Matthäikirche (Düsseldorf-Düsseltal)

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Matthäikirche

The Protestant Matthäikirche is located at Lindemannstrasse 70 in Düsseldorf-Düsseltal .

history

Plans to build a Protestant church in Düsseltal have existed since the 1920s. First of all, a prayer room was consecrated to the Matthäikirche in 1905. In 1927 plans to build a real church were resumed. From 1930 to 1931 the church was built to designs by the architects Karl Wach and Heinrich Rosskotten .

The church was partially destroyed by bombing during World War II and restored in 1953.

description

The Matthäikirche was the first church in Düsseldorf to have a steel frame construction. The church is laid out as a rectangular hall with a semicircular apse at the end. It has a concrete-encased steel skeleton and is filled in with red brick in between. The finishes, however, are made of yellow sandstone.

The bell tower is built on the northwest corner. There is a vestibule in front of the main portal. Its supports are just as high as the church building and clad with natural stone. The portal with its monumental, overarching pillars is stylistically related to portals of other neoclassical buildings in Düsseldorf.

On the outside of the bell tower there is a sculpture of the namesake Matthäus by Arno Breker .

literature

  • Luigi Monzo: Building churches in the Third Reich. The inversion of the church's renewal dynamics using the example of the St. Canisius Church in Augsburg designed by Fritz Kempf. In: Das Münster - magazine for Christian art and art history, 68. 2015/1 (April), pp. 74–82.
  • Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture Guide Düsseldorf. Droste, Düsseldorf 1975, object no. 57.
  • Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 104, object no. 146.

Web links

Commons : Matthäikirche (Düsseldorf-Düsseltal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Brzeski: Ev. Matthäi Church at Lindemannstrasse 70. In: fotos-von-duesseldorf.de. Archived from the original on August 4, 2012 ; accessed on February 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Brzeski: Ev. Matthäi Church. In: fotos-von-duesseldorf.de. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012 ; accessed on February 8, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 5.8 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 26.9"  E