St. Adolfus (Düsseldorf-Pempelfort)

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St. Adolfus Church
completed Adolfus Church as seen from Fischerstrasse (1914)

The Catholic Church of St. Adolfus is in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort , Kaiserswerther Straße 62. The Cordobastraße on the south side of the church is an indication that the church is consecrated to the Spanish martyr St. Adolphus, who - according to priest Eulogius - the Emir of Cordoba executed in the 9th century.

St. Adolfus follows the neo-Romanesque style. The church has two towers and is designed as a basilica . The tower facade, whose structure is very similar to the tower facade of the St. Heribert Church in Cologne-Deutz , forms the focal point of Pfalzstrasse.

history

St. Adolfus was designed by architect Caspar Clemens Pickel in 1898. Due to a lack of money, only the middle section up to the crossing was built without towers. In 1903 the church was consecrated, in 1904 St. Adolfus became its own parish. The church was completely expanded between 1911 and 1913. In an eclectic style, the towers also show Moorish architectural elements and decorations. They tie in with the design elements of the Mezquita de Córdoba . The bells were confiscated in 1942. The church was badly damaged in bombing raids in 1943 and then almost completely destroyed in 1944. In November 1945 an emergency barrack was inaugurated as a substitute church.

The reconstruction of the church began in 1947. As early as 1949, mass could be read again in a completed section, and in the same year the bells that had not been melted down returned. In 1951 the church was finally completed again. The Christ mosaic above the main altar (1955) and the new church windows (1956) are by Richard Seewald . A comprehensive renovation began in 1975 and was finally completed in 2005. The parish of St. Adolfus has been part of the Holy Trinity Parish since 2013 .

organ

The organ was built in 1952 by the organ building company Romanus Seifert & Sohn . The Kegelladen instrument has 46 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.

I main work C–
Quintadena 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
Hollow flute 2 ′
Rauschpfeife 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture V 2 ′
Trumpet 16 ′
Copper trumpet 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
II Rückpositiv C–
Tube bare 8th'
Willow pipe 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Horn principal 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Minor principal 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Sharp IV 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C–
Principal 8th'
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Viol flute 8th'
Flute beat 8th'
Night horn 4 ′
Quintatön 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Principal 1'
Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Dulcian 16 ′
Shawm oboe 8th'
Goiter trumpet 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C–
Principal bass 16 ′
Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Subtle bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Bass flute 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Backset V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Bass trumpet 8th'
Trumpet 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

Shortly before the beginning of the First World War, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen delivered a six-part bell with a weight of almost 12 tons for the Church of St. Adolfus in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort. The bells survived the confiscations of both world wars. It is the largest Otto bell from the time before the First World War, which is still preserved in the Archdiocese of Cologne.

Technical data of the bell from St. Adolphus, Düsseldorf
Bell jar I. II III IV V VI
year 1913 1913 1913 1913 1913 1913
Caster F. Otto F. Otto F. Otto F. Otto F. Otto F. Otto
Diameter in mm 1910 1610 1432 1270 1017 960
Weight in kg 4650 2650 1860 1320 840 650
Chime a 0 c ' d ' e ' G' a '

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Igor Pochoshajew: Adolfus of Seville. Presentation of the history of saints according to historical sources, u. a. by Florez, Usard and Eulogius . Retrieved September 5, 2010 .
  2. ↑ More information on the organ ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-in-derendorf.de
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588 (here in particular 53, 85, 302, 405, 461, 519).
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (here in particular pp. 104, 269, 271, 377, 469, 483).

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 34.9 ″  E