Clinic Church Herz Jesu (Düren)

Clinic church from the north-west

The Herz Jesu Clinic Church is a church building on the grounds of the LVR Clinic Düren in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia . The building was built as the last structure of the former Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Home in 1878 and expanded in 1929 according to plans by Konrad Rühl .

Building history

The church is a yellow brick building with red sandstone integration . The church was built in 1878 as the last building of the Provincial Sanatorium. The plans for this were probably provided by the state master builder Carl Friedrich Dittmar. The clinic church originally stood on a cross-shaped floor plan with a semicircular apse . Until the expansion, the clinic church was a typical historicist building .

At the end of the 1920s the clinic church became too small and it was decided to enlarge the building. In 1929 the single nave nave was demolished, so that only the transept with dome and choir of the old building remained. A new three-aisled nave was added to it in the same year. In the side aisles and in the transept, galleries were also built so that even more believers could find space. The windows in the apse were walled up and the dome was separated by a wooden ceiling so that it has not been visible from the inside since then. This was accompanied by a profound redesign of the interior in the sober form typical of the time. The planning for this was provided by the state building councilor Konrad Rühl from Düsseldorf. During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged, especially the roof and the inner ceiling were perforated. The damage was repaired in the 1950s and the wooden ceiling was replaced.

For many years the church also served as a place of worship for the residents of the neighboring Düren Provincial Facility for the Blind, which opened in 1876 .

Furnishing

Mercy seat by Jupp Rübsam on the west facade

In the interior, some of the furnishings from the 1930s have been preserved. These include the tabernacle , the side altar and two stone figures of saints depicting the Heart of Jesus and the Virgin Mary . On the west facade is a depiction of the mercy seat made of basalt stone by Jupp Rübsam . It was created in 1929/30. The stained glass windows destroyed in the war were replaced by windows by Ernst Otto Köpke , which were gradually used between 1956 and 1963 and made by the Glasmalerei R. Gassen company in Düsseldorf. The altar cross is the work of the Aachen sculptor Ewald Mataré and the six candlesticks on the altar were made to designs by the priest of the institute, Stephan Weckauf.

organ

Today's organ was built after the expansion of the clinic church in 1930 by the Bonn organ building company Johannes Klais Orgelbau as Opus 742 and placed on the west gallery. It has 21 stops , 2 of which are transmissions , on a pneumatic performance and stop action . In 1962 the organ was rebuilt according to the zeitgeist of the time by the builder company by exchanging or changing four registers. In 2008 and 2016 the instrument was cleaned and restored by the organ building company Heinz Wilbrand - Workshop for Organ Building , Übach-Palenberg .

Disposition:

pedal 1. Sub bass 16 ′ 2. Subtle bass 16 ′ 3. Octavbass 8th' 4th Flute bass 8th' 5. Gedacktpommer 4 ′ 6th Progressia III f.

I main work 7th Quintatön 16 ′ 8th. Principal 8th' 9. Reed flute 8th' 10. Octave 4 ′ 11. recorder 4 ′ 12. Principal * 2 ′ 13. mixture III-IV f. 14th Trumpet 8th'

II swell 15th Open flute 8th' 16. Salicional 8th' 17th Violin principal 4 ′ 18th Night horn 2 ′ 19th Fifth * 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 20th Sharp * 4 ′ 21st Krummhorn * 8th'

• Pairing : II-I, II-I Sub, II-I Super, IP, II-P
• Playing aids : Trigger, hand register, free combination, piano, forte, tutti, roller on, tongues off, piano pedal, roller, louvre rocker
• * Register from 1962

Bells

The three bells of the clinic church

On the west wall, three bronze bells from the Feldmann & Marschel bell foundry from 1956 are visible from the outside .

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	Anna	-	-	H'	Josef Feldmann and Georg Marschel, Feldmann & Marschel, Münster	1956
2	Maria	-	-	d "	Josef Feldmann and Georg Marschel, Feldmann & Marschel, Münster	1956
3	Odilia	-	-	e "	Josef Feldmann and Georg Marschel, Feldmann & Marschel, Münster	1956

The building is entered in the list of monuments of the city of Düren under No. 1 / 001c.

Pastor

The following priests worked as pastors at the clinic church:

from ... to Surname 1869-1902 Ferdinand Theodor Lindemann 1902 – before 1930 Theodor Wiertz 1949-1978 Stephan Weckauf 1978-1997 Theo Müller 2001-2009 Ralf Linnartz Since 2009 Vacant

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Becker (2003): The Clinic Church and the works of art it contains, Düren 2003.
2. ^ Architecture of the 1920s in Düren. In: City Museum Düren. Retrieved November 17, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Werner Becker (2003): The Clinic Church and the works of art it contains, Düren 2003.
4. ↑ Werner Becker (2003): The Clinic Church and the works of art it contains, Düren 2003.
5. ^ Düren, LVR Clinic Düren. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on November 17, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Catalog raisonné Klais organ building. In: Website Orgelbau Klais. Retrieved May 2, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Klnikkirche Düren. In: Internet site for church music in the Düren region. Retrieved November 17, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Herbert and Heike Pawliczek Kussinger-Stankovic: Monuments directory of Düren 1993. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 82, Düren 1993, ISSN  0416-4180

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 52 ″  E