St. Josef (Düsseldorf-Oberbilk)

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St. Joseph Church

The Catholic Church of St. Josef is located in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk . It was once the parish church of the largest community in the Archdiocese of Cologne . Today the parish belongs to the pastoral care area Unter- and Oberbilk, Friedrichstadt and Eller-West.

history

In the course of industrialization, the population of Düsseldorf grew rapidly towards the end of the 19th century, so that the parish of St. Martin had to be divided. A few years after the construction of St. Josef, another church building became necessary, St. Apollinaris was built.

St. Josef was started in 1870 and consecrated in 1872, the tower was not yet completed for financial reasons. After a change of architect, the church tower was completed in 1880.

Cross at the back of St. Joseph

architecture

St. Josef is built in the neo-Gothic style from red brick. The architect was the Franciscan brother Paschalis Gratze , the tower was completed by Caspar Clemens Pickel .

The change of architect can be seen in the tower. The two lower floors are quite simple, the upper floors are more diverse.

Bells

In 1901, the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen cast five bronze bells with the chimes: b 0 - des '- es' - f '- ges' for the Josefskirche . The bells have the following diameters: 1720 mm, 1450 mm, 1360 mm, 1230 mm, 1130 mm and together weigh almost 10 tons.

Web links

Commons : St. Josef  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parish Church of St. Apollinaris. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Cologne, archived from the original on May 18, 2008 ; Retrieved September 2, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de
  2. ↑ a b Parish Church of St. Josef. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Cologne, archived from the original on September 26, 2011 ; Retrieved September 2, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588 , especially pages 52, 85, 302, 435, 458, 511 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556 , in particular pp. 74, 104, 269, 412, 443, 477 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 52.3 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 12.4"  E