St. Johannes Baptist (Blankenstein)

St. John Baptist

The Catholic Church of St. Johannes Baptist is a listed church building in the Blankenstein district of Hattingen . Its namesake is John the Baptist .

History and architecture

Information board on the building

Count Adolf von Altena built Blankenstein Castle in 1227 to protect the Ruhr Valley. The main altar of the castle chapel was consecrated to Johannes Baptist. In the following years the place Blankenstein was created. The parish church for the citizens was St. Georg in Hattingen.

Shortly after the Reformation , the Catholic community was given the town hall for worship, which was demolished in 1792. The classical hall with west tower was built from 1794 to 1801 on the site of the demolished town hall. The walls are made of Ruhr sandstone . The masonry, with the exception of the tower, is rough. It was originally intended to be painted. The entrance is in the tower.

From 1927 to 1929 Georg Metzendorf added an axis to the east and the recessed rectangular choir . The choir was separated from the nave by a triumphal arch. The total length of the church is about 30 meters, before 1929 it was about 23 meters. A flat ceiling was drawn into the interior. The choir was equipped with a deep barrel vault. The interior decoration comes from the Hattingen artist Egon Stratmann .

From 1971 to 1976 the building was slightly rebuilt and at the same time supplemented according to the requirements of the liturgy.

The tower with the entire western front characterizes the small market square. It is embossed with a sandstone setting that works in the vertical and has an archivolt as the top. The windows with arched lintels are also made of sandstone.

Since November 28, 2007 the Johanneskirche has been a branch church of the parish of St. Joseph in Welper .

Furnishing

Door handle by Egon Stratmann

The Corpus Christi , after a report by Professor Leonhard Küppers to the time of Albrecht Dürer returned.
The late Gothic Pietà was created around 1450.
The baroque high altar came as a gift from Lütgendortmund in 1829. During the renovation from 1971 to 1976, it was redesigned in its original color . A warm green and marble structures in gray and red-gray were applied to the panels and structures.
The Tabernacle of bronze was purchased in 1977 and installed in place of the bulky temporary. The swinging forms fit into the existing line structure of the high altar. The doors bear the names of the 24 elders on the throne of the Lamb. The interior doors are coated with an enamel melting technique made of 24-carat gold.
The organ gallery is at the entrance, it is opposite the high altar in one axis. It was redesigned from 1971 to 1976 based on the high altar.
The cubic canteen block of the sacrificial altar lies on a short stipe , it is made of Anröchter dolomite. The four Ways of the Apocalypse taken in are intended to underscore its importance.
The designs and models for the artistic interior design, such as the ambo and door handles, were developed by Egon Stratmann from Welper.
The Way of the Cross was made in 1945 by H. Winkelmann.
The four-part bronze peal sounds in e'-g'-a'-h '. Bell III was cast in Gescher in 1960 by Petit & Edelbrock. The other bells were made in 1949 by the Junker bell foundry in Brilon in Brilon special bronze.

literature

Rüdiger Jordan: From capitals, pulpits and baptismal fonts , Klartext Verlag 2006, Essen, ISBN 3-89861-436-0 , pp. 118–119
Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbook of German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
Heinz Dohmen: image of heaven, a thousand years of church building in the diocese of Essen . Verlag Hoppe and Werrry, 1977