Carmel Church (Duisburg)

Southwest view of the Carmel Church (2015)

View of the choir of the former Minorite Church

The Roman Catholic Carmel Church in Duisburg ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a former church of the Carmelites , which was built on the foundation walls of the former Minorite Church after the Second World War.

history

The Minorites received a plot of land to build a monastery and a church in the north of Duisburg's Salvatorkirche in 1265 from the Counts of Limburg. The monastery church was built between 1272 and 1315 as an elongated, flat-roofed hall with a vaulted choir. In 1896 the original medieval nave was incorporated as the south aisle in a neo-Gothic extension, the Liebfrauenkirche , which was closed after being destroyed in the Second World War. Instead of the former Minorite Church, which had been destroyed in the war, at the suggestion of Bishop Franz Hengsbach, the new single-nave Carmel Church was built for the Carmelite Order under the direction of the architect Heinz Thoma , in which undestroyed parts of the early Gothic complex were preserved. This involved the vaulted choir made up of two bays and a 5/8 end and the large pointed arch panel on the west wall, which previously contained a double portal with a four-part tracery panel and a three-part tracery window. The Carmelites gave up the monastery in 2002 due to obsolescence. In 2006 the Carmel Church and the Church of Our Lady at König-Heinrich-Platz were merged to form a new staff congregation. In 2008, a new, different type of community arose in the empty rooms of the sister monastery: the “Community at the Inner Harbor. A Carmelite initiative. ”Nine people currently live there.

organ

Today's organ comes from the Klais company in Bonn .

The instrument is fully mechanical and has two manuals. The wind chests are set up on one level. The main plant is behind the prospectus pipes.

Disposition

2000, II / 19, mech./mech.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
Bourdon	16 ′
Principal	8th'
Viola da gamba	8th'
Octave	4 ′
Reed flute	4 ′
Duplicate	2 ′
Mixture IV	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
Trumpet	8th'

II Echowerk C – g ³
Wooden flute	8th'
Venetian flute	4 ′
Nasard	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
Octavine	2 ′
Tierce	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
Basson-Hautbois	8th'
Tremulant

Pedal C – f ¹
Sub bass	16 ′
Principal (Tr. I)	8th'
Gamba (Tr. I)	8th'
Octav (Tr. I)	4 ′
Bombard	16 ′

KOPPELN / COUPLERS : II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

Brochure The Carmel Church in Duisburg . Mülheim / Ruhr 2010.
Gehorg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia , Vol. 1: Rhineland, Darmstadt 1967.

Web links

Commons : Karmelkirche (Duisburg) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Klais Organ. Accessed July 26, 2012
History Retrieved July 26, 2012