List of sacred buildings in Tönisvorst

The list of sacred buildings in Tönisvorst lists current and former sacred buildings in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Tönisvorst . In addition, meeting houses and rooms (etc.) of religious communities from Tönisvorst as well as mourning halls in cemeteries are listed here, which are not sacred buildings in the narrower sense.

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St. Tönis

Affiliation	Name / designation	Location	construction time	description
Roman Catholic community	St. Cornelius	Kirchplatz 17, 47918 Tönisvorst	1380	The first mention of a church building with the name can be found in the deed of foundation and foundation of March 19, 1411. As early as September 10, 1380, there was documentary evidence of the construction of a chapel by the Archbishop of Cologne , Friedrich III. from Saar Werden to the area of today's district of St. Tönis. Lt. the inscription above the tower portal shows that construction of the church tower could begin on May 31, 1483. In 1585 the tower collapsed due to the effects of the war and buried parts of the vault under itself, only on April 18, 1619 could the new construction of the tower begin. In the following armed conflicts, the church was destroyed several times and poorly repaired; it was not until 1851 that the church was completely restored. Six years later, the church was expanded according to the plans of the Cologne builder Friedrich Schmidt . On June 6, 1942, an aerial bomb damaged the church and most of the houses on the church square were destroyed. In 1947 the restored church was consecrated. In 1960 new glass windows by the Krefeld artist Gustav Fünders were added to the building.
Evangelical regional church community	Evangelical Christ Church St. Tönis	Hülser Str.57a, 47918 Tönisvorst	1953	On July 1, 1950, a new parish was established in the Protestant parish of Kempen : “St. Tönis / Hüls ”, who became self-employed on January 1st, 1955. In 1953, the Evangelical Christ Church on Hülser Strasse was inaugurated. After long negotiations, on January 1, 1965, a division into the independent communities “St. Tönis ”and“ Hüls ”are carried out.
Judaism	Synagogue of St. Tönis	Kolpingstrasse, 47918 Tönisvorst	1900-1907	The first Jewish families settled in St. Tönis around 1730, and religious service meetings took place in a rented prayer room in a building on the corner of Kaiserstrasse and Marktstrasse. On August 30, 1907, the newly built synagogue on today's Kolpingstrasse was inaugurated. On the evening of November 10, 1938 , the synagogue was set on fire by members of the SA (coming from Hüls and Krefeld) and the fire brigade was prevented from extinguishing the fire. On May 29, 1983, a memorial with the inscription “In memory of the persecuted Jewish citizens of St. Tönis and Vorst 1933 - 1945” was erected opposite the former synagogue site.
Ecumenical movement	Chapel in the Maria-Hilf Hospital (Tönisvorst)	Hospitalstrasse 2, 47918 Tönisvorst
Urban mourning hall	Mourning hall of the cemetery on Westring, St. Tönis	Friedrichstrasse 88, 47918 Tönisvorst

Vorst

Affiliation	Name / designation	Location	construction time	description
Roman Catholic community	St. Godehard	Kuhstrasse 11, 47918 Tönisvorst	1100	The first mention of a small wooden chapel in the area of today's Vorst district goes back to the year 1100, it is said to have stood near the Brempt house . In 1131 the community received relics of St. Godehard , who later became the patron saint of the church, from Archbishop Friedrich I von Schwarzenburg of Cologne . In the first half of the 14th century the wooden chapel was replaced by a tuff stone building, in 1482 the Romanesque nave was replaced by a Gothic church; it was demolished in 1894. In 1559 the parish received all rights, in 1583 the church was set on fire during a looting in the Truchessian War, in 1894 it was finally torn down, and in 1896 the new church was inaugurated. In 1901 the new Klais organ sounded for the first time , and in 1902 the high altar carved by the Gocher artist Ferdinand Langenberg was consecrated. The interior was renovated in 1972, the entire exterior facade in 1991, and the belfry was restored in 2004. In 2010 it was decided to merge the parishes from Tönisvorst and Kempen.
Evangelical regional church community	Ev. Parish Vorst	On Rothenfeld 21, 47918 Tönisvorst	1959/1969	In 1959, a small Protestant wooden church was built on today's Schützenstrasse, which, according to stories, was donated by a Swedish countess. On March 22, 1970, the new church - which was built under the construction management of the Krefeld architects Berthold Schröder - was consecrated on Lutherstrasse. The wooden church was dismantled and rebuilt in an unknown location. It was not until 1997 that a bell tower could be built next to the church.
Urban mourning hall	Mourning hall of the Anrather Strasse cemetery, Vorst	Anrather Strasse, 47918 Tönisvorst	1971	The newly built morgue with an attached chapel in the cemetery of the Vorst district was consecrated in 1971.