St. Barbara (Hückelhoven)

St. Barbara in Hückelhoven

St. Barbara is a former Roman Catholic branch church in Hückelhoven in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The church was profaned on September 25, 2016 .

The former church was St. Barbara and between 1960 and 2010 the city's second parish church . The building is entered under number 11 in the list of architectural monuments in Hückelhoven .

location

The church building is located north of Hückelhoven city center in the miners' settlement "Auf dem Hansberg" on the corner of Bauerstrasse and Brassertstrasse.

history

With the development of the hard coal deposits in Hückelhoven since the First World War and the opening of the Sophia-Jacoba colliery in 1914, the population of Hückelhoven increased rapidly. Since the parish church of St. Lambertus could no longer grasp the number of believers, the Cologne vicariate commissioned the pastor of St. Lambertus to organize the construction of a second church for Hückelhoven.

In 1932 construction of the church finally began. At the same time, the parish rectorate of St. Barbara was established, and in 1934 the new parish received its first cleric, Fritz Dinstühler. However, this was still subordinate to the pastor of St. Lambertus. St. Barbara only became completely independent of the mother parish when it was elevated to a parish on January 21, 1960. This independence was only to last 40 years. On January 1, 2010 the parish was dissolved and merged with the also dissolved parish of St. Lambertus to form the new parish of St. Lambertus and St. Barbara / Hückelhoven.

In the course of the austerity measures and the process of "church property management", the church was taken out of financing. The parish then decided to close St. Barbara. On September 25, 2016, the last Holy Mass took place in St. Barbara, at which the church was also profaned.

Building history

Although the Vicariate General asked the Hückelhoven pastor to have a second church built as early as 1928, it took until 1933 before construction could begin. This was also due to the difficult economic situation at the time, in which there was no money for a new church.

A competition was announced in 1932 for the planning of the church, among other things because of the expected mining damage, which made a special construction necessary. The Düsseldorf architect Hermann Schagen emerged from the competition and immediately began designing it. The groundbreaking ceremony was on February 19, 1933, the foundation stone was laid on June 25, 1933 and the church was completed by the end of 1933, so that Christmas services could already be celebrated in the new church. The solemn church consecration finally took place on July 10, 1934.

The Second World War left only relatively minor damage from artillery fire, which could already be repaired in 1945.

Building description

St. Barbara is a modern two-aisled and flat-roofed building in the style of a basilica . The nave has six axes, the retracted choir is rectangular. The building is plastered white and the windows are arched.

Furnishing

The equipment of the former church is modern. It is not known what will happen to the equipment in the future.

In the interior there are still some pieces of equipment from the time it was built. These include the baptismal font made of bluestone from 1933, the simple high altar from the same year, the crucifixion group above the altar, a work made of oil on linen by Maria Katzgrau from 1934, a Maria-Hilf altar from the Cohnen Art Institute in Düsseldorf from 1935 as well 11 stained glass windows from 1935/36 by Maria Katzgrau. More recent pieces of equipment are the tabernacle on the high altar by the Kohlscheid artist Peter Bücken from 1961, as well as several saints by the artist Wilhelm Hanebal from Büderich from the 1960s and the organ from the Heinz Wilbrand organ building workshop from 1970. The instrument has 15 stops and a mechanical action .

Bells

St.Barbara in Hückelhoven has a five-part chime from different times. (Please fill in!) Together they agree on the motif "Ad te levavi animam meam". The disposition is: f sharp 'a' h 'c sharp "and e".

Pastor

The following pastors worked at St. Barbara until the parish was dissolved in 2010 (the priests held the title of rector until the parish was elevated):

from ... to	Surname
1934-1938	Fritz Dinstühler (Rector)
1938-1960	Leo Gilles (Rector)
1960-1994	Josef Derichs
1994-2003	Dieter Wintz
2003-2010	Jürgen Frisch

Web links

Commons : St. Barbara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 770.
2. ↑ St. Barbara: Believers say goodbye. In: Aachener Zeitung. September 26, 2016, accessed March 15, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 771.
4. ↑ St. Barbara. In: Website of the parish of St. Lambertus and St. Barbara. Retrieved March 15, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 771.
6. ^ Hückelhoven, Catholic Church of St. Barbara. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on March 15, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 771.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 29.2 ″  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 16.9 ″  E