St. New Year's Eve (salary)

Bell cage in Neu-Lohn with a poster that shows the old St. New Year's Church

St. Silvester was the Roman Catholic parish church in the Lohn district of the city of Eschweiler in the Aachen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The church was popularly called the Jülich Land Cathedral because of its size . The parish included the branches of the so-called parish Lohn Erberich , Fronhoven with the branch church St. Josef, Langendorf and Pützlohn , as well as the manor house of Hausen .

The church was blown up on December 11, 1973 because it had to give way to the brown coal opencast mine in the future .

history

The parish and church in Lohn were first mentioned in the Liber valoris from the period between 1310 and 1316. However, Lohn was probably an independent parish since the 11th century.

The first church in Lohn was built in the first half of the 9th century. This church was a wooden church . This was replaced in the 12th century by a stone church, which was built in the Romanesque style. In 1698 the Romanesque church was demolished except for the bell tower and replaced by a building in presumably baroque forms.

At the end of the 19th century, the baroque church became too small for the increased population and also fell into disrepair, as a result of which the church council decided to build a new church in the same place. The Vicariate General approved the plans for the construction, but with the objection to preserve the old Romanesque bell tower from the 12th century. On February 24, 1902, the demolition work could finally begin. However, it was found that the tower could not be preserved. In the same year, namely on June 29, the foundation stone was laid . The new church was inaugurated on September 7, 1903. The church was built in the neo-Romanesque architectural style as a three-aisled cruciform church with a transept, a three- story bell tower in the west and a semicircular apse in the east. The building material were typical local bricks.

The last service was held on December 17, 1972 in St. New Year's Eve. On December 11, 1973, the parish church was blown up because it had to give way to the future opencast mine like the entire village of Lohn.

As a replacement, the New Parish Church was built in the Neu-Lohn resettlement site according to plans by the Eschweiler architect Heinz Kaldenbach . The foundation stone was laid on December 31, 1971 and the inauguration took place on June 14, 1975 by the emeritus Aachen Bishop Johannes Pohlschneider .

After the recultivation of the area on which Lohn was once located, the Lohn Memorial Chapel was built between 2002 and 2003 on the square where the Lohner parish church once stood.

Furnishing

In the interior of the church there was still a large part of the furnishings from the time the church was built. The neo-Romanesque high altar with two associated side altars should be mentioned. The right side altar, the Jesus-Maria-Josef altar, is now in the memorial chapel. Further pieces of equipment can be found in the Neu-Lohner Church.

Bells

The bells are now in the parish church in Neu-Lohn. Unfortunately, nothing is known about bell 1.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	-	?	?	?	?	?
2	-	1,083	776	ges ′ -4	Johannes Bourlet, Jülich	1679
3	-	960	550	as ′ -3	Johannes Bourlet, Jülich	1679

Motif: Te Deum

See also

• List of profaned churches in the diocese of Aachen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Steinbring: The medieval parish of wages. The suburbs. On the archeology of rural settlements in the Aldenhovener Platte. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate. Bonn 2004, p. 7.
2. ↑ Bernd Steinbring: The medieval parish of wages. The suburbs. On the archeology of rural settlements in the Aldenhovener Platte. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate. Bonn 2004, p. 6 f.
3. ↑ History of the old parish church on the website of the parish of Lohn
4. ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Aachen-Land region, p. 84.

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 50.8 "  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 37.7"  E