Holy Trinity (Düsseldorf)
The Catholic parish of the Holy Trinity, founded in 1691 in the Derendorf district of Düsseldorf, is the oldest still existing parish outside the former city walls of Düsseldorf. The original parish church was built between 1692 and 1693, the current one between 1892 and 1893.
history
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The parish of St. Trinity was founded in 1691 by the canons of the Sommers brothers and Bartholomäus von Weyer. The church, built from 1692 to 1693, had two west towers and one choir tower and was originally located on today's Münsterplatz. It was a "three-aisled, low, very simple brick building with a flat ceiling." At the end of the 19th century, the decision was made to build a new one, as the old brick building was no longer big enough for the ever-growing community in Düsseldorf, which was rapidly expanding at the time. A bronze plaque is located at the "Rachen" restaurant and is intended to remind of the old predecessor building. Today's church was built in 1892/93 according to the design by the architect Caspar Clemens Pickel , which was awarded the first prize . It was built near the older previous building, which was demolished after the new building was completed. After the destruction in the Second World War, it was rebuilt in the late 1940s and early 1950s under pastor and city dean Ernst Kreuzberg. In the years after the war until the rededication of the parish church, the service took place provisionally in the chapel of the Vinzenzkrankenhaus on Schloßstraße and the Annakloster on Eulerstraße. In the 1950s and 1960s, under the organist and choir director Heinz Koenen, choir work was highly valued beyond the borders of Düsseldorf.
From 2009 the parish together with the parishes Heilig Geist , Herz Jesu , St. Adolfus , St. Lukas and St. Rochus , all of which have split off from it in the course of the previous 120 years , formed the parish association Derendorf Pempelfort . Four years later, the parishes belonging to the association merged to form one parish, which is almost as large as the historic Holy Trinity parish before 1890.
architecture
The church was built as a three-nave hall church in the neo-Gothic style . The outer surfaces were faced with light sandstone from the Saar.
The wide column position was remarkable until it was destroyed in World War II. That is why it appeared optically as a “very pierced hall church with strongly protruding cruciform wings.” A roof turret rose above the crossing.
The eastern end of the church building was formed by three choirs, the middle choir being polygonal and the other two rectangular. Lower sacristies were grouped around the choir. In addition to the main tower, two other chapels formed the western end of the church building. These were polygonally closed and were arranged transversely to the longitudinal axis of the nave.
After the war destruction, existing columns were removed. Today's interior design goes back largely to 1964. Pyramid-like shapes were attached to the hanging ceiling.
tower
Six bells hang on two floors in the 50 meter high bell tower. Instead of the original spire that was destroyed in the war, it ends with a large stone crown. A golden shining tower clock adorns the tower today.
Chapels
From the small vestibule you can enter the Marienkapelle on the right and the baptistery on the left.
The windows of the Marienkapelle were created by Franz Pauli . On the altar of the chapel is the figure of Mary with the child, flanked to the right by the figure of St. Joseph. The figures were created in 1995 by an artist from Oberammergau.
In the baptistery is the simple marble baptismal font in the shape of a fountain. There is an angel figure on the lid of the fountain. The windows depict the life of Jesus. There is a lattice that originally separated the nave from the choir chapel. After the church was renovated in 1964, the grating was moved to the baptistery. It is a wrought iron representation of the Most Holy Trinity.
The choir chapel is decorated with various works of art. On the right side there is a tabernacle depicting the risen One and the adoring Thomas. On the left side of the chapel there is a remnant of the old choir stalls with a small figure of Mary. In the choir chapel there are windows that were created by Franz Pauli in 1964, the theme is the Revelation of John . The window in the middle shows the Pantocrator Christ. Under his feet are the rivers of living water from which living things drink. The window on the left shows the finger of God drying a man's tears.
Furnishing
The altar of the church has a large cafeteria . Depending on the church season, various picture panels ( antependia ) are to be attached to the altar front , for example panels of the Trinity or the washing of the feet. The very simply designed ambo is adorned with a few rock crystals in the shape of a cross. A Gothic crucifix hangs over the altar. On the back of the cross is a small medallion with the Lamb of God. The Way of the Cross was created by Willi Dirx .
Most of the church windows are abstract and are supposed to represent the "elevation of creation out of darkness into the realm of light". Few of the church windows are figurative with saints, such as the figure of Saint Sebastian above the sacristy door. On the left side above the door, St. Barbara with Mary, St. Peter and Paul and Franz Xaver patroness of the church was depicted in the window.
Two reliefs are remarkable: The Derendorfer Jonges local history association donated a relief that was placed on the right side of the sacristy door. It is the relief in memory of two canons, the Sommers brothers. The summers were two well-known donors who were buried outside the church on the church wall of the sacristy.
To the left of the sacristy door hangs a relief commemorating Prelate Thinel. Thinel was Apostolic Protonotary and worked as a subsidiary in the parish. He died in 1987.
organ
The organ was built in 1959 by the organ builder Romanus Seifert & Sohn. The cone store instrument has 40 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
| No. | patron | Nominal | Casting year | Caster |
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| 1 | Trinity | h ° -1 | 1960 | Petit & Edelbrock Gescher |
| 2 | Maria | cis -1 | 1960 | Petit & Edelbrock Gescher |
| 3 | Joseph | dis¹ ± 0 | 1960 | Petit & Edelbrock Gescher |
| 4th | Peter | f sharp 1 ± 0 | 1960 | Petit & Edelbrock Gescher |
| 5 | Barbara | g sharp¹ ± 0 | 1960 | Petit & Edelbrock Gescher |
| 6th | Angelus | h¹ ± 0 | 1960 | Petit & Edelbrock Gescher |
"Veni, Creator Spiritus"
Web links
- Official homepage of the parish
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Alt St. Martin in Bilk, which was incorporated with Derendorf in 1384, is the oldest church in Düsseldorf, but has no continuous history as a parish church.
- ↑ a b Church of the Holy Trinity. (No longer available online.) Kath-derendorf-pempelfort.de (Kath. Kirchengemeinde Heilige Dreifaltigkeit), archived from the original on June 25, 2016 ; Retrieved June 25, 2016 . 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.
- ^ A b c Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 99
- ^ Manfred Becker-Huberti (ed.): Düsseldorfer Kirchen. The Catholic churches in the city dean of Düsseldorf. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2219-3 , p. 46f.
- ↑ More information on the organ ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 34.5 " N , 6 ° 47 ′ 20.4" E