Holy Spirit (Emmerich)
The catholic parish church Heilig Geist was built in 1966 on behalf of the diocese of Münster in Emmerich am Rhein . The church is located in a large outdoor area in the middle of the Leegmeer district of Emmerich . It consists of six individual elements that combine to form a central building .
The interior, which is oriented towards the altar island, is structured by six mushroom roofs of different heights. Mushroom roofs of different heights are arranged over a multi-part floor plan constructed from triangles . The wall surfaces between the supports are framed by ribbon windows.
history
Due to the growing importance of the Leegmeer district in the 1950s, the church council of the mother parish of St. Aldegundis decided to found a new parish, which Pastor Lambert Brimmers took over.
After the acquisition of a 12,000 square meter property, an architecture competition was announced. The youngest applicant, Dieter Georg Baumewerd , was able to prevail with his design. 1964 started construction, on Pentecost 1966, the Church by the Bishop could Heinrich Baaken from Munster dedicated to be.
In 1989 a free-standing bell tower was built based on a design by Dieter Georg Baumewerd.
description
The floor plan shows an unconventionally designed central room made up of three irregular polygons. The architecture is formed by six polygonal concrete pillars as load-bearing elements, the space in between is filled by thin and bent wall panels. The center of the architecture is taken up by a square altar island. In the north-east, a Stations of the Cross and the sacristy are added and in a certain way break through the outline of the church. The bell tower stands free in front of the main portal to the southwest.
The interior is characterized by six mushroom-shaped roof shades of different heights. The council, which spoke of the table of words and the table of bread, was the inspiration for the division of the altar.
Vertical and horizontal cladding lines give the reinforced concrete a rhythmic shape. Large and elongated window surfaces made of clear glass, reaching down to the floor, let in nature, especially the sky, and give the room lightness. The center of the room is formed by the altar island , on which an irregularly shaped cross known as the “scrap cross” stands.
Furnishing
The eye-catcher is the 640 m² wall panels, which the Informel artist Fred Thieler covered with abstract colored nettle fabric strips on site using the pouring and spatula technique and made it one of his main works. Blue tones are dominant.
Fred Thieler also created the abstract way of the cross .
The design of the chancel comes from the Emmerich artist Waldemar Kuhn . The altar is divided into two parts, a table of bread and a table of words. Both are seven-ton blocks of Carrara marble . “For the proclamation, the liturgist steps from one wing of the altar, which serves as the table of the word and the throne of the Holy Scriptures, in the middle; to show the holy figures, he steps from the other wing of the altar, which is used for preparing and offering sacrifices, into the same center ”( Hermann Josef Spital ).
The goldsmith's workshop Wilhelm Polders from Kevelaer produced the tabernacle made of cast silver .
The font is a design by Alo Kröger from Münster.
The seven meter high and nine meter wide monumental cross characterizes the liturgical center . It consists of steel waste of various origins, hence the name “scrap cross”. Not only the triumphant overcoming of suffering and death is in the foreground here, but the inadequacy of the human being.
The five-armed bronze chandelier in baroque form, like the cross, was made by the sculptor Waldemar Kuhn.
organ
The organ was built in 1996 by the Karl Schuke company in Berlin . The instrument has 25 registers on two manuals and pedal with a total of 1594 pipes, 97 of which are made of wood. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 64-fold combination, mechanical action mechanism, electrical stop action mechanism
Peal
The church has five bells . They date from 1989 and were cast by Petit & Edelbrock in Gescher .
| No. | Surname | Casting year | Caster | place | Weight (kg) | volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trinity Bell | 1989 | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock |
Gescher | 1,080 | e1 / mi |
| 2 | Christ bell | 1989 | 750 | fis1 / fa # | ||
| 3 | Holy Spirit Bell | 1989 | 590 | gis1sol # | ||
| 4th | Marienbell | 1989 | 460 | h1si / 3 | ||
| 5 | Saint Victor Bell | 1989 | 340 | cis2 / do # |
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Holy Spirit Church Emmerich" by mokinobe
- ↑ m.emmerich.de, Sights, Heilig-Geist-Kirche ( Memento from September 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Werner Stalder: In the everyday the unusual. RP of December 21, 2015
- ↑ rp-online.de, 50 years: Emmerich celebrates the Holy Spirit, by Monika Hartjes, from April 6, 2016
- ↑ Online quote from H. Rogmans (Ed.): Heilig Geist Emmerich . Wiesbaden 1966, no p.
- ↑ Engineering office Dipl.-Ing. Alo Kroeger
- ↑ strasse-der-moderne.de, Emmerich Heilig Geist
- ↑ orgelsite.nl, Emmerich, Heilig Geistkirche
- ↑ youtube.com Bells of the Holy Spirit Church, Emmerich
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 6 ° 15 ′ 24.3 ″ E