Liebfrauenkirche (Dortmund)

Church tower of the Liebfrauenkirche

Dortmund Liebfrauenkirche

South facade, tower

Choir, south facade

The Church of Our Lady is a built in 1881-1883, under monument protection standing Roman Catholic Church in Dortmund, Amalienstraße 21 a. It has been used as a columbarium since 2009 , and until June 2009 it was a Catholic parish church in the Dortmund city ​​center-west . The church building is registered as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

Architecture of the church

The Liebfrauenkirche is a three-aisle, neo stages hall with an antibody directed to the east side stepped chorus with ⁵ / ₈ -circuit . The towering nave is flanked by stepped side aisles that end in front of the choir. The nave walls, made of burnt bricks , which were faced with hollow facing bricks, are structured by buttresses and neo-Gothic pointed arched windows. There are strikingly designed eaves above it . The coffin cornices , finials , the tracery of the windows and the cornices on the buttresses are edged with light gray sandstone. There are three Gothic stepped portals on the west facade , of which the middle one forms the main portal. There is a large tracery window above. A pointed gable forms the end of the west facade, which is supported on the sides by two small corner towers. The 72 meter high side tower adjoining the northern nave is square and is supported on each side by two massive buttresses . Between the buttresses, the masonry is broken through by an elongated two-lane sound hatch. There is a tower clock above each . The tower is flanked by four corner turrets above the tower clock. This is followed by an eight-sided stone, with crabs decorated spire with neo-Gothic tracery. The top of the stone dome and the corner turrets each end with a finial.

History of the church

19th century until the end of the war in 1945

With industrialization and the influx of predominantly Catholic workers, the population of the city of Dortmund grew strongly. The only Roman Catholic church to date, the Provost Church , could no longer contain the crowds, as the number of Catholics had risen to 12,000 in 1866. On January 14, 1866, the parish church council decided to build another parish church.

However, due to political constraints, the new parish church was not built until years later, after the Franco-Prussian War . Towards the end of 1871 the community acquired a plot of land measuring 600 square meters outside the historic medieval city ring, on the corner of Amalienstraße and Turmstraße for around 54,000 marks . In 1874 the Viennese architect Friedrich von Schmidt , who was renowned in the field of catholic sacred buildings, was supposed to create drafts for a new church, but this was rejected after the sudden death of the provost Wiemann in the longer vacancy of this office. From 1877 to 1880 over 3,000 Catholics were temporarily transferred to the Crimean Chapel , which was built in 1871 . Due to the resulting lack of space, the church emergency increased alarmingly. That changed in 1880, when it was decided to build a new church again. Now Friedrich von Schmidt created designs for the new church, a school and a rectory. Since the buildings were to be built with brickwork, a ring kiln brickworks was initially built to produce the building material. The foundation stone of the church, a stone from the west portal of the provost church, was laid on June 11, 1881. However, the solemn ceremony of laying the foundation stone did not take place until September 4, 1881 by the parish administrator Johannes Löhers. On December 11, 1883, the church was consecrated to the Church of Our Lady by Paderborn Auxiliary Bishop Freusberg , who gave her relics of St. Luke . This made the Liebfrauenkirche the first church outside the Dortmund city ring.

May 1945 to summer 2009

The Liebfrauenkirche was largely destroyed in the Second World War. Only the church tower remained intact. The reconstruction of the church began in 1947. The original shape was not restored, but the church was rebuilt in a different way. At Easter 1953, the four new cast steel bells made by the Bochumer Verein sounded for the first time , tuned to c ', es', f 'and g'.

Until June 2008, the Liebfrauengemeinde belonged to the pastoral association Dortmund-Zentrum and fulfilled the function of the parish church in it. Events and church activities in the pastoral network mostly took place in Liebfrauen. For the new election of the parish council and the church councils in November 2009, the Liebfrauengemeinde was returned to the provost. On December 12th, 2009, Holy Mass was celebrated in the Liebfrauenkirche for the last time.

Profanation with new use

The church building was partly profaned and partly rededicated. A necessary renovation in the millions and the decline in the number of church visitors forced the community to find new uses for the building:
the Liebfrauenkirche has served as a columbarium since 2009 . The dignified burial place for urns ensures the preservation of the listed church. In the main nave of the neo-Gothic brick church there are several steles in whose compartments urns with the ashes of the deceased were buried. There are no more services in the church. The small chapel in the choir of the church is used for funeral services and occasionally also for memorial services. The complete redesign to the columbarium was carried out by the Berlin company Fittkau Metallbau und Kunstschmiede , for which a magazine editor ( M&T ) awarded a design prize in 2012.

Furnishing

Organ with free pipe prospect, in front the back positive with copper pipes, in the back right the trombone goblet

organ

The organ with the symmetrical free pipe prospect was built in 1950 by the organ building workshop Kemper (Lübeck) as a pocket- shop instrument and expanded in 1965 to include the Rückpositiv . It has 42 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric. In 1990 the upper work, main work and pedal work were converted to slider chests by reusing the old sticks by Emanuel and Ella Kemper. In the Rückpositiv the original pocket shops were preserved. During the renovation, trombone 16 'and trumpet 8' in the pedal were renewed, and today's oboe 8 'was made from a shawm 8' in the upper part.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3 Quintad 08th' Pointed 08th' Principal 04 ′ Reed flute 04 ′ Forest flute 02 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sesquialtera II0 Scharff III Krummhorn 08th' Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 Pommer 16 ′ Principal 08th' Dumped 08th' Gemshorn 08th' octave 04 ′ Soft flute 04 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 02 ′ Rauschpfeife III0 Mixture VIII Trumpet 08th'

III Oberwerk C – g 3 Reed flute 08th' Line flute 08th' Principal 04 ′ recorder 04 ′ Gemshorn0 02 ′ Flageolet 01' Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′00 Zymbel IV Dulcian 16 ′ oboe 08th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Principal bass 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave bass 08th' Dacked bass 08th' Choral bass 04 ′ Night horn 02 ′ Mixture VIII Rauschpfeife IV0 trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 08th' shawm 04 ′

• Coupling : III / I, I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
• Playing aids : Register crescendo , three free combinations , two free pedal combinations, tutti, hand register, trigger, reed mechanism off, individual storage for the tongue register

window

Four of the original church windows with figurative representations were made at the end of the 19th century by the Cologne-Lindenthal glass painting company Schneider and Schmolz .

Web links

Commons : Liebfrauenkirche  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• History of the Liebfrauengemeinde
• The internet presence in the Propsteigemeinde Dortmund Zentrum
• Conversion of the Liebfrauenkirche to the columbarium on baukunst-nrw
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~26~12664

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. A 0196. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 16, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ More information on the organ (PDF; 8.4 MB) p. 267
3. ↑ Kunst-Glasmalerei Schneiders & Schmolz GmbH Koeln-Lindenthal: List of a number of already executed glass paintings together with a few illustrations . Cologne 1902, p. 13 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 42 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  E