Posted on 01/19/2018 6:01:27 PM PST by marshmallow
The neo-Romanesque St Lambertus church was destroyed to make way for a mine
A 19th-Century Catholic church in a village in western Germany was destroyed on Tuesday to make way for a coalmine.
St Lambertus church, known locally as a ‘cathedral’ due to its size, was torn down as part of the demolition of the village Immerath.
The farming village was once home to 1,200 residents, but has been taken over by mining company RWE and relocated seven miles away. Houses and a new hospital have been built at the new site, and bodies exhumed from the graveyard have been reburied.
The new St Lambertus church (Käthe and Bernd Limburg/Wikimedia)
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They should have dismantled the old one and shipped it to the South of the U.S. where churches are needed. Yeah, I know that’s expensive, but you can’t really build churches like that anymore.
Then again, it was brick and not stone.
They used to take these things apart, number the pieces and sell them to Americans.
Hey wait a second. Germany and the European tree huggers aloud a coal mine to be opened? That is the story to me anyway.
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Not all old buildings are “historic”, nor are all old buildings worth saving.
Not to mention that a nineteenth century structure is really not all that old by European standards.
it was a 19th century church - nice but hardly a priceless treasure
“There’s plenty of room to widen it there, there’s only grass verges. They could get another six feet, knock down that hospital.“
That has happened to a least a half dozen Catholic churches in Chicago that I can recall including St George and St Bridget in Bridgeport.
I’ve seen this hyped as “to make way for a mosque.” Glad it’s not true.
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