St. Antonius (green belt)

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The church

St. Antonius is a Roman Catholic branch church within the Grüngürtel district in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia . It was built between 1973 and 1975 according to plans by Matthias Kleuters and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Anthony of Padua .

history

This very young area of ​​the city of Düren was only built as a new district between the 1910s and the 1930s. A church was already included in the planning . It was built in 1938 on the corner of Scharnhorststrasse and Brückenstrasse according to plans by Hans Peter Fischer. It was a brick building with a gable roof and a detached tower and, in terms of shape and material, corresponded to the remaining buildings in the green belt. The pastoral care district of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, established by the parish of St. Bonifatius, had existed here since 1933 . In 1938 the district was elevated to a parish . The church was damaged in the Second World War , but could be restored in its old form between 1946 and 1958. In the 1960s, considerable construction defects were discovered in the church, which was only 30 years old, and it was decided to demolish and rebuild it at a more central point in the green belt. Today there are single-family houses on the site of the first church in the green belt.

In 1970 architect Mattias Kleuters from Haaren near Aachen was commissioned to plan a new church. The first groundbreaking at the current location (Grüngürtel 54) took place on December 10, 1973, the foundation stone was laid on June 8, 1974. In the course of 1975, the new church was completed and was finally opened on September 13, 1975 by the Aachen auxiliary bishop Joseph Ludwig Buchkremer to be consecrated .

The parishes of St. Anna, St. Marien, St. Bonifatius, St. Josef, St. Cyriakus and St. Antonius merged on January 1, 2010 to form the new large parish of St. Lukas.

Furnishing

St. Antonius has modern furnishings from the 1970s. The stained glass windows are particularly noteworthy . They are works by the Alsdorf glass painter Ludwig Schaffrath and were created between 1974 and 1975.

Bells

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 Casting year
 		 Others
 
1 - 880 390 a ' +2 - 1618 Loan bell from the parish church of St. Laurentius, Göttkendorf ( East Prussia ) (Polish: Gutkowo)
2 - 890 420 h ' +1 - about 1500 Lending bell from the parish church of St. Maria, Jägendorf ( Lower Silesia ) (Polish: Myslinow)
3 - 780 275 cis " + -0 - 1528 Loan bell from the parish church of St. Hedwig, Girlachsdorf ( Lower Silesia ) (Polish: Gilów)

Motif: Pater noster

Rectors and Pastors

The following pastors worked at St. Antonius until the parish was dissolved in 2010 (until the parish elevation in 1952, the pastors held the title of rector and were subordinate to the pastor of St. Boniface):

from ... to Surname
1938-1940 Nikolaus Pohen (Rector)
1940-1942 Heinrich Selhorst (Rector)
1942-1965 Josef Gillissen (pastor since 1952)
1965-2003 Karl Haas
2004-2010 Josef Wolff (2010 dissolution of the parish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://bistumskarten.kibac.de/region-dueren/gdg-dueren-mitte
  2. ^ Godehard Hoffmann: Modern churches in Düren and in the Rhineland - an overview. In: Between pride and prejudice: Post-war churches in the Rhineland, messages from the LVR Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Rhineland, Issue 22. Accessed on July 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Domsta, HJ; Krebs, H .; Krobb, A .: Timeline of the history of Düren, p. 291.
  4. ^ Düren, Catholic Church of St. Antonius. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on July 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Bell music in the Düren region
  6. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 316.

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 37.5 ″  E