St. Liborius (Eissen)

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The catholic parish church St. Liborius is a listed church building in Eissen , a district of Willebadessen , in the district of Höxter , in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The parish was first mentioned in a document in 1231. In the new building from 1912 to 1914, the choir and west tower were taken over from the former, smaller Romanesque hall church. In 1923 the church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Haehling von Lanzenauer .

The baroque altar from 1700 and figures of saints from the 18th century have been preserved from the old furnishings . A memorial stone in front of the church from 1970 commemorates the bombing raid on Eissen on April 1, 1945.

Four bells from the renowned Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen hang in the tower of St. Liborius . The Otto company cast three bells in 1934, only one of which survived the Nazi bell destruction. After the war, two bronze bells (d '- f') were made for St. Liborius in 1947 and another bells h 0 in 1948/49 .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pastoralverbund Willebadessen-Peckelsheim: Eissen - St. Liborius - pv-wb-ph.de , accessed on October 11, 2019
  2. ^ Dehio, pp. 149, 150 and 126
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular pp. 538, 543, 545.
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular pp. 497, 501, 503.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 59 ″  E