Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Osnabrück)

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Sacred Heart Church in the early 20th century
The church 2009, in the foreground the Haarmannsbrunnen
Longship with a steel-wood ceiling construction that is modeled on the neo-Gothic vault that was destroyed in the Second World War
The 16th century crucifixion group Evert van Rodens was brought to the church in 1990
Ecumenical youth service during the 97th German Catholic Congress in 2008

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche ( listen ? / I ) is a Roman Catholic church in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony). Audio file / audio sample

It is a branch church of St. Peter's Cathedral . The most valuable art-historical piece of equipment is a late Gothic crucifixion group from the 16th century by the sculptor Evert van Roden from Münster (Westphalia).

history

Construction time and first equipment

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche was the first Roman Catholic church to be built in Osnabrück after the Reformation .

The Osnabrück Cathedral School , founded in 1891, made a plot of land on Herrenteichswall available for the church building, which should serve as a school and garrison church and relieve the parish of Osnabrück Cathedral . In 1898 the architect Alexander Behnes drafted the plans for the three-nave church in the neo-Gothic style. The church was built from Ibbenbürener sandstone , which was brought to Osnabrück by horse and cart. The shell was completed in December 1899; the twin towers were still missing. The first postcards with the completed towers were made soon after the towers were completed. The church was already in use at the 48th German Catholic Day, which took place in Osnabrück from August 25 to 29, 1901, although the church was not yet completely finished.

The church was blessed on March 13, 1902 and has been used for services ever since. The Catholic Workers' Association held lectures there. In October 1902 the church received three bells from the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher ( Münsterland ). In 1912 the church was equipped with a high altar by the Osnabrück sculptor Heinrich Seling (1843–1912).

Destruction in World War II

The three bells from Gescher were lost to a metal collection during the Second World War in 1942. In the same year heavy bombing raids began on Osnabrück. In the first wave on June 20, the church remained undamaged, unlike the surrounding buildings. During a heavy air raid on August 20, 1942, the southern bell tower caught fire; the church could still be used. The church suffered further damage on August 18 and October 7, 1942; the community moved to the grammar school church and the chapel of the Elisabethhaus. The church was makeshift. On May 7, 1944, an explosive bomb destroyed the roof and the interior, the high altar was recovered and housed in the Old St. Alexander Church in Wallenhorst . The grammar school church was destroyed on September 13, 1944; In 1945, rooms in the Wiemann house on Karlstrasse were made available to the community.

Restoration from 1948

In 1948, work began to restore the Herz-Jesu-Kirche as an emergency church ; The Osnabrück bishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning celebrated the first service on Palm Sunday 1949 with the congregation. In 1953 the church building association was founded. The congregation celebrated the second topping-out ceremony for the church on October 20, 1954. The church received a new sacrificial altar and a pedal harmonium to replace the organ. At the end of 1954, the reconstruction was completed. In 1958 the sculptor Georg Hörnschemeyer created a statue of St. Joseph for the church. In 1962 the church got a Way of the Cross and the statue of the Virgin Mary “Annunciation” created by the sculptor Friedrich Vornholt from Osnabrück. The choir was redesigned in 1969 in accordance with the Sacrosanctum Concilium of the Second Vatican Council . In the 1980s, damage was found to the church's masonry. The renovation work was completed in 1983.

Renovation 1989/1990

Altar panels from the high altar created in 1912 by Heinrich Seling (1843–1912)

In 1989 the church was closed for major renovations. The architect Bruno Braun designed the renovation plans. The interior of the church has been completely redesigned. The entrance area was separated by a transparent wall and glazed swing doors . The baptistery received a baptismal font by the Mülheim sculptor Ernst Rasche. He also created the altar, ambo tabernacle and priestly seat of the sanctuary, like the baptism made of shell limestone .

The late Gothic crucifixion group Evert van Rodens , which until then had been at the grammar school church, was set up in the high choir . There it was replaced by a cast. The six wood-carved panels of the earlier winged altar by Heinrich Seling have been restored and placed in the front area of ​​the aisles. They had been in the organ gallery for a long time. The panels show the stations of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus as well as Benedict von Nursia , Suitbert , Elisabeth Anna Bayley Seton , Wiho I. on a panel.

The wooden church ceiling from the post-war period was replaced by a steel construction that is reminiscent of the original neo-Gothic vault. The church was equipped with a new heating system and a floor covering made of granite slabs. Ludwig Averkamp , then bishop of the Osnabrück diocese , consecrated the new altar on December 16, 1990 and reopened the church. Since the installation of a new organ in 1991, the church has been used regularly for concerts.

In 2002 the congregation celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Sacred Heart Church. In 2008 new weathercocks were put on the church tower roofs. In May 2008 the 97th German Catholic Day took place in Osnabrück; the church was involved in the events, as was the case with the 1901 Catholic Day, for example with an ecumenical youth service on May 24, 2008.

organ

Initially, the church had a rented organ with nine stops. In 1921 an organ built by the Osnabrück organ building workshop Rudolf Haupt was installed, which was expanded in 1940. The church received an organ from Orgelbau Kreienbrink , then based in Osnabrück, in 1960. It had 29 registers on two manuals and a pedal . In 1991 the Kreienbrink organ was dismantled because it contained asbestos . The church was temporarily given an electronic organ. In the summer of 1991, the Sauer company installed a used organ that had previously been in the Dortmund Propsteikirche . It was consecrated on September 8, 1991. The instrument was built by Anton Feith , Paderborn, with the following disposition :

I Manual C-g 3
Principal 8th'
Wooden flute 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Salicional 8th'
octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 23
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture IV-V 1 13
II Manual C-g 3
Covered 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Sesquialtera 2 23 ′ + 1 35
Zymbel III 12
Rankett 16 ′
oboe 8th'
III Manual C-g 3
Gedacktpommer 16 ′
Pointed Gamba 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Coupling flute 4 ′
Flat flute 2 ′
Mixture V-VI 2 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Soft bass 16 ′ (weakened wind)
Octave bass 8th'
Covered flute 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′
trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

literature

  • New cathedral parish of St. Petrus (ed.): 100 years of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche Osnabrück . Special edition of part of a commemorative publication on the history of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche on the occasion of the 97th German Catholic Congress in May 2008. Osnabrück 2008
  • Monika Hegenberg: Splendid production - The Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Osnabrück . In: Historicism in the Diocese of Osnabrück. Alexander Behnes, Heinrich Seling, Ernst Schnelle and the preoccupation with the past in architecture and art around 1900 . Rasch, Bramsche 2014, ISBN 978-3-89946-234-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Stadtkirche Osnabrück: Church with History ( Memento from November 17, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover .
  2. Bruno Braun Architects
  3. Kreienbrink organ from 1960 , accessed on July 5, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 35.3 "  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 56"  E