of Fatima , which was driven through the parishes of the Aachen diocese in the 1950s and finally found its place in Birkesdorf.

The stained glass windows in the choir created Walther Hugo Brenner 1967. The large windows in the transept are works of Alsdorfer glass painter Ludwig Schaffrath 1964/65 and the windows of the aisles are works by Georg Jansen angles from 1996. The execution of all window was in the hands the Linnich glass painting workshop Dr. H. Oidtmann .

Bells

In the church tower there is a five-part bronze bell - bells from the Eifeler bell foundry Mark from Brockscheid .

No. Surname Casting year Caster Diameter
(mm) 		Weight
(kg, approx.) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 ) 		inscription
1 Michael 1979 Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 1490 2010 des ' -11 ST. MICHAEL I AM consecrated - I CALL THE LIVING AND COMPLAINT THE DEAD.
2 Maria 1979 Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 1315 1390 it ' -8 SALVE REGINA. MARY IN FATIMA: IN THE END, MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH.
3 Peter 1979 Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 1165 996 f ' -8 SAINT PETER, PROTECT THE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTED TO YOU. YOU ARE THE ROCK, AND ON THESE ROCKS I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH.
4th Anna 1979 Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 985 612 as ' -7 SANTA ANNA, THE PROTECTOR OF THE LAND OF DUREN, I AM CONSECRATED. HOLY MOTHER ANNA, PRAY FOR US!
5 Guardian Angel 1979 Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 875 429 b ' -7 YOUR HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL, GUIDED AND GUARANTEED US AND OUR CHILDREN. HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL MY, MAKE ME BY COMMAND.

Motif: Veni, Creator, Spiritus

Pastor

The following pastors have been pastors to St. Peter so far:

from ... to Surname
1721-1733 Petrus Veiht
1733-1765 Johann Gerhards
1765-1798 Johann Heinrich Axer
1798-1806 Johann Peter Schnitzler
1806-1817 Bernhard Anton Franz de Girgi
1817-1868 Franz Joseph Roderburg
1868-1870 Lambert Krichel
1870-1893 Johann Peter Jansen
1893-1905 Peter Joseph Straaten
1905-1906 Friedrich Franz Josef Effmann
1906-1925 Franz Heinrich Hüpgens † January 6th, 1934
1925-1944 Georg Maria Rody † April 9th, 1944
1944-1959 Bernhard Freischheim † August 21, 1959
1959-1979 Wilhelm Leuchtenberg † January 17th, 2002
1980-2011 Bernd Naphausen
Since 2011 Norbert Glasmacher

Web links

Commons : St. Peter (Birkesdorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 133 - 40th year. Tuesday, June 11, 1912, article: Confirmation journey of the most revered Auxiliary Bishop Dr. Müller in the Dean's Office Düren [Betr. Consecration of the extension building].
  2. ↑ Stephan Retschke: Churches and chapels in Düren , Düren 1986, pp. 51–54.
  3. ↑ St. Peter Birkesdorf. In: Internet site for church music in the Düren region. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ Düren-Birkesdorf, Catholic Church of St. Peter. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on March 11, 2018 .
  5. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Glockenmusik in der Düren region , p. 89 f.
  6. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 304.
  7. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 10, Cologne 1863, p. 87.
  8. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 12, Cologne 1869, p. 96.
  9. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 16, Cologne 1892, p. 76.
  10. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 17, Cologne 1895, p. 80.
  11. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 200 - 33rd year. Monday, September 4, 1905, article: Local and District News .
  12. ^ Archbishop's General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume 20, Cologne 1908, p. 100.

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 25.5 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 40 ″  E