St. Thomas the Apostle (Liesen)

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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas the Apostle (short St. Thomas d. Apostles ) in Liesen , a district of Hallenberg in Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , the Vicariate Church of belonging to Hallenberg Liesen village. The new church built in 1962 on the outskirts replaced the old parish church of St. Thomas from 1746, which is located in the center of the village and today serves as a parish home .

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The name St. Thomas refers to the apostle Thomas .

History and architecture

Predecessor church from 1746

The first church building in Liesen, today's Old Parish Church of St. Thomas , was built in 1746 from rubble masonry and had a small hall. In the 1950s , the old church with its 150 seats, now serving as a parish church , gradually became too small and the plan to build a new church arose, which was implemented in the early 1960s. The old parish church, located in the center of the village at Dorfstrasse 22 , has been preserved and is now used as the parish home of the parish vicarage of St. Thomas the Apostle Liesen. The building has been a listed building since the end of 1983 and is entered on the list of monuments of the city of Hallenberg .

New church from 1962

The new construction of the church of St. Thomas the Apostle took place from 1961 to 1962 on a plot of land in the outskirts, on Breidenweg , and was carried out according to the construction plans of the architect Johannes Reuter Senior . The estimated construction cost was 380,000  German marks (DM), a portion of around 100,000 DM was raised by the population of Lies. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in July 1961, the foundation stone was laid in September 1961 and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated in December 1961 . The new parish church of St. Thomas the Apostle was completed in 1962 and inaugurated on July 22, 1962 by Paderborn Auxiliary Bishop Paul Nordhues .

The new church was built as a hall church in the functional style of post-war modernism and has 300 seats. The building was structured with concrete pillars; the side parts were lined with bricks and plastered. The square components of the tower and choir are drawn roughly halfway into the elongated nave . The plinths of the tower and the choir are faced with ashlar blocks made of greywacke , the plastered wall surfaces are kept light. The nave and choir are combined by a gable roof , the tower is crowned with a tent roof. The tower was given a three-voiced bells of bronze .

In the interior, two rows of pews are directed towards the chancel protruding into the nave . The nave receives light through side, high and horizontal window fields, while the choir is illuminated by two side high window fields. The ceiling with alternating diagonal formwork follows the slope of the roof, it runs into the tower at the rear. The organ gallery is in this. The tall windows in the nave, the vertical ribbon windows in the chancel and the nine smaller individual windows in the two chapel niches and on the St. Mary's altar were each made of concrete honeycombs and glazed with leaded glass windows . The ornamental design of the tall windows and choir windows is the work of the artist Walter Klocke , who also designed the small-format glass pictures with biblical motifs and symbols. The lead glass window work was carried out by the O. Peters workshop from Paderborn .

In 1982 the church was renovated.

For a long time the parish belonged to the parish of St. Johannes Baptist in Züschen (Winterberg) in the Hochsauerlandkreis. In 2005, the pastoral association of Hallenberg in the Archdiocese of Paderborn was founded as an amalgamation of four parishes, to which the St. Thomas parish in Liesen has belonged as a parish vicarage since then. In July 2012, the 50th consecration of the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in Liesen was celebrated with a week of festivities and a festive high mass . Auxiliary Bishop Manfred Grothe from Paderborn gave the sermon . On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the village of Liesen, a human chain from the St. Thomas Church to the old church in the center of the village was formed in June 2013 as a special event and “expression of the lively village community” .

Furnishing

  • The large stone figure on the portal represents the apostle Thomas, Hans Kaltenegger created it in 1965.
  • The reredos in the chancel comes from the old church, at this point there was previously a large wall and plaster mosaic from the workshop of the Abbey of Herstelle . According to popular belief, the reredos only insufficiently fill the space.
  • Two wooden figures come from the hand of H. Wehrenberg.

organ

In the previous church there was an organ that Franz Ignaz Seuffert probably built around 1760. The instrument had eight registers on a manual and an attached pedal. Rebuilds took place in 1862 and 1922. In 1952, Rudolf Reuter worked in collaboration with the Westphalian State Office for Monument Preservation to maintain the organ. In 1954 Emanuel Kemper (Lübeck) restored the work and replaced four registers (principal, forest flute, mixture and trumpet). The same company implemented the instrument in the new church in 1962. The organ has ten registers, which are distributed over a manual and pedal, mechanical slide chests and a mechanical action . The disposition is as follows.

I Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Principal 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture IV 1'
Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal 8th'

literature

  • Heinrich Otten: The church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930 to 1975 (=  studies and sources on Westphalian history , volume 60). Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7 , p. 270.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c N.N .: Auxiliary Bishop Grothe holds the festive sermon on the occasion of the 50th Kirchweih festival . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) from July 18, 2012; Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Cf. The church buildings in the Pastoral Association Hallenberg >> St. Thomas, Liesen ( Memento of the original from December 15, 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. . On: Website of the Pastoralverbund Hallenberg (www.pastoralverbund-hallenberg.de); Retrieved December 10, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pastoralverbund-hallenberg.de
  3. ↑ See information and images on the website: Hallenberg-Liesen, Catholic Church St. Thomas at the Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting e. V .; Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Cf. The Pastoral Association Hallenberg . On: Website of the Pastoralverbund Hallenberg (www.pastoralverbund-hallenberg.de); Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ NN: Lieser human chain over 450 meters extends from the new to the old church . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) from June 11, 2013; Retrieved December 5, 2014.
  6. ^ Heinrich Otten: The church building in the Archdiocese of Paderborn 1930 to 1975 . Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-89710-403-7 , p. 270.
  7. ^ Organ in Liesen, St. Thomas . On: Orgeldatabase ; Retrieved December 6, 2014 (Dutch).
  8. ↑ Hannalore Reuter: Historical organs in Westphalia-Lippe . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-87023-245-0 , pp. 141 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 7.3 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 50.5"  E