Christ Church (Oberbilk)

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Christ Church

The Christ Church is a Protestant church consecrated in 1899 on Kruppstrasse in Düsseldorf - Oberbilk . Their neo-Gothic architecture is typical of sacred buildings of historicism , even if the building was changed or simplified in many parts after war damage.

history

Barely eleven years after the inauguration of the Johanneskirche , the evangelical parish in Düsseldorf was faced with the need to build more churches because of the enormous population growth. Locations in the “outskirts” of the city at that time, such as in Unterbilk and Oberbilk, made sense. In 1892 the community acquired two properties, one of them on Kruppstrasse in Oberbilk.

For both locations, two architectural competitions were held at the same time in the summer of 1893 , which were open to participants from all over Germany. For Oberbilk, the jury awarded a design by the Leipzig architect Georg Weidenbach with the first prize, which the municipality accepted for the construction.

First, however, a prayer room for 400 people was built on the property as a provisional place of worship - supplemented by a pastor's apartment - based on a design by the Düsseldorf architect Hermann vom Endt .

Construction of the Christ Church did not begin until 1896. It was created under the artistic direction of Weidenbach and the local construction management by the architect Moritz Korn , a student of Johannes Otzen . The church, completed in 1899, has a cruciform floor plan, its architecture is based in particular on models from the early Gothic period . The Düsseldorf painters Henning and Witte and Johann Albert Lüthi from Frankfurt am Main contributed to the artistic equipment .

After considerable war damage, the church was rebuilt in a simplified manner.

  • Longitudinal section

  • Layout

  • Christ Church, 1904

organ

The organ was built in 1957 by the organ builder Karl Schuke . The slider chests -instrument has 43 registers on three manuals and pedal . The playing and register actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Gemshorn 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Night horn 4 ′
7th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Flat flute 2 ′
10. Mixture VI – VIII
11. Third Cymbel III
12. Trumpet 16 ′
13. Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
14th Dumped 8th'
15th Quintadena 8th'
16. Principal 4 ′
17th Capstan whistle 4 ′
18th Field whistle 2 ′
19th Sesquialtera II
20th Overtone II
21st Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Sharp V – VII
23. Dulcian 16 ′
24. shawm 8th'
Tremulant
III Breastwork C – g 3
25th Wooden dacked 8th'
26th Reed flute 4 ′
27. Principal 2 ′
28. Gemshorn 2 ′
29 Tertian II
30th octave 1'
31. Scharff IV
32. shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
33. Principal 16 ′
34. Pedestal 16 ′
35. octave 8th'
36. Dumped 8th'
37. Choral bass 4 ′
38. Night horn 2 ′
39. Mixture VI – VIII
40. trombone 16 ′
41. Trumpet 8th'
42. Trumpet 4 ′
43. Cornett 2 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P

literature

Web links

Commons : Christ Church (Oberbilk)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmtrud Köhren-Jansen: Moritz Korn - The architect of the Christ Church . Article from the 2006 Festschrift of the Christ Church in Neuss, accessed on the portal ckn.de on March 9, 2015
  2. ↑ More information about the organ ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / www.ido-festival.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 55.7 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 5.4"  E