St. Elisabeth Chapel (Lieck)

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St. Elisabeth Chapel

Lieck (little chapel) bell 1.jpg

Denomination : Roman Catholic
Consecration date : October 12, 1930
Parish : Kirchhoven
Address: 52525 Heinsberg, Germany

Elisabethstrasse 84

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '54 "  N , 6 ° 4' 50"  E The St. Elisabeth chapel is located in the Lieck district ofthe city of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The chapel is in the Kirchhoven-Lieck district at Elisabethstrasse 84. It is part of the St. Elisabeth nursing home.

prehistory

The mayor's office in Kirchhoven was composed around 1830 as follows. The Kirchdorf Kirchhoven and the villages Entebruch, Heuchden, Leick, Lumbach, Schutdorf and Finne. There are also some farms and hamlets . All villages belonged to a mayor's office, but were in themselves separate village and living communities. On the Tranchot map from 1803 to 1820, the individual villages are clearly recognizable. Small chapels, crucifixes and wayside shrines were built in the villages as a sign of deep faith and a close togetherness . This is how a chapel was built in Lieck.

History and architecture

In 1928, the Krings siblings donated the old manor house with property from 1663 to the parish of Kirchhoven in order to set up a home for the elderly . The building was converted into a monastery with a chapel and a home for the elderly and inaugurated on October 12, 1930. The house was taken over from Divine Providence by five sisters from Mainz . A kindergarten and a sewing school were also operated. In 1932 the St. Martini Rifle Brotherhood in Lieck donated a bell to the monastery . Unfortunately, it was melted down during World War II . After the chaos of the war with evacuation to Thuringia and the return to Lieck, outpatient nursing was devoted to . On October 4, 1958, the St. Martin Brotherhood Lieck donated a bell to the monastery again, which had a price of 424 DM. In 1987 the sisters left the facility and returned to the motherhouse due to a shortage of sisters .

In 1988 the private care service Kuijpers took over the house with 26 people. Extensive construction work has been carried out over time. The old monastery and chapel had to give way to a new building . When designing the new house, it was planned to build a house chapel on the ground floor . A chapel room was created, the size of which can be changed depending on the requirements. The bell donated in 1958 now stands on the site of the former chapel. The two-storey house has been completed since 2005 and accommodates 80 people in need of care.

Furnishing

gallery

  • Tranchot map 1803-1820

  • Sanctuary

  • tabernacle

  • Chapel room

  • House access

  • Information board

  • Exterior view

literature

  • Episcopal General Vicariate Aachen (Ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen . B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7
  • Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg . Heinsberg 1993, ISBN 3-925620-13-3 , p. 196.
  • Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin 1830, p. 776
  • Hubert Berens: The St. Elisabeth Abbey in Lieck. History of the parish of St. Hubertus Kirchhoven . P. 228

Web links

Commons : Chapel St. Elisabeth (Lieck)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The mayor's office in Kirchhoven 1830
  2. ↑ Bell donated 50 years ago (AZ of July 18, 2008)