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St. New Years Eve in Neu-Lohn

St. Silvester is the Roman Catholic parish church in the Neu-Lohn district of Eschweiler in the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia . The church building has served since 1972 as a replacement for the old parish church of St. Silvester in Lohn , which was blown up on December 11, 1973 , and which had to give way to the brown coal opencast mine in the future along with the entire place . After the recultivation , the Lohn Memorial Chapel was built in 2002/2003 on the site of the old church.

history

parish

The Neu-Lohner, until 1972 Lohner parish , was first mentioned together with a church in the Liber valoris from around 1308. Wages, however, were probably an independent parish earlier. In addition to Lohn itself, the parish of Lohn included the subsidiary communities of Erberich , Langendorf , Pützlohn and the Hausen manor . Like Lohn itself, these places had to give way to the future opencast mine. Only the Fronhoven branch was not completely dredged, only the northern part with the St. Josef branch church fell victim to the opencast mine. Since the resettlement site Neu-Lohn was added to the south of Fronhoven, it is still located in the old Lohner parish area.

Today the parish together with five other parishes form the community of parishes (GdG) Eschweiler-Nord in the diocese of Aachen .

Church building

Today's Neu-Lohner parish church was built between 1971 and 1972 according to plans by the Eschweiler architect Heinz Kaldenbach as a round building in the typical exposed concrete construction of the time. The church is about 1 km from the old church site. The foundation was on 31 December 1971, on the anniversary of the parish and church patron Pope Sylvester I specify. The blessing took on 23 December 1972, the Aldenhovener Dechant Wilhelm before blades. Since then, the church has also been the new parish church of the Lohner parish. The consecration took place on June 14, 1975 by the Aachen Bishop Johannes Pohlschneider .

50 years of resettlement parish Lohn

Bell cage with poster

For the 50th anniversary of the resettlement of the parish of Lohn, a poster with the imprint of the old parish church from Lohn was attached to the bell chair. In addition, another poster was placed near the old branch church of St. Josef von Fronhoven.

Furnishing

In the interior there is modern equipment from the time the church was built. Only a few pieces of equipment from the old Lohner church were taken over into the new building. Mention should be made of the popular altar , the cross and the tabernacle made of stainless steel. They are works by the metal sculptor Albert Sous from Würselen . In the sacrament chapel there is a mission cross that was part of the furnishings of the old Lohner church. The old Lohner baptismal font has been in the church since 1996. Before that, it was in the Neu-Lohner cemetery since the relocation and was planted with flowers there.

Bells

In the belfry, which is located next to the church since 1977, three of them are bronze - bells hung. The largest bell was cast by Johannes Mark from the Eifel bell foundry in Brockscheid in 1976. It was consecrated on March 19, 1977 by the Aachen prelate Erich Stephany . The two smaller bells were taken from the old Lohner parish church. They are historical bells by Johannes Bourlet from Jülich from 1679.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg, approx.)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 Caster
 		 Casting year
 
1 Joseph 1,307 1,393 it ' -4 Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid 1976
2 New Year's Eve 1,083 776 ges ' -4 Johannes Bourlet, Jülich 1679
3 Maria 960 550 as ' -3 Johannes Bourlet, Jülich 1679

Motif: Te Deum

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The parish church of St. Silvester in Neu-Lohn. In: st-silvester-lohn.de. Retrieved October 7, 2016 .
  2. ^ Achim Mertens: Baptismal font of the parish church of St. Silvester Neu-Lohn / Fronhoven. In: st-silvester-lohn.de. Retrieved October 7, 2016 .
  3. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Aachen-Land region , p. 84.

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 27.6 ″  N , 6 ° 17 ′ 40.3 ″  E