St. Josef (Immigrath)

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Parish Church of St. Joseph in Immigrath

Sankt Josef in Immigrath is a Catholic parish church and the central church of the Catholic parish of St. Josef and Martin .

history

General

Increasing numbers of believers, especially because many of Immigrath immigrant factory workers , led in 1880 to the fact that the call for a separate parish grew louder. In addition, the immigrant Catholics did not want to participate in the construction of a new nave in Richrath. A vacancy at the pastor's position in Richrath was therefore used to build an own parish church. The founding meetings for the establishment of a parish took place from 1880 in today's Catholic youth home . After setting up an emergency churchin 1886 the elevation to an independent parish took place in 1896.

The same parish merged on 1 January 2011 at the course of the archbishop's project "Shaping Change - faith unfold" with the seven other Langenfeld communities to parish St. Joseph and Martin . St. Josef is the central church of the community.

About the name

The name of Joseph of Nazareth consecrated parish church is a chapel back on Steinrausch that (as the first church from about 1676 in the area of today's Hewag-pin road Richrather corner Theodor Heuss Street ) should have stood. The building , made of half-timbered wattle walls, had to be demolished in 1830 because it was dilapidated because of the flooding of the stream . A successor building is said to have been demolished shortly before completion under pressure from the mother parish of St. Martin in Richrath . Incidentally , the Immigrather Bach , which caused the demolition of the first chapel, now runs through the Solinger Straße with pipes . He gave (piped) the former Kanalstrasse (today's Richrather Strasse 1 and Solinger Strasse 70 to 74) its name. The location of the band marked until it contacts the Heuss road and the transformation of the former Immigrather triangle ( Solingen road , Richrather road and Kanalstraße ) a cross , which in its transformation to the intersection before the town hall at the corner Solingen road / Heuss road was added .

To the church building

The foundation stone for an emergency church was laid on September 26, 1886. The solemn inauguration of the makeshift, initially covered with roofing felt, took place in 1901. 14 years after the inauguration of this emergency church, the building was raised to the height of today's nave. The church was built in Romanesque style as a brick - Basilica built. The tower , originally only up to the height of the central nave , was completed in 1924. The four bells of the chilled cast iron bells, produced by the Schilling-Lattermann company in Apolda ( mass of the bells: Sebastianus - 2756 kg, Antonius - 1630 kg, Marien - 1108 kg and Joseph's bell 763 kg) were consecrated on May 17th of Hanged in the tower in 1925. The Gothic bell of Mary , which had been obtained from a dilapidated church on December 19, 1886 , could be handed over to St. Paulus in Berghausen . Earthquake damage and further repair work, especially of the tower, took place in 1995.

To design

The baptismal font of the church comes from the parish of Kaiserswerth and was given to St. Josef as early as 1893. The windows in the apse were inserted in 1901. They come from the Hertel and Lersch art glass workshop in Düsseldorf. The side aisles received their colored glass windows only in 1956. They were designed by the glass artist Willy de Graf from Essen-Werden . The Way of the Cross and the mosaics are also by an artist from Werden, Josef von Heekern. The restructuring due to the second Vatican Council was carried out by Josef Baron from Unna . In 1976 the chancel was redesigned with a hanging cross , ambo and sacrament house .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b When stones become bread . Festschrift One Hundred Years of St. Josef Langenfeld-Immigrath, Langenfeld, 1986.
  2. ^ A b c Rolf Müller: City History Langenfeld Rhineland . Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld, 1992.
  3. ^ VHS work group "History": The Chapel at Steinrausche . Langenfeld, 1993.
  4. ↑ a b c d Environmental Protection and Beautification Association Langenfeld eV: A guide through the built history of Langenfeld .
  5. ↑ Rudy Schörmann: Langenfeld-Berghausen - then, yesterday, today . Bukowski publishing house, Langenfeld, 2000.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 38 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 4 ″  E