Provost church of St. Augustine

Interior

The Propsteikirche St. Augustinus is the main Catholic church in Gelsenkirchen . It is located in the city center opposite the Protestant old town church .

history

The large three-nave brick - basilica with transept and 93 m high tower was in 1874 after plans Cologne architect August Carl Lange in the neo-gothic built style, completed in 1884 and on July 19, 1892 consecrated .

The 19th century church buildings in Gelsenkirchen reflect the stormy development from a village to an industrial city. Today's provost church (since 1904) replaced a previous building from 1845, which had stood in the same place and was already the patronage of St. Augustine carried. The old Gelsenkirchen village church St. Georg , founded around 1000 by the Essen monastery and used as a simultaneous church since the Reformation , had become too small, so that the Catholics moved out. The Protestant community later built their old town church there.

From 1935 until his death in the Dachau concentration camp in 1942, Heinrich was König vicar and Kolping praeses to St. Augustine. His urn has been exposed for veneration in the right transept arm of the church since 1989.

During the bombing of November 6, 1944, St. Augustine was destroyed down to the surrounding walls and rebuilt true to the original from 1948 to 1960.

building

The interior shows itself in the shape that was spatially and artistically renewed in 1972 and 1988–91. In the transept one is granite - altar with four bronze reliefs. In the apse rounding behind the tabernacle stele the twelve gates of the New Jerusalem and the source of life are made of opaque glass . The stained glass windows created Walter Klocke .

Next to the church is the modern Augustinushaus meeting center . The forecourt is designed with a figure of Augustine (1992) and sculptures on the subject of mining (1996) by Jürgen Goertz .

organ

View of the organ
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The large organ from 1953 is a romantically arranged instrument with 72 registers from the organ building workshop Anton Feith II. , Paderborn. In 1988/1989 the organ was completely renovated and expanded in the workshop of the organ builder Stockmann in Werl. In 2004, Christoph Kleemann gave a new intonation. The actions are electro-pneumatic.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Principal	16 ′
2.	Quintad	16 ′
3.	octave	8th'
4th	Gemshorn	8th'
5.	Dumped	8th'
6th	octave	4 ′
7th	Reed flute	4 ′
8th.	Fifth	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
9.	octave	2 ′
10.	Mixture V-VI	2 ′
11.	Scharff IV	1'
12.	Bombard	16 ′
13.	Trumpet	8th'

II Positive C-g ³
14th	Reed flute	8th'
15th	Dumped	8th'
16.	Quintad	8th'
17th	Principal	4 ′
18th	recorder	4 ′
19th	Copper octave	2 ′
20th	flute	2 ′
21st	Pointed fifth	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
22nd	Sif flute	1'
23.	Sesquialtera II	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
24.	Mixture IV-V	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
25th	Zimbel III	¹ ⁄ ₂ ′
26th	Dulcian	16 ′
27.	Cromorne	8th'
28.	Rohrschalmey	8th'
	Tremulant

III Swell C – g ³
29	Gedacktpommer	16 ′
30th	Principal	8th'
31.	Wooden flute	8th'
32.	Black viola	8th'
33.	Willow pipe	8th'
34.	Beat	8th'
35.	octave	4 ′
36.	Flute	4 ′
37.	Nasat	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
38.	octave	2 ′
39.	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
40.	Mixture IV	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
41.	Basson	16 ′
42.	Tromp. Harm.	8th'
43.	Hautbois	8th'
44.	Vox humana	8th'
45.	Clairon	4 ′
	Tremulant

IV Bombards C – g ³
46.	Principal	8th'
47.	Dumped	8th'
48.	Fifth	5 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
49.	octave	4 ′
50.	flute	4 ′
51.	third	3 ¹ ⁄ ₅  ′
52.	Cornett III	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
53.	Fittings V.	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
54.	Tuba magna	16 ′
55.	Tuba mirabilis	8th'
56.	Clarine brilliant	4 ′
	Tremulant

Pedal C – f ¹
57.	Pedestal	32 ′
58.	Principal	16 ′
59.	Sub bass	16 ′
60.	Silent	16 ′
61.	Quintbass	10 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
62.	octave	8th'
63.	Flute	8th'
64.	octave	4 ′
65.	Pommer	4 ′
66.	Third bass	6 ² ⁄ ₅  ′
67.	Back set IV	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
68.	Bombard	32 ′
69.	trombone	16 ′
	Bassoon (= No. 41)	16 ′
70.	Trumpet	8th'
71.	Schalmey	4 ′
72.	Sing. Cornett	2 ′

Couple:
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
- Sub-octave coupling: III / I, III / II
Playing aids : 128-fold setting system

literature

Heinz Dohmen : Propsteikirche St. Augustinus, Gelsenkirchen . In the S. (Ed.): Image of the sky. 1000 years of church building in the diocese of Essen . Verlag Hoppe and Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1977, pp. 168–171.