St. Johannes Baptist (Langenstrasse-Heddinghausen)

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St. Johannes Baptist (Langenstrasse-Heddinghausen)

The Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptist is a listed church building in Langenstrasse-Heddinghausen , a district of Rüthen in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The neo-Romanesque transept basilica was built from local sandstone under the supervision of Arnold Güldenpfennig . He based the design on the forms of the Rhenish late Romanesque . The choir is adorned with a dwarf gallery . The west tower one was lozenge roof put on. The stair tower is flanked by two two-story extensions. The walls are divided by arched, fan and rose windows. The stepped column portals are adorned with thympana . The ribbed vaults were drawn in over cross pillars. The tower hall and above the organ gallery above are semicircular open to the central nave.

Furnishing

St. Johannes-Baptist-Kirche in Rüthen-Langenstraße: high altar
  • The partially figurative wall paintings from the period from 1909 to 1911 were created by A. Wittkopp.
  • The leaded glass windows by Joseph Osterrath were installed in 1892.
  • The main and side altars are from 1898/1899.
  • The organ was built by Franz Eggert in 1894.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 946.

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 38.8 "  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 46.1"  E