Sacred Heart Church (Lünen)
The Catholic parish church Herz-Jesu is a listed church building on Holtgrevenstraße in Lünen , a town in the Unna district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
The neo-Gothic hall with polygonal cross arms and a high east tower that characterizes the town faces west. It stands at the southern end of the old town and was built in 1903/04 under the direction of Paderborn cathedral builder Arnold Güldenpfennig as a plastered building with corner blocks. The distant view is characterized by the hipped transverse roofs over the side aisle yokes and the rectangular side choirs. The tower with a tracery gallery is crowned with a pointed helmet accompanied by corner attachments . In front of the portals between the second and third yoke are detached buttresses with tracery inserts in the curves. In the interior, rib vaults rest over slender, capitelless octagonal pillars. The cantilevered services only reach the floor in the transept and choir. The figural glass windows in the choir are works by Hertel & Lersch , they were made in 1904. Remnants of the construction equipment have been preserved. The church bells the deepest bells in the city of Lünen. The four cast steel bells were cast in 1922 and sound in a ° -cis'-e'-fis'. The bells are dedicated to the Trinity, Sacred Heart, Mary and Joseph.
literature
- Ursula Quednau (Red.): Dehio manual of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 .
Web links
- Photo and brief outline of the story (accessed on May 15, 2012)
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 38 " N , 7 ° 31 ′ 21.8" E