St. Anthony of Padua (Wickede)
The Catholic Church of St. Antonius of Padua is a church building in Wickede (Ruhr) .
history
Due to the advancing industrialization in the 19th century, the population of Wickede increased rapidly. The growing congregation needed its own church. On August 1, 1861, the foundation stone was laid and construction was completed on December 1, 1862. Bishop Konrad Martin performed the consecration on September 25, 1866.
The plans were made by the Paderborn diocesan master builder Arnold Güldenpfennig . Originally it was a neo-Romanesque church with three naves and flat wooden ceilings. The side aisles, lower than the central nave, were 2.75 m wide, while the main nave was about 6.50 m wide between the rising walls. Three pillars and two pillars each ( Rhenish pillar change ) carried the walls on round arches that separated the central nave from the side aisles. The high central nave was lit by six windows - three on each side. In front of the central nave in the east there was a choir square with a groin vault. The choir square ended with an apse, which was built semicircular and is vaulted by a semi-dome. There were three windows in the apse. The narrow small aisles also ended in the east with small apses.
Attachments and conversions
From 1939 onwards, the aisles were expanded by about double the width according to plans by the architect Josef Färber. During a later renovation in 1959, according to plans by August Dambleff, the pillars and pillars were removed and replaced with steel tubes with a diameter of 21 cm. In 1980 the church was renovated for the last time. The walls of the central nave were again structured by attached round arches. A new heating system was also installed.
tower
In front of the building there was a vestibule to the west, from which two doors led into the church. The vestibule, open on three sides, was closed off in the west by strong corner pillars and three columns over which four round arches spanned. A small roof turret was enthroned on the west side of the gable roof of the central nave. The architect at the time had planned the church in such a way that it could be extended to the west if the vestibule were demolished. A tower has also been discussed when the church was being built, but the financial means were insufficient. The construction of the 58.15 m high west tower began in spring 1908. A clock with four dials was added in 1910. The four-part cast steel bell was cast by Buderus & Humpert in 1920 and sounds in the Salve-Regina motif h ° -dis′-fis′-gis ′.
Furnishing
- The altar made in 1980 by the Winkelmann brothers from Günne is made of red Main sandstone .
- In the niche above the main portal of the church is a monumental 2.66 m high statue of Christ the King. A legend reads: "And there will be no end of his kingdom".
literature
- Heinrich Otten: Church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930 to 1975 . Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Heinrich Otten: The church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930 to 1975 . Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7 , page 404
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '50.8 " N , 7 ° 51' 48.7" E