St. Hubertus (Kirchhoven)

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St. Hubertus

Heinsberg-Kirchhoven monument no. 39, Waldfeuchter Strasse 168 (4177) .jpg

Denomination : Roman Catholic
Consecration date : May 6, 1852
Parish : Kirchhoven
Address: 52525 Heinsberg,

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Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 26 ″  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 25 ″  E The Catholic parish church of St. Hubertus is a listed church building in Kirchhoven , a district of the district town of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The three-aisled brick hall was built from 1846 to 1848 by JP Cremer (1785–1863). The apse is semicircular on the inside and polygonal on the outside. The discontinued four-storey west tower is crowned with an eight-sided slate dome. The outer walls are structured by round arched windows in stepped walls and with a round arch frieze below the eaves . In the interior, ribbed vaults and partition arches rest over rectangular pillars .

Furnishing

  • In the choir is the remainder of a late Gothic stone sacrament house .
  • The Maasland crucifixion group made of wood is from around 1520. The assistant figures are close to the master who carried the Heinsberg cross.
  • In the bell tower there are four bells from 1638 and 1961.
  • Stained glazing

Neo-Gothic furnishings

  • The northern side altar with a depiction of the Coronation of Mary is in the style of carved altars from the Lower Rhine.
  • The colored wooden pillar figures are life-size
  • Two confessionals
  • A pietà
  • The organ gallery

Bells

Surname Chime Caster Casting year
1st bell dis¹ Monasterium, Münster 1961
2nd bell fis¹ Monasterium, Münster 1961
3rd bell g sharp¹ Claudius Limeral 1638
4th bell ais¹ Monasterium, Münster 1961

Motive: "O Savior, tear open the heavens"

gallery

  • Church interior

  • Church entrance

  • Triumphal arch

  • Organ and gallery

  • crib

  • Side altar

  • Sanctuary

  • Baptismal font

literature

  • Episcopal General Vicariate Aachen (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen, B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 .
  • Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
  • Karl Franck-Oberaspach, Edmund Renard (arrangement): The art monuments of the district of Heinsberg (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Published by Paul Clemen , vol. 8, part 3 on behalf of the provincial association ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1906.
  • Franz Josef Lieck: A contribution to the older parish history of Kirchhoven . In: Home calendar of the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg , born in 1955, pp. 73–76.
  • Hubert Berens: The Fronhof and the church in Kirchhoven . In: Heimatkalender des Kreis Heinsberg , vol. 10 (1982), pp. 44-50.
  • Hubert Berens: History of the parish of St. Hubertus Kirchhoven . Catholic parish of St. Hubertus, Kirchhoven 1990.

Web links

Commons : St. Hubertus (Kirchhoven)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinsberg Monument List No. 39 , entry: January 19, 1984
  2. ↑ Late medieval wooden sculptures in the Church of St. Hubertus (Kirchhoven) ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ More information under: Bells in the Heinsberg region by Norbert Jachmann on page 185 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherbaac.de
  4. ↑ Stained glass of the Catholic Church of St. Hubertus on the website of the Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century