Dominican Church (Münster)

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Dominican Church Munster

The Dominican Church is a church building in the center of Münster on Salzstrasse , not far from the Lamberti Church .

history

The church was part of a monastery complex , of which only one wall has survived, which is adjacent to the sandstone facade of the church. Bernhard III. von Droste-Hülshoff (1634–1700) promoted the church by selling the grounds of his Münster city courtyard.

The church was built between 1708 and 1725 according to designs by the architect Lambert Friedrich Corfey . After it was furnished , it was consecrated in 1728 and placed under the patronage of St. Joseph. It served as the Dominican convent church in Münster until the beginning of the 19th century .

In the course of secularization , the Dominican monastery was closed in 1811. The monastery complex passed into state (Prussian) ownership, the church was used for military purposes from 1826. In 1880 the city of Münster acquired the church and from 1889 used it as a school church for the municipal high school (today: Ratsgymnasium). After extensive destruction during the Second World War , the reconstruction of the church dragged on until 1974. In 1959 , the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (architect Karlheinz Sundermann , State New Construction Office Münster ) built the authority building on Alten Steinweg , which was originally intended to connect to the sandstone gable of the monastery. Since a road breakthrough was planned there, which was not carried out, the monastery gable was only preserved as a ruin. The rebuilding of the dome could not begin until 1961. Later, the church was administered by the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität and used largely by the Catholic university community, which celebrated its Sunday services there. Rector Ecclesiae was Professor Klaus Müller . On November 12, 2017, the church was profaned by Auxiliary Bishop Stefan Zekorn . Since then, the university congregation has been celebrating its services in the St. Ludgeri Church .

In 2018 Gerhard Richter's work Two gray double mirrors for a pendulum was installed under the crossing dome . The Foucault pendulum consists of a 48 kilogram and 22 cm thick brass ball on a 29 meter long rope. Set in motion by a magnetic field drive, the pendulum swings over a base plate with a twelve-part ring with a diameter of 5.6 meters. As a result of the earth's rotation, the plate rotates once under the pendulum in around 30 hours. The work of art is framed by mirrors hung on the crossing walls, which reflect the image of the pendulum and the audience, thus drawing the viewer into the work of art. The cost of setting up the work of art came to 650,000 euros, largely from third-party funds.

Church building

The church building consists of a raised central nave, a transept and two low aisles. The central nave and transept are 15.7 m high. The central nave is 33 m long, the church as a whole, including the choir, about 42 m. The baroque dome over the crossing is round on the inside (diameter approx. 9 m) and octagonal on the outside. It is about 29 m high, with the dome lantern about 34 m. The two towers are just as high.

The sandstone facade of the church is two-story and laid out with cautiously structured pilasters. The central axis is dominated by a protruding aedicular portal with columns of Doric order. In two round niches on the side of the portal are the statues of the order patrons Dominic and Thomas Aquinas .

In the course of the rebuilding of the church after the Second World War, the altar island was relocated to the crossing below the dome. The original choir partition has been restored, but can be accessed through an opening to the church. The choir was last used as a sacrament chapel and houses a baroque high altar (1699), which was originally built for the Gaukirche in Paderborn and acquired in 1903 for the Dominican church.

In the church there is, among other things, the epitaph for the architect of the church, Lambert Friedrich Corfey, who was buried in the crypt under the Dominican Church in 1733. The design comes from Johann Conrad Schlaun .

organ

A 1958 by organ builder Paul Ott built (Göttingen) for the large auditorium of Furstenberg house on Cathedral Square organ was installed 1975 to 2018 in the Dominican church. The number of registers remained largely unchanged compared to the original location, the organ was merely given a new case . The purely mechanical instrument has 29 registers on two manuals and a pedal . In 1996 the instrument was revised. The organ was removed from the church in 2018 to better showcase Richter's work. This also ended the more than 30-year-old tradition of the “Academic Organ Lesson”, which Joachim Dorfmüller had initiated for the University of Münster.

II Hauptwerk C – f 3
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Pointed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Reed flute 4 ′
6th Gemshorn 2 ′
7th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Mixture VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Quintzimbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
10. Trumpet 16 ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
I Rückpositiv C – f 3
12. Wooden dacked 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th recorder 4 ′
15th octave 2 ′
16. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th octave 1'
19th Scharff IV 1'
20th Rankett 16 ′
21st shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Sub bass 16 ′
23. Principal 8th'
24. octave 4 ′
25th Wooden flute 4 ′
26th Night horn 2 ′
27. Mixture V 2 ′
28. trombone 16 ′
29 Trumpet 8th'

Peal

There are three bells in the north tower of the Dominican Church . The ensemble consists of two bells from 1977 and a historic bell from 1670.

No.
 		 Casting year
 		 Caster
 		 Diameter
(mm)		 Mass
(kg)		 Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 1977 - 760 ~ 290 c 2 - 6
2 1670 Petr Hemony 705 ~ 205 d 2 - 7
3 1977 - 604 ~ 140 e 2 - 7

Web links

Commons : Dominican Church  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Information about the Dominican Church on the website of the University of Münster

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Holsenbürger: The gentlemen v. Eckenbrock (v. Droste-Hülshoff) and their possessions , Vol. 2: 1570–1798 . Regensberg, Münster iW 1869.
  2. ↑ Karin Weglage: church in city property is an exhibition. Dominican church in Münster city is profaned . In: Kirche + Leben , November 9, 2017, accessed April 27, 2019.
  3. ^ Andreas Rossmann : Richter's pendulum . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 24, 2017, p. 11.
  4. ↑ Die Welt from June 16, 2018: Gerhard Richter presents Foucault's pendulum in Münster
  5. ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento from July 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ An old lady is moving . In: Westfälische Nachrichten of July 18, 2000
  7. ↑ More space for the pendulum: the organ is being expanded . In: Westfälische Nachrichten of January 16, 2018 . Retrieved February 3, 2019
  8. ↑ Joachim Dorfmüller invites you to the Academic Organ Lesson - 1300th concert in the 30th year. In: Westfälischen Nachrichten of March 6, 2017. Retrieved on February 3, 2019
  9. ↑ Information on the bells ( Memento from December 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 90 kB)

Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 43 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 51"  E