Johann Bernhard Hensen

Hensen monument in Sögel

Johann Bernhard Hensen (born September 5, 1828 in Sögel , † January 16, 1870 in Osnabrück ) was a German architect and church builder.

Johann Bernhard Hensen was the son of Brinkitzer and community leader Hermann Henrich Hensen (* 1790) and his wife Margaretha, née Schleper (* 1801). The marriage had eight children; Johann Bernhard was the sixth child.

In addition to various secular buildings, Hensen made a name for himself in his short but very productive life as a church builder in the regions of Osnabrück , Emsland and in the Oldenburger Land . In 1855 he submitted a plan for the new church in Wachtum near Löningen and received his first order to build a church on his own. The Wachtum Church was to remain his only work in the neo-Romanesque style; his other works were created in the neo-Gothic style and were shaped by the Cologne Cathedral and the preferences of his sponsor Johann Georg Müller , Bishop of Münster.

Hensen was involved in the restoration of the Osnabrück Cathedral from 1856 to 1870 . He died at the age of 41 before the church building in his home town of Sögel could be completed.

In his honor, the Hensen memorial was erected in Sögel in 2002, created by Albert Radke. In addition, the Johann-Bernhard-Hensen Weg in Sögel was named after him.

Church buildings (incomplete)

image	construction time	Building	place	description
	1856-1858	Assumption Day	löningen -Wachtum	neo-Romanesque, 1952–1953 expanded
	1857-1861	St. Mary	Barßel - Harkebrugge	neo-Gothic three-nave hall church, extended 1959–1961
	1858	Antoniuskapelle near St. Maria, mother of the seven sorrows	Cloppenburg - Bethen	neo-Gothic hexagonal central building
	1858-1860	St. Peter and Paul	Saterland - Scharrel	neo-Gothic hall church
	1861-1865	St. Mary of the Assumption	Damme -Easter Fine	neo-Gothic basilica with transept
	1862-1865	St. Catherine of Siena	Alleviate	neo-Gothic hall church
	1862-1865	St. Margaretha	Emstek	neo-Gothic three-aisled basilica
	1863-1865	Assumption Day	Neuenhaus	neo-Gothic hall church
	1864-1865	St. Anthony	Meppen - Apeldorn	neo-Gothic, demolished, tower preserved
	1864-1865	St. Joseph	Lüsche (Bakum)	neo-Romanesque, 1934 extended
	1865-1866	St. Vincent de Paul	Twist - sea ​​of ​​levers	neo-Gothic hall church
	1866	St. Ludger	Friesoythe - Neuscharrel	neo-Gothic hall church
	1866	St. John the Baptist	Spahnharrenstätte	neo-gothic
	1867-1869	St. Mary	Badbergen	neo-Gothic hall church
	1867-1870	St. Maximilian	Haren - Rütenbrock	neo-Gothic hall church
	1867-1871	St. James	Sögel	neo-Gothic hall church with transept
	1868-1870	St. Anna	Twist rings	neo-Gothic hall church with transept
	1869-1870	Provost church	Meppen	neo-Gothic tower, extension of the aisles
	1869-1871	St. Peter and Paul	Garrel	neo-Gothic hall church, extended in 1966
	1869-1874	St. Lambertus	Ostercappeln	neo-Gothic three-aisled hall church (without new tower construction)
	1870-1875	St. Bartholomew	Essen / Oldenburg	neo-Gothic hall church
	1871-1874	St. Mary	Bad Laer	neo-Gothic three-aisled hall church (without new tower construction)
	1873	St. Benedict	Lengerich (Emsland)	neo-Gothic hall church
	1873-1874	St. Joseph	Rhede - Neurhede	neo-Romanesque
	1885-1886	St. Mary	Friesoythe	neo-Gothic tower
	1897-1900	Sacred Heart Church	Small Berßen	neo-Gothic three-aisled hall church
		St. Anthony	The sum	neo-gothic
		St. Francis	Werpeloh	neo-Romanesque, demolished, tower preserved

literature

• Walter Kloppenburg: The church builder Johann Bernhard Hensen from Sögel (1828-1870) and the church building of his time. In: Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatbund, Volume 14 (1967), pp. 83-101.

Web links

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