St. Servatius (Kierberg)
St. Servatius is a neo-Gothic hall church in Kierberg , a district of the city of Brühl in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The building is also known as the "Workers Cathedral" due to its history.
history
In the 7th century, under the Cologne bishop Kunibert , a Fronhof Merreche from the Franconian royal estate was first mentioned as a gift to the Cologne church. The church was built on the hill, the Kirberg (and later Kierberg) first a chapel and later a church. Their influence declined when Archbishop Philipp I von Heinsberg consolidated the courtyard on the Brule in 1180 , from which the municipality of Brühl emerged. In 1274 Brühl became an independent parish and with the increasing population, a three-aisled late Gothic basilica , St. Margaretha , was built there in the middle of the 14th century instead of a chapel . The church in Merreche was downgraded to the "Auf dem Kirchberg" chapel and looked after from St. Margaretha. This situation persisted for several hundred years until the population rose sharply in the 19th century due to the mining of lignite . Now the desire arose for a larger sacred building , which the mother church approved. Between 1903 and 1904 the neo-Gothic building was built according to plans by the architect Alfred Tepe . In 1909 the west tower was built.
In 2005 the people's altar was moved towards the tower in order to create space for a weekday church.
architecture
The three-aisled hall church was built from reddish brick with a tower in front. It has a length of six yokes . The windows in the choir are designed in the shape of a pointed arch and have tracery with two nuns' heads and an overlying quadruple with three-quarter circular arches . They show biblical scenes such as the Ascension of Christ , the reception of the Holy Spirit and the Assumption of Mary . The northern choir chapel is also dedicated to her, while the southern choir chapel serves as a baptistery. The left window from the 1960s by Hans Lünenborn from Cologne shows Anna Selbdritt , the right Barbara from Nicomedia , patron saint of miners. These lancet windows have a nun's head. The pointed arched windows in the nave are by the Brühl artist Gerhard Hoffschulz . They are designed with three nuns' heads, above which a quatrefoil is arranged in the middle and a three- passport next to it .
The slender tower is structured with a conspicuous buttress , which is stepped four times and tapers towards the top. They emphasize the already conspicuous location on the Kierberg. The main entrance to the church is through a double-winged, dark red painted wooden door with black fittings that are decorated with ornaments. The door is of a triple-tiered garment frames of red bricks, which are arranged around an arc shape in the upper region. To the left and right of the wall are two slit-shaped windows adorned with lead glass . A mighty, ogival tracery window with three nuns' heads sits enthroned above this, each with a three-pass or in the middle with a four-pass. Its shape is taken up on the aisles by a significantly smaller tracery window with two nuns' heads and a three-pass. Above the window there are two elongated sound arcades , the pointed arch shape of which is emphasized by red bricks. They are subdivided again and have a further, ogival arch-shaped recess in the lower area, in each of which a narrow window is let. The sound arcades are also decorated in an open tracery, consisting of two nuns' heads each with a quatrefoil. Behind it are four bells : the Servatius bell, the Joseph bell, the Marien and Anna bell. They are each decorated with a relief that shows the church between two chimneys as a symbol of lignite mining in the 20th century. The tower clock is mounted in the middle above the sound arcades. This is one of the last two mechanically driven watches in the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1910. Above the tower shaft is the doubly nicked, with black shingles clad spire , the golden by a bullet, the cross and also golden weathercock is crowned . An opening on the east side of the tower was made as part of the church tower habitat project .
On the outside walls of the nave there are also large, pointed arch-shaped tracery windows and a three-tiered buttress. The shape of the entrance portal can also be found on two portals each on the north and south side at the height of the second yoke in the same design. The black-covered gable roof spans the three naves. On the roof itself, three narrow, triangular skylights and a roof turret at the level of the third yoke can be seen on each side.
Interior
The white painted ceiling is designed with a ribbed vault , the keystones of which are decorated with ornaments. It rests on reddish pillars made of sandstone.
The people's altar comes from the Sürth sculptor Theo Heiermann . It is based on red marble with a cafeteria made of green dolomite . Another altar is on the south side of the church. It dates from the 17th century and is dedicated to the apostles Matthias and James . A part of the altarpiece shows next to James a pilgrim whose origin has been a mystery until now.
The confessional and pulpit date from the time the church was built. The latter is made of dark wood and shows the four symbols of the evangelists . The railing is kept simple and decorated with the two-bolt . In the north choir chapel there is a winged altar , which is decorated with rich sprinkling and shows the Virgin Mary. In the southern baptistery there is a bust from the 18th century on the north wall. It shows the parish patron Servatius von Tongern and probably comes from the Benden monastery . In the middle of the chapel there is a simple, tulip-shaped fountain made of light sandstone .
In addition, a triptych by W. Prinz with the themes “Covenant”, “Resurrection” and “The Heavenly Jerusalem” can be seen in the church, which originally hung in the choir. A triumphal cross hangs between the axial windows of the choir at the transition to the nave . The organ is located on the gallery below a triumphal arch on the west tower.
literature
- Parish of St. Servatius (Ed.): Church in Kierberg - history and picture of the parish of St. Servatius Brühl-Kierberg. 1979
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bettina Jochheim: A trip to the bells . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , February 28, 2012, accessed on November 1, 2014.
- ^ Church of St. Servatius , website of the Archdiocese of Cologne, accessed on November 1, 2014.
- ↑ St. Servatius ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the city of Brühl, accessed on November 1, 2014.
- ^ Rüdiger Schneider: An enigmatic pilgrim from Brühl , website jakobus-wege.de, accessed on November 2, 2014.
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 12.9 ″ N , 6 ° 53 ′ 7 ″ E