St. Joseph (Lendringsen)
The parish church of St. Josef in Lendringsen (town of Menden (Sauerland) in North Rhine-Westphalia ) is the main church of the parish of St. Josef and the pastoral association of Lendringsen Hönnetal . It has been a listed building since 1985 and bears monument number 42.
history
Due to the industrialization that began at Hönne and Bieber at the end of the 19th century and the associated rapid increase in population, a new church was built between 1908 and 1909 in the south of Menden, on land that the Schulte-Hense family had made available consecrated to Saint Joseph . The benediction took place on August 15, 1909 by dean Boeddicker of St. Vincenz, the solemn consecration on October 6, 1912 by Bishop Karl Joseph Schulte from Paderborn .
Furnishing
The church has three large windows in the chancel. The left window shows a very popular scene, Saint Joseph as a carpenter at work, Mary and Jesus watch him. In the middle the central window with the Most Holy Trinity as a central element. The lower third shows Mary and Joseph, and between them the clearly recognizable St. Joseph's Church, as it was stretched out towards the Trinity. The right window is a rarity in sacred art: St. Joseph on his deathbed; at his side Jesus, who blesses his foster father.
The interior of the church was completely redesigned after the Second Vatican Council in 1967/1968. In the main axis of the church in front of the rear wall of the choir - where the main altar used to stand, the tabernacle was given its worthy central place, flanked by bronze candlesticks. This tabernacle stele - repository for the Holy Eucharist - is represented as a tree of life and symbolizes on the doors the parable of the wonderful multiplication of bread by ears and fish. The altar shows a stylized crown of thorns from which drops of blood fall to the ground. The choir is decorated with works by the sculptor Joseph Baron from Hemmerde. On February 1, 1970, Auxiliary Bishop P. Nordhues consecrated the altar, in whose altar plate there are relics of Saints Simplicius and Mansuetus . The ambo and priest's seat, together with the baptismal font, complete the sanctuary as the place of the sacred liturgy . White ribbons are attached to the baptismal font, symbolizing the admission of the baptized to the community.
The main nave of the church is flanked by eight inconspicuous windows. In the field below the church one of the eight has ever Beatitudes shown as in the Sermon on the Mount are called by Jesus.
The Way of the Cross was created by Anton Waller from 1920 to 1922 . Waller is one of the artists of the so-called Wiedenbrück School . The richness of detail in the station pictures and the clear allocation of “good and bad” are typical of that time.
In the rear of the church there are further crosses on the right and left. After the Second World War, crosses with the names of soldiers from Lendring who died in the war were hung in the church.
Directly opposite, crosses have been commemorating the parishioners who have died in the last twelve months since 2006. Often there are candles burning here that remind of a very specific person.
The ringing consists of a total of four bells. The main bell in the tower consists of three special bronze bells from Brilon from 1948, tone sequence d'-f'-g '. In the roof turret hangs a small conversion bell with the tone f sharp ", cast in 1663.
swell
- 100 years / 1910–2010 parish of St. Josef Lendringsen.
- 1910–1985 75 years of the parish of St. Josef Lendringsen.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Barth, Elmar Hartmann, August Kracht, Heinz Störing: Art and historical monuments in the Märkisches Kreis . 3rd revised and expanded edition. Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis, Altena 1993, ISBN 3-89053-000-1 .
- ↑ Veit Brinkmann: From Menden belfries . Ed .: City of Menden. Menden 2009.
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 7 ° 50 ′ 0.1 ″ E