St. Stephanus (Flamersheim)

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Catholic Church of St. Stephen
St. Stephanus (Flamersheim), aerial photo (2015)

The Catholic parish church St. Stephanus is a listed church building in Flamersheim , a district of Euskirchen in the Euskirchen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

In 1059, Pope Nicholas II confirmed to the Cologne monastery of St. Maria ad Gradus the properties in Flamersheim that Archbishop Anno II had donated to the convent. Until the 15th century, the monastery had the right of collation over the church. Since 1676 the dukes of Jülich were named in possession of the right of collation. It stayed with them until secularization .

The Romanesque pillar basilica with three naves of five bays each was built at the turn of the 11th to the 12th century. A flat blanket was drawn in. The western tower in Romanesque forms was built into the western nave yoke either in the Gothic period or after the fire in 1666. The slate pyramid of the tower and the windows of the side aisles are from an extensive restoration at the beginning of the 20th century. The neo-Romanesque eastern parts of 1887 and 1888 were demolished in 1977 and replaced by a larger extension by 1981.

Furnishing

  • An eight-sided Gothic baptismal font made of basalt lava .
  • A wooden crucifix from the beginning of the 16th century hangs on a renewed cross above the high altar
  • The two semicircular closed canvas paintings with St. Mary and St. Joseph and his child were painted in the 18th century.
  • The canvas painting with the Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi from the middle of the 17th century was taken over by the former Schweinheim nunnery .
  • Today's organ was built in 1992 by the Weimbs organ building company in Hellenthal.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the Rheinbach district. 1898, p. 26f.
  2. ^ Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (arr.): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , p. 446.

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 25 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 4 ″  E