St. Michaels Chapel (Bockum-Hövel)
The St. Michaels Chapel stood between 1708 and 1977 in the village of Bockum , which today belongs to the Hamm-Bockum-Hövel district of the city of Hamm .
Location
It was in the angle that Hammer Strasse forms with the old country road to Stockum . In the past this region was called "Ostgeist", today it is the corner of Hammer Straße and the extended Stockumer Straße. At last the St. Michael's Chapel stood under a row of silver linden trees .
history
An inscription on the St. Michael Chapel shows that it was built in 1708 at the instigation and foundation of Pastor Theodor Hermann Schreiner. Between 1700 and 1746 he was pastor at St. Stephen's Church .
During the Wars of Liberation from 1813 to 1815 in particular , the chapel dedicated to Archangel Michael was a popular place of worship. Among other things, the three Bockum citizens who fell in France during this time were commemorated here : The Archangel Michael is considered the patron saint of the Germans, God's tool in the struggle for the good and guide of souls into eternity .
Later the chapel formed a station in the Corpus Christi procession .
Over the course of two centuries, the chapel became so dilapidated that it had to be demolished in 1912. A year later, in 1913, the then Bockum community rebuilt the chapel on the occasion of the centenary to commemorate the wars of liberation as a half-timbered chapel at its old location and in its exact old shape.
The building, also known as the Holy House, was finally removed in 1977 because it was dilapidated and badly damaged.
25 years later, at the Michael’s Festival (September 29, 2002), a Michael’s sculpture by the Bockum artist Josef Dieckmann was set up at the old location . It should be reminiscent of the St. Michael's Chapel. The sculpture was donated to the community of St. Stephanus by the savings and loan fund Bockum-Hövel e. G. donated.
Lime sandstone panels
In the old chapel there were four panels made of sand-lime brick showing different motifs. Two of them are memorial stones and commemorate those who fell in the Napoleonic Wars . The other two baroque panels show the crucifixion of Jesus and the descent from the cross. The votive tablets were for a long time in the storeroom of the municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm . Then the parish had it restored in Ascheberg , financed by donations . Today the panels hang on the eastern outer wall of the parish hall of St. Stephen's Church. There is also a bronze plaque that tells their story.
literature
- The St. Michaelskapelle, in: Fritz Schumacher and Hartmut Greilich, Bockum-Hövel. From history and local history , Regensberg, Münster 1956, (new edition Hamm 2002), p. 56.
- Michaelskapelle, in: Franz Bäumer (responsible), Rev. Johannes Werges, Günther Bachtrop, Hermann-Josef Dörholt, Anneliese Langenstroth, Andreas Weber: St. Stephanus Bockum 1907–2007 . Ed .: Catholic parish HeiligGeist Bockum-Hövel, parish St. Stephanus Bockum. Löcke Druck Hamm, December 2006, p. 32 f.
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 34 " N , 7 ° 44 ′ 23" E