St. Vincentius (Beeck)

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Old part of St. Vincentius in Beeck
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Interior, old part
Interior, new part

St. Vincentius is the Roman Catholic branch church of the Beeck district of the city of Wegberg in the Heinsberg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

It is entered under number 9 in the list of architectural monuments in Wegberg .

history

Church building

The Beecker church consists of an old and a new part. The old church was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. The present central nave dates from the first half of the 15th century. At this former church hall of the six-story was from 1460 to 1470 clock tower , whose height measures 65 meters today, and another western yoke grown. Around 1500 the old church received its final shape by adding two aisles to the north and south side of the nave. Thus, St. Vincentius was a three-aisled step - hall church with a bell tower in front and a choir closed on three sides in the late Gothic style . In 1895 two sacristies were added on the north and south sides of the choir with a connecting choir.

Between 1965 and 1970, the Beeck Church was given its present-day appearance, as it was during these years that it was expanded according to plans by Krefeld architect Karl Otto Lüfkens . In the run-up to the expansion, the south aisle, which dates from around 1500, was demolished. In addition, the choir and the northern sacristy were demolished. Thus, the new church could be added at right angles to the old central nave. This single-nave church with a rectangular choir in the east is directly connected to the old church by the side aisle arches. The consecration took place on May 29, 1971.

parish

Beeck was probably an independent parish before the 15th century . Rath-Anhoven also belonged to the Beeck parish as a branch until 1800 . Until the parish was dissolved, the branches Holtum with the pilgrimage chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary and Kipshoven with the Holy Cross chapel belonged to Beeck .

Since January 1, 2013, Beeck is no longer an independent parish. The parish was merged with some other former parishes to form the parish of St. Martin Wegberg. Since then, St. Vincentius has been a branch church of this new large parish.

Furnishing

In the interior of the old part of the church there is a neo-Gothic high altar as well as some painted figures of saints, some of which date from the Rococo period. The windows are the work of the Düsseldorf glass painting workshop Gassen and Blaschke and were used around 1895. In the new building there are also some historical figures of saints, as well as a wooden way of the cross , which was taken from the old part of the church. The organ is a work of the Werler organ building company Gebr. Stockmann from 1983 and has 24 registers distributed over two manuals and pedal.

Bells

Bells 1-4 are steel bells and bells 5-6 are bronze bells.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 
1 Trinity Bell 2,090 3,870 g sharp 0 + -0 Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture , Bochum 1951
2 big bell of Mary 1,800 2,230 h 0 +2 Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum 1951
3 Michaelis Bell 1,604 1,525 c sharp ' -2 Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum 1951
4th Peace bell 1,350 930 e ' -3 Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture, Bochum 1951
5 Vincentius Bell 1,144 950 f sharp ' + -0 Juan Pirung 1716
6th small Marienbell 1,027 658 g sharp ' -2 Unknown 14th Century

Motif: Beuron chimes

With the large bell, the church has the largest, deepest and heaviest (steel) bell in the Heinsberg district. The names of the bells were selected and recorded when climbing the tower.

Web links

Commons : St. Vincentius (Beeck)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen, in: The art monuments of the Rhine province Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 18-21.
  2. ↑ Bernd Limburg's website
  3. ^ Edmund Renard: The art monuments of the districts of Erkelenz and Geilenkirchen, in: The art monuments of the Rhine province Volume 8, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 18.
  4. ^ August Rauchholz: Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. 10th edition, Cologne 1863, p. 111
  5. ↑ RP Online Article: Parishes prepare parish merger
  6. ↑ Bernd Limburg's website
  7. ↑ Website of the Foundation Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting
  8. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Heinsberg region, p. 337.

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 55.5 ″  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 22.6 ″  E