Old Parish Church of St. Thomas (Liesen)

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Old parish church of St. Thomas

The old parish church of St. Thomas , so named today, was the first church building in the village of Liesen , which today belongs to the town of Hallenberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia as a district of the same name . The church was built in 1746 and for a long time served as a Roman Catholic parish church . In 1962 it was replaced by the new church of St. Thomas the Apostles in Liesen. The old church has been a listed building since 1983 and is now used as a parish hall.

The name St. Thomas refers to the apostle Thomas .

History and architecture

Old church from 1746

In 1746 a hall church with a small hall made of quarry stone was built in the center of Liesen at Dorfstrasse 22 . In the 1950s, the old church with its 150 seats, now serving as a parish church, gradually became too small and the plan to build a new church arose, which could be implemented at another location in Liesen in the early 1960s.

Entrance portal

In the course of the discontinuation of church use, the old church building was profaned and converted. The building was placed under monument protection on December 30, 1983 and entered in the list of monuments of the city of Hallenberg .

The old church building in the center of the village or district is now used as the parish hall of the Liesen St. Thomas parish .

Successor church from 1962

The church of St. Thomas the Apostle was rebuilt from 1961 to 1962 on a plot of land in the outskirts, on Breidenweg . It was designed as a hall church in the functional style of post-war modernism and has 300 seats. The new Liesen parish church was inaugurated on July 22nd, 1962 by the Paderborn auxiliary bishop Paul Nordhues .

For a long time the parish belonged to the parish of St. Johannes Baptist in Züschen (Winterberg) in the Hochsauerlandkreis. In 2005, the pastoral association of Hallenberg in the Archdiocese of Paderborn was founded as an amalgamation of four parishes, to which the St. Thomas parish in Liesen has belonged as a parish vicarage since then.

organ

The history of the organ is not clearly passed down. Franz Ignaz Seuffert or his father Johann Philipp Seuffert probably built an organ with eight registers on a manual and attached pedal around 1760 , which was extensively rebuilt in 1811 by an unknown organ builder. It is also possible that a Seuffert organ built between 1750 and 1760 for another church was moved to Liesen in 1811. Renovations were carried out in 1862 and 1922. Rudolf Reuter campaigned in 1952 to ensure that the organ was preserved and not replaced. Two years later it was restored by Emanuel Kemper from Lübeck, who replaced four registers and moved the instrument to the new church in 1962.

literature

  • Heinrich Otten: The church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930 to 1975 (=  studies and sources on Westphalian history , volume 60). Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7 , p. 270.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c N.N .: Auxiliary Bishop Grothe holds the festive sermon on the occasion of the 50th Kirchweih festival . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) from July 18, 2012; Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Cf. The church buildings in the pastoral association Hallenberg >>  St. Thomas, Liesen ( Memento from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). On: Website of the Pastoralverbund Hallenberg (www.pastoralverbund-hallenberg.de); Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Cf. The Pastoral Association Hallenberg . On: Website of the Pastoralverbund Hallenberg (www.pastoralverbund-hallenberg.de); Retrieved December 10, 2014.
  4. ^ Organ in Liesen, St. Thomas . On: Orgeldatabase ; Retrieved December 10, 2014 (Dutch).
  5. ↑ Hannalore Reuter: Historical organs in Westphalia-Lippe . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-87023-245-0 , pp. 141 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 6.1 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 4.6"  E