St. Barbara (Herne)

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St. Barbara, Herne-Elpeshof
West side and tower of the St. Barbara church in Herne-Horsthausen

West side and tower of the St. Barbara church in Herne-Horsthausen

Data
place Herne , North Rhine-Westphalia
Construction year 1960-1965
Coordinates 51 ° 33 '17.3 "  N , 7 ° 14' 26"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '17.3 "  N , 7 ° 14' 26"  E
particularities
Steel truss

The St. Barbara Church is a Catholic church in Herne. It is located in Herne-Horsthausen-Elpeshof . Today it is the parish church of the St. Dionysius parish of the Emschertal dean's office in the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

Building history

The sparsely populated area in Horsthausen, like the other areas of the Ruhr area, experienced rapid population growth due to the northward-moving mining in the last third of the 19th century. As a result, the mother churches were forced to create parish vicarages in order to enable people to actively participate in worship and parish life. The Lambertuskirche in Castrop parish in 1900 from the St. Joseph parish . In the period after the Second World War , the community again grew by leaps and bounds to 8,000 souls. Refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern areas as well as workers from the rest of Germany looked for and found work in the coal and steel industries. New districts such as Pantringshof (1952–56) and Elpeshof (1955–60) emerged and with them the Church of St. Barbara .

Leaded glass window

The leaded glass windows were created by Josefthomas Brinkschröder from Paderborn.

Clergy (selection)

  • April 1971 to January 1975 Parish Vicar Hubert Hohmann, (* 1937 in Dortmund, † October 4, 1998), 1975–1996 pastor of St. Michael (Herne)
  • Josef Norbert Walter, dean of the Emschertal dean's office
  • 2017-, Georg Birwer, pastor of St. Dionysius Herne

Web links

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