St. Anna Church (Rheinberg)

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 38.4 "  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 55.2"  E

Catholic St. Anna Church in Rheinberg

The St. Anna Church in Rheinberg was built between 1982 and 1983 as the parish church of the Catholic community. The pentagonal, post-modern brick building with a round tower on Römerstrasse replaced the emergency church, which was built in 1968 in what was then the “Annaberg” development area. The architect was the glass painter and diocesan builder of the diocese of Essen, Heinz Dohmen . She belongs to the dean's office Xanten in the diocese of Münster .

history

With the emergence of what was then the “Annaberg” development area, between 1956 and 1958 the Catholic parish of St. Peter began to think about establishing a new parish there. However, it was not until 1967 that the "Parish Association St. Anna" was formed and in 1968 an emergency church was built for the newly emerging community. In the same year the church was consecrated by the bishop of Münster Joseph Höffner . Since the parish and the kindergarten were set in the middle of an empty field on Annaberg, in the prairie of Rheinberg, so to speak, the emergency church was jokingly called “St. Bonanza ".

In 1970 the pastoral care district was elevated to an independent rectorate parish and a proper stone church was planned for the growing community. However, the provisional had to serve another 13 years, although it no longer met the requirements as a meeting place. In 1981 the church council decided to implement the long-cherished plans.

After an architectural competition, the diocesan master builder of the Diocese of Essen, Prof. Dr. Heinz Dohmen, the contract for the implementation of the construction project. Construction work began on August 13, 1982; on September 11th the foundation stone of the new church was laid; The topping-out ceremony was held on April 15, 1983.

The solemn consecration of the new parish church took place on September 17, 1983 by the Bishop of Münster Reinhard Lettmann .

In 1999 the St. Anna Church received new altar windows. The stylized plant motif comes from Jürgen Strater the Elder. J.

In 2007 St. Anne's Church lost its parish church status. Through the merger with the parishes of St. Peter and St. Nikolaus in Orsoy, it became a branch church of the Catholic parish of St. Peter in Rheinberg.

architecture

The architect Heinz Dohmen describes the St. Anna Church as follows:

"Neither a flexible multi-purpose room that sees church services in the morning and folk festivals in the evening, nor a self-sufficient large sculpture should be, but a refuge, a place of security with the chance for each individual, out of the acoustic and optical din, out of the non-stop Being shouted at again and again to step out into a room in which there is silence and real hearing is possible "

The brick church with a zinc flat roof has a pentagonal floor plan with a round bell tower on the south-west side. Its roof hood is crowned by a golden cross with a weathercock. Its idiosyncratic architecture is inspired by the sacred philosophy of the Second Vatican Council from 1962-1965 and combines formal elements of Christian symbolism . The pentagon as a basic form represents the human being and the five wounds of Jesus. A square is written into it - symbolic of the world defined by the four elements (fire, earth, water, air) and the four cardinal points. The interior is dominated by the circle as a sign of perfection. The gentleman's table stands on an altar island, surrounded by eight columns. They are an indication of the "eighth day of creation". Symbol of the resurrection of Christ and the creation of man through Christ.

Due to the postmodern church architecture of the 20th century, the interior furnishings are subordinate to the architecture of the building. Columns, support elements and the ceiling clad with wooden laths give the prayer room of St. Anne's Church an industrial charm. The wooden prayer benches are arranged in a circle around the altar island. In the middle of this stands the baptismal font in a line with the altar.

A sacramental chapel is dedicated to the tabernacle on the right behind the altar island . It is embedded in the bell tower. On both sides of the sacrament chapel are stained glass windows with a stylized plant motif.

Furnishing

Annarelic and art treasures

The namesake is very present in the church. Already in the entrance hall a sculpture of the " Holy Mother of God " welcomes the visitor.

In 2011 the Underberg family donated a relic of the "Holy Mother of God Anna" to St. Anne's Church . It had been in the family for a long time. The reliquary case in neo-Romanesque style was made by a Parisian silversmith in the second half of the 19th century. She was given her place of honor to the left of the altar next to the sculpture of Anna Selbdritt from the St. Anna Chapel.

The original sculpture of the Pietà from the Rheinberg Grotto is also located below the chapel in the church. The plastic portrait of Mary with the body of Jesus on her lap dates from the 16th or 17th century. On site it was replaced by a 15 kg copy made of polyurethane .

Further works of church art can be found in the altar cross, the tabernacle in a gold ring supported by two columns with a lamb motif set with precious stones and the Way of the Cross along the right wall.

organ

The organ was built in 1996 by Orgelbau Fleiter in Münster. It has 22 sounding registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal . The game and register action are fully mechanical.

The arrangement of the organ is as follows:

I main work Cg 3 1. Drone 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Reed flute 8th' 4th octave 4 ′ 5. recorder 4 ′ 6th Super octave 2 ′ 7th Cornet III 8th. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 9. Trumpet 8th' Tremulant

II Swell C – g 3 10. Drone 8th' 11. Gamba (from c) 8th' 12. flute 4 ′ 13. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 14th Principal 2 ′ 15th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 16. Minor fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 17th Hautbois 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 18th Sub bass 16 ′ 19th Octavbass 8th' 20th Covered bass 8th' 21st Choral bass 4 ′ 22nd trombone 16 ′

• Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

See also

• St. Anna Chapel (Rheinberg)

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Commons : St. Anna (Rheinberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Catholic parish in Rheinberg - St. Anna Church in Rheinberg
• golocal.de - Catholic Church of St. Anna in Annaberg
• Heike Tobies - See God's tent at Annaberg, NRZ September 10, 2008
• Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century V. - Rheinberg-Annaberg, Catholic Church St. Anna (window, floor plan)
• Orgelbau Fleitner oHG, references - Fleiter organ in the Catholic parish church of St. Anna in Rheinberg
• Dissertation by Dipl.-Ing. Jae-Lyong Ahn from Ockcheon (South Korea), altar and liturgy room in the Roman Catholic church, Faculty of Architecture at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Kaussen: "Like Phoenix from the Ashes". RP-Online, September 19, 2008, accessed May 27, 2018 . 
2. ^ Document on the establishment of the Catholic parish of St. Peter in Rheinberg (p. 457). Official Journal for the Düsseldorf administrative region, December 28, 2017, accessed on May 27, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Dipl.-Ing. Jae-Lyong Ahn from Ockcheon (South Korea): Dissertation: Altar and liturgical room in Roman Catholic churches (p. 139 ff). Faculty of Architecture at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, May 5, 2004, accessed on May 27, 2018 . 
4. ↑ number mysticism. In: Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints. Retrieved May 27, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Rainer Kaussen: relic for Anne's Church. RP-Online, November 16, 2011, accessed May 27, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Rainer Kaussen: A new Pietà for the cemetery chapel. RP-Online, January 15, 2014, accessed May 27, 2018 .