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St. James' Church, Ründeroth

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St. James' Church, Ründeroth

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Location: Engelskirchen, Oberbergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Anette

August 1, 2023

Ründeroth was first mentioned at the beginning of the 12th century. The place got a church soon after it was founded, but unfortunately it is no longer preserved. It is known, however, that the church was visited by pilgrims early on. The current church was built in 1866 and has a stone stele on the street side, which is supposed to represent a pilgrim's staff.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

September 22, 2023

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"Christianity came with the Romans, some of whom were Christians, to the Rhine in Cologne. One of the oldest churches in Cologne is the Severinskirche. From this so-called collegiate church, the missionization of the Oberberg region took place. Other churches in Bonn and Cologne also devoted themselves to others to the east mission areas located on the Rhine, which were, for example, north or south of the Oberbergisches. One of the original parishes in the Oberbergisch founded from Cologne is today's Protestant church of Gummersbach (first mentioned in 1109 AD), from where the spread of the Christian faith then began in ours Breiten continued and from which St. Jakobus Ründeroth separated in order to become independent and the believers no longer had to travel such long distances to Gummersbach for church services. Apparently the number of believers had grown to such an extent that a new parish could be created. In The town of Ründeroth was first mentioned in a document in 1174. The Protestant pastor Meyer-Hermann wrote in his book 'Ründeroth in old and new times' in 1910: “A consequence of the separation of the Ründeroth chapel from Gummersbach and the simultaneous elevation of it to a parish church was the construction of a new church. There is no information about what the old chapel was like, exactly where it stood and when it was built. Like the church built later, the first chapel probably also has the name of St. had the apostle James the Elder as his patron.” This name remained throughout the Reformation and was later transferred to this new church when the Catholic church was built in 1866. The apostle James the Elder found his grave in Spain, in Santiago de Compostela. He was always highly revered and it is said that many pilgrimages from Germany to Spain in the early Middle Ages went to the grave of St. St. James's pilgrimage, traveled along the mountain roads here and stopped at the St. James's churches. ..."

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

September 22, 2023

"... Prof. Horst Degen wrote in 2007: “The former Catholic community in Ründeroth existed until 1560, when Father Nicolaus von der Layen - five years after the Peace of Augsburg - converted to the Protestant faith with the entire community. Also at that time "Jacob the Elder was already the patron saint of the community. It is said that pilgrims repeatedly passed through Ründeroth on their way to Santiago de Compostela and stopped at St. James' Church." A contemporary-artistic examination of this topic St . Jakobus Ründeroth comes from the Ründerother artist Jürgen Müller. He created a pilgrim's staff as a stone stele on the side of the church facing the main street. The work of art not only reminds us of the centuries before us, when people went to Spain, to Santiago, for the sake of their spiritual salvation de Compostela made a pilgrimage to the tomb of James, but also reminds us today that we are on the move throughout our lives and that our entire life can be understood as a pilgrimage (peregrinatio). Many people today still make pilgrimages to Santiago or elsewhere and associate this with the deep and beautiful experience of creation and faith, of self-awareness and community. "
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