Antonius Chapel (Oerlinghausen)
| Antonius Chapel Oerlinghausen | |
|---|---|
 Antonius Chapel in Steinbruchstrasse, Oerlinghausen |
|
| Data | |
| place | Oerlinghausen |
| Construction year | 1922 |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 57 '33.9 " N , 8 ° 40' 31.9" E |
| particularities | |
| Listed as a historical monument | |
The Antoniuskapelle is a Catholic chapel and is located at Steinbruchstraße 12 in the Lippe town of Oerlinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is registered with the number 11 as an architectural monument in the municipal monument list.
architecture
The chapel was built in quarry stone in 1922 and artistically designed by Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen and his wife Jenny Wiegmann in the following years . The tympanum above the entrance door is an important artistic detail of the chapel : the relief depicts the angel with the book of life on one side and the judgment angel with the trumpet on the other. The figure of the patron saint, St.Anthony, appears in the gable triangle above.
history
Presumably as early as 783, Emperor Charlemagne had a chapel built on the nearby Tönsberg , which was consecrated to Saint Anthony the Hermit . This started the Christianization in the region. In the Middle Ages the parish became the seat of the archdeacon , i.e. the seat of the episcopal court. After the Reformation , Oerlinghausen was evangelically reformed and there were no more Catholic Christians for centuries. It was not until 1921 that a small Catholic community began celebrating regular services again.
The Antoniuskapelle was built with great personal sacrifices in the middle of the inflationary period 1922/23. The couple Josef and Anna Wörner and about 15 families from the Catholic parish were significantly involved . The chapel was placed under the protection of St. Anthony of Padua . At that time, the young Franciscan priest Kilian Kirchhoff looked after the small Oerlinghauser community from Paderborn , supported the artistic design of the chapel and was on friendly terms with the artists. Kilian Kirchhoff was executed by the Nazis on April 24, 1944 for expressions critical of the regime . After the First World War, the new chapel served the growing number of Catholic believers in Oerlinghausen as a place of worship until it was replaced by the construction of the St. Michael Church in 1954/55.
By the Second World War , the Catholic community grew to 150 members and, with the influx of evacuees from the Ruhr area and the Rhineland, even to 600 believers. After the war, many hundreds of displaced people and refugees from the east followed them. The congregation grew to over 1,000 Catholics and on Sundays the little Antonius Chapel was regularly overcrowded twice. When the ceiling of the chapel collapsed in the fall of 1952, the construction of a new church became imperative. The inauguration of the new parish church of St. Michael took place in autumn 1955 .
Those responsible decided to convert the Antonius Chapel into a youth home and had a false ceiling installed. The partially damaged stucco decorations were removed and the frescoes on the walls were painted over. In 1963 a new youth home at the parish church was handed over to the Catholic community and the chapel got its original interior back. Extensive renovation work inside and outside was necessary in 1975 and 2000.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Antonius Kapelle , accessed on July 5, 2012
- ↑ St. Michael parish , accessed on July 6, 2012
