St. Barbara (Eving)
St. Barbara Eving is a Roman Catholic parish church in Dortmund - Eving . It is subordinate to the patronage of Barbara of Nicomedia , who is considered the patron saint of miners. The church is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .
history
In the pre-Reformation period there were churches in Eving and Lindenhorst that were assigned to the parish of St. Johannes Baptist Brechte. During the Reformation, Eving became almost entirely Protestant, since then the Dortmund Dominican monastery, today's provost church, has been responsible for the remaining Catholics. With the beginning of coal mining at the mines Minister Stein in Eving and Fürst Hardenberg in Lindenhorst, the number of inhabitants of Eving and the surrounding area grew. The associated increase in Catholics led to the then chaplain of the Propsteigemeinde, Johannes Löhers, approaching Bishop Konrad Martin in order to re-establish a "mission" in 1872. Because of the Kulturkampf , these plans were suspended until 1883.
The first church
In 1890 - financed by a donation from the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG of two acres of land and 3,000 Reichsmarks as well as by the Bonifatiusverein and the Propsteigemeinde - a neo-Gothic , three-aisled basilica with roof turrets was built by the architect Hermann Wielers in a few months , and Saint Barbara, the Patron saint of miners, dedicated. Although the church in the fall of 1890 was completed, this was auxiliary bishop until September 9, 1891 Augustine Gockel consecrated . After only eight years, the small "Missonsgemeinde" was appointed a parish in 1899. The only surviving work of art from the first church is a nativity scene, which was purchased around 1898.
A special area of responsibility of the community was pastoral care in Poland. In 1900 the numerous Poles of the community donated an altar of Mary, which is now in the Antonius Chapel. Every year on Maundy Thursday there is a prayer in front of the Mount of Olives .
Construction of today's church
Since the church that had just been built soon became too small, the church council commissioned the Dortmund architect Johann Franziskus Klomp to plan a large basilica. This was built from 1905, in such a way that it was added piece by piece to the "old" church. So this could initially continue to be used and then - according to the construction progress - be removed piece by piece. The work dragged on, on the one hand because it was a great burden for the miners' community to finance such a large church, and on the other hand because of the First World War . After 15 years of construction, the new church was finished, with a roof turret, but without a bell tower.
From the beginning, bitter poverty accompanied the community, which is almost exclusively inhabited by miners. Sometimes neither the clergyman's salary nor the craftsmen, who had to repair mountain damage to the church and church buildings, could be paid. In the parish chronicle of 1922 it says: “The church is [...] poorly completed. There are [...] missing plates and benches. [...] In winter the church is unbearably cold. The sexton resigned at once. The office is administered by a boy on the side. ”Heating was only installed later.
Times of particularly great social hardship were caused by unemployment as a result of the occupation of the Ruhr by the French in 1923/1924, mining accidents, the Great Depression in the early 1930s, and mine closings. They hit the community hard and called for social commitment: for example, the establishment of popular kitchens and children's meals or the implementation of recreational stays for children and relief campaigns for food and clothing.
The church was badly damaged by the bombing raids during World War II .
Post War, Reconstruction and Completion of the Church
From 1948 to 1952, St. Barbara was rebuilt. The next renovations took place due to the liturgical reform . However, like some other Dortmund parishes, St. Barbara has preserved a high altar in addition to a simple table altar . The special thing about this high altar is that it was not in the church from the start. The first high altar was a picture altar from the time the present church was built. This picture altar was removed from the church after the council . Today's high altar (around 1906–1908) comes from the old Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Dortmund-Bodelschwingh . The new table altar, also known as the celebration altar, was made from old communion benches from the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. The high altar and the celebration altar were consecrated in 1977. The relics of the holy Ewaldi brothers were placed in the celebration altar .
Mountain damage required extensive renovations. The lack of a tower - originally planned by Klomp, but never realized - and the dilapidation of the previous roof turret led to the construction of a tower with a bell room. On October 20, 1960, the community finally received a ring from the Erdinger bell foundry (Karl Czudnochowsky), consisting of four bronze bells that weigh 112 hundredweight together.
For the 100th anniversary of the parish fair, the wish arose to complete the bell tower. To this end, the "Church Tower Helmet Interest Group" (IGT) was set up, which local companies and the Protestant community also joined. In 1990 the helmet could be placed on the church tower, which is now perceived as the highest and widely visible landmark of Eving. Thus, 100 years after the first church was built, the St. Barbara Church was completed.
In the 1960s, the structure of the community changed. Many families moved to other parts of the city, the number of parishioners decreased, between 1960 and 1980 by about half. In the 2000s, the last Catholic associations ( KFD and KAB ) also dissolved. The then diocesan administrator and today's Archbishop of Paderborn, Hans-Josef Becker , merged the Barbara parish with its former daughter parishes St. Marien (Obereving) and St. Antonius (Brechte) in the pastoral association Eving-Brechte.
Bells
| No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Weight ( kg ) |
Nominal (16th note) |
Inscription and illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christ bell (death bell) |
1960 | Czudnochowsky bell foundry | b 0 +2 | Inscription: JESUS CHRIST; / THE KING OF KINGS LET US Worship! Portrait: Christ the King, seated on a throne on clouds, with crown, halo and cross, one hand raised in blessing, in the other hand globe with cross. |
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| 2 | Marienbell | 1960 | Czudnochowsky bell foundry | d 1 +1 | Inscription: MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE, / PRAY FOR US! Portrait of St. Mary, standing on a crescent moon, surrounded by a halo, the baby Jesus in her arm, a scepter in the other hand. |
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| 3 | St. Joseph's Bell | 1960 | Czudnochowsky bell foundry | f 1 +3 | Inscription: HL. JOSEF, YOU PROTECT THE FAMILIES, / YOU EXAMPLE OF WORKERS, / GUARDIAN ANGEL OF GOD'S CHURCH. / PLEASE FOR US! Image of St. Joseph with baby Jesus and carpenter's tools. |
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| 4th | Barbara bell | 1960 | Czudnochowsky bell foundry | g 1 +2 | Inscription: COME TO HELP US! DRIVE TO THE SHIFT, / BE CLOSE TO US IN THE STUD, / BE THE SHARE OF CONFIDENCE. / YOU HEIL'GE Barbara Portrait of St. Barbara with chalice, sword and tower. |
It is worth mentioning that these bells rang for the inauguration of the Evangelical Lutheran Reconciliation Church in Dachau and were then transported to Eving.
Trivia
The director Adolf Winkelmann shot a scene from his film Junge Licht in St. Barbara in Eving .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ No. A 0060. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 16, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Provost Paul Montag, Brigitte Spieker: The Catholic Church in Dortmund .
- ↑ a b c 125 years of consecration in St. Barbara . In: Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, September 13, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 3.9 " N , 7 ° 27 ′ 23.2" E