Kreuzeskirche (Marxloh)

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Striking front with church tower
Interior view (2017)

The Kreuzeskirche in the Marxloh district of Duisburg is a Protestant church that was built from 1903 to 1905 according to plans by the architect Heinrich Behrens . In 1985 it was placed under monument protection. Typical of the Hamborn-Marxloh area, which was shaped by industrialization , is the church island with the rectory, which is also a listed building.

history

On March 31, 1893, Gottfried Stumm became the first pastor of the Marxloh district in the Protestant community of Beeck. Due to industrialization and immigration, the district and community grew, so that he pushed the idea of ​​separating the Marxloh district from the large community of Beeck and building a new church. On January 1, 1905, the Marxloh district, an independent parish, and the Kreuzeskirche was inaugurated on July 25, 1905 after two years of construction. As the largest Protestant church in the north of Duisburg, designed for 1,100 seats, the Kreuzeskirche characterizes the district with its appearance and its reddish color. The adjacent rectory was built in 1908. The Kreuzeskirche was included in the themed route “Sacred Buildings” in 2013, making it a stop on the “ Route of Industrial Culture ”.

Church building

The brick building with a slate roof has a cruciform floor plan made up of building sections of almost the same length. In the almost round central room, the furnishings from the construction period have largely been preserved: the organ's prospectus from 1905, wooden balustrades of the galleries with cladding, rows of benches, pulpit with sound cover. The older organ was replaced in 1998 by a purely wooden organ from GHKlops.

Today's usage concept

The Kreuzeskirche was designed as a sermon church and belongs to the Ev. Bonhoeffer community of Marxloh-Obermarxloh. Today, as an open district church, it is also used for cultural, civic and socio-political events and exhibitions.

Picture gallery

  • Spire

  • pulpit

  • Historical organ prospectus

  • New organ

  • Belfry

  • Roof truss

literature

  • Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in the Rhineland 6.1. City of Duisburg, northern districts, Worms 2007
  • Evangelical parish of Marxloh, 100 years of the Kreuzeskirche, 2005
  • Werner Franzen, Worship sites in transition. Protestant church building in the Rhineland 1860-1914, Düsseldorf 2004
  • Günter von Roden, history of the city of Duisburg. Volume II, Duisburg 1974, p. 107

Web links

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

proof

  1. ↑ Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany. Monuments in the Rhineland 6.1. City of Duisburg, northern districts, Worms 2007, pp. 149f

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 13.8 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 39.6"  E