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Paschalis Gratze (also: Grace , born November 27, 1819 in Werden (Ruhr) as Theodor Wilhelm Gratze ; † April 30, 1896 in Dingelstädt ) was a German organ builder , church planner and master builder who belonged to the Franciscan order .

Donatus Chapel, Linz on the Rhine
Herz-Jesu-Kloster, Düsseldorf
St. Jacobus Church, Hilden
Franciscan monastery in Kerbscher Berg
Pilgrimage church "Christ the Redeemer" on the Hülfensberg

Life

After finishing school, Theodor Wilhelm Gratze began an apprenticeship with the organ builder Heinrich Anton Weitz (1798–1871) in Düsseldorf , who specialized in the repair of organs and also worked as an expert.

On the occasion of an organ repair in Neviges , Gratze gained an insight into monastic life; he stepped on October 3, 1844 in Warendorf as a monk in the Saxon province ( Saxonia ) of the Franciscan Order and was given the religious name Paschalis .

In the following years, Gratze built and repaired organs for monasteries, mainly in the Westphalia area , and was also active as an expert. In 1852 he accompanied his provincial minister , Father Xaverius Kaufmann, actually Friedrich Kaufmann (born October 7, 1825 in Windhausen (Attendorn) ; † September 26, 1888 in Düsseldorf), on a trip to Italy, which led to Rome and influenced his shortly afterwards, he started building repairs. With the renewal of the vault of the monastery church in Warendorf, he met with the recognition of experts for the first time.

Gratze was an autodidact as an architect, but built well over twenty church and monastery buildings, mostly in the neo-Gothic style, whereby he was initially able to rely on plans by other architects.

He also worked as an expert appraiser in his new field of work. The first sacred buildings were mainly in the Rhineland and neighboring areas. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71) Gratze took care of typhus sufferers. During the Kulturkampf he was entrusted by the Düsseldorf ophthalmologist Albert Mooren with the management and renovation of his Allner Castle near Hennef, which he had acquired in 1870 . In 1888 Brother Paschalis returned to the monastery , planned and built churches and monasteries again until the end of his life, mainly in the Eichsfeld area and Thuringia .

Buildings and designs (selection)

Gratze ended the construction of St. Josef's Church in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk with an unfinished tower due to lack of money, which was later completed in 1879 by the architects August Rincklake and Caspar Clemens Pickel .

Gratze died two days after the foundation stone was laid for St. Stephen's Church in Berlingerode in the Franciscan monastery of Kerbscher Berg, which he had completed six years earlier. He was buried in the monastery cemetery. Gratze left finished designs for the Etzelsbach pilgrimage chapel and the Catholic churches in Breitenberg, Ershausen and Großtöpfer. The construction of the St. Stephen's Church was completed by Fritz Cordier.

Web links

Commons : Paschalis Gratze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Herbert Brügge: Franziskaner Paschalis Gratze as an organ builder in: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift, Duderstadt, issue 11/2012
  2. ↑ a b c Josef Keppler: Memory of the Franciscan Builder: Paschalis-Gratze-Weg from Effelder to Hülfensberg in: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift, Duderstadt, issue 9/2008
  3. ↑ a b c This and that ... . Website of the Citizens' Initiative for Dilldorf. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
  4. ↑ Hans-Georg Aschoff: From the Kulturkampf to the First World War. In: Joachim Schmiedl (Ed.): From Kulturkampf to the beginning of the 21st century. (History of the Saxon Franciscan Province from its founding to the beginning of the 21st century, Vol. 3) Paderborn-Munich-Vienna-Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76991-6 , p. 23–287, here p. 163f.
  5. ^ Eduard Trier (Ed.): Art of the 19th Century in the Rhineland, Vol. 1, Architektur 1 , Düsseldorf 1980, p. 352
  6. ↑ a b c Willy Weyres : Catholic churches in the old archbishopric of Cologne and in the Rhenish part of the diocese of Münster in: Art in the Rhineland, vol. 2, architecture 2, Düsseldorf 1980, p. 543
  7. ^ A b Anton Bettelheim (ed.): Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , Berlin 1900
  8. ^ A b c Robert Haaß : On the history and art in the Archdiocese of Cologne in: Studies on Cologne Church History, Vol. 5, Düsseldorf 1960, p. 412
  9. ↑ Gerd Müller (Ed.): Chronicle of the Catholic Church Community Hilden (1651–1955) in: Niederbergische Contributions, Volume 52, Hilden 1988, p. 239
  10. ↑ a b Gerhard Ribbrock: August and Wilhelm Rincklake, Historicism architects of the late 19th century , Bonn 1985, p. 52
  11. ^ Hülfensberg: history . Website of the Franciscan monastery in Hülfensberg. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Gratze, paschal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grace, paschal; Gratze, Theodor; Gratze, Theodor Wilhelm (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organ builder, church planner and master builder
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Become (Ruhr)
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1896
Place of death Dingelstädt