St. Philip and James (Güsten)

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St. Philip and James in Güsten
inner space

St. Philippus and Jakobus is the Roman Catholic branch church in the Jülich district of Güsten in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is entered under number 39 in the list of monuments of the city of Jülich .

history

A church in Güsten was first mentioned in a document in 847. Nothing is known about this first chapel today. Today's church was built around 1400 in the Gothic style as a three-aisled church with a main nave and two side aisles, a choir with 3/8 choir closure and a bell tower in the west. The north sacristy was added at the beginning of the 17th century and the south sacristy in the 19th century. During the Second World War , the church tower was blown up, causing severe damage to the church. The Rheydt architect WJ Oidtmann led the reconstruction and the new bell tower was built according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect Justinus Bendermacher.

Until December 31, 2012 Güsten was an independent parish . On January 1, 2013 the parish was merged with 13 other former parishes to form the parish of Heilig Geist Jülich.

Furnishing

In the church there is an Antwerp carved altar from 1520, a baptismal font from 1250 and a cross from the 12th century. Ernst Jansen-Winkeln and Friedrich Oidtmann created the windows of the church in the 1950s and 1980s.

organ

The organ is a work of the organ building company Bach 1973 and has 14 registers . It was built with a slider shop. The instrument has mechanical playing and stop actions.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
mixture
Rohrschalmei 8th'
II upper structure C – g 3
Wooden flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Quintad 4 ′
Capstan whistle 2 ′
Sesquialter
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Open bass 8th'
Biffaro 2f.

Bells

The church in Güsten received bronze bells from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen three times in 1913, 1928 and 1957. None of the bells that were cast by Otto before 1939 are no longer in the tower of St. Philip and James. Four bells were melted down for war purposes. The whereabouts of a bell from 1928 is unclear. Today a four-part peal of two medieval bells and two Otto bells from 1957 can be heard from the tower. The row of strikes is: es '- f' - g '- b'. The bells have the following diameters: 1345 mm, 1180 mm, 1028 mm, 864 mm. Their weights are: 1600 kg, 1000 kg, 550 kg, 350 kg.

Web links

Commons : St. Philip and James  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Dueren/DenkJue/Nr.%2039.htm (accessed on August 28, 2014)
  2. ↑ http://juelicher-pilgerweg.kibac.de/pilgerstations/guesten--st--philippus-und-jakobus (accessed on August 28, 2014)
  3. ↑ (accessed on February 23, 2016) ( Memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.glasmalerei-ev.de/pages/b2675/b2675.shtml (accessed on August 28, 2014)
  5. ^ 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 171, 519, 531, 555 .
  6. ↑ 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 pp. 171, 483, 492, 510 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 32.7 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 51.7"  E