Holy Cross Church (Bocholt)

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Holy Cross Church Bocholt

The Holy Cross Church is a Catholic church building in Bocholt .

history

The church was designed by the architect Dominikus Böhm . The foundation stone was laid on May 25, 1936. The topping-out ceremony was on September 2, 1936. On June 13, 1937, the church was consecrated by the then Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Roleff. It was a parish church from 1939 to 2008 and since then has been a branch church of the new Bocholt parish Liebfrauen, which was created from a merger of the Bocholt parishes Liebfrauen, Heilig Kreuz, Herz.Jesu and St. Helena.

Building description from 1937

With the exception of the foundation, the exterior is made of local bricks, which are similar in shape to the old Roman bricks. H. they are longer and narrower than the usual, which means that the compact structure appears taller than it actually is. Only the frame of the main portal is made of basalt lava, and the pillars in the large windows and between the small windows of the central nave are made of concrete. For the rest, one has deliberately avoided rich ornamentation and many splitting details.

From the tower portal you get through a deliberately low anteroom into the 48 meter long church. The 20 meter wide nave is divided into three parts by two rows of pillars: the 10 meter wide and 12 meter high central nave and two 5 meter wide and 4 meter high aisles. Of the three naves, a transept extends on the tower side, which in the exterior of the church only emerges through the high side windows. The main structure of the church rests on the aforementioned rows of pillars. The central nave receives its light from the side rows above the roofs of the side aisles (40 windows on both sides), which are 2 meters high and 70 cm wide and are interrupted by 20 cm wide and 40 cm deep concrete pillars. These windows, as well as the aforementioned large windows in the transept, are glazed with subdued colored panes, so that in conjunction with the whitewashed walls, a surprisingly good lighting effect is achieved, which above all has the advantage that the light extends over almost the entire interior of the church equally distributed.

Six steps lead to the choir room, on which the high altar rises dominating the space, surrounded by columns, a simple altar table made of Roman travertine, on which only tabernacles and candlesticks are placed. So the altar is raised high in its position in front of the dominant front wall, on which a crucifixion group will later be attached, the real focus in the field of vision of all prayers, as it were the soul of the whole church. This pull towards the altar is heightened by the solemn, solemn calm that lies over the entire interior and that finds its harmonious conclusion in the flat, upturned wooden ceiling, which with its tight lines is in extreme contrast to the oscillation and many-partedness of Gothic vaults .

Behind the altar you can see the baptistery, which is considerably lower than the rest of the church and to which one descends on steps.

It should also be mentioned that to the right of the choir the sacristy and to the left of it a so-called day chapel is built, which latter is in open connection with the choir and allows a view of the main altar. This chapel can be visited by the faithful even when the rest of the church is not accessible. In contrast to the other windows of the church, the windows of this chapel shine in bright colors; they show symbolic representations from the story of the Lord's Passion, while the cross-motif predominates in the windows of the transept.

The organ stage is erected above the vestibule at the entrance to the church, and can be reached via the stairs inside the church. This gallery receives its light through a large window, which is located above the main entrance and is simply glazed, so that the light falls unimpeded into the church and, on the other hand, the connection between the tower belly and the interior of the church is established.

The church is quite spacious and can accommodate around 2000 people.

Conversions and current appearance

Between the 50s and 90s, the church underwent slight renovations in terms of color and construction. The original white-green color scheme of the walls has meanwhile been changed to dark green / olive green. Today the church shines again in the colors intended by Dominikus Böhm. The recess behind the altar island was leveled and the baptismal font was let into the left aisle. The side chapel, which was converted into a multifunctional room with a suspended wooden ceiling in 1972, has been provided with a suspended barrel ceiling again since the 1990s and thus corresponds to the original picture again today. Contrary to the original building, the altar of the chapel faces north today, so that the original access from Kreuzbergstraße is no longer guaranteed. The lead-glazed windows of the church are now all double-glazed.

Bells

The four bells date from 1951 and are made of cast steel:

Surname volume Weight
Cross bell h 0 4.5 t
Marienbell d 1 2.6 t
St. Paul Bell e 1 1.9 t
St. Michael Bell g 1 1.1 t

organ

The organ was built in 1938/39 by the organ builder Franz Breil ( Dorsten ) in part from the old organ of the Franciscan monastery / Dorsten and in 1999-2005 a. a. rebuilt by the organist at the time, Dirk Elsemann . The instrument has 44 sounding registers and a transmission on four manuals and pedal .

I choir organ C – g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. recorder 4 ′
4th Schwegel 2 ′
5. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Schalmey 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
7th Drone 16 ′
8th. Principal 8th'
9. Dumped 8th'
10. Octav 4 ′
11. Pointed flute 4 ′
12. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Super octave 2 ′
14th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Trumpet 8th'
III Positive C-g 3
16. Hanging Elsehorn 8th'
17th Reed flute 8th'
18th Quintad 8th'
19th Principal 4 ′
20th Coupling flute 4 ′
21st Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Forest flute 2 ′
23. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
24. Traverse fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Scharff IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
26th oboe 8th'
27. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
IV Swell C – g 3
28. Wooden flute 8th'
29 Salicional 8th'
30th Violin principal 4 ′
31. Reed flute 4 ′
32. Octav 2 ′
33. Trumpet 16 ′
34. Trumpet harm. 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
35. Principal bass 16 ′
36. Sub-bass 16 ′
Drone bass (= No. 7) 16 ′
37. Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
38. Wooden octave 8th'
39. Gedacktpommer 8th'
40. Super octave 4 ′
41. Octavlein 2 ′
42. trombone 16 ′
43. Trumpet 8th'
44. Sub-bass (choir organ) 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: I / I, II / I, III / I, II / II, III / II, IV / II, III / III,
    • Super octave coupling: I / I, II / I, IV / I, II / II, IV / II, IV / III, IV / IV, I / P, II / P, IV / P

Pastor

  • 1939 - 1966 Heinrich Becking
  • 1966 - 1977 Wilhelm Schmidt
  • 1977 - 1977 Karlheinrich Drießen
  • 1977 - 1985 Wilhelm Olschewski
  • 1985 - 2007 Heinrich Seegers

Chaplains

  • 1934 - 1937 Dr. Camp
  • until 1942 Hanneken
  • 1942 - 19XX Father Anselm Steinkuhle
  • 1938 - 1945 Wilhelm Fleuth
  • 1945 - 1947 Wilhelm Barthel
  • from 1947 Riesener
  • from 1948 Schumacher
  • 1953 - 1956 Norbert Neuhaus
  • 1941 - 1955 Theodor Grewe
  • 1956 - 1961 Grünendahl
  • 1956 - 1960 Kanders
  • 1960 - 1964 Badke
  • from 1961 Dickmann
  • from 1964 Sievert
  • from 1968 Heinrich Lenz
  • 1987 - 1991 Stefan Dördelmann

Organists and choirmasters

  • from 1938 - 1944 Anton Mayland
  • from 1946 Anton Mayland
  • until 1981 Hans Stratmann
  • 1983 - 2001 Alfred Heinzel
  • 1994 - 2000 Dirk Elsemann

Web links

Commons : Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Bocholt)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificates on the merger , accessed on May 24, 2016
  2. ^ Excerpt from a report by the Bocholter Volksblatt on the consecration on June 13, 1937
  3. ↑ Information on the organ , accessed on May 24, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 54 ″  E