St. Rochus (Zweifall)

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St. Roch in Zweifall

St. Rochus is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Stolberg district of Zweifall in the city ​​region of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The church is dedicated to St. Consecrated Rochus de Montpellier .

location

St. Rochus is located in the middle of the village of Zweifall in the Eifel . The church is located on the corner of Jägerhofstrasse (L24) and Hellebendstrasse.

history

The first chapel in Zweifall was built in 1521 by the local residents at their own expense. At that time, Zweifall belonged to the parish of Simmerath . On October 1, 1522, the Aachen Marienstift , to which the Simmerath parish was incorporated, subsequently approved the construction of this chapel and made Zweifall a branch with its own priest. Before that, in Zweifall there had not been a separate house of worship.

The Reformation gained a foothold in Zweifall, so that a Lutheran congregation was formed in 1575, which also temporarily confiscated the chapel. Between 1609 and 1622 the chapel was a place of worship for the evangelical community, but was then returned to the local Catholics.

In the course of the occupation of the Rhineland by the French and the parish writing initiated by this, Zweifall was separated from the mother parish of Simmerath and in 1804 raised to an independent parish. As early as the beginning of the 19th century, the chapel, which has been a parish church since 1804, was too small for the increased population, so that the Prussian government approved a new church in 1819. However, it was not until 1850 before the new building could really begin. This is how the Stolberg civil engineer Carl de Berghes planned today's parish church. The foundation stone was laid on August 11, 1850 and the first holy mass could be celebrated on October 10, 1852. Subsequently, the old church from 1521 was demolished.

The church survived the Second World War almost unscathed, but became too small for the rapidly growing congregation in the post-war period, so it was decided to expand. The south wall was demolished in three of the four bays of the nave and the extension was then installed between 1962 and 1964, creating a kind of double church in an L-shape. The plans for the extension were provided by the Simmerath architect Peter Heinen . On August 2, 1964, extended the church by the Bishop of Aachen was John Pohl Schneider consecrated .

architecture

The old part of the church, built in 1850/52, is a single-nave and four-bay hall church with a bell tower with an eight-sided hood in the west and a one-bay choir in the east, which is closed on three sides. The windows are arched and framed with bluestone. The entire building is made of rubble stones and is spanned by a ribbed vault. The extension from 1962/64 is built vertically on the south wall of the old church as a hall church made of quarry stones, but in modern forms. The windows are rectangular and extend over the entire height of the wall. In the south wall there is a semicircular apse with the altar. The interior is spanned by a wooden ceiling, which reveals the roof pitch.

Furnishing

In the new part of the church there is a limestone altar by the artist Heinz Tobolla from 1964, a tabernacle by the artist L. Mohnen from Stolberg, a stainless steel cross from 1972 by Albert Sous and a bluestone ambo with bronze reliefs of the four evangelists from the year 1964 by Heinz Tobolla. The stained glass windows in the new part were created by Hermann Gottfried in 1963.

In the old part of the church there is a baptismal font made of bluestone from 1662 in the old choir. There are also two baroque wooden side altars from the 17th century in the church. The font and side altars were taken from the previous chapel built in 1521. The figure of the parish and church patron, St. Rochus, a woodwork from the 17th century, also taken over from the previous church, and the communion bench. The 14 Stations of the Cross were painted in oil on zinc plates in 1886. Three stained glass windows in the old part of the church date from 1897/98 and were designed by Hans Müller-Hickler. They show representations of St. Franz Xavier , St. Jerome and St. Gregory the Great . Three windows are works by Walther Hugo Brenner from 1951. Of these, the window in the nave is abstract and the two windows in the choir show the church patron Rochus von Montpellier and St. Sebastian .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. In: Homepage of the parish of Zweifall. Retrieved June 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Parish Church of St. Confessor Rochus. In: Homepage of the parish of Zweifall. Retrieved June 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Parish Church of St. Confessor Rochus. In: Homepage of the parish of Zweifall. Retrieved June 3, 2017 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 9 ″  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 19.4 ″  E