St. Boniface (Dortmund)

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View from the television tower
Main tower, choir, east side
"The burning bush", church window by Hans Kaiser

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Bonifatius is located in the Dortmund district of Innenstadt-Ost not far from Bundesstraße 1 .

history

The church was originally built between 1909 and 1910 according to plans by the Mainz cathedral builder Ludwig Becker in the neo-Romanesque style, but was heavily damaged in the Second World War in 1944/1945. The southeast tower and the two western stair towers have been preserved.

After the Second World War, a new building was designed by the architect Emil Steffann in 1951 . A new church was built using the remains of the previous building. Rubble stones from the old building were used at various points in the masonry.

It is a pillarless, spacious church hall with an apse and a side room on the north side, which is connected to the main room by a large arch. A smaller adjoining room on the northeast side is designed as a chapel. In 1967 the arched window in this room was fitted with abstract glazing in red tones on the theme of "The Burning Bush" by Hans Kaiser.

The interior design emphasizes the altar as the focal point. The arrangement of the altar and other liturgical places anticipated the reforms of the Second Vatican Council . The strict simplicity of the church is part of the Franciscan tradition, the effect of which is attributed to Steffann's frequent visits to Assisi . In the area of ​​interior decoration, the initially controversial monumental baptismal font by Heinrich Gerhard Bücker from 1954 should be mentioned. Bücker designed this baptismal font as a mobile in such a way that the lid is held by three strong hemp ropes and a 125 kg bronze dove directly above it forms the counterweight. If the lid is lifted for the baptismal act, the dove descends at the same time.

The St. Bonifatius Church is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

organ

The organ of the Bonifatiuskirche was built in 1972 by the Lübeck organ building company Kemper . It has 26 registers , which are divided into three manuals and pedal . Playing and stop action are electric, the organist has four free combinations available. When the organ was built, several registers from the previous instrument (Kemper / 1954) were reused. In spring 2011 the Hey company carried out a general overhaul of the organ.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 08th'
Gemshorn 08th'
octave 04 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 02 ′
Mixture IV-V
Trumpet 08th'
II upper structure C – g 3
Willow pipe 08th'
Dumped 08th'
Ital. Principal 04 ′
recorder 02 ′
Terzian II
Scharff IV-VI
Dulcian 16 ′
Tremulant
III Breastwork C – g 3
Reed flute 08th'
Sing. Dacked 04 ′
Principal 02 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Zimbel III
Krummhorn 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 08th'
Pommer 08th'
Pipe whistle 04 ′
Wide principal 02 ′
trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : Bw / Hw, Ow / Hw, Bw / Ow, Bw / P, Ow / P, Hw / P
  • Game aids
    • Fixed combinations : Org. Plenum, Tutti, tongues off, tongues individual storage
    • free combinations: four free combinations, two free pedal combinations
    • Breastwork swellable , Zimbelstern

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ No. A 0395. 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 18, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 24.8 ″  E