Heart of Jesus (Oberhausen-Sterkrade)

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Herz-Jesu-Kirche Oberhausen-Sterkrade

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche Oberhausen-Sterkrade , also called Herz Jesu Sterkrade, is a neo-Gothic former parish church consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus , which now functions as one of the parish churches of the Catholic parish of St. Clemens in the Oberhausen district of Sterkrade .

location

The church building is located in Oberhausen-Sterkrade on the Postweg . The address of the associated parish office is Inselstrasse 31, the parish hall directly adjacent to the church building, which bears the name of the former pastor and dean Paul Heitvogt († 1991), has the postal address Inselstrasse 40.

history

On January 25, 1903 decided church council of the parish of St. Clement in Sterkrade due to increased numbers believers to build a new church in the northern part of the parish area. A year later a church building association was founded. Originally planned as a two-aisled church, the church council decided in 1905 to build a three-aisled church and commissioned the Düsseldorf architect Caspar Clemens Pickel with the planning. Pickel had already built the Liebfrauenkirche with Capuchin monastery in Sterkrade and the St. Josef Church in Buschhausen in Oberhausen . On August 14, 1905, the exact location of the church was determined and construction work began, around two months later, on October 15, 1905, the foundation stone was laid and a benediction by the Sterkrad pastor Wilhelm Kranenburg. The consecration of the completed church took place on October 6th, 1907 by the Meiderich dean Sprenger. On this day the first Holy Mass was held in the church and the first rector, Bernhard Mehring, was introduced.

The parish council of St. Clemens decided on March 22nd, 1908, to remove the parish from the mother parish and set the boundaries of the new parish. The festival of the parish elevation was celebrated on November 21, 1909, at the same time the previous rector, Bernhard Mehring, was introduced as pastor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The consecration of the church was carried out by Auxiliary Bishop Everhard Illigens from Münster on July 14, 1907. Before the establishment of the Essen diocese in 1957, the parish belonged to the Münster diocese .

The church was badly damaged during World War II , but it was rebuilt in its original form. In 1949 the first considerations arose for a branch church in Alsfeld , but a corresponding decision to build a church (St. Pius) was only made in November 1959. The split from St. Pius as the rectorate parish took place on July 1, 1962.

On February 5, 1977, the celebration altar designed by the artist Gottfried Kappen (1906–1981) from Savonnières was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Julius Angerhausen . In the altar are the relics of Saints Anastasius and Probus. The way of the cross made of polyester also comes from Gottfried Kappen . The tabernacle and the now replaced ambo were designed by the Düsseldorf artist Maria Fuss .

In April 2004, the parish of St. Pius, which was parish off in 1962, was reassigned to the parish Herz Jesu. With the establishment of the St. Clemens parish as part of the restructuring of the Essen diocese in 2007, the Sacred Heart also lost its parish status and has been a parish church within the St. Clemens parish ever since. Holy Mass was celebrated for the last time in the Church of St. Pius on January 13, 2008 together with Bishop Felix Genn , after which the relics of the namesake, Pope Pius X , and of St. Boniface were transferred to the Sacred Heart of Jesus -Church transferred. In the meantime the church building of St. Pius has been demolished and apartments have been built in its place.

The last renovation work in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche took place in 2007 before the large parish was established. The altar was made smaller and moved, the chancel was redesigned and the lighting was renewed. Sediles and a new ambo were cut from the pieces left over from the shrinking of the altar .

At the end of 2014, the Herz Jesu congregation had 5,294 Catholics, making it the second most populous congregation in the parish of St. Clemens, which had 32,578 Catholics. An above-average number of baptisms and first communions take place in the church - in the last survey in 2014, Herz Jesu even had the third largest number of first communion children among the churches in the diocese (second largest in the city of Oberhausen).

List of priests

All rectors, pastors and pastors of the Herz Jesu Sterkrade are listed here.

Effective time title Surname Remarks
1907-1909 Rector Bernhard Mehring
1909-1913 Pastor Bernhard Mehring after the raising of the Herz Jesu Sterkrade to a parish
1913-1919 Pastor Anton wood
1919-1937 Pastor Alfons Beurschgens
1937-1957 Pastor Wilhelm Awick
1957-1968 Pastor Franz Scheulen
1968-1991 Pastor and dean Paul Heitvogt The community center on Inselstrasse was named after him
1991-2010 Pastor Norbert Ghesla from 2007, after the incorporation of Herz-Jesu Sterkrade into the large parish of St. Clemens Sterkrade, Norbert Ghesla continued to serve as pastor at Herz Jesu, before becoming pastor at St. Laurentius (Steele) in Essen in 2010 .
2010-2011 pastor Ralph Eberhard fallow houses
since November 2011 pastor Arun Jan Mathur

organ

After the original organ became unplayable in 1969, a new organ was built by the organ building company Franz Breil , which was inaugurated on April 20, 1975. It stands in a rather unusual place for churches behind the celebration altar in the apse of the church. The organ has a free-standing console and 38 sounding registers on three manuals and a pedal . This means that the instrument has over 2,488 pipes , the largest being almost 5 meters high, the smallest only a few centimeters. The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions and couplings are electric.

Interior view of the choir before the renovation in 2007 with the prospectus of the Breil organ
I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Gedacktpommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Flute 2 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture 5 times 2 ′
Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Beat 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Transverse flute 4 ′
Schwiegel 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sif flute 1'
Trumpet 16 ′
Mixture 4-fold 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Basson 16 '
Trumpets 8th'
Hautbois 4 '
Tremulant
III Crown positive C – g 3
Metal dacked 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cymbal 3-fold  1 ⁄ 2 ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Pipe pommer 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Pedal mix 4-fold 2 ′
trombone 16 ′
Bass trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling: I / II, I / III, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations , 1 free pedal combination, pleno, tongue holder

Trivia

From 1923 to 1925, the biographer and writer Wilhelm Hünermann had his first position as chaplain in Herz Jesu Oberhausen-Sterkrade.

In 1984, the university professor and organist Sieglinde Ahrens recorded the "Sunday Music" by the Czech composer Petr Eben on the Breil organ .

One of the three bells in the tower of the Herz Jesu Church dates from 1688 from the Michael Abraham Sievert bell foundry in Görlitz . It was originally intended for the St. Maternus Church in Liebenthal , Lower Silesia . This is also indicated by the inscription St. Maternus , Bishop and Patron of this Church . The bell , which weighs 1.4 tons, was initially borrowed from the bell warehouse in Hamburg and was brought to Oberhausen, where it is still located today.

The window in the confessional room and the window in the tower were designed by the Dutch artist Henk Schilling .

Web links

Commons : Herz Jesu (Oberhausen-Sterkrade)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Church History on the ward website, accessed September 1, 2017
  2. ^ Parish chronicle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1971-1990 , accessed on September 6, 2017
  3. ↑ Catholic Churches in Oberhausen, Ed. Katholiken-Committee in der Stadt Oberhausen, 1995, p. 60.
  4. ^ Diocese of Essen: Annual survey 2015. Accessed on September 1, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Pastor Brachthäuser's curriculum vitae ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Heilig Kreuz Foundation, accessed on September 4, 2017  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heilig-kreuz-stiftung.de
  6. ↑ DerWesten.de (Oberhausen) New pastor for the Heart of Jesus
  7. ↑ Gustav K. Ommer: New organs in the Ruhr area: from 1945 to the present Mercator, Duisburg 1984, ISBN 3-8746-3120-6 .
  8. ↑ Festschrift for the organ consecration Herz-Jesu Sterkrade from 1975
  9. ↑ Chaplains in the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the church website, accessed September 4, 2017
  10. ↑ Label Multisonic: Petr Eben Organworks - Sunday Music, Small Choral Partita, Chagall Windows Sieglinde Ahrens (Organ), Rudolf Lodenkemper (Trumpet)
  11. ↑ The Ursulines continued to help - Sacred Heart Bell comes from a monastery church , NRZ Oberhausen, Easter 1975 edition
  12. ↑ Oberhausen-Sterkrade, Kath. Kirche Herz Jesu , website in the portal glasmalerei-ev.de , accessed on October 28, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '27 "  N , 6 ° 50' 53.8"  E