Liebfrauenkirche (Holzwickede)
The Liebfrauenkirche is a Roman Catholic church building on Hauptstrasse 51 in Holzwickede , a municipality in the Unna district in North Rhine-Westphalia , which has been a listed building since 1984 . It belongs to the Catholic Liebfrauen parish of Holzwickede.
Architecture of the church
The three - aisled neo - Gothic hall church consists of a relatively short nave and a short transept that protrudes . The choir with 5 / 8 -Schluss facing the east side. The foundation stone is on the apse of the church . On the stone is the Latin inscription: ANNO DOMINI 1903 translated: In the year of the Lord 1903 . The west tower is very dominant and visible from afar. It is square and consists of a total of four floors. Above the sound hatches is the tower clock with closing gable triangles and corner turrets. This is followed by an octagonal, covered with sheet copper spire with ball , tower cross and weathercock . The total height of the tower is 62.89 meters. At the intersection of the roof ridge of the nave and the transept there is a roof turret . The Herz-Jesu chapel is located in the north aisle of the church.
The history of the church
Because of the skyrocketing population in Holzwickede as a result of industrialization and the distance to the Stephanuskirche in Opherdicke , the first church was set up in the Aloysius School in 1885, where a classroom on the right-hand floor was converted into an emergency church and expanded. But this soon turned out to be too small.
In 1895 it was decided to build a larger church of its own. The Liebfrauenkirche was built in 1903/04 as a neo-Gothic hall church with a rectory. The architect Hermann Wielers designed the church. Ruhr sandstone from the Holzwickeder and Westhofen quarries were used to build the church . The foundation stone was laid on June 9, 1903. On November 13, 1904, the church was consecrated after only one and a half years of construction. The company Gockel & Niebuhr from Bochum pulled up the church.
Church interior
The impressive organ from 1996 with the Christ window behind it stands on the gallery above the vestibule . In the center of the anteroom is a former baptismal font made of red marble, which today serves as a holy water container . The table-shaped altar stands at the intersection of the transept and nave .
The bronze castings in the parish church were made by the sculptor Reinhold Schröder. The colored windows were made in 1904 by the court glass painting Hertel and Lersch in Düsseldorf . The church also has twelve candlesticks . These were placed at the dedication of the church after these twelve places had been anointed with holy oil by the bishop . The beautifully designed confessionals from 1915 were made by the sculptor Bücker from Rheda . The pews in the church with their beautifully decorated carvings come from the master joiner Josef Gösmann in Holzwicked. In the Herz-Jesu-Kapelle stands the old Herz-Jesu statue, which was made by the sculptor Anton Rüller from Münster .
Bells
The renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen supplied three ring bells for the Liebfrauenkirche in 1906 and 1934. They fell victim to the confiscation and destruction of bells during the two world wars. After 1945 the church received four new bells. The four cast steel bells sound in the tone sequence dis′-fis′-gis′-h ′, were cast in 1947 and have a rather poor sound quality.
Church renovations
From 1984 to 1991 the entire church was renovated. In 1988 the tower was scaffolded and restored. For this purpose, new sandstone blocks were used, and the outer walls were sandblasted and grouted. The tower spire was covered with sheet copper and the tower clocks got new dials . The roof structure of the tower had to be repaired because the stability was no longer guaranteed. In 1989 the transept, nave and choir were restored, and the entire church roof including the turret was covered with sheet copper after the church roof and spire had previously been covered with real slate .
From May to October 1991 the interior of the church was extensively renovated. On December 26, 1992, however, a fire started in the nativity scene, which made it necessary to completely renovate the interior again by 1993. The organ was also damaged in the fire, so it was decided to build a new one. The new organ, which was consecrated on 17 March 1996 was in the organ workshop Siegfried Sauer from Höxter-Ottbergen .
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 57.7 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 0.5 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ^ 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, in particular pages 515, 538 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 479, 497 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).