Holy Spirit Church (Münster)

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Holy Spirit Church with church square
North facade, the roofs of the aisles end at the blind walls of the tall nave
Front portico

The Heilig-Geist-Kirche is a Catholic parish church in the Geistviertel of Münster , Westphalia , on Metzer Strasse.

history

In view of the strong growth in new settlements on the Geist after 1922, the church council of St. Joseph , to whose congregation the Geistviertel belonged until the later parish of the Holy Spirit congregation, asked the city of Münster for a building site in the center of the newly emerging Geistviertel. On July 24, 1924, a property of 10,100 m² on Metzer Strasse was approved. An architectural competition for designs for the new church was announced on June 26, 1925. The chairman of the jury was the important Catholic church architect Dominikus Böhm . On March 25, 1927, the design with the password Johann Konrad Schlaun by Duisburg architect Walter Kremer was selected for construction. Due to the generally poor economic situation in Germany, the funds for the construction were not approved until the summer of 1928. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 30, 1928, and the foundation stone was laid on October 21, 1928. The first three bells were inaugurated on October 27, 1929.

In 1929, the Holy Spirit parish was St. Joseph abgepfarrt .

In 1947, Michael Keller was enthroned as Bishop of Munster in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche , as the reconstruction of St. Paulus Cathedral was not completed until 1956.

architecture

View of the altar
Interior view of the north facade, window gallery

The simple building takes up architectural forms of the New Building and the New Objectivity . The distinctive covered balcony at one corner of the free-standing church tower is a typical element of New Building. The building follows the “principles of 'noble simplicity', as they were made into the model by the Dessau“ Bauhaus ” (...).” The structure built on a corner and not in the middle of the church tower roof is also striking and visible from afar (exit of the Staircase to the roof) with cross.

The architect took up the type of pseudo-basilica with a portico , which was widespread in the late Gothic period, and translated it into modern design.

Because of its factual construction, the church building is also called "Druffels Pütt" by the Münster population, as Bernhard Druffel was the pastor of St. Joseph in charge at the time of construction and Pütt colloquially refers to a coal mine mine.

organ

organ

The organ was built in 1948 by the organ builder Fritz Klingenhegel (Münster) with 37 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The cone shop instrument has a free pipe prospect and is mostly to the right of the west window. The planned expansion to 52 stops on three manuals and pedal was not carried out. Accordingly, the first manual (main work) in particular is vacant. The actions are electro-pneumatic.

II Positive C-g 3
1. Tube bare 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Flute 4 ′
4th Schwiegel 2 ′
5. Pointed fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Sequialtera II-III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Mixture IV 1'
8th. Rankett 16 ′
9. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
10. Gedacktpommer 16 ′
11. Horn principal 8th'
12. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
13. Gemshorn 8th'
14th Beat 8th'
15th Harp priest 4 ′
16. recorder 4 ′
17th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Night horn 2 ′
19th Bell tenter 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
20th Sif flute 1'
21st Scharff IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
22nd Terzcymbel III 4 ⁄ 5 ′
23. oboe 8th'
24. musette 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
25th Principal bass 16 ′
26th Violon bass 16 ′
27. Sub bass 16 ′
28. Octave bass 8th'
29 Dacked bass 8th'
30th Choral bass 4 ′
31. Bass flute 4 ′
32. Wide whistle 2 ′
33. Backset V 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
34. trombone 16 ′
35. bassoon 16 ′
36. Trumpet 8th'
37. Clarine 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids: Two free combinations, two pedal combinations, tutti, register crescendo, storage

A five-part bell hangs in the tower of the Holy Spirit Church. It has the beat notes h °, d ′, e ′, g ′ and a ′. It is a second strike bell made of cast steel, cast in the late 1940s by the Bochumer Verein.

Trivia

On March 3, 1990, a theology student carried out an attack on the Holy Spirit Church with an incendiary device. The light gray benches in the interior were then purchased.

Web links

Commons : Holy Spirit Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Festschrift by Franz Zons from 1929 on yumpu.com, accessed on March 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ Thomas Sternberg: Art - Church - Space: The overall concept of "noble simplicity". In: Waltraud Polenz (Ed.): Heilig-Geist-Gemeinde Münster: "Lebendige Steine ​​- Geistiges Haus" ?! Lit Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8158-X , p. 50 ( limited preview in Google book search, accessed on March 14, 2016).
  3. ↑ History of the Holy Spirit Congregation . Website of the Holy Spirit Parish of Münster. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ The rotary dial . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1955, pp. 46 ff . ( online ).
  5. ^ Urban planning office Münster (ed.), Ursula Richard-Wiegandt: Das neue Münster. 50 years of reconstruction and urban development 1945–1995. Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-402-05374-8 , p. 65.
  6. ^ A b c Sylvaine Hansel, Stefan Rethfeld: Architecture Guide Münster. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-496-01276-4 , p. 201.
  7. ^ Urban Planning Office Münster (ed.), Ursula Richard-Wiegandt: The settlement growth of the city of Münster from the 19th century to the Second World War. Münster 1991, ISBN 3-921290-56-2 , pp. 80-95.
  8. ↑ Thomas Sternberg: Art - Church - Space: The overall concept of "noble simplicity". In: Waltraud Polenz (Ed.): Heilig-Geist-Gemeinde Münster: "Lebendige Steine ​​- Geistiges Haus" ?! Lit Verlag, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8158-X , p. 51 ( limited preview in Google book search, accessed on March 14, 2016).
  9. ↑ a b Helmut Kovermann, Michael J. Rainer: A balcony on Druffels Pütt, a small building history. In: Waltraud Polenz, Hedi Werner, Thomas Hußmann, Helmut Kovermann, Michael J. Rainer (eds.): Heilig Geist-Gemeinde Münster. "Living stones - spiritual house" ?! Lit Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8158-X , p. 46 f.
  10. ↑ Rhenish interactive dictionary - Pütt. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
  11. ↑ The Klingenhegel organ of the Holy Spirit Church in Münster. Inner city - cath. Holy Spirit Church. (No longer available online.) In: Münstersches Orgelmagazin. Michael Hochgartz, archived from the original on July 6, 2010 ; Retrieved September 30, 2011 . 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.orgelmagazin.de
  12. ↑ See the recording of the bell on youtube.com
  13. ↑ Heilig-Geist-Kirche will be renovated by summer. In: Westfälische Nachrichten of December 30, 2011, accessed on January 27, 2012.
  14. ^ Michael J. Rainer: Anniversaries. Celebrations connect the generations with guts instead of cold coffee. In: Waltraud Polenz, Hedi Werner, Thomas Hußmann, Helmut Kovermann, Michael J. Rainer (eds.): Heilig Geist-Gemeinde Münster. "Living stones - spiritual house" ?! Lit Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8158-X , p. 179 f.
  15. ↑ Bernd Eylert: Are you sitting well? Then you should know why! In: Waltraud Polenz, Hedi Werner, Thomas Hußmann, Helmut Kovermann, Michael J. Rainer (eds.): Heilig Geist-Gemeinde Münster. "Living stones - spiritual house" ?! Lit Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8258-8158-X , p. 155 ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 24.7 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 18 ″  E