St. Josef (Selm)
| St. Joseph | |
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 View before dismantling (April 2010) |
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| Data | |
| place | 59379 Selm |
| Construction year | 1924 ff. |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 41 '37.8 " N , 7 ° 28' 4.5" E |
| particularities | |
| Roman Catholic branch church in the parish of St. Josef of the parish of St. Ludger Selm [Diocese of Münster] | |
St. Josef , also Josefskirche , was a Catholic church in the Westphalian town of Selm in the southern Münsterland in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was under the patronage of St. Joseph . The church was on the district road through which Beifang crosses, opposite the Overberg elementary school and next to the St. Josef retirement home.
history
From the Catholic parish of St. Ludger in Selm which developed after the establishment colliery Hermann the parish of St. Joseph in 1909, first from 1924 to 1951 as a non-independent Rector community with its own branch church of St. Joseph, then to 2008 as a parish of St. Josef, since then as a parish of the parish of St. Ludger formed from the merger of the three parishes St. Josef, St. Ludger and St. Stephanus.
For the decisive year 1924, the chronicle of the parish of St. Josef indicates a membership of around 5,000 Catholics in the Selm- Beifang settlement area , while in the old territory of the parish of St. Ludger only around 2,300 Catholics were counted. As early as 1922 there were first ideas to build a church for the Selm-Beifang colony. On September 30, 1923, the workers 'association St. Joseph was founded as a spin-off from the St. Ludger workers' association with 124 founding members . On October 10, 1923, the 33-year-old chaplain Wilhelm Bruns took over pastoral care in Beifang, he became the first parish rector of the parish, which was becoming independent in a long process. In the following eleven years, up to the transfer of Parish Rector Bruns in the spring of 1934, the basic structural and personal structures of the St. Joseph parish were laid.
Church building in 1924
The population of Selms has risen steadily with the development of the Hermann colliery. A total of 3600 inhabitants are named for 1910, and 10,622 for 1923. As a replacement for the old parish church of St. Fabian and Sebastian (today: Friedenskirche ), a large neo-Gothic church building was completed as the parish church of St. Ludger in 1908. With the St. Joseph Workers' Association, founded in 1923, a solid core of families was connected to the development of the branch community. Weekly religious training strengthened the bond between Kaplan Bruns and the men of the association.
From the beginning of 1924 they worked together on building the church. While the chronicle points out that a plot of land previously used by young people was made available by the owner Weischer, it has been known since 2011 that a purchase agreement between the then parish of St. Ludger and the owner Weischer was concluded in 1914. However, this only came into force after the approval of the purchase and the building of the church by the diocese of Münster. Cathedral builder Wilhelm Sunder-Plaßmann from Münster designed a building plan that was implemented after approval by the church council of the still decisive parish of St. Ludger. For the foundation, stones from the Ondrup farmers were provided free of charge by the farmer Wörmann from his quarry. The contracted building contractor allowed men from the parish to volunteer to help build the church, in particular when building the foundation walls and breaking the stones in the quarry.
To finance the construction, chaplain Bruns undertook extensive “begging tours”. On June 29, 1924, the feast of Peter and Paul, the cornerstone for the church was laid. Financing was further advanced in Selm through a house collection and a raffle . On 14 December 1924, the church was vicar general Meis ordained . On January 6, 1925, the first Christmas party could take place in the parish hall.
demolition
The church was abandoned and demolished in November 2016. The church tower was preserved.
literature
- Unknown author: Chronik der Kirchengemeinde St. Joseph, Volume 1, 1924–1949 [Parish archives St. Joseph]
- Michael Kertelge: The miners' community of St. Josef in Selm-Beifang: a local Catholic milieu 1933–1945; a contribution to the history of National Socialism in Selm, series of the Selm City Archives, Selm 1995
- Rita Weißenberg: Nothing was given to us. Selm Beifang 1906–1933, self-published by the city of Selm 1985, ISBN 3-9801211-0-0
