St. Augustine

Sankt Augustinus is the Roman Catholic parish church of Menden, a district of Sankt Augustin in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It belongs to the Catholic pastoral care area of Sankt Augustin in the Rhein-Sieg district deanery of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

The parish church of St. Augustine replaces the old church of Menden. Its foundation walls can be found north of the new church. The new building was necessary because of the strong population growth in the village. The foundation stone for the new building of St. Augustine, which came from the church tower of the Old Church, was laid on 31 August 1890. The representative neo-Romanesque three-aisled basilica on a cross-shaped ground plan was consecrated on 6 October 1892. The new building does not follow the traditional east, but the choir of the church faces south. The Old Church was finally demolished in 1896.

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