Maria Queen of Peace (Oberrödinghausen)

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Parish church of Maria Queen of Peace in Oberrödinghausen

The Catholic parish church Maria Königin des Friedens is a listed church building on Hönnetalstraße in Oberrödinghausen , a place in Menden (Sauerland) in the Märkisches Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

Before the construction, the Hubertus Chapel, a barrack church with a west tower built in 1920, served the community as an emergency church. The land for the new church was acquired in 1936. The plans of the quarry stone hall with roof turret were drawn up in 1937 by Rudolf Schwarz and Johannes Krahn. Construction began in 1939. The foundations were poured in the same year, after which construction came to a standstill. Due to the war was interrupted construction activity. On the site of the nearby lime works, an underground gasoline storage facility, with the code name Project Schwalbe , was to be built in 1944 . Ten barracks were built on the church foundations to accommodate forced laborers, and these were removed again after the end of the war to ensure that construction could continue; the building was completed in 1948. The three bronze bells were consecrated in the same year. They sound in the Te Deum motif h'-d "-e" and were cast in Gescher by Petit & Edelbrock. The belfry protrudes a little into the roof of the church.

After the completion, the pieces of equipment from the barrack church were transferred to the new church. The architect Rudolf Schwarz was one of the most important architects of the reconstruction after the war. The church is one of his early works that was planned under National Socialist influence. In this building, some of the building principles postulated by Schwarz can be understood.

The church stands on a slope of the Hönnetal opposite the village of Oberrödinghausen . The small building closed with an apse . Opposite is a deeply drawn-in entrance, creating two bays next to the door. One of them is used as a baptistery , in the other a staircase leads to the gallery . Two large windows opposite each other with segmental arches give light to the altar area; the windows are cut into the vaulted ceiling with stitch caps . The lay room is illuminated by two high-lying rooms and a third one, which is installed above the retracted entrance. The window and portal look like a slot in the brickwork. The steep gable roof is hipped over the apse. The segmented entrance niche appears monumental. The interior is dominated by objective rigor. The room is arched flat with stitch caps. The new furnishings were made by Johannes Niemeyer after the renovation in 2001.

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  1. ↑ Veit Brinkmann: From Menden belfries . Ed .: City of Menden. Menden 2009.

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 45.3 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 47.3"  E