St. Trinity (Herne)

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St. Trinity, Herne
Tower of the church from the southwest

Tower of the church from the southwest

Data
place Herne , North Rhine-Westphalia
architect Karl Wibbe
Construction year 1931-1932
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '45.8 "  N , 7 ° 16' 45.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '45.8 "  N , 7 ° 16' 45.1"  E
particularities
Steel truss construction

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Trinity in Herne-Holthausen , Börsinghauser Straße 62, is a parish church of the St. Dionysius parish of the Emschertal dean's office in the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

Building history

The sparsely populated Holthausen experienced - like many other places in this region - a rapid population increase in the last third of the 19th century due to the coal mining spreading northwards. 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 St. Lambertus parish in Castrop parish in 1900 from the St. Joseph parish . After the parish of St. Peter and Paul in Sodingen and the construction of their church, the desire also grew in Holthausen to set up a separate community for Holthausen and the Teutoburgia settlement .

On March 25, 1908, the first Holy Mass was celebrated as the new parish of St. Trinity in Holthausen in an emergency church on Mont-Cenis-Strasse, which was then replaced by the new Trinity Church on Börsinghauser Strasse. The church building was erected between 1931 and 1932; the ceremonial consecration took place in 1933.

architecture

construction

Look inside

The church building was planned and executed by the hammer architect Karl Wibbe (* 1896). The base consists of a concrete wreath with strong concrete pillars on which a steel truss construction is fastened with screws - it can be detached from the base and realigned in the event of cracks or subsidence. The half-timbered construction, which is lined with Triol stones, is not visible, however, but is covered by the outer walls made of clinker bricks and Ibbenbüren sandstone , which stylistically reveal the after-effects of brick expressionism in addition to the formative traditional elements of the round arches . The roof is covered with copper sheet. The framework construction was designed and delivered by the United Kesselwerke AG in Gelsenkirchen . The church was planned for 300 adults and 140 children.

The massive west tower in the form of a westwork with two flat pyramid domes is particularly striking . On the south side of the nave there is a memorial for those who died in the two world wars of Holthausen. The church has been a listed building since 2009 .

Interior

The glass windows were created in 1967 and 1975 by the Bottrop artist Nikolaus Bette . In 2010 the altar was moved from the elevated choir to the church, where a new altar island was created.

Clergy (incomplete)

  • 1922–1934: Pastor Josef Prenger, 1909–1922 chaplain of the parish, 1934–1964 pastor of the parish of St. Peter and Paul in Herne
  • 1990–1996: Pastor Ottmar Wiesehöfer († 1999), Subsidiar in St. Agatha in Niedersfeld
  • 1996–2016: Thomas Poggel
  • since 2017: Georg Birwer, pastor of St. Dionysius in Herne
Clergy from the community

Web links

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