St. Josef (Mönchengladbach)

This article deals with the Josefskirche in Mönchengladbach-Dahl in the district of Hermges. For other Josef churches in Mönchengladbach, see: On St. Joseph (Dorthausen) and St. Josef (Rheydt)

St. Joseph Church

The Catholic parish church of St. Josef is in the Dahl district of Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Richard-Wagner-Straße 26.

The church building was built between 1894 and 1896 and entered on January 26, 1989 under No. R 033 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

The construction of the Church of St. Joseph is closely linked to the formation of the parish . The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1894 and, after two years of construction, the inauguration took place in 1896. It is a vaulted hall church . It was badly damaged by the war.

During the restoration, the type of neo-Gothic church was changed significantly. The long slender spire of the four-storey bell tower was founded in 1967 by an extremely shortened and squat pyramidal roof replaced. The roofs of the aisles were uniformly designed as slightly inclined monopitch roofs and the roofs of the transepts as hipped roofs . The protection of this sacred building, which is important for Hermges, is in the public interest.

Bells

The renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen repeatedly cast bronze bells for the St. Joseph Church in Hermges in 1900, 1901/1902, 1925 and 1927. The four bronze bells from 1925 still exist today. They have the strike note series: h ⁰ - d '–e' - f sharp ''. The bells have the following diameters of 1650 mm, 1350 mm, 1200 mm and 1050 mm and together weigh 6,504 kg.

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 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

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• 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 . 
• 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

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. 
2. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the bell founder Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular 511, 512, 526, 530 .
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 S 488, 491 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 0.7 "  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 33"  E