St. Severin (Weisweiler)

St. Severin in Weisweiler

View from the southwest

St. Severin is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Eschweiler district of Weisweiler in the city ​​region of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The building is registered under No. 128 in the list of architectural monuments in Eschweiler and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Bishop Severin of Cologne . The parish also includes Hüelte with the subsidiary church of St. Johann Baptist.

location

The church building is on the corner of Severinstrasse and Burgweg. Directly to the east of the church is the cemetery and on the other side of Burgstrasse is Weisweiler Castle .

history

Weisweiler is an old parish . At the site of the church there is said to have already been a sanctuary at the time of the Celts . Probably at the time of the Carolingians in the 8th or 9th century, the first church was built in Weisweiler.

The parish and church were first mentioned in a document in 1282. In the Liber valoris from 1308, the parish is listed in the former dean's office in Jülich . At that time the owners of Weisweiler Castle were the collators . The St. Gereonstift in Cologne also owned rights to the church . In the 17th century the devotion to St. Brigida of Kildare . Her feast day, February 1st, was celebrated from then on with the blessing of bread and water.

During the French era , Weisweiler, which always belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne , came to the newly founded Diocese of Aachen in 1802 . In 1825, after the new diocese was dissolved, the parish was reassigned to the archbishopric. Weisweiler has been part of the re-established diocese of Aachen since 1930.

Hüelte has always been part of the parish. A church was built there in 1960. In 1964 Hüelte was raised to a separate pastoral care district in the parish of Weisweiler and on August 30, 1973, Weisweiler was completely separated from the parish. This was reversed on January 1, 2010, the parish of Hüüllen dissolved and re-added to the parish of Weisweiler.

Building history

It is very likely that the first church was built in Weisweiler during the Carolingian period in the 8th or 9th century. However, it can be proven that there was a church around the year 1000, which was determined by an engraving of a beam. It was first mentioned in a document in 1282.

In the second half of the 15th century, the church mentioned in 1282, about which nothing is known, was demolished except for the tower and a new nave was built in the Gothic style, which is now the western part of the parish church. In the middle of the 19th century, the church became too small and an extension was decided. The Cologne architect August Carl Lange presented plans for an extension, which were implemented in 1889. The old choir was demolished and the existing Gothic nave was extended by three bays to the east in the neo-Gothic style . A new choir was also built. As a result of these construction measures, St. Severin was essentially given its current appearance.

During the Second World War , the parish church was badly damaged between September and November 1944 and all the vaults were destroyed. During the reconstruction, a flat wooden ceiling was put in place inside. The roofs were rebuilt as they were before the war.

Building description

St. Severin is a three-aisled and six-bay hall church made of rubble stones . The western part is Gothic and the eastern part of the church is neo-Gothic. The bell tower is built in front of the nave in the west and has three floors and an eight-sided tower dome. In the east is the two-bay and three-sided closed choir.

Furnishing

Despite the destruction in World War II, some historical pieces of equipment have been preserved. The granite canteen of the altar represents St. Severin and St. Brigida and dates from the 15th century. The tabernacle was created in gilded brass in the 19th century. The eternal light traffic light dates from 1731. There is also a crucifixion group from the 16th to 18th centuries. Century present, as well as various figures of saints from the 18th century. The Way of the Cross is an enamel work by the Würselen artist Albert Sous from 1960. The stained glass windows are works by Trude Binnendahl-Benning from 1957.

Bells

In the bell tower there are Bronze - bells from different centuries. Three bells from the 15th and 16th centuries are particularly valuable.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	Great Maria	1160	1000	f ' +3	Johannes Hoernken	1451
2	Margaretha	1023	700	g ' +3	Johannes de Hintum	1447
3	Severinus	923	460	a ' +4	Mabilon, Saarburg	1959
4th	Joseph	755	270	c " +4	Mabilon, Saarburg	1959
5	Michael	673	180	d " +5	Mabilon, Saarburg	1962
6th	Little Maria	558	100	f " +7	Gregor of Trier	1530

Pastor

The following priests have been pastors at St. Severin so far:

from ... to	Surname
1917-1934	Leopold von Schütz
1934-1941	Karl Bomm
1941-1941	Franz Nicke
1942-1952	Wilhelm Hoffmans
1952-1965	Johannes Giesen
1965-1969	Josef teats
1969-1988	Ludwig Gieswinkel
1978-2009	Franz-Josef Wynen
2009-2020	Norbert Crampen
Since 2020	Vacant

Web links

• Homepage of the parish of St. Severin Weisweiler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 218.
2. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 219.
3. ↑ Eschweiler-Weisweiler, Catholic Church of St. Severin. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV. Accessed on November 13, 2017 . 
4. ^ Matthias poet: Weisweiler (D), cath. St Severin Church - full bells (video description). In: Youtube. Retrieved November 13, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 218.

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 47.3 "  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 14.6"  E