St. Josef (Giesenkirchen)

church

The Church of St. Joseph stands in the district Schelsen in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Gereonstraße 40th

The building was built in 1924. It was entered under No. G 042 on February 8, 1994 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

It is a church with a parish hall and parsonage from the years 1924 and 1938, regionally influenced Heimatstil .

It is a three-part building complex that was completed every ten years. The central tract (parish hall) standing on the eaves , emphasized by a connecting corridor, is framed on the left by the gable church building and on the right by the rectory. The buildings are built in the local brick style with voluminous pitched roofs covered with brick.

Bells

In the tower of the church hangs a three-part ringing of bronze bells from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen. The strike tone series is: f sharp - g sharp - b (f - g - b). The 2.3 ton bells were confiscated and transported away during World War II, but were not melted down and could be returned to the community after the war.

literature

Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

swell

List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 .
Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .

Individual evidence

↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here especially 540 .
↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 499 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

51.154703 6.513709Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 16.9 " N , 6 ° 30 ′ 49.4" E

[1] Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here especially 540 .

[3] Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 499 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).