St. Anthony of Padua (Windhausen)

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Exterior view of St. Anthony of Padua

The Catholic Church of St. Antonius of Padua is a church building that characterizes the townscape in Windhausen , a village in the urban area of Attendorn in the Olpe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It belongs to the Attendorn Pastoral Association and to the Deanery South Sauerland in the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

History and architecture

While several new churches were built in the neighboring towns at the beginning of the 20th century on the initiative of the Cologne cathedral capitular Alexander Schnütgen , who came from Attendorn, the first church in Windhausen was built in 1898 based on a design made in the village. A year later, the interior was equipped, including an altar that is said to come from the Waldenburg . When Windhausen was raised to a parish vicarie in 1959 , the decision was made to replace the building with a new church building. The first church building fell victim to the expansion of the L 697 in April 1969.

The new building, set back on the country road leading through the village, was built in 1963/64 according to plans by Aloys Sonntag and consecrated on the third Advent in 1964. The church square is on the valley side. The elongated nave with two small cross arms stands on a cross-shaped floor plan. The distant tower is connected to the church via a pergola . The shaft is low and the helmet is disproportionately steep. The surrounding profiles are sound openings . The nave and tower are plastered in white, the very steep roof of the church is covered with slate and thus picks up on the regional building tradition. The cross arms with their high gables are roughly in the middle of the floor plan, with the height of their roofs they remain below the main ridge . The interior is dominated by the main axis, the two rows of chairs are aligned with the altar zone. The offset in this zone enables the altar to be illuminated from the side. The glazing of the concrete honeycombs in the front sides of the cross arms are works based on designs by Josef Jost . The confessional is in the right gable, in the entrance gable with a cantilevered roof is the patron's box .

literature

  • Heinrich Otten: Church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930 to 1975 . Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Meinolf Lüttecke: History is lost in a cloud of dust. March 6, 2017, accessed on August 30, 2020 (German).

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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 45.9 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 45.5 ″  E