St. Josef (Düren)

Josefskirche in Düren

St. Josef is a Roman Catholic branch church in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia . The church building was built between 1937 and 1938 according to plans by Peter Salm and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Joseph . It belongs to the large parish of St. Lukas / Düren-Mitte, which was built in 2010.

location

The Josefskirche is located in the south of Düren on the corner of Zülpicher Straße and Piusstraße. The church also includes the old and new Madonna's house .

history

Originally there was never a church at the current location of the Josefskirche. Until the beginning of the 20th century there were still fields and arable land at this location. Only since then has the area been gradually built on. On December 8, 1928, a church building association was finally founded for the south of Düren. On November 4, 1931, an emergency church was set up in the then vacant Riemann barracks on Euskirchener Strasse, dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua was consecrated. At the same time, the St. Antonius Rectorate was established within the St. Anna parish . Since the Wehrmacht needed the space in 1936 , a new church building in the south of Düren was necessary.

After the Prussian Prime Minister gave permission to build the church, the groundbreaking ceremony on October 12, 1937 took place on the property acquired by the parish in 1932. The foundation stone was laid on October 14, 1937 . On September 25, 1938, the church was consecrated by the Aachen auxiliary bishop Hermann Joseph Sträter . The first wedding in the new church took place on October 2, 1938. Aachen architect Peter Salm provided the plans for the church and the attached rectory . The church was built from bricks by the Birkesdorf company Iven at a price of 140,000 RM. At the same time the new barracks ( tank barracks ) were built on Stockheimer Landstrasse. St. Josef became the local church.

On April 1, 1942, the Rectorate St. Josef was formed, previously the church was part of the Rectorate St. Antonius. This rectorate was not related to the Church of St. Antonius in the Green Belt. However, the church was still a branch church within the parish of St. Anna, but gained a certain degree of independence when it was promoted to rectorate.

During the air raid on Düren on November 16, 1944, the building was only slightly damaged, so that on April 22, 1945 the first St. Mass could be celebrated in St. Josef after the war. In addition, the Anna shrine with the Assumption head was kept in the church between 1945 and 1948, as the Anna church was completely destroyed in the bombing. The Annaoktav and the Winteranna Festival were celebrated in the Josefskirche during these years .

On April 30, 1952, the Rectorate of St. Josef was finally raised to an independent parish and thus completely separated from the mother parish of St. Anna. Thus the branch church of St. Josef became a parish church . On October 11, 1953, the war damage to the church was repaired. The church was rebuilt in the mid-1970s.

On January 1, 2010, the parish was dissolved together with five other parishes in downtown Düren and merged into the new large parish St. Lukas / Düren. Since then, the Josefskirche is no longer a parish church, but a branch church again, as it was until 1952. The parish church of this new large parish became the Anna church.

In December 2015, the new Paul Kuth meeting place was inaugurated. It was previously housed in the neighboring Roncallihaus, which was inaugurated in 1973 and is being sold. The former parish hall in the basement of the church was rebuilt and expanded.

Building description

St. Joseph is a three-aisled basilica in modern forms from the 1930s made of brick. The seven-axis nave is seamlessly connected to the rectangular choir located in the south-east, which is also provided with a rectangular niche on the south-east wall, in which the high altar used to be and today the organ. The three- story bell tower is located in the corner between the southeast wall of the aisle and the northeast wall of the choir. On the other side of the choir is the sacristy . With the exception of those in the aisles, almost all of the windows had a round arch. However, the window openings in the upper aisle were converted into rectangular windows. Furthermore, window openings in the choir were bricked up. These are the only profound changes to the building in the post-war period. The central nave and the choir are spanned by a flat wooden ceiling and the side aisles by a flat and plastered concrete ceiling. The parish hall is located in the basement of the building.

Furnishing

In the interior there is an organ from the company Georges Wiltz from Schiltbach with 26 registers distributed over two manuals and pedal. The instrument was inaugurated on April 21, 1991. It replaces an organ made by the Georg Stahlhuth Orgelbauanstalt in Aachen with 20 registers. It was inaugurated on May 27, 1954. The triumphal cross is a work by the Stolberg artist Albert Sous from 1964. Bonifatius Stirnberg created the new altar, consecrated on January 3, 1981, as well as the ambo and the stations of the cross. The stained glass windows in the aisles are particularly noteworthy . They were designed by Ernst Jansen-Winkeln and date from 1939. They are probably the only stained glass windows in Düren that remained undamaged in Düren during World War II.

Bells

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year	Others
1	Joseph	1.102	800	f sharp ' −1	Feldmann & Eijsbouts; Monasterim, Münster	1965	-
2	-	966	500	g sharp ' + -0	Hans Huesker; Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher	1938	-
3	-	779	275	h ' +3	-	1575	Lending bell from the Protestant village church, Ludwigsdorf ( Saxony )

Motive: Gloria

Rectors and Pastors

The following pastors worked at St. Josef until the parish was dissolved in 2010 (until the parish was raised in 1952, the pastors had the title of rector ):

from ... to	Surname
1931-1934	Josef Adolph (Rector)
1934-1937	Johannes Gehlen (Rector)
1937-1972	Wilhelm Bohnekamp (pastor since 1952)
1972-1997	Peter Kremer
1997-2010	Ernst-Joachim Stinkes (dissolution of the parish in 2010)

Web links

• Church of St. Joseph on the site of the parish of St. Luke

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://bistumskarten.kibac.de/region-dueren/gdg-dueren-mitte
2. ↑ Manfred Mende and Hans Georg Tangemann: Parish St. Josef - Chronicle of the parish St. Josef Düren-Süd. Düren 2009, p. 1 ff.
3. ↑ Manfred Mende and Hans Georg Tangemann: Parish St. Josef - Chronicle of the parish St. Josef Düren-Süd. Düren 2009, p. 9 ff.
4. ^ Düren, Catholic Church of St. Josef. In: Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Accessed on January 9, 2017 . 
5. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Düren region , p. 55.
6. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 337.

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 33.4 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 42.4"  E