Holy Cross Church (Münster)

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Holy Cross from the West (2006)
View from the southwest, evening illumination (2010)

The Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz in Münster (usually called Kreuzkirche in Münster vernacular ) forms the center of the Kreuzviertel north of the promenade ring .

architecture

The Holy Cross Church is a neo-Gothic basilica on a cross plan. The crossing is widened in a star shape and carries a slender roof turret on the roof, which is raised here . The church tower is 87 meters high.

history

The church was built from 1899 to 1902 according to plans by Bernhard and Hilger Hertel . Initially the Rectorate Church of the parish Liebfrauen-Überwasser , it was elevated to a parish church in 1905. The tower was completed in 1908. Until the reconstruction of St. Paulus Cathedral after the Second World War , the Holy Cross Church served as a procathedral . In 1946, after his return from Rome , the newly appointed Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen celebrated his first and only pontifical office as cardinal there on March 17, 1946 , and only five days later the pontifical request for the suddenly deceased cardinal took place there.

Pastor Thomas Frings , who is also the diocese's art representative, had a widely visible violet LED light installed in the church tower at the beginning of Lent 2013, which has the typical Lent color and since Ash Wednesday , February 13, 2013, instead of the usual lighting by The timer was switched on between 6 p.m. and 1 a.m. and between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. in the morning.

Since August 2015 there has been an illuminated lettering on the tower of the Kreuzkirche with the four words "Yes, I'm here", made of letters about one meter high. One of the words in the lettering is placed on one of the sides of the tower, above the tower clock. The model for this installation is an installation on the tower of a church in Amsterdam.

Organs

The organ of the Kreuzkirche was built between 1904 and 1908 by Friedrich Fleiter (Münster). The organ was rebuilt in the 1960s. These changes were reversed in 2001-2003 by the organ builder Fleiter . The instrument was technically overhauled and placed in a new case. The pipework was reconstructed according to the historical condition. The disposition has been expanded by six registers (marked with n in the overview) and the instrument has been equipped with an electrical setting system. The organ has slider chests, the key actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Grand Principal 00 16 ′ n
2. Drone 16 ′
3. Principal 08th'
4th Hollow flute 08th'
5. Lull major 08th'
6th Gamba 08th'
7th octave 04 ′
8th. Reed flute 04 ′
9. Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′00
10. Octave 02 ′ n
11. Cornett III 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Mixture V 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Trumpet 08th'
II Swell C-g 3 (g 4 )
14th Big dumped 16 ′
15th Violin principal 00 08th'
16. Lovely Gedackt 08th'
17th Salicional 08th'
18th Vox coelestis 08th'
19th Principal 04 ′
20th Transverse flute 04 ′
21st Forest flute 02 ′
22nd third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′00
23. Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Mixture IV 01' n
25th Basson 16 ′ n
26th oboe 08th'
27. Trumpet 04 ′ n
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
28. Pedestal 32 ′ n
29 Contrabass 16 ′
30th Violon 16 ′
31. Harmonic bass 00 16 ′
32. Sub bass 16 ′
33. Principal bass 08th'00
34. cello 08th'
35. Choral bass 04 ′
36. trombone 16 ′
37. Trumpet 08th'
38. Clairon 04 ′
n = register from 2003

Since 2019 there has been a mobile console for the main organ with an integrated organ positive, built by Orgelbau Fleiter. The organ positive has the five registers drone 8 ′, flute 4 ′ (extension to drone 8 ′), Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ (from c 0 , extract from fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′), flute 2 ′ (extension to drone 8 ′) And fifths 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ and can be played from both manuals of the new console.

Bells

The ringing consists of four bronze bells from 1952, tuned to des ', es', f 'and as'. Just before Christmas 2014, the bell was renewed. New wooden yokes, new clappers and new motors were installed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : Tower can be seen from afar: violet fasting light shines on Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche , Münster, Gabriele Hillmoth, March 5, 2013
  2. ↑ Information on installation on the diocese website
  3. ↑ orgelmagazin.de: The Fleiter organ in the Holy Cross Church in Münster ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed September 15, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orgelmagazin.de
  4. ↑ Information on the console choir organ project

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 12.3 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 26.2"  E