St. Josef (Horst)

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St. Joseph

Horst St. Josef Church side view.jpg

Denomination : Roman Catholic
Consecration date : July 21, 1915
Parish : horst
Address: 52525 Heinsberg,

Randerather Strasse

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 38 ″  N , 6 ° 10 ′ 30 ″  E

Tower view of the Church of St. Joseph

The St. Josef Church is located in the Horst district in the town of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The single-nave church is at the entrance to Randerath , on a small hill on Randerather Straße. To the church building closes cemetery at.

history

In 1892 the architect Julius Busch from Neuss designed a plan for the construction of a church in Horst. The foundation stone was laid on May 14, 1894. On October 9, 1895, the local pastor Gottfried Mommartz from Dremmen authorized the church. The solemn consecration was on July 21, 1915. War damage to the church was repaired by 1949. On the north side of the choir , a second sacristy was added in 1962 according to plans by J. Esser from Dremmen .

Today the parish belongs to the community of communities (GdG) Heinsberg-Oberbruch .

architecture

The church is a single-nave, neo-Gothic brick building with a pointed arched, four-bay cross - ribbed vault . The one-bay choir has a five-sided choir closure. The four-storey west tower has a five-sided stair tower on the right.

Furnishing

literature

  • Episcopal General Vicariate Aachen (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen, B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7
  • Volume Eight 1904: The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province by Paul Clemen

Web links

Commons : St. Josef (Horst)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Heinsberg Monument List No. 30 , entry: January 19, 1984
  2. More information under: Bells in the Heinsberg region by Norbert Jachtmann on page 175 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2013 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherbaac.de
  3. Heinsberg-Horst, Catholic Church of St. Josef. on the website of the 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation Foundation