Provost church of St. Urbanus

St. Urbanus

The Propsteikirche St. Urbanus is the main Catholic church in Gelsenkirchen - Buer . It was from 1890, designed by Bernhard Hertel built and on 10 October 1893 by the Bishop of Münster Hermann Dingelstad ordained .

history

St. Urbanus in Buer iW, around 1900

Floor plan of the Urbanus Church. The previous medieval building, demolished in 1890, is yellow, the sacristy annex blue.

The origin of the St. Urbanus Church can be traced back to the turn of the first millennium. A church in Buer was first mentioned in 1019. 1147 confirmed Pope Eugene III. the church in Buer as the property of the Deutz Abbey , founded in 1003 , which is recognized as reliable evidence of the existence of a church in Buer. Around 1200 a Romanesque predecessor of today's church was built, which was partially replaced around 1300 by a new building in the Gothic style while maintaining the Romanesque west tower . The cruciform floor plan was lost at the beginning of the 16th century when the short aisles, which were attached like a transept, were demolished and were now added parallel to the nave. In 1688 a big fire destroyed the building to the ground. The vault also collapsed and the church received a flat wooden ceiling.

Buer belonged to Vest Recklinghausen in the Electorate of Cologne and remained Catholic during the Reformation . This character was not lost in the stormy industrial and population development of the 19th century, which ultimately made it necessary to build today's basilica at the historic location. On the initiative of pastor Albert Niemann (1885-1893), the old parish church was demolished in 1890 and the neo-Gothic church building completed in 1893 was erected. The new church offered space for around 1,800 believers and cost 300,000 marks. The consecration was carried out by the Bishop of Munster, since Buer belonged to the Diocese of Munster after centuries of belonging to the Archdiocese of Cologne . The stage and the prospectus for the organ, which was installed in 1914, were designed by the Münster-based architect Bernhard Hertel , who had been Cologne cathedral builder since 1903 , just like the church . In the 1920s the church was renovated and repainted, in 1936 the choir area was increased and redesigned. In order to enable the community to better participate in the liturgy, the communion bench and the high altar were removed and the new altar moved far forward, a measure that already anticipated the liturgical reforms at the time of the Second Vatican Council .

The church suffered severe damage during World War II and was rebuilt from 1946 to 1949 in a simplified manner. The tower was not rebuilt, so that the former 90 meter high tower is only half as high today (it measures 48 meters to the flat roof end). In 1955, St. Urbanus was raised to the status of provost church and since January 1, 1958, has belonged to the then newly founded Ruhr Diocese of Essen . In 1963/64 the interior was converted in accordance with the new liturgical requirements. An extensive exterior renovation took place around 1970, and the interior was renovated in the 1980s. In the course of the structural reorganization of the parishes in the diocese of Essen, St. Urbanus became the parish church of the largest parish in the diocese of Essen with over 40,000 Catholics, which covers the entire northern half of the city of Gelsenkirchen.

architecture

Propsteikirche St. Urbanus, north side

St. Urbanus is a neo - Gothic three - aisled basilica with an octagonal main apse , two side apses, a transept and a narthex . The external appearance is characterized by the tower, which has been helmless since the war, which gives the church an originally unintended, "defiant" and somewhat bulky appearance.

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  Transept and forecourt

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  Apse and sacristy

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  tower

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  Main portal

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  Mary at the main portal

Furnishing

inner space

The wide interior is bathed in colored light through the stained glass windows by Nikolaus Bette and Hans-Günther van Look . The furnishings include valuable sculptures from the Romanesque and Gothic predecessor church as well as from the Baroque period , including four angels making music (in front of the north wall of the transept). The Pietà , which is over 500 years old, is significant . The main altar and other pieces from the 20th century set modern accents. The gospel stand set up in the central nave at the crossing in the center of the church contains two ivory tablets, presumably made in the 14th century, which show pictures from the life of the Mother of God Mary . The altar cross was created by the artist Hans Dinnendahl in 1938 from 21 kilograms of table silver donated by Buerer Catholics. The emaciated body on the crucifix hung above the altar stands in tangible contrast to the athletic bodies of contemporary Nazi art .

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  Pietà in the north side chapel (around 1500)

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  Carved figure of Pope Urbanus (South Tyrol, end of the 15th century)

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  Romanesque door guard lion (around 1200)

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  Romanesque column capital with leaf ornaments (around 1200)

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  Marienkapelle from the "Immerwahrenden Hilfe" with the figure of the praying brother Jordan by Franz Brune (1993)

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  Middle and right choir window with scenes from Easter based on designs by Nikolaus Bette (1985)

Memorial plaque for Nikolaus Groß

A memorial to the Nazi martyr Nikolaus Groß was created on the outside of the south wall in 2003 .

On the north side, the dead, who were buried in the churchyard until 1828, are commemorated: A stone on the surface designed like a grave bears the words from Isa. 43, 1-7: I called you by name, you are mine.

On the outer wall of the choir has been a bronze statue of the Bishop of Münster and Cardinal Clemens August von Galen , who was beatified in 2005 because of his public campaign against Nazi "euthanasia" . The statue was created by Egbert Verbeek (* 1953). On October 8, 2011, she was blessed by Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck and former Bishop Reinhard Lettmann as part of a memorial service .

In addition to the figure of Mary of the Immaculate Conception on the main portal, neo-Gothic statues were also created for the north and south gables of today's building (St. Urbanus and Augustine ).

organ

Tower side with gallery and organ prospect

The organ was built in 1972 by the organ builder Franz Breil (Dorsten) and renovated in 2013 by Orgelbau Klais . The instrument has 50 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions and couplings are electric.

I Rückpositiv C – a 3 Tube bare 8th' Quintad 8th' Praestant 4 ′ Coupling flute 4 ′ octave 2 ′ Swiss dacked 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Scharff V 1' Dulcian 16 ′ Krummhorn 8th' Tremulant

II main work C – a 3 Dumped 16 ′ Principal II (double from f) 8th' Dumped 8th' Funnel viol 8th' octave 4 ′ Gemshorn 4 ′ octave 2 ′ Cornett V (from f) 8th' Mixture V 2 ′ Zimbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′ Trumpet 16 ′ Trumpet 8th'

III Swell C – a 3 Wooden flute 8th' Willow pipe 8th' Beat (from c) 8th' Principal 4 ′ Transverse flute 4 ′ Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Gemshorn 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Seventh 8 ⁄ 15 ′ Cymbal I. 1' Mixture V 2 ′ Basson 16 ′ French trumpet 8th' Hautbois 8th' Clairon 4 ′ Tremulant

Pedal C – g 1 Principal 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave bass 8th' Dacked bass 8th' Night horn 4 ′ Piffaro II 4 ′ Backset V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Bombard 32 ′ trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Clairon 4 ′

Remarks

1. ↑ in the sill until Praestant 4 'of the leaflet is

• Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
• Playing aids : 260,000-fold typesetting system , sequencer, pleno

Web links

Commons : Propsteikirche St. Urbanus (Buer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Church leaders (online presence of the parish; accessed on July 25, 2016)
• Herbert Fendrich: A guest in St. Urbanus in Gelsenkirchen . Eight-part video presentation of the Provost Church of St. Urbanus ( BENE Magazin - magazine of the Diocese of Essen, published on August 19, 2014; accessed on July 25, 2016):
  1. The church - 2. Reclining monk - 3. Splendid colorful windows - 4. The ivory tablets - 5. The interior - 6. Strict von Galen - 7. The altar cross - 8. The Pietà.

literature

• Richard Voss u. a .: St. Urbanus - Gelsenkirchen-Buer (= Small Art Guide No. 2098). Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 1993.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Janssen : Parish churches and curate chapels. In: Ferdinand Seibt , Heinrich Theodor Grütter , Herbert Lorenz, Ludger Tewes u. a. (Ed.): Forgotten times. Middle Ages in the Ruhr area. Vol. 2, Verlag Peter Pomp, Essen 1990, ISBN 3-89355-052-6 , pp. 144-146.
2. ^ Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Zimmermann (curriculum vitae of the former provost of St. Urbanus on the website of the diocese of Essen), accessed on May 9, 2015.
3. ↑ The Church . Video presentation of the Propsteikirche St. Urbanus ( BENE Magazin - magazine of the Diocese of Essen, published on August 19, 2014; accessed on July 25, 2016).
4. ↑ The Pietà . Video presentation of the Propsteikirche St. Urbanus ( BENE Magazin - magazine of the Diocese of Essen, published on August 19, 2014; accessed on July 25, 2016).
5. ↑ The ivory tablets . Video presentation of the Propsteikirche St. Urbanus ( BENE Magazin - magazine of the Diocese of Essen, published on August 19, 2014; accessed on July 25, 2016).
6. ↑ The altar cross . Video presentation of the Propsteikirche St. Urbanus ( BENE Magazin - magazine of the Diocese of Essen, published on August 19, 2014; accessed on July 25, 2016).
7. ^ Message in RuhrWort from October 26, 2003 (documented on nikolaus-gross.com); accessed on July 24, 2016.
8. ^ Christiane Rautenberg: A role model in bronze. In: WAZ , October 10, 2011, accessed on September 14, 2018.
9. ↑ Information on the organ of St. Urbanus in the organ blog Steven Milverton , accessed on September 14, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '50.4 "  N , 7 ° 3' 7.3"  E