St. Johann Baptist (Hünshoven)

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St. Johann Baptist

32 Church, Hermann Josef Strasse, (Geilenkirchen) .jpg

Denomination : Roman Catholic
Consecration date : October 20, 1951
Parish : Hünshoven
Address: 52511 Geilenkirchen,

Hermann-Josef-Strasse

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '49 ″  N , 6 ° 7 ′ 42 ″  E The St. Johann Baptist Church is locatedin the Hünshoven district ofthe city of Geilenkirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The St. Johann Baptist Church is in the Hünshoven district. After the church was blown up in January 1945, today's church was built on the same site.

history

The first mention of a church in Hünshoven goes back to 1217. In the middle of the 15th century a single-nave church was built, to which a confessional chapel was added in 1916. This church burned down during the Second World War , and the church tower was blown up in January 1945. As a result of this measure, the Gothic nave was almost completely destroyed. Only a few remains of the wall of the choir and the southern nave remained. They were included in the new building, which was planned by Dominikus Böhm and Gottfried Böhm from Cologne . After a construction period of almost two years, the ceremonial consecration took place on October 20, 1951 . In 1986 the church was repaired and renovated under the direction of Walter Horn from Aachen .

architecture

The church is a steel-framed hall that expands to the chancel in the north and closes off a glass wall in a flat arch. The east wall is open in the south to the preserved choir yoke. The choir, closed on five sides, is part of the old church. On the west side of the church there is an inner courtyard, which is closed by a sacristy in the north, the parish hall in the west and the mighty five-story tower with an open bell in the south.

Furnishing

gallery

  • Nikolaus Becker , memorial plaque on the church

  • Entrance to the Church of St. Johann Baptist

  • Ceiling of the church interior

  • Altar window

  • Parish hall and bell tower

  • View of the entrance and the bell tower

literature

  • Third edition 1994: Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen ISBN 3-87448-172-7
  • Volume Eight 1904: The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province by Paul Clemen
  • Theodor Schäfer: The new church in Hünshoven , home calendar of the Selfkantkreis 1952, p. 55
  • Jean Melzner: The weathercock of St. Johann zu Hünshoven , home calendar of the district of Heinsberg 1996, p. 72

Web links

Commons : St. Johann Baptist (Hünshoven)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geilenkirchen Monument List No. 32 , entry: May 3, 1983
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Peters : A tent of God among the people . In: Local calendar of the Heinsberg district , 2002, page 157.
  3. ↑ Hünshoven, Catholic Church of St. Johann Baptist. on the website of the 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation Foundation