St. Antonius (Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt)

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St. Anthony

The Catholic parish church of St. Antonius in the Friedrichstadt district of Düsseldorf was built in the late Romanesque style between 1905 and 1909 according to plans by the architects Wilhelm and Paul Sültenfuß . The parish of the same name belongs to the pastoral care area of ​​Unter- and Oberbilk, Friedrichstadt and Eller-West.

architecture

St. Antonius is built in the late Romanesque style. Following this style, the church is designed as a three-aisled basilica and has a cross-sectional facade. The tower had a pointed spire. However, this was not rebuilt during the reconstruction after the Second World War.

history

Due to the strong population growth in Düsseldorf at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Catholic Church of St. Peter had to look after 21,000 believers. The construction of another church was therefore inevitable. In 1904 the order was given to the architect Wilhelm Sültenfuß (who also built St. Maria Rosenkranz in Wersten ) and his son Paul. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1905, and the foundation stone was laid on October 21, 1906. The consecration took place on June 13, 1909. The church was consecrated to Saint Anthony . In 1914 St. Antonius became an independent community.

In 1942, the four largest bells were confiscated in order to be melted down as material essential to the war effort; the ringing was recorded as early as 1940 in order to preserve it for posterity. An air mine and an incendiary bomb destroyed the church considerably on June 12, 1943, and another bomb attack on October 3, 1943 led to the almost complete destruction of the church.

Shortly after the end of the war, an aisle was restored, and in 1947 the entire church was rebuilt. The four no longer melted down bells returned in 1949. The reconstruction was completed on December 22, 1954. However, they did without a tower helmet.

From 1964 to 1967 the interior was redesigned by Walter Nitsch according to the ideas of the Second Vatican Council . St. Antonius was placed under monument protection in 1983. In 1997 the church was renovated.

organ

The organ was built in 1957 by the organ builders Gebr. Krell (Duderstadt) and restored in 2002 by the organ builder Gebrüder Stockmann . A new gaming table with a setting system was installed. The Kegelladen instrument has 50 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Flute 8th'
4th Covered 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Night horn 2 ′
8th. Intoxicating fifths II – IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Zimbel IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
11. Trumpet 16 ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
13. Reed flute 8th'
14th Principal 4 ′
15th recorder 4 ′
16. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th octave 2 ′
18th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
19th Super octave 1'
20th Sharp III – IV 1 ⁄ 2 ′
21st Krummhorn 8th'
22nd Schalmey 4 ′
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
23. Quintadena 16 ′
24. Open flute 8th'
25th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
26th Willow pipe 8th'
27. Beat 8th'
28. Harp principal 4 ′
29 Night horn 4 ′
30th Octave 2 ′
31. Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Sesquialtera II
33. Mixture IV 1'
34. Kling. Zimbel III 1 ⁄ 4 ′
35. Dulcian 16 ′
36. Trumpet 8th'
37. Schallmey oboe 8th'
38. Goiter trumpet 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
39. Principal bass 16 ′
40. Sub bass 16 ′
40.a. Subtle bass 16 ′
41. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
42. Octavbass 8th'
43. Viol bass 8th'
44. Choral bass 4 ′
45. Back set IV 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
46. trombone 16 ′
47. Dulcian 16 ′
48. Trumpet 8th'
49. Trumpet 4 ′
50. Sing. Cornet 2 ′
  • Coupling : I / I (super octave coupling) II / I, III / I (also as sub and super octave coupling), III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

In 1912 the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen cast five bronze bells with the chimes: b 0  - des ′ - es ′ - f ′ - ges ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1750 mm, 1460 mm, 1300, 1160 mm: their total weight is 8.5 tons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Archdiocese of Cologne: Church guide , accessed on February 7, 2017 (PDF file).
  2. ^ Manfred Becker-Huberti (ed.): Düsseldorfer Kirchen. The Catholic churches in the city dean of Düsseldorf. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2219-3 , p. 23f.
  3. ^ Organ in Friedrichstadt, St. Antonius , accessed on February 7, 2017.
  4. ^ 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, in particular pages 51, 55, 302, 435, 518 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 73, 79, 269, 411, 448 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Web links

Commons : St. Antonius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 11.2 ″  E