St. Remigius (Dirmerzheim)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St. Remigius

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Remigius is a listed church building in Dirmerzheim , a district of Erftstadt in the Rhein-Erft district . 1758 rose Elector Clemens August the Dirmerzheimer Church, by the time a subsidiary of St. Kilian in Lechenich and the Monastery of St. Apostles in Cologne incorporated , the parish church. It is consecrated to Saint Remigius of Reims and today belongs to the Catholic pastoral care area Rotbach-Erftaue in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

Building history and architecture

A small Romanesque hall church from the 11th century with a retracted square choir has been proven by excavations. Remnants of quarry stone, pebbles and Roman material up to a height of almost four meters have been preserved in the eastern hall walls of the building. At the end of the 15th century, the choir was expanded and received a detached base, buttresses , and a polygonal choir closure and a polygonal sacristy. The frescoes on the choir walls date from this period. The installation of pointed arched windows with tracery at the beginning of the 16th century damaged some paintings in the choir. After the nave was extended to the west, a church tower was erected outside the church in 1778 , which is dated by anchor numbers . He replaced the wooden bell tower inside the church. After the war damage had been repaired in 1946, an extension was built in 1958/60 in which the transept was pushed into the nave. This gave the church a cross-shaped floor plan. In the crossing is the celebration altar . In the interior, both ships have an open roof.

Choir equipment

In the choir, which is located a little lower than the nave and serves as a baptistery, the original furnishings with a late Gothic sacrament house made of sandstone have largely been preserved. The floor consists of clay tiles that were laid in herringbone patterns and circles, the potters' firing aids, who found a second use.

  • Sacrament House

  • Floor in the choir

  • Ceiling painting from 1523

  • Lamb and year on banner

The late Gothic frescoes on the choir walls depict the parish patron , St. Remigius, and the 12 apostles . The paintings in the vault , which, on a banner , were created in 1523, were thoroughly restored in 1981/82. They show symbols of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, a handkerchief and a lamb of God surrounded by the four evangelist symbols and bearing a scroll with the Roman year MDXXIII (1523). The exposed remains of the wall painting on the underside of the choir arch show St. Ursula and St. Lucia , the paintings on both sides of the choir arch show a scene of the Hubertus hunt and the " Holy Four Marshals " Cornelius, Quirinus, who were very revered in the Cologne area in the 15th and 16th centuries , Hubertus and Antonius.

  • Look at the choir

  • Stained glass window in the choir

  • An angel making music around 1300

  • St. Remigius around 1480

Further equipment

The most important of the preserved church treasures are:

  • one incurred in 1300 music making angels in the garb of a deacon , originally the musical angels of Cologne Cathedral belonged
  • a revised figure of St. Remigius around 1480.
  • a chasuble , on the front and back of which a cross stick is sewn. The "Cologne braid cross embroidery" originated in the middle of the 15th century.

Bells

The Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen delivered bronze bells for the St. Remigius Church in Dirmerzheim twice, namely in 1904 and 1923. In 1904 there were three bells with the disposition f sharp '- a' - h '. The two small bells were destroyed in the First World War, which is why Otto delivered them again in 1923. This in turn was melted down in World War II. Of the bells, only the f sharp bell from 1904, which was cast in a heavy Otto rib, survived the bell annihilation of the two world wars. Today it hangs together with three bells from the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from 1955 in the four-part chime with the disposition: f sharp '- h' - c sharp '' - d ''.

location

The white plastered church with an exposed brick tower stands directly on Dirmerzheimer Landstrasse on a walled former cemetery on which some gravestones are still preserved.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Remigius (Dirmerzheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Frank Kretschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district, Dirmerzheim, pp. 93–94.
  2. ↑ Josef Recker: Dirmerzheim through the ages 1758–2008. 250 years of St. Remigius, p. 55.
  3. ↑ Josef Recker: Dirmerzheim through the ages 1758–2008. 250 years of St. Remigius, p. 62.
  4. ↑ 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 74, 478, 487 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  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 pp. 53, 513, 524 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 33.6 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 0.1 ″  E