St. Simon and Jude Thaddäus (Bergheim)

The Catholic parish church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus is a listed building and is located in the Thorr district , one of the 15 districts of the district town of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft district .

Parish church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus in Bergheim-Thorr.

history

When the Torrer parish church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus had become dilapidated in the second half of the 19th century and no longer offered enough space for the faithful, a new building was built west of the old church from 1893 to 1895. The church received the patronage of its predecessor. The consecration took place in 1898 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop.

architecture

The new parish church in the middle of the village is a brick building in neo-Gothic style. The three-aisled hall church with five axes has pointed arched cross vaults that rest on pillars with bud capitals. The choir faces north. On the entrance side facing Römerstrasse there is a half-protruding six-sided tower with a pointed helmet.

The Cologne architect Hans Dreher was hired to design and build the church. A number of furnishings come from the old church. The forked crucifix from the end of the 13th century, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary dating from around 1470 and two altar wings from the end of the 17th century with images of Christ, his mother Mary and Saints Simon and Jude are of particular value Squidward.

Bells

In 1907 and 1927 the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast five bronze bells for the parish church of Thorr. Four of the five bells were melted down in the two world wars of the past century. All that was left was an a-flat bell, which today, together with two bells from the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher, is part of the three-part bell with the disposition es' - f '- as'.

monument

The parish church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus is registered as a monument with the number 49 in the list of architectural monuments in Thorr . Your descriptive text is:

Built in 1893/1895 3-aisled, slate-roofed brick church with set, 6-sided, 3-storey west tower with 6-sided slated hood and retracted 5/8 choir closure; Side aisles in the east and west just closed, a tent roof over the last yoke; small entrance porches with pyramid roofs in the gusset between tower and side aisles, sacristy extension between choir and south aisle; Longhouse structured by double stepped buttresses, all-round base, sill cornice with stone cover, stepped eaves zone made of raised brickwork.

literature

Heinz Andermahr, Helmut Schrön, Ralph Jansen: Bergheim City Guide District Town Bergheim (ed.), Bergheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-9801975-7-1 .

Individual evidence

^ 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, here in particular 53, 444, 515, 529 .
↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 74, 480, 490 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

50.937892 6.632317Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 16.4 " N , 6 ° 37 ′ 56.3" E

[1] 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, here in particular 53, 444, 515, 529 .

[2] Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 74, 480, 490 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).