St. Andreas (Rüttenscheid)

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View of St. Andrew's Church from the south
Interior view of the organ through the main nave on the altar island, tabernacle and apse

The Catholic parish church of St. Andreas is a listed church building in Rüttenscheid , a district of Essen .

History and architecture

Predecessor churches

The Catholics of this district, which at that time was still called Witteringsfeld, belonged to the parish of St. Ludgerus in Rüttenscheid from 1895 to 1905. The foundation stone for the first own church was laid in 1906 at the same location as today's church. In this year the first St. Andrew's Church was completed, which was held in neo-Gothic designs.

In 1911, the renowned Otto bell foundry cast bronze bells for both the St. Ludgerus Church in Rüttenscheid and the newly built neo-Gothic St. Andreas Church. St. Andrew received five bells (c - es - f ́ - g ́ - g ́ ́) with a total weight of over 6.5 tons. The bell book of the city dean of Essen calls Karl (I) the priest Carl Otto as the responsible bell designer and founder. The bells survived the confiscation of bells in World War I, but three bells were melted down in World War II, and the other two bells no longer exist either. The neo-Gothic church was totally destroyed in the war. In its place, the parish built a modern church from 1954 to 1956/7 based on a design by Rudolf Schwarz. Bells from Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from Gescher hang in the campanile so typical for Schwarz. Today there is a bronze plaque at the foot of the campanile. It reports on the purchase of the bells from donations by parishioners and records the inscriptions on the bells in Latin and German for all church visitors to read.

The previous church was completely destroyed in the Second World War . At another location, an emergency church developed as an octagonal central room was used.

Today's church

The cruciform brick building with a four-apse closure, stone - faced inside and out , was built from 1954 to 1957 according to a design by Rudolf Schwarz inspired by Romanesque cloverleaf choirs . According to the architect, he understands the flat-roofed hall church as the king's hall . The angles of the cross arms are designed around the altar with reinforced concrete scaffolding as room-high light walls. Instead of the original brickwork with glass blocks , glass windows based on designs by Jochem Poensgen were used from 1994. As the church stands on a slope, a crypt with an anteroom and two semi-spiral stairs was built under the rear part of the building . The bell tower is free.

The church building was included in the list of monuments of the city of Essen in 1995.

literature

  • Heinz Dohmen : Parish Church of St. Andreas, Essen-Rüttenscheid . 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. 114–117.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia. I: Rhineland . Edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .

Web links

Commons : St. Andreas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular pp. 292 and 518
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular pp. 394 and 482.
  3. ↑ St. Andreas monument (PDF; 382 kB); last accessed on June 12, 2015

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '15 "  N , 7 ° 0' 44.4"  E