St. Mary's Assumption (Neuwerk)
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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Assumption is in the district Neuwerk in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Liebfrauenstraße 18th
The church was designed by the architect Alfons Leitl and built from 1961 to 1963 and consecrated on May 24, 1964. It was entered under No. L 043 on August 17, 1998 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
In the historic center of Neuwerk, located in the immediate vicinity of the monastery grounds and the Catholic cemetery, the parish church with its service buildings (parish office, apartments for the clergy) forms an overall ensemble that characterizes the street space.
architecture
The church building was built in connection with a parish center . The original plan envisaged a closed, strictly symmetrical rectangular system with the axially aligned church and the bell tower rising freely to the left . The south-western building facing Liebfrauenstrasse, which was intended to accommodate the community hall and youth home, and the library building in the south-east on Engelblecker Strasse, closing the square, were not implemented.
The church is designed as an elongated cube in brickwork with a flat gable roof , which is supported by steel girders in front of the facade . The front surfaces of the roof are clad with copper sheet up to the top of the window openings, which are designed as a sawtooth-like window strip that engages the wall surfaces . There is a large cross on the top of the gable . Single storey, u. a. the rooms used as sacristy and aisles enclose the building at ground level. On the left, connected to the vestibule, the free-standing bell tower rises. The tower, faced with bricks, has nine storeys at a height of 39 m. The false ceilings appear on the outer skin as strips of exposed concrete, the sound hatches extend over three floors.
The interior of the church is characterized by the large, hall-like central nave, to which the side aisles supported by twin columns are set off by the exposed concrete strips of the ceilings. The inner walls are designed with perforated bricks placed on edge in geometric brickwork. The ceiling was at the last renovation of the church - as well as the redesigned chancel and the front of the organ loft early organ - renewed for acoustic reasons.
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 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
swell
- 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 .
- Schallenburger, Holger: Against the Gladbacher objections. History of the parish of St. Mary's Assumption, Neuwerk. 1st edition, 2004. Neuwerker Heimatfreunde eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ history. In: klosterkirche-neuwerk.de. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Holger Schallenburger: Against the Gladbacher objections - history of the parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt, Neuwerk . Ed .: Neuwerker Heimatfreunde eV 1st edition. Neuwerker Heimatfreunde eV, Mönchengladbach 2004, ISBN 3-00-013380-1 , p. 83-84 .
- ↑ 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 21.8 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 12 ″ E