St. Francis Xaverius (Wennigloh)
St. Franziskus Xaverius is a chapel in Wennigloh (city of Arnsberg ) from the middle of the 19th century. It is dedicated to St. Francis Xaverius .
history
In the mountain village of Wennigloh there had been no regular church services and no chapel until the middle of the 19th century. In 1854, financed by donations, a chapel made of quarry stone with a slate roof was built and consecrated on a piece of land made available by the landowner Schulte-Stiefermann . The chapel has a roof turret in which a bell from the Bochum Association was housed.
It is a four-axis classical hall church with a retracted choir with a five-eighth end. The windows are arched. The same applies to the sacristy built later . The organ stage and the stalls are mainly from the construction period. The equipment includes a neo-Romanesque confessional and a neo-Gothic Madonna on the crescent moon with child.
It was not until 1897 that the clergyman in neighboring Müschede held regular services in Wennigloh . In 1907 the chapel was extended five meters to the west due to a growing population. Nothing changed in the basic architectural form. The roof was also raised by sixty centimeters and the entrance was moved from the south to the west. In 1923 a sacristy was added. A second bell ("death bell") was added in 1937. In 1959 the entrance got a canopy. The chapel also received an organ.
The first renovation work took place in 1968. In connection with the construction of a new church in 1990 and a church center, the chapel lost its worship service. The local rifle brotherhood took over the building in 1983 and thus saved it from the demolition planned by the Archdiocese of Paderborn . In this context, the building was also placed under monument protection. It is entered in the list of monuments of the city of Arnsberg . The condition of the building has deteriorated significantly in the last few decades and the Schützenbruderschaft is trying to finance a renovation.
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literature
- Uwe Haltaufderheide: The architectural monuments of the city of Arnsberg. Collection period 1980–1990. City of Arnsberg, Arnsberg 1990, ISBN 3-928394-01-0 pp. 300-302