St. Severin (Mehlem)
The Catholic parish church of St. Severin is a neo-Romanesque church building in Mehlem , a district of the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn . It is located on the west side of Mainzer Straße (house number 178). The church stands as a monument under monument protection .
history
The first written mention of a previous building in Mehlem comes from the year 1181. This church building was destroyed during the Thirty Years War . A second church building at the same location burned down after a lightning strike on February 19, 1860. Only the tower remained standing. District architect Paul Richard Thomann then built a new church by 1863 and raised the old tower, so that St. Severin today has the highest church tower between Koblenz and Bonn.
On the occasion of a renovation in 1929, Alois Hewera redesigned the interior by painting. A half-figure of Christ giving blessings and images of the apostles in the apse have been preserved .
In 1968 the church was closed due to structural defects and renovation was initiated. The altar, tabernacle and Madonna were moved to the side aisle opposite the newly furnished south portal and a wooden ceiling was drawn in instead of the old domes. The apse was made an adjoining room; Space was created by additions next to the south portal.
In 1998 another renovation took place. The church has now re ad orientem aligned and the floor of the apse altar was raised together. The tabernacle and Madonna found their place in the side aisles. The entrance to the sacristy was relocated. Again, a new vaulted ceiling made of wood, which was covered by plasterboard and plaster, was installed. Yoke arches, vault ribs, keystones and capitals were painted in the colors of the apse. The church also received new lighting. The tower room was given direct access to the old gallery and the tower staircase. The baptismal font was also set up in the tower room . Separating individual rooms of the church by wrought iron bars made it possible to leave the anteroom and prayer room of the church open during the day.
Assignment of Rolandswerth to the parish of Mehlem
Rolandswerth , the northernmost district of Remagen , belonged to the Catholic parish of Mehlem as early as the 17th century. But after the French occupation of the Rhineland in 1794, the Archdiocese of Cologne was dissolved by Napoleon in 1801 . Its areas on the left bank of the Rhine were assigned to the newly founded French diocese of Aachen , whose bishop Marc-Antoine Berdolet issued a decree in 1804 on the new delimitation of the parishes of his diocese. In it he assigned Rolandswerth to the parish of Oberwinter .
Even when the Rhineland went to Prussia ten years later (1814) , the Rolandswerther asked in numerous letters, unsuccessfully, for the community to be returned to Mehlem. It was not until 1847 that the Bishop of Trier Wilhelm Arnoldi , who was now responsible for Rolandswerth, transferred his “jurisdiction” over the community to the Archdiocese of Cologne , so to speak, through which a reunification with Mehlem could take place in the same year. As compensation, the Oberwinter parish received a payment of 200 thalers and three thalers a year for the sexton there.
Mary's window
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In 2002/03 the church received a new colored stained glass window , the Marienfenster, above the main portal. The semicircular window was created for the 25th anniversary of the pontificate of John Paul II . The inscription at the bottom bears witness to this: "25 years John Paul II. 2002-2003 year of the rosary". The year 2002/2003 was proclaimed the year of the Rosary by John Paul II .
On October 16, 2003, the anniversary of the election of John Paul II in 1978, the window was installed and on the feast of St. Severin , as well as the day of Mother Teresa's beatification in Rome, it was blessed during a solemn high mass . The Mehlem-based artist Irene Rothweiler , a daughter of the Aachen architect and master builder Leo Hugot , designed the window. It was made by the stained glass Dr. Heinrich Oidtmann in Linnich.
The window made of antique glass shows the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus in the center circle , which are framed by three stylized flowers. This is a reference to the Rosa Mystica of the Lauretan Litany . The three flowers also stand for the three divine virtues of faith , hope and love . The four strings of pearls (blue, red, yellow and white) represent the four rosaries: the joyful, the painful, the glorious and the luminous. The strings of pearls consist of glass prisms.
organ
The organ in St. Severin was built in 1974 by the organ building company Johannes Klais (Bonn). It has 23 sounding registers , has slider chests , mechanical play and register contracture and a free-standing table. While the 1st manual has the normal range (C – g 3 ), the 2nd manual has an extension of 7 tones downwards (up to Contra F). In addition to normal couplings , hand registers and two free combinations , the organ has a 5-fold mechanical setter.
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Bells
The sturdy tower rings out four bells . With the destruction of the Thirty Years War, three out of four bells were lost, each weighing more than two tons.
Today's oldest bell was cast by Christian Claren zu Sieglar in 1864 . It survived the two world wars. After the losses of the First World War , three new bells from the Junker & Edelbrock bell foundry from Brilon came to St. Severin in 1924 . These had to be delivered in the Second World War because of their low value. Only in 1953 was there a replacement for the bells that had been handed in: The Bochum Association cast three bells out of cast steel in coordination with the remaining Claren bell.
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
material |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
inscription |
| 1 | Maria | 1953 | Bochum Association | Cast steel | 1600 | 1530 | c sharp 1 +5 | + NOS CUM PROLE PIA BENEDICAT VIRGO MARIA + |
| 2 | Severinus | 1953 | Bochum Association | Cast steel | 1350 | 969 | e 1 +5 | + SANCTE SEVERINE + DOOR NOS + |
| 3 | Barbara | 1864 | Christian Claren | Bell bronze | 1078 | 850 | f sharp 1 +9 | HOLY BARBARA ASKS FOR US |
| 4th | Sebastianus | 1953 | Bochum Association | Cast steel | 1045 | 432 | g sharp 1 +5 | + SANCTE SEBASTIANE + INTERCEDE PRO NOBIS + |
literature
- Josef Herberg (ed.): Churches in Bonn . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-237-6 .
- Information sheet in the Church of St. Severin von Mehlem.
- Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 160-164.
Web links
- Internet presence of the parish ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- A conversation with Irene Rothweiler, in: Der Fels. Katholisches Wort in die Zeit , Volume 33, No. 5, May 2002, pp. 131-134. (PDF; 570 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 39, number A 4013
- ^ Church of St. Severin. Catholic parish of St. Martin and Severin, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Mehlemer church books from the time contain the names of many Rolandswerth residents http://www.kirche-im-suedviertel.de/einrichtungen/kirchen/unbefleckte-empf%C3%A4ngnis.html
- ↑ Church in the South Quarter - Immaculate Conception. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerhard Hoffs: Bell music of the Catholic churches in Bonn . P. 124–128 ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB).
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 40 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 30 ″ E