St. Severin (Karken)

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St. Severin

Karken Catholic Church.jpg

Denomination : Roman Catholic
Consecration date : September 19, 1901
Parish : Karken
Address: 52525 Heinsberg,

Holzgraben / Tichelkamp

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 12 ″  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 46 ″  E The St. Severin Churchis located in the district of Karken in the city of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The basic church is the center of the place. It is on the corner of Holzgraben / Tichelkamp. The rectory and the parish office are in the immediate vicinity .

history

The first mentioned church from 1422 was replaced by a hall church in 1774 and no longer used from 1901, since a new building was built elsewhere in 1898–1901 . In 1922 it was sold, including the baroque furnishings, to the parish of St. Hubertus Duisburg-Rahm for demolition. It can still be viewed there today. The steeple of the first church from 1561 has kept its location in the current cemetery .

In 1888 the St. Severinus collecting society was founded in Karken. The architect Lambert von Fisenne from Gelsenkirchen took over the construction management . The new church was consecrated on September 19, 1901 . On January 27, 1945 the church was destroyed by the effects of the war. In 1951 the church could be rebuilt. In 1964 the tower was extended . On December 19, 1970 the altar was consecrated. After a fire in the sacristy in 1972, the church was renovated.

architecture

The building is a brick structure with a basically built over building with a two-aisled transept , two rectangular side choirs next to the choir yoke and a five-sided choir closure. The four-storey church tower has a pyramid roof . This is crowned by a tower cross and a weathercock .

Furnishing

gallery

literature

  • Episcopal General Vicariate Aachen (ed.): Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen, B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7
  • Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X
  • Volume Eight 1904: The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province by Paul Clemen
  • Home calendar of the district of Heinsberg 1984: As in Karken in der Kirche ... , by Willy Schol, p. 47

Web links

Commons : St. Severin (Karken)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Late medieval wooden sculptures in the Church of St. Severin (Karken) ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. More information under: Bells in the Heinsberg region by Norbert Jachmann on page 177 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2013 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherbaac.de
  3. Stained glass of the Catholic Church of St. Severin on the website of the Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting eV