St. Hermann Josef (Liester)

St. Hermann Josef (Liester), north side, Geschwister Scholl-Platz

St. Hermann Josef is a Roman Catholic branch church in the Stolberg district of Liester in the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia .

St. Hermann Josef (Liester), west side

The church is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Hermann Joseph von Steinfeld and a branch church of the St. Lucia Stolberg parish, which was founded on January 1, 2010.

location

The church building is located in the center of the Liester housing estate on Ardennenstrasse, across from Geschwister-Scholl-Platz.

history

The Liester housing estate was not built until the 1950s and 1960s. So many people had already moved to Liester in the early 1960s that the responsible pastor of the Münsterbusch parish, Karl Scheidt, suggested building his own church and setting up his own pastoral care district. A church building association was founded on October 1, 1964 and on June 1, 1965, Liester was raised to a vicarie from parts of the parishes of Münsterbusch, Büsbach and St. Lucia Stolberg.

The school auditorium was initially used as a church service room from 1965, and construction of the church began just one year later. The foundation stone was laid in a solemn ceremony on May 8, 1966 and the following year, on December 19, 1967, the solemn church consecration and consecration took place. The Eschweiler architect Heinz Kaldenbach designed the plans for the construction of the new church .

The establishment of the parish vicarie took place on January 15, 1968, Liester finally became an independent parish on December 15, 1990. After almost 20 years of independence, the parish was dissolved on January 1, 2010 in the course of the restructuring measures of the diocese of Aachen and with the also dissolved parishes St. Sebastian Atsch , St. Franziskus Stolberg, St. Lucia Stolberg, Herz Jesu Münsterbusch, St. Josef Donnerberg and St. Mariä Himmelfahrt Stolberg-Mühle merged to form the new large parish St. Lucia Stolberg.

Building description

St. Hermann Josef is a simple hall church in modern forms on a square floor plan with a slightly protruding choir in the southwest. There is an entrance hall on the opposite side. On the north side is the 26 meter high free-standing bell tower .

Furnishing

The interior is characterized by modern furnishings from the time the church was built. The Stolberg artist Ludwig Mohnen created the altar cross from bronze with inlaid rock crystals and the tabernacle . A figure made of bluestone of the church patron Hermann Josef and the altar were made by the sculptor Hermann Pier from Mulartshütte .

Pastor

The following priests worked at St. Hermann Josef Pfarrer until the parish was dissolved in 2010 , until the parish elevation in 1990 the priests carried the title of parish vicar:

from ... to	Surname
1965-1992	Wilhelm Buscher (pastor since 1990)
1993-2010	Ferdinand Bruckes

Web links

Commons : St. Hermann Josef  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 250.
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. ↑ Toni Dörflinger: The House of God is a simple brick building. In: Aachener Zeitung. November 29, 2007, accessed January 28, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 51.2 ″  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 13.6 ″  E