St. Bonifatius (Mönchengladbach)

St. Boniface

The Catholic branch church St. Bonifatius is in the Hardterbroich-Pesch district of Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Hardterbroicher Straße 62.

The church was built in 1905/06. It has been recorded in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach since November 4, 1993 under No. H 077 .

location

The property is located on Hardterbroicher Straße, which connects the Hermges district with the Bungtwald. The buildings No. 58 youth home with parish hall, No. 60 chaplaincy and sexton's apartment, No. 62 parish church and No. 64 pastorate form a structural unit.

architecture

The branch church is a gable-free , three-aisled brick building in neo-Gothic architectural forms. The facade is structured by narrow pillars, pointed and arched windows and differently designed cornice friezes . The north side is emphasized by a large roof turret. A chapel is attached to each side . The main entrance, which is arranged in the middle, is emphasized by two subsequently added entrances to the aisles.

Furnishing

organ

The organ was built in 1979 by the organ building company Romanus Seifert & Sohn from Kevelaer. The slider chest instrument has 16 registers distributed over two manual works and pedal work . The game and stop action are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 1. Principal 8th' 2. Pointed 8th' 3. Octave 4 ′ 4th Forest flute 2 ′ 5. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 6th Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C – g 3 7th Metal dacked 8th' 8th. Reed flute 4 ′ 9. Super octave 2 ′ 10. Sesquialter II 11. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 ′ 12. Rohrschalmei 8th'

Pedal C – f 1 13. Sub-bass 16 ′ 14th Flaut bass 8th' 15th Chorale bass 4 ′ 16. bassoon 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
• Gustav Ommer: Modern organs on the Lower Rhine: with examples of historical organs in the appendix . 1st edition Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 1988.

swell

• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 14.2 "  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 29.2"  E