St. Antonius (Tönisberg)
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St. Antonius is a Roman Catholic church in the Kempen district of Tönisberg , located in the Lower Rhine district of Viersen. The neo-Gothic church was built in 1894 and is a monument protected.
Chapel and previous church
Already in the early 14th century there was a chapel at Ryckendael or Ryckendoir near today's church under the name Sanct Antonius am Berghe with altars in honor of Saint Anthony and Saint Cornelius in Tönisberg, which only later got its name from it. There was also a documented donation of sixty acres of land in 1439 by Duke Arnold von Geldern to support a clergyman. This chapel was still used as a morgue in the 19th century until it burned down in 1888.
After the parish was founded, the construction of the church began in 1537 and was 30 meters long and 7 meters wide. The completion is unclear. In 1662, the furnishings received a baroque high altar with the theme of the Ascension of Christ and in the superstructure of Antony as well as two side altars for Saint Anne and the Immaculate Mother of God. Furthermore, the grave slabs of the deceased clergy and the tombs of the local noble families, which also had their own pews, were located in the church.
Church building
With the growth of the community at the end of the 19th century, pastor Heinrich Laakmann, appointed in 1891, started a new building, for which the old church was largely demolished in 1893 under the master builders Bernhard and Johann Laakmann. Only the tower was used as the western tower in front, provided with an increase to 47 meters and a new clinker. In April 1894 the foundation stone was laid in the choir area in the area of the previous cemetery, and already in December the neo-Gothic single-nave brick hall church with ribbed vault, transept and polygonal choir closure with high mass could be occupied. The new dimensions were 31.5 meters long, 12.1 meters wide in the nave, 18.1 meters in the transept and 9.5 meters in the choir with an interior height of 11.5 meters. The old organ and the church stalls were still used for the time being. On July 17, 1898, after the altar had been completed, the church was consecrated by Bishop Hermann Jakob Dingelstad .
Furnishing
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The church furnishings were redesigned by Pastor Wiegels after the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . The new bronze altar with scenes from the Easter story was created by Karl Franke together with the ambo and tabernacle and placed towards the community. The reredos of the high altar were placed on the rear wall of the choir, and the high altar was renovated by 2005. It is framed by the choir stalls . The old pulpit has been removed. The interior of the church was painted by the Tönisberg church painter Karl Heil from 1919; after being whitewashed in 1960, a large part of it was exposed again during the restoration from 1982 to 1991.
The three church windows at the head of the choir are designed in two stripes and depict the life of Saint Anthony figuratively. They were created in 1898/99 based on designs by Friedrich Stummel in the Wilhelm Derix glass painting . The two side choir windows from the Peter van Treek workshop are abstract in red and blue.
The pink marble baptismal font was given by the Bishop of Roermond for the first consecration. The bronze lid dates from 1968. It shows waves leading from a central ark to the flora and fauna at the edge.
The large church bells were cast as steel bells by the Bochumer Verein in 1952 , after the predecessors were repeatedly melted down during the wars. Only the bell in the roof turret from the foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher dates from 1756.
On the outside of the choir there is a listed mission cross and two old tombstones. A terracotta corpus of a representation of Christ from the 18th century was found there in 1989, which is now on display in the Sacral Museum in the Paterskirche in Kempen.
organ
The organ from the workshop of Fabritius and Brehm in Kaiserswerth from 1927 has 17 stops. From the console with two manuals, pedals and swell mechanism, the organ is operated purely pneumatically with a wind motor.
local community
The parish of St. Anthony was born in 1529 in the Archdiocese of Cologne by Abpfarrung from the Aldekerker parish of St. Peter and Paul , and thus got its own pastor. In 1559 the community first came to the new diocese of Roermond , in 1802 to the re-establishment of the diocese of Aachen and after its dissolution in 1821/1825 finally to the diocese of Münster , where it remained as the only place in the Kempen-Krefeld district after successful protests.
The parish of St. Antonius was merged with the parishes of St. Hubertus Schaephuysen and St. Nikolaus Rheurdt in 2012 to form the new parish of St. Martin. The Church of St. Antonius thus became a branch church.
literature
- Alois Bimczok: 450 years of the parish of St. Antonius Tönisberg . 1979
- Hans Krudewig: St. Antonius Tönisberg, 100 years of the new parish church - 1894–1994 .
- Lutz Weynans: Carl Heil, a Tönisberg representative of the "art workshops" . Tönisberger Heimatblätter , 2010
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Old terracotta body from Tönisberg restored in Church and Life , March 30, 1997
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 49.5 ″ N , 6 ° 30 ′ 3.5 ″ E