St. Johannes Baptist (Welschen Ennest)
The Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptist is a listed church building on Pfarrer-Sauerwald-Straße in Welschen Ennest , a village in Kirchhundem in the Olpe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
The two - bay neo - Gothic hall church with a transept was built in 1901/02 under the supervision of Johann Adam Rüppel ; The contractor Anton Sunder-Plassmann from Förde (today: Grevenbrück ) was entrusted with the construction . The choir with a 3/8 end faces southwest, the tower crowned with a pointed helmet is characteristic of the town. The plastered quarry stone building is structured by stone and rich tracery in different window shapes, with ornamental and figurative colored windows.
literature
- Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 33 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 6.5 ″ E