Holy Family (Klinkum)

To the Holy Family in Klinkum

Holy Family is the Roman Catholic branch church of Wegberger district Klinkum in Kreis Heinsberg ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ). The church is dedicated to the Holy Family .

The building is entered under number 59 in the list of architectural monuments in Wegberg .

history

Church building

In 1896 a church building association was founded with the aim of building a church in Klinkum. Until now, the Klinkum believers had to go to church in neighboring Wegberg. In 1897 the Klinkumer Franz Wilhelm Schrötgens donated the building plot. At this time, however, the Wegberg parish raised strong opposition to the plans to build a church in Klinkum, as it was therefore foreseeable that Klinkum would sooner or later be separated from the Wegberg mother parish and the parish of St. Peter and Paul in Wegberg would thus generate income were missing. It was not until 1901 that the church building association found an agreement with the parish, so that planning could begin.

The Klinkum Church was built between 1902 and 1904 according to plans by the Aachen architect Daniels. The foundation stone was laid on June 29, 1902, and the shell was completed in 1903. In the course of 1904 the church was completed. The consecration took place on June 29, 1905 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Joseph Müller . In 1912 the church was given the status of a parish church , which it lost again in 2013. Since then, the church has been a branch church.

Parish

Until 1912 Klinkum belonged to the parish of St. Peter and Paul Wegberg. Since the population of Klinkum strove to become an independent parish, they were first raised to a chapel parish on October 1, 1909, which made property self-administration possible independently of the responsible Wegberg parish. The place had a rector since 1907 . In December 1912, Klinkum was finally raised to an independent parish.

On January 1, 2013 the parish was dissolved and merged with the other former Wegberg parishes to form the new large parish of St. Martin Wegberg.

architecture

To the Holy Family is a three-aisled brick hall church in the neo-Gothic style . A four-story bell tower with an eight-sided spire is built in front of the three-bay nave in the south . It has a height of 56 meters. The main portal is on the lower floor. A transept adjoins the nave in the north. In the north, the church closes with the choir closed on five sides . A sacristy is added to the west and east side of the choir . Overall, the church is 33.30 meters long and the nave is 13.65 meters wide. The transept is 15.32 meters long.

Furnishing

In the interior there is a small remnant of the painting from the years 1920 and 1921, which was made by the Aachen painter Assenmacher. In addition, the pews in the interior from the time it was built and the plaster of paris Way of the Cross from the same period have been preserved. The wooden pulpit dates from 1936. Four depictions of Christ, Peter, Paul and Boniface have been incorporated into it. There is also a font from French Savonnières with a brass lid in neo-Gothic shapes in the church. It was made in the 1900s or 1910s. A richly carved wooden confessional from 1904 has also been preserved from the original furnishings. The organ from 1978 is the work of the organ building company Gebrüder Stockmann from Werl . The people's altar was erected in 1972 based on a design by the Cologne artist Friedel Denecke. Some of the windows were created by Ernst Jansen-Winkeln in 1955 and 1963.

Bells

In 1909 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast four bronze bells for the parish in Klinkum. The community was able to keep the bronze bells from the construction period through two world wars.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	Kaspar	1,360	1,600	it ′ -4	Karl Otto, F. Otto , Hemelingen	1904
2	Jesus Christ	1,330	930	ges ′ -5	Karl Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen	1904
3	Joseph	1,020	660	as ′	Karl Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen	1904
4th	Maria	910	510	b ′	Karl Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen	1904

Motive: O Heinland, tear open the sky

Web links

Commons : Hl. Familie (Klinkum)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josef Felter: 100 years of the Catholic parish church of St. Klinkum family, Klinkum 2007, p. 22 ff.
2. ↑ Josef Felter: 100 years of the Catholic parish church of St. Klinkum family, Klinkum 2007, p. 29 ff.
3. ↑ Josef Felter: 100 years of the Catholic parish church of St. The Klinkum family, Klinkum 2007, pp. 54–76.
4. ^ Website of the Research Center for 20th Century Stained Glass Foundation, October 15, 2015
5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially pages 517 .
6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular p. 481 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
7. ↑ Glockenbücher Region Heinsberg ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2013 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. Pp. 344-347  
8. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Heinsberg region, p. 344.

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 9 "  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 15.3"  E