St. Josef (Huerth)
The parish church of St. Josef was a Roman Catholic church in the Hürth district of Knapsack . It was built in 1912 and initially served as a branch church of (Alt-) Hürth until it became an independent rectorate church on April 1, 1915 and an independent parish church on December 4, 1920. It was closed in 1975 as part of the resettlement of the town of Knapsack because of the environmental pollution caused by the neighboring industry and the Rhenish lignite mine , and in 1976 it was demolished.
history
A hermitage belonging to a forest brother with a chapel dedicated to St. Joseph was first mentioned on Knapsack in 1558 . It was on the corner of what would become Kirchstrasse and today's Industriestrasse. There the patronage festival was celebrated with a market. Processions and pilgrimages were held. It was abolished with the secularization in 1802. Even afterwards, the place marked by a cross was popular with the believers in the area.
The place Knapsack had about 400 inhabitants in 1900 and grew by leaps and bounds due to the chemical industry , the Goldenberg power plant and the Knapsacker and Hürth lignite works in the area; a large part of the population was Catholic. For this reason, pastor Karl Hamacher von (Alt-) Hürth founded a church building association and a building committee in 1907 and suggested that Knapsack build his own church. For this purpose, money was collected in the community, plus a large donation from the United Ville in the amount of 5,000 marks, nitrogen AG donated 2000 marks and the political community (Alt-) Hürth 5000 marks. The proceeds of a diocesan collection brought in 9,000 marks. The total construction costs for the simple structure were 32,293 marks. The property was donated by parishioners Peter Josef and Maria Josefa Brand and Adolf Derkum.
On June 2, 1912, the foundation stone for the church was laid and subsequently built by the architect Lövenich from Frechen according to the plans of the builder of the Hürth mayor's office, Albert Lüttgenau . In the same year, on December 8th, the church was consecrated by Pastor Hamacher; on the same day the relics of St. Ursula and other Cologne saints were walled up in the altar. Pastor Hamacher donated the main altar, while the side altars came from the old parish church Alt St. Katharina , which had inherited even dissolved churches in the region. The confessionals that had previously been in the old Katharinen Church came from the abandoned monastery church in Lechenich , while the Way of the Cross came from the parish church in Bliesheim . The church windows were donated by the Krisinger, Kindgen and Krawcak families in 1915, the bell was bought for 600 marks by the Bochumer Verein bell foundry and finally, in 1915, the organ was supplied by the Klais company in Bonn.
The consecration of the first only as a daughter church classified church took place on 11 July 1914 by the Auxiliary Bishop Peter Joseph Lausberg from Cologne. The Hürth chaplain read mass at the beginning of the Sunday and once a week. On April 1, 1915, under the pastor Gerhard Radecke, it was raised to the status of an independent rectorate , and on December 4, 1920, the parish became an independent parish under rector Haller.
Building description
According to postcard views, the church with the tower was facing Kirchstrasse, and the choir was accordingly facing southwest. She had seen a side aisle on the right side of the tower entrance. The nave was five arches long, the choir was in front of the hall church and half high. The choir roof was pulled down between the four-sided choir walls and the nave and probably provided space for a sacristy each . A few cross-shaped transverse structures for the numerous side altars seem to have been added to the left. The squat tower, whose truncated four-sided pyramid dome is hipped to the sides and back, sits half on the church roof, half is built in front of the church.
New St. Joseph Church in Hürth-Mitte
On July 1, 1976 the parish of St. Joseph was officially relocated to Hermülheim (Hürth-Mitte). The church from 1912 on what is now known as Kirchstrasse in Knapsack, opposite Schulstrasse, was demolished a few years later.
As a replacement, a new church with the old patronage was built in Hermülheim in the new town and church center Hürth-Mitte. A parish hall had already been built there and served as a place of worship for the congregation from December 2, 1976 until the new church was built.
The new church of St. Joseph was consecrated as the youngest church in Hürth on May 26, 1991 after a two-year construction period by Cardinal Meisner . The 25 meter high round tower, which was crowned by a metal construction in May 1993, carries the weathercock of the old parish church. The Knapsacker resettled to the Pescher Höfe also belonged to St. Joseph again. Today the parish has been merged with the parishes of Hermülheim, Efferen and Kalscheuren and the parish center has been sold to the city of Hürth, which temporarily housed refugees here. Masses continue to be held in the church.
The organ was built in 1995 by the Weimbs organ building company. The slider chest instrument has 23 stops on two manual works and a pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical. A specialty of the instrument is the disposition in the Spanish style, with horizontal reed registers in the main work.
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See also
literature
- December 8, 1912 - December 8, 1962. Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Church of St. Josef in Knapsack with the program of the religious week from November 25 to December 2, 1962 in the Knapsack Church. Hürth, 1962 (Folder 4 pages).
- Clemens Klug: Hürth - art treasures and monuments. Huerth 1978; Page 104.
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Wilhelm Rosellen: History of the parishes of the deanery Brühl , JP Bachem Verlag Cologne 1887, p. 349 f .; Manfred Faust: History of the City of Hürth , ed. from Heimat und Kulturverein Hürth, Cologne, JP Bachem Verlag, 2009, p. 35
- ↑ Hürther Heimat, No. 71/72, chronicle p. 120
- ↑ HH No. 74, Chronicle p. 131
- ↑ Information about the organ (as of May 28, 2018)
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ' N , 6 ° 51' E