St. Francis (Stolberg)

St. Francis

St. Franziskus is a Roman Catholic branch church in Stolberg (Rhld.) In the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. St. Francis of Assisi and a branch church of the St. Lucia Stolberg parish, founded on January 1st, 2010.

location

The church building is located north of the Stolberg Lower Town in Velau on the corner of Franziskusstrasse and Kapuzinerweg.

history

As early as 1923 there were efforts to build a church in the north of the parish of St. Mary's Assumption. The city of Stolberg then gave the parish a building plot, which the church council accepted on November 21, 1923. However, a church was not built for the time being, which may have been due to the uncertain economic and political situation on the one hand and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 on the other .

Only after the war did the planning of the church in the north of Stolberg resume. In 1961 a suitable building plot could be acquired and in 1965, 42 years after the first considerations about the church building, construction began. The foundation stone was laid on March 28, 1965 and in 1967 the church was completed. On December 17, 1967, the church was consecrated . The plans were provided by the Aachen architect Hans Heinemann.

On October 4, 1967, St. Francis was elevated to a parish and completely separated from the mother parish of St. Mary's Assumption.

On January 1, 2010, the parish was dissolved as part of the restructuring measures of the diocese of Aachen and with the also dissolved parishes of St. Sebastian Atsch , St. Lucia Stolberg, St. Josef Donnerberg Herz Jesu Münsterbusch , St. Hermann Josef Liester and St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Stolberg-Mühle merged to form the new large parish St. Lucia Stolberg.

Building description

St. Franziskus is a brick hall on a square floor plan in modern forms . The chancel is in the south corner, the south wall is open to the weekday chapel in the east. The bell tower is free-standing. There are 450 seats available for the faithful.

Furnishing

Inside there is modern equipment. The altar is made of Belgian bluestone. A forked cross by the artist Klaus Iserlohe from 1967 is in the church, as well as a tabernacle made of copper with rock crystals and 14 stations of the cross made of linden wood. The organ from 1967 is the work of the organ building company Karl Bach from Aachen and has 15 stops . Peter Hodiamont created the windows in the light band under the eaves in 1965.

Pastor

The following priests were pastors to St. Francis until the parish was dissolved in 2010 :

from ... to	Surname
1967-1980	Anton Classen
1980-2010	Paul Dawit Mesghinna

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 253.
2. ^ History of the parish of St. Mary's Assumption, mill. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the parish of St. Lucia. Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 28, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (Ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 254.
4. ↑ Stolberg-Velau, Catholic Church of St. Franziskus. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on January 28, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 8.3 "  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 31.4"  E