St. Joseph (Schwalenberg)

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St. Joseph in Schwalenberg

St. Joseph was a Roman Catholic parish church in Schwalenberg , one of the eponymous districts of Schieder-Schwalenberg in the Lippe district , North Rhine-Westphalia . The church and parish belonged to the Lippe-Süd pastoral network of the Bielefeld-Lippe dean's office in the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

history

The Church of St. Joseph, built in 1870 according to plans by Arnold Güldenpfennig , had become dilapidated and the community wanted to have a larger church service room according to the specifications of the Second Vatican Council . This is how today's church was built in 1971/73 according to plans by architects Georg Niederleig and Klaus Fröscher . The building was desecrated as a church in 2013 and demolished in 2015 without replacement.

architecture

The church rose above a cruciform floor plan, the arms of which can be used as separate rooms. The sacristy was housed in one arm . The roofs were flat, the walls partially glazed or made of white panels.

The tower had an elongated floor plan and was made of exposed concrete. It had a steep, sloping shape and was crowned by a cross. Together with the church and low outbuildings, an inner courtyard was created.

Inside the church, the surfaces in the floor and ceiling pointed towards the altar.

Furnishing

Sister Erentrud Trost from Varensell created a mosaic for the courtyard in 1983. The mosaic cross on the altar from 1980 and the glazing of the church from 1988 were also made by her.

literature

  • Lothar Wilius: Evangelical and Catholic church centers . In: The Minster . tape 23 , 1970, pp. 356-357 .
  • Bruno Kresing (Ed.): Church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn . 2000, p. 12-13 .
  • Natalie Schilk: Church building in Lippe 1945–2001 . 2001, p. 179–180 (Diploma thesis, University of Applied Sciences Lippe, 2001).
  • Heinrich Otten: Church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930–1975 . Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7 , p. 370 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marianne Schwarzer: Church demolition: the sacred space is already in ruins. lz.de, August 9, 2015, accessed on April 13, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 39.6 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 43.2"  E