St. Walburga (Walberberg)

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The St. Walburga Church, a former monastery church of the Cistercians , is the Roman Catholic parish church in Walberberg , a district of Bornheim in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The parish of St. Walburga is part of the pastoral care area Bornheim Vorgebirge of the Bornheim deanery in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

View 1905

History and architecture

View from the southeast
Floor plan 1905

The Lords of Walberberg, whose castle is still evidenced by the so-called Witches Tower from the 12th century, acquired parts of the relics of the holy Walburga that Archbishop Anno had brought to Cologne for their own church . Archbishop Philipp von Heinsberg founded a priests' convention at the church to take care of the pilgrimage that began soon afterwards . In 1197 he was replaced by Archbishop Adolf I with Cistercian women from the Hoven Monastery . Nuns from Walberberg settled Lilienthal Monastery . The monastery was converted into a men's priory by Archbishop Dietrich in 1447 . In 1591 Jesuits from Cologne took over the monastery.

In the place of today's Romanesque former monastery church, a small hall church from the 8th century is proven. The core of the existing complex is a hall building from the early 11th century with a recessed choir and annex chapels. In the second half of the 12th century, the central nave was increased and the side aisles were added. After 1197 an extension with a nuns gallery was made in the west , around 1200 the extension with the cross-ribbed vaulted Jodokus chapel in the southern choir corner followed. After 1230 the choir was re-performed in late Romanesque forms. In place of a small roof turret, the Jesuits erected a high, slated wooden tower above the eastern part of the church, which is surrounded by a small tower ball with metal beams and crowned with a cross and a weathercock .

After it had been destroyed in the war, it was restored in the 1950s without reconstruction of the choir tower. A new tower was in simple shapes and pointed gotisierendem 1962 spire added in addition to the north aisle.

Bells

The bells had to be delivered during the Second World War , only the small bell by Andreas Rodenkirchen from 1879 remained in the tower. It was destroyed in the fire of the wooden tower in 1944. Two bells were found in the bell cemetery in Hamburg after the war : Maria , the second largest cast by Martin Legros in 1745, and the third, Johann Baptist von Cort von Stummel from 1657. The other four were made by the Mabilon bell foundry in 1984/85 prepared.

No.
  		Surname
  		Ø
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Nominal
( HT - 1 / 16 ) 		Casting year
  		Bell caster
 
1 Peter 1500 2163 of the 1 –1 1985 Mabilon & Co., Saarburg
2 Maria, Walburga and Jodocus 1320 1450 it 1 -1 1745 Martin Legros, Malmedy
3 Johann Baptist 1148 1000 ges 1 +3 1657 Cort of stub
4th Walburga 980 550 as 1 +3 1984 Mabilon & Co., Saarburg
5 Margarethe 870 370 b 1 +2 1984 Mabilon & Co., Saarburg
6th Jodokus 810 325 ces 2 +1 1985 Mabilon & Co., Saarburg

organ

Organ gallery with the restored figures of the apostles, which, although badly damaged, were rescued from the war-torn church. Organ from Weyland Orgelbau from Leverkusen-Hitdorf

The organ was built in 1994 by Orgelbau Weyland, Leverkusen-Hitdorf. It has 31 stops , 2 manuals and the first as a coupling manual without its own work. The action works purely mechanically and has no tools whatsoever, as do the couplings . The purely mechanical super couplings are fully developed. All links correspond between the registry and the foot switches (pistons). The tremulants for HW and SW are freely adjustable in frequency and amplitude. The tongue holders within the works are also freely adjustable.

The housing is self-supporting made of solid Spessart oak. The action is made of wood, the shafts are made of metal. The Violon 16 'is still from Franz Wilhelm Sonreck (1857).

II Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Violon 16 ′
2. Prefix 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Salicional 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Copula 4 ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. Cornett III
9. Mixture IV-V 2 ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
11. Drone 16 ′
12. Wooden flute 8th'
13. Gamba 8th'
14th Vox coeleste 8th'
15th Principal 4 ′
16. Flûte octaviante 4 ′
17th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Flageolet 2 ′
19th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
20th Piccolo 1'
21st Fittings IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Basson 16 ′
23. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
24. double bass 16 ′
25th Sub bass 16 ′
26th Violon bass 16 ′
27. Octave bass 8th'
28. Viol flute 8th'
29 Tenor octave 4 ′
30th trombone 16 ′
31. tuba 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, II / P, III / P
    • Super coupling: III / I (expanded), III / P
  • Playing aid : balancestepfor crescendo , balance step for the large swell blind, balance step for the echo blind, setter (512-fold) with sequencer forwards and backwards, 2 programmable crescendos, 3 programmable fixed combinates, recall, nightingale

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Glockenbuch dean's office Bornheim ( memento of the original from January 12, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherebk.de
  2. ^ Organ in Walberberg , accessed on April 7, 2020.

literature

  • Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the city and the district of Bonn. (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province. Vol. 5, 3). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1905.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 1: Rhineland. Edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
  • Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, pp. 384–385.

Web links

Commons : St. Walburga  - collection of images, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 36.91 "  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 37.63"  E