Holy Cross Church (Dortmund)
The Holy Cross Church , often shortened to the Kreuzkirche , is a church building of the Catholic Holy Cross community in Dortmund . She is the namesake for the surrounding Kreuzviertel residential area .
history
After the turn of the century, the Kreuzviertel, which is now named after the church, was an extensive residential area south of the historic ramparts in downtown Dortmund. The Catholics living there wanted their own church and founded a church building association. The Holy Cross Congregation was founded on May 3, 1911 as a spin-off of the Liebfrauen congregation . In mid-1914, the construction of a church building began on a plot of land at Vinckeplatz. Despite the First World War , a brick Expressionist church was completed within two years . The building was erected as a three-aisled basilica based on designs by the Dortmund architect Hans Homann. In 1919 the church received a four-part cast steel bell, made by the Bochumer Verein . It is tuned to the tone sequence g sharp ° -h ° -d'-e 'and thus the second lowest ring in Dortmund.
The Kreuzhof, built in 1921, also belonged to the parish . This building served on the one hand as a community hall and on the other hand as a single home , later as a hotel.
During the Second World War, the Kreuzkirche was badly damaged, only the church tower remained intact. From 1947 the church building was rebuilt. Between 1957 and 1958 the interior of the Kreuzkirche was redesigned.
Another redesign of the church in 1992 was based on the original architecture from 1918 and the renewed liturgy after the Second Vatican Council , the architect was Gisberth Hülsmann (Wachtberg). The cross next to the altar bears a corpus (torso) from the 16th century, probably from the Rhine-Meuse area.
The Catholic day-care center named after the church, the Holy Cross, is located in the courtyard of the community center.
The Kreuzkirche is registered as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .
organ
The electropneumatic instrument with 30 registers on three manuals and pedal was created in 1961 by Anton Feith (Paderborn) with a free whistle brochure. The 42 numbered rocker registers are located in a long, slightly curved row directly above the third manual, the push buttons for pedal switching (left) and the tremulant (right) on the keyboard cheeks of the second and third manual.
Disposition of the Feith organ from 1961:
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Of the 42 rocker registers, 6 are empty, probably for a planned (but not yet implemented) expansion, only engraved with number and assignment.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II I / P, II / P, III / P as a rocker switch
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Playing aids :
- two free combinations , two free pedal switches , register crescendo
- Hand register, tutti, trigger, roller off, disconnect from roller, off tongues; Individual tongue storage
literature
- Commemorative publication 50 years of the Holy Cross Congregation , 1961
- “Search for traces”, 75 years of the Holy Cross Congregation , 1986
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ No. A 0074. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 13, 2014 (size: 180 kB). 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 11.7 " N , 7 ° 27 ′ 17.5" E