St. Mary's Assumption (Düsseldorf-Flingern)

St. Mary of the Assumption, today

The Church of St. Assumption - even Liebfrauenkirche called - is a Roman Catholic parish in the Düsseldorf district Flingern-Nord . It was built from 1890 to 1892 according to plans by the architect Caspar Clemens Pickel . The parish of the same name belongs to the Flingern / Düsseltal parish association.

history

Layout

St. Mary of the Assumption, 1904

The cornerstone of the church was laid on November 14, 1890. The church offers space for over 2000 people and cost 240,000 marks . The inauguration took place in June 1892. During the Second World War the church was largely destroyed, the reconstruction lasted from 1947 to 1949. From 1963 to 1965 the interior was redesigned by Gottfried Böhm .

architecture

The church was built as a three-nave hall church with transepts on a cross-shaped floor plan in the neo-Gothic style. Its outer facade was faced with yellow clinker bricks and structures in stone. In the extension of the nave is the square bell tower, which was given a "blunt, pyramidal helmet" during the reconstruction. The tower is flanked by two chapel-like extensions. The resulting building front is slightly wider than the nave. Stepped buttresses rhythmically structure the entire exterior. The main choir is tall and polygonal . A low chapel wreath stretches around this up to the straight side aisles. This creates the shape of the rectangle.

The interior was greatly changed by Böhm. Böhm opened the walls between the chapels adjoining the choir to form a chapel wreath. The central nave was given a flat stalactite ceiling instead of the original, neo-Gothic cross vault.

organ

View of the chancel with the organ

The organ in the chancel was built in 1967 for the parish of St. Vinzenz in Düsseldorf-Flingern by the Kreienbrink company with 24 stops on two manuals and a pedal. In 2002 the instrument was rebuilt and expanded and rebuilt in the Liebfrauenkirche. It has 27 stops on two manual works and a pedal.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 01. Principal (from E) 16 ′ 02. Principal 08th' 03. Willow pipe 08th' 04th Reed flute 08th' 05. octave 04 ′ 06th Transverse flute 04 ′ 07th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 08th. octave 02 ′ 09. Mixture IV-VI 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 10. Silbermann Trumpet 08th'

II Swell C – g 3 11. Viol 08th' 12. Wooden dacked 08th' 13. Principal 04 ′ 14th Coupling flute 04 ′ 15th Funnel whistle 02 ′ 16. Sif flute 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 17th Sesquialter II 18th Mixture IV 19th oboe 08th' Tremulant

Pedals C – f 1 20th Principal 16 ′ 21st Sub bass 16 ′ 22nd Octave bass 08th' 23. Gemshorn bass 08th' 24. Choral bass 04 ′ 25th Night horn 02 ′ 26th trombone 16 ′ 27. Wooden trumpet 08th'

• Coupling : II / I (normal coupling and sub-octave coupling), II / II (sub-octave coupling), I / P, II / P

literature

• Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 99 [Fig. 95.] and [Fig. 96], p. 101 [description].
• Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 100, object no. 139.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural Guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-496-01232-3 , p. 100, object no. 139.
2. ↑ Information on the organ

Web links

Commons : St. Mariä Himmelfahrt (Düsseldorf-Flingern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Catholic community in Düsseltal-Flingern
• Liebfrauenkirche in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 50.7 ″  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 40.6 ″  E