St. Remigius (Opladen)
The parish of St. Remigius in Leverkusen - Opladen is one of the first verifiable parishes in today's Leverkusen city area. Previous buildings of today's church from 1863 can be documented since the 13th century.
history
The election of St. Remigius of Reims as the parish patron indicates that the parish was founded between the 6th and 11th centuries. A church in Opladen can be proven for the first time in a document of the St. Gereon monastery from 1223 as its possession. The church was only 7 × 11 square meters in size and had a massive Romanesque church tower. In the following centuries it formed the center of the parish of Opladen, which initially only consisted of a number of scattered courts.
Around 1600 the congregation changed to the Lutheran denomination with a new pastor. After some disputes, she returned to the Catholic faith with a new pastor in 1620. Since she was Catholic in the normal year of 1624, this remained enshrined after the end of the Thirty Years War .
Complaints from the Opladen parish about the dilapidated condition of the church have been documented as early as 1654; But the St. Gereon Abbey initially refused to pay for the construction costs. A new nave could only be built in the years 1787 to 1788 after the community had promised extensive tensioning services for the construction.
With the secularization of 1803, the claims, but also the obligations of the monastery for the Opladen parish ended. These have now been taken over by the state. After Opladen came under Prussian rule in 1815 , the state got rid of these obligations in 1841 with a larger payment to the community.
In 1828 Stephan Josef Krey became the new pastor of St. Remigius. In the following years he initiated numerous projects that are of great importance for the development of Opladen to this day, including the opening of the later Archbishop's Gymnasium Aloysianum and the Marienschule . After he had commissioned the Cologne architect and diocesan master builder Vincenz Statz to plan a new building for the parish church in 1855 , the old church was demolished in 1862 and replaced by the church that still exists today by the end of 1863. In addition to donations from the population, this was made possible not least by the one-off payment from the Prussian state. The church was consecrated in 1864.
In 1939 the church of St. Michael in the north of Opladen was consecrated by the parish of St. Remigius and initially set up as the rectorate of St. Remigius. A bomb hit severely damaged Remigius Church on December 28, 1944. However, the tower and the outer walls remain.
After the end of the war in 1945, the reconstruction of the church began, which was carried out according to plans by Bernhard Rotterdam and lasted until 1952. The south-eastern part of the parish became an independent parish rectorate in 1945 and finally became the new parish of St. Elisabeth in 1957. In 1961 the church received a new organ, the following year new stained glass windows by Paul Weigmann . As a result of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council , the sanctuary of the church was redesigned in 1977.
The second parish patron is Saint Nepomuk . A statue of this saint, which used to stand next to the Opladener Wupperbrücke, is now in the church.
The parish of St. Remigius formed the parish association of Opladen until 2009 with the parishes of the Holy Three Kings , St. Elisabeth , St. Engelbert and St. Michael . On January 1, 2010, these parishes dissolved and merged to form the new parish of St. Remigius Opladen.
Bells
In the tower hangs a large, voluminous bell made of three cast steel and a bronze bell . The full bells can only be heard on celebrations and weddings; Bells 4, 3 and 2 ring on Sundays.
|
No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
material |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Strike tone (16th note) |
| 1 | Maria | 1924 | Bochum Association | Cast steel | 1,760 | 2,659 | h 0 +2 |
| 2 | Remigius | 1924 | Bochum Association | Cast steel | 1,483 | 1,485 | d 1 −4 |
| 3 | Stephen | 1924 | Bochum Association | Cast steel | 1,340 | 1,096 | f 1 +1 |
| 4th | - | 1830 | G. Claren & S. Hilgers | Bell bronze | 1.010 | 680 | as 1 −6 |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Rolf Müller: Upladhin - Opladen - city chronicle . Self-published by the city of Opladen, Opladen 1974.
- ↑ Entry in the Glockenbuch Leverkusen ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Archdiocese of Cologne p. 50ff
Web links
- Chronicle of the parish of St. Remigius (Parish Association Opladen)
- Tower recording with full bells of the catholic parish church St. Remigius in Leverkusen-Opladen
- Bells ringing by St. Remigius on the WDR's Glockenpforte homepage
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 4.7 " N , 7 ° 0 ′ 11.4" E