Sacred Heart Church (Düsseldorf-Urdenbach)

Sacred Heart Church

The Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Düsseldorf-Urdenbach is a three- nave , neo-Romanesque basilica , the construction of which began in 1893. The Herz-Jesu-Pfarre, which has existed since 1906, now forms the parish association of Benrath-Urdenbach together with St. Cäcilia .

history

Urdenbach belonged to the parish of Benrath until the late 19th century . In 1893 the Urdenbach Catholics were able to lay the foundation stone for their own church. The choir and two yokes of the longitudinal house, where services could already be held, were built by 1894 . This church was elevated to a Rector's Church in 1902 and a parish church in 1906 . In 1914 the church was expanded and the four-storey bell tower was built according to plans by Wilhelm and Paul Sültenfuß . In the 1960s the church was redesigned and a major renovation followed in the late 1970s.

Architecture and equipment

The outer walls of the oversized building for a village parish church consist of visible red bricks . The stones were only plastered to emphasize the borders of the decorations on the tower . The windows in the aisle are large round arched windows in the Romanesque style. In the clerestory are small drilling window .

Bells

In 1912 the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast four bronze bells for the Herz-Jesu-Kirche. Of these four bells, two still hang in the church tower today. The smallest of the four bells, the original angelus bell, now stands on the steps of the choir room as a transformation bell. Its inscription reads: Ave Maria gratia plena ora nobis (1912, Otto, Hemelingen). In the church tower today a five-part bronze ringing by two bell- makers with the motif " Filled Salve Regina" on d ′ can be heard :

Heinrich & Elisabeth : d′-2 / Otto, Bremen Hemelingen / 1912 / 1,750 kg
Pius X .: e′-2 / Petit and Gebr. Edelbrock / 1960 / 1,000 kg
Petrus : fis′-3 / Otto, Bremen Hemelingen / 1912/850 kg
Johannes : a′-2 / Petit and Gebr. Edelbrock / 1960/380 kg
Maria : h′-3 / Petit and Gebr. Edelbrock / 1960/280 kg

literature

Manfred Becker-Huberti (Ed.): Düsseldorf churches. The Catholic churches in the city dean of Düsseldorf. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2219-3 , pp. 59/60.

Web links

Commons : Herz-Jesu-Kirche - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Catholic Church Community Association Benrath-Urdenbach , accessed on September 26, 2018.

51.149813 6.868528Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '59.3 " N , 6 ° 52' 6.7" E

Individual evidence

^ 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, in particular pages 302, 518 .
↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 269, 482 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

[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, in particular pages 302, 518 .

[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, in particular pp. 269, 482 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).