St. Johann Baptist (Lammersdorf)

St. Johann Baptist in Lammersdorf

St. Johann Baptist is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Lammersdorf district of the Simmerath community in the Aachen region ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The church is dedicated to John the Baptist and entered under number 128 in the list of architectural monuments in Simmerath .

history

General

Originally Lammersdorf belonged to the parish of Konzen . After the establishment of the Simmerath parish , Lammersdorf was a branch of this. The first chapel was built around 1600, as the way to the Simmerath Church was quite difficult. Between 1705 and 1709 the chapel was replaced by a new church in baroque forms. It was a single-nave hall church made of rubble stones. At the end of the 18th century the church was extended by two bays to the east. In the course of the parish registration during the French period , Lammersdorf was finally raised to an independent parish in 1804. The last service was celebrated in the old baroque church on March 18, 1901, and then canceled because the church had become too small for the increased population.

Church building

In the 1890s, the church council decided to build a new church on the site of the old one. The Düsseldorf architect Josef Kleesattel was commissioned with the planning, and it was decided to implement it on August 21, 1898. Construction work began in the first half of 1901 and on July 21, 1901 the foundation stone was laid by the Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Antonius Fischer for the building, which was designated on November 9, 1902. In the Second World War , the parish church was only slightly damaged, unlike many churches in the Monschauer Land.

architecture

St. Johann Baptist is a simple hall church in the neo-Gothic style with an east-west orientation made of Eifel sandstone. In the basement of the three-story bell tower to the west is the main portal, with a side chapel on the north and south sides.

The three-aisled and four-bay nave adjoins the pre-built tower . The central nave is 6.75 meters wide and the side aisles are 3.80 meters wide. The central nave and the side aisles are divided by arcades supported by granite columns. The two-bay, five-sided closed choir adjoins the nave . A sacristy or a secondary sacristy is added to the north and south sides . The entire structure is vaulted by a ribbed vault. The window openings have two lanes and are tracery .

Furnishing

The almost completely preserved neo-Gothic furnishings from the 1900s are located in the interior. These include the wooden high altar with associated side altars, the lighting, the benches and the confessional , as well as an altar of Perpetual Help. The ornamental painting by the Cologne painter Rosenthal from 1911 was whitewashed after the Second World War, but was exposed again between 1990 and 1996. The stained glass windows with geometric ornaments created by Heinrich Junker the 1950s.

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  St. Johann Baptist, central nave

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  Sanctuary

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  Crucifixion group

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  Mary Altar

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  Joseph Altar

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  Organ loft

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  Baptismal font

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  John the Baptist

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  Pietà

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  Ceiling decor, aisle

Pastor

The following pastors have worked at St. Johann Baptist so far:

from ... to	Surname
1927-1930	Matthias Berg
1930-1953	Peter Schall
1953-1959	Wilhelm Brandenburg
1959-1972	Johannes Roderburg
1972-1985	Cornelius Schouten
1985-1986	Franz Matzerath
1986-2002	Karl-Heinz Graff
2002-2010	Hermann van Gorp
Since 2010	Michael Stoffels

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The first church on the website of the history workshop Lammersdorf, October 6, 2015 ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Today's church on the website of the history workshop Lammersdorf, October 6, 2015 ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2015 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. 
3. ↑ Website www.eifel.de, October 6, 2015
4. ↑ Website of the Foundation Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting
5. ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen . 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 606.

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 52 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 41 ″  E