Holy Cross Church (Gladbeck)

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The entire building complex of church, tower, rectory and upstream squares in the west elevation in 2014.
Holy Cross Church
West facade of the Holy Cross Church in 1965 still in the original design from 1914

The Holy Cross Church (own spelling Holy Cross Church ) is in Neo-Romanesque style built and after the Holy Cross named Roman Catholic Church of Gladbeck - Butendorf in the diocese of Essen , Recklinghausen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

prehistory

At the beginning of the 20th century, the industrialization and population development of the northern Ruhr area had reached dimensions that made a significant change in church structures necessary. For this reason , new pastoral care districts were designated in St. Lamberti, the only parish in Gladbeck so far , which later became independent parishes . For the district of Butendorf, the church council of St. Lamberti decided on May 23, 1910 to set up a new "place of worship", as it was called in the protocol book at the time, in which the first service was celebrated on May 28, 1914 with the benediction . The church consecration planned for the same year had to be postponed because of the beginning of the First World War and could only be made up on April 28, 1915 by Auxiliary Bishop Theodor Kappenberg from Münster .

On December 1, 1916, the new pastoral care district was elevated to a canonical parish by the Bishop of Münster, Johannes Poggenburg .

On September 1, 2007, this parish was dissolved by the Bishop of Essen, Felix Genn , - like all other Gladbeck parishes - and merged into a new large parish of St. Lamberti.

Building history

The Cologne architect Otto Müller-Jena created a building that was comparatively monumental for a suburb between 1912 and 1914, the concept of which, according to his own written testimony, was inspired by early Romanesque buildings. Up until now it has only emerged through the design and construction of industrial and residential buildings, but Müller-Jena erected a mighty decagonal domed roof ( decagon ) with a wreath of skylight windows over a basilica nave with two low aisles and a short transept , with the church above all St. Gereon in Cologne served as a model. A nearly free-standing, 46-meter-high bell tower ( campanile ) connects to the north transept, which leads to the attached rectory via a five-arched vestibule.

This self-contained and widely visible ensemble has a strong impact on the district of Butendorf, especially since the large-scale buildings of the Moltke 1/2 and Moltke 3/4 collieries were demolished after the cessation of coal production in November 1970. As one of the landmarks of the city of Gladbeck, the Holy Cross Church has been a listed building since 1998 .

Stained glass window

With the construction of the church, only the south transept had colored windows. In 1914, the "Päpstliche Hof-Glasmalerei W. Derix" in Goch and Kevelaer created four windows below the two large rosettes with the pictures of the four evangelists , which, despite their small size, represented a high level of artistic achievement, based on designs by Friedrich Stummel . The original designs on a scale of 1:10 are now in the possession of the Pfarrer Brachthäuser Foundation. Despite some damage, the windows survived the Second World War and only fell victim to the remodeling after the Second Vatican Council . Since then, the Holy Cross Church has no more designed windows.

Bells

On March 4, 1914, pastor Johann Heinrich Buck von St. Lamberti consecrated three bells, which had been cast by the renowned Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen, which at that time was just outside Bremen. These bells were named after the Holy Cross, Saint George and the Blessed Mother Mary and rang on the tones "d", "e" and "g". As early as July 1917, the first two bells mentioned had to be handed in for use in the war. At Pentecost 1924, two new bells were delivered, which in turn had been cast by the Franz Otto company in Bremen-Hemelingen for the tones "d" and "e". The still existing third bell was exchanged for a new one with the tone “f sharp”. In the Second World War, too, two bells had to be handed in for use in the war, for which a replacement could be obtained at Easter 1949. The cast steelworks Bochumer Verein produced three steel bells in the tones “h”, “d” and “e”, which to this day form the ringing of the Holy Cross Church with the still preserved bell in “f sharp”.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Casting year
 		 Foundry, casting location
 		 Weight
(kg)		 Nominal
1 Christ 1949 Bochum Association , Bochum 3860 H
2 Holy cross 1949 Bochum Association, Bochum 2110 d
3 Michael 1949 Bochum Association, Bochum 1460 e
4th Maria 1924 Franz Otto , Hemelingen 1014 f sharp

Holy Cross Foundation

Even before the serious financial misery of the diocese of Essen became apparent in 2004, those responsible at the Holy Cross Church had tried to find alternative solutions for maintaining and maintaining the church. After two years of preparation the church council of the parish Holy founded on the initiative of Father Brachthäuser Cross on 13 April 2003, the Holy Cross Foundation , the Government of Münster president on 16 May 2003 Jörg Twenhöven received its recognition. The main aim of this foundation is to promote worship in the listed Holy Cross Church and its economic maintenance.

The Heilig Kreuz Foundation was the first newer foundation of its kind in the Diocese of Essen and far beyond. An essential feature is that church assets were not used to build up the foundation capital, but that this foundation capital was collected solely from donations.

Ars liturgica

Claudia Merx's Lenten veil in the Holy Cross Church covers Gerd Brüx's crucifixion group .

For 2012, the Germany-wide design competition was " Ars liturgica " for the Holy Cross Church awarded was that the design of a Lenten Veil foresaw and was co-sponsored this year by the Holy Cross Foundation. The first prize was awarded to the Aachen artist Claudia Merx , who had already been awarded the State Prize for Arts and Crafts in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2003. On February 16, 2013, the Lenten Shroud was presented to the public as part of a festive service in the Holy Cross Church.

In the “Fastentuch modern” exhibition, the German Textile Museum in Krefeld presented award-winning designs from the Ars liturgica 2012 competition from November 2013 to January 2014. All designs cited historical textiles. Textiles from the German Textile Museum were contrasted with the work of the award winners, e. B. Egyptian mummy bandages, late antique fabrics, damask cloths and chasubles. Claudia Merx's Lenten veil was contrasted with the simple curtain that had been used in the Holy Cross Church for decades during Lent to cover the crucifixion group.

Leading clergy

On January 25, 2007, at the conference of the city dean of the diocese of Essen, the "Establishment Plan 2009" was presented, from which it emerged that due to the shortage of priests, the Heilig Kreuz congregation would have to do without its own priest in the medium term. This planning was implemented as part of the structural reform in the diocese of Essen with the adoption of Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser on October 10, 2010.

Future of the house of God

On August 22, 2015, the St. Lamberti Parish announced that the Holy Cross Church would be given up in 2020 as part of “the adaptation measures”. This intention was confirmed again in July 2018. Feasibility studies for a so-called "successor use" have been commissioned by both the diocese of Essen and the large parish of St. Lamberti.

See also

literature

  • Johannes van Acken (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the dedication of the churches to the Holy Heart of Jesus and the Holy Cross in Gladbeck. Alfons Theben, Gladbeck 1914.
  • Modern designs , 14th year 1915, issue 12 (December), pp. 401–428.
  • Eberhard Michael Kleffner, Leonhard Küppers : New Churches in the Diocese of Essen Fredebeul and Koenen, Essen 1966, p. 23ff.
  • Robert Jeserich: Relief window of the Holy Cross Church in Gladbeck-Butendorf. In: Glasforum ( ISSN  0017-0852 ), 17th year 1967, issue 6, p. 26f.
  • Heinz Dohmen (ed.): Image of the sky. A thousand years of church building in the diocese of Essen. Hoppe + Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1977, pp. 154–156.
  • Harald Neumann: Gladbeck - Photographed Contemporary History, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0715-8 , pp. 15, 25 and 30.
  • Festschrift 75 years of the parish of Heilig Kreuz Gladbeck-Butendorf. Gladbeck 1991.
  • Thomas Parent: Churches in the Ruhr area 1850–1935. Ardey-Verlag, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-87023-034-7 , pp. 105f.
  • Gregor Spohr: Romantic Ruhr area. Churches and monasteries , Verlag Peter Pomp, Bottrop - Essen, 1999, ISBN 3-89355-193-X , p. 104f.
  • Thomas Parent: The Ruhr area. From the "golden" Middle Ages to industrial culture. DuMont, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-3159-2 , p. 244f.
  • Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: The Holy Cross Foundation. For worship and church. In: Foundation & Sponsoring. The magazine for non-profit management and marketing , issue 3/2007, p. 10.
  • Peter Braczko: Gladbeck. Stadt-Bild-Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-937126-67-8 , p. 24f. and p. 27.
  • Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: Master builder of classical modernism. The architect Otto Müller-Jena (1–3). In: Our city, magazine for information, advertising, culture and home care , ed. from Verkehrsverein Gladbeck eV, Volume 35 (2008), No. 1 (pp. 42–45), No. 2 (pp. 17–25), No. 3 (pp. 11–16).
  • Wilhelm Damberg , Johannes Meier : The Diocese of Essen 1958-2008. An illustrated church history of the region from the beginnings of Christianity to the present. Aschendorff, Münster 2008, ISBN 3-402-12731-8 , pp. 160f.
  • Ralph Eberhard Brachthäuser: The large crucifixion group in the Butendorfer Heilig Kreuz church. In: Our city. Journal for information, advertising, cultural and homeland care , ed. from Verkehrsverein Gladbeck eV, Volume 38 (2011), No. 2 (pp. 41–43). Digitized on the homepage of the Gladbeck Abbey: [4] .
  • Ludger Tewes: Johannes Lichtenberg (1886-1958). Küster, organist and rendant in Gladbeck-Butendorf , in: Christen an der Ruhr Vol. 5, ed. v. Reimund Haas and Jürgen Bärsch, Aschendorff, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-402-10491-0 , pp. 115-135.

swell

  1. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular s. 519, 525, 529, 574 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 483, 487, 490, 531 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  3. ^ [1] Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Gladbeck from February 18, 2013
  4. ^ [2] Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Gladbeck from August 24, 2015
  5. ^ [3] Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Gladbeck from July 14, 2018

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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 4.5"  E