St. Rochus (Dalheim-Rödgen)

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St. Rochus in Dalheim-Rödgen
West facade 1950s

St. Rochus is the Roman Catholic branch church in the Dalheim-Rödgen district of the city of Wegberg in the Heinsberg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The church is located in Rödgen.

history

Church building

A first church was built in 1675. However, this baroque chapel burned down on August 16, 1800. In 1805 it was rebuilt. In 1896 a church building association was founded in Dalheim-Rödgen. By 1899 the new church was finally completed. The plans for this came from Pierre JHCuijpers from Roermond . He created the plans for the single-nave hall church in the neo-Gothic style free of charge and also led the construction management. In 1904, the Rochus Chapel from 1805 was finally demolished. In the 1930s the church became too small, so that in 1934 the presumably three-sided choir was laid down and a transept with a new, just closed choir was added to the nave. The plans for this were provided by the Mönchengladbach architect Franz Schüren . In 1951 the structure finally got its final shape. In this year the bell tower and the confessional chapel were built and the west facade was redesigned.

parish

Dalheim and Rödgen belonged to the parish of Arsbeck as branches until 1920 . Between 1920 and 2012 inclusive, Dalheim-Rödgen was an independent parish . The monastery church of the Cistercian nunnery Dalheim, which was dissolved in 1804, was the parish church of the parish of St. Adelgundis Arsbeck between 1804 and 1808.

Since January 1, 2013, Dalheim-Rödgen is no longer an independent parish. The parish was merged with some other former parishes to form the parish of St. Martin Wegberg. Since then, St. Rochus has been a branch church of this new large parish.

Furnishing

In the interior there is a modern equipment with a folk altar , tabernacle and ambo which was all made of wood.

The windows are worth mentioning. The stained glass windows in the choir and transept are works by the artist Peter Hecker from 1934. Some of them depict saints. The ornamental windows in the nave are works by the glass painter Maria Katzgrau . These are also from 1934. In addition, windows by the artist Ernst Jansen-Winkeln from 1957 are attached to the main entrance . These represent baptism and confirmation . In the confessional chapel, works by an unknown artist, presumably from the 1950s, can be seen. Symbols of the Trinity and the Christian faith are shown.

Bells

Three years after the German surrender at the end of the Second World War, the Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen cast three bronze bells for the St. Rochus Church. Karl (III) Otto was the foundryman responsible for the casting.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 
1 - 1,170 950 f ′ Karl (III) Otto, F. Otto , Hemelingen 1948
2 - 972 575 as ′ Karl (III) Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen 1948
3 - 865 400 b ′ Karl (III) Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen 1948

Motif: Te Deum

Web links

Commons : St. Rochus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Limburg's website
  2. ^ Edmund Kahlenborn: Tabular overview of the result of the three French parish entries in the Roerdepartement. In the annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine. In particular the old archdiocese of Cologne. Issue 92, Cologne 1912, p. 13.
  3. ↑ RP Online Article: Parishes prepare parish merger
  4. ↑ Website of the Foundation Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting
  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, particularly pages 437, 545 .
  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, in particular pp. 415, 502 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  7. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Heinsberg region, p. 340.

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 42.7 "  N , 6 ° 11 ′ 13.4"  E