Johanneskirche (Düsseldorf)

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Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf

The Johanneskirche , also called Stadtkirche , is the largest Protestant church in Düsseldorf . It is located at the end of Berliner Allee in the Stadtmitte district on Martin-Luther-Platz (formerly Königsplatz). On the square in front of the tower facade are the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial , the Bismarck Memorial and the remains of the Moltke Memorial .

The Johanneskirche is built in the round arch style. The nave is 61 meters long, the tower 87.5 meters high.

history

Ground plan around 1900
Inside, towards the organ (around 1900)

The Lutheran and Reformed congregations in Düsseldorf joined forces in 1824 at the urging of the Prussian authorities. Since then, the plan for a Protestant town church has emerged. The decision to build it was made in 1859. Negotiations with the city about the building plot lasted until 1874. After several rejected designs, a design by Walter Kyllmann and Adolf Heyden was accepted by the community in 1869 . But this had to be revised further. The foundation stone was finally laid in 1875. St. John's Church was consecrated on December 6, 1881. Twenty years later, in the autumn of 1905, the church had to be renovated because the stone and house stones made of tuff were weathered. They have been replaced with basalt on the windows, buttresses and corner towers . This happened under the direction of the government architect Wilhelm Schleicher (born August 6, 1857 in Stolberg; † March 13, 1938 in Düsseldorf).

A bomb attack on June 12, 1943 severely destroyed the Johanneskirche. After the Second World War, the demolition of the church in favor of a change in traffic management was discussed, but in the end it stopped. In March 1953 the church was reopened after its restoration. Major renovations inside were made in 1997 and 2008.

The two angels by the sculptor Carl Hubert Müller (1818–1893), which are now in front of the west portal, used to sit as guards on the gables above the side portals, the roof of the transept. The sandstone sculptures from 1878, one of them headless, were rescued from the rubble during the reconstruction after the Second World War and were donated to Kaiserswerth in 1952 , where they are at the bottom of the staircase of the bridge that leads from Klemensplatz to Kaiserswerther Markt and found their place opposite on the retaining wall. In November 1994, after restoration, the angels were placed in front of the church with a view of the Schadow Arcades .

  • Johanneskirche in the structure of the original buildings (historical photo)

  • View through Königstrasse, around 1890

  • Restoration of the Johanneskirche Düsseldorf, September 1905

  • Outside of north

  • Choir room

  • pulpit

  • Angel in front of the west portal of the Johanneskirche

organ

organ

The large organ of the Johanneskirche was built in 1953/54 by the Hamburg organ builder Rudolf von Beckerath as a mechanical slider chest organ and overhauled in 2001. Since then, are Spieltrakturen the pedal and the entire key action electric. In 2001 the electrical coupling was added, as well as a MIDI connection. The disposition - apart from the mixture (No. 39) - has remained unchanged.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
01. Principal 08th'
02. Dumped 08th'
03. Quintad 08th'
04th octave 04 ′
05. Reed flute 04 ′
06th Fifth flute 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
07th octave 02 ′
08th. Gemshorn 02 ′
09. Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Sesquialtera II 0 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Sharp V-VII 01'
12. Dulcian 16 ′
13. Schalmey 08th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
14th Principal 16 ′
15th Quintadena 16 ′
16. octave 08th'
17th Reed flute 08th'
18th octave 04 ′
19th Night horn 04 ′
20th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st octave 02 ′
22nd Flat flute 02 ′
23. Mixture VI-VIII 0 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Sharp IV 01 ⁄ 2 ′
25th Trumpet 16 ′
26th Trumpet 08th'
III Oberwerk C – g 3
27. Drone 16 ′
28. Principal 08th'
29 Coupling flute 08th'
30th octave 04 ′
31. recorder 04 ′
32. Nasat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. Night horn 02 ′
34. third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
35. Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
36. Seventh 01 1 ⁄ 7  ′
37. Sif flute 01'
38. None 08 ⁄ 9 ′
39. mixture 02 ′
40. Zimbel III 01 ⁄ 6 ′
41. oboe 08th'
42. Trumpet 04 ′
Tremulant
IV breastwork C – g 3
43. Dumped 8th'
44. Wooden flute 4 ′
45. Principal 2 ′
46. Forest flute 2 ′
47. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
48. Schwiegel 00 1'
49. Terzian II
50. Sharp IV 0 2 ⁄ 3 ′
51. shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
52. Principal 32 ′
53. octave 16 ′
54. Sub-bass 16 ′
55. octave 08th'
56. Dumped 08th'
57. octave 04 ′
58. Night horn 02 ′
59. Rauschwerk IV 0
60. Mixture VI-VIII 02 ′
61. trombone 32 ′
62. trombone 16 ′
63. Dulcian 16 ′
64. Trumpet 08th'
65. Trumpet 04 ′
66. cornet 02 ′
Gallery (Christmas Eve 2011)
  • Pairing :
    • Mechanical normal couplings: III / II, IV / II, I / P, III / P
    • Electrical normal couplings (2001): I / II, III / II, IV / II, III / I, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
    • Electrical sub-octave coupling (2001): III / II, III / III
    • Electrical super-octave coupling (2001): III / II, III / III
  • Playing aids (2001): MIDI interface with synthesizer
  • Remarks:
  1. ↑ a b Swellable.
  2. ↑ 2001 supplementary register.

Bells

In the tower of the Johanneskirche is the largest bell ringing of all Protestant churches in Düsseldorf. All bells hang on deep cranked steel yokes.

No. Surname Casting year Caster Mass (kg) Ø (mm) Chime Remarks
1 1952 Rincker, Sinn 3,000 1,750 a 0
2 1952 Rincker, Sinn 1,450 1,450 c 1
3 1782 Copinius 970 1,260 d 1
4th 1860 HP Lieboldt 1,100 1,230 e 1
5 1952 Rincker, Sinn 480 960 g 1

Motif: "Ad te levavi animam meam"

literature

Web links

Commons : Johanneskirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Restoration of the Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf , in Rhein and Düssel (No. 40), from October 1, 1905, p. 5
  2. ^ Two angels, sculptor Carl Müller (1818–1893), Martin-Luther-Platz , on d: kult, accessed on April 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ Information on the organ of the Johanneskirche
  4. ↑ Video recording of the ringing with further information about the bells

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 28.2 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 56.8"  E