St. Dionysius (Mündelheim)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Dionysius is a listed church building in Mündelheim , a district of Duisburg . The church is dedicated to Dionysius of Paris . The chapel of St. Dionysius in Serm also belongs to the community .
History and architecture
The church is in the south of Duisburg, almost directly in front of the Uerdingen Rhine bridge . The building, with its massive tower visible from afar, defines the townscape.
According to a tradition from the 9th century, the area was Christianized early on . According to a document from the year 947, Mündelheim belonged to the Großgau Hattuarien on the left bank of the Rhine ( in villa Mundulingheim in pago Hatteri in comitatu Erenfridi ), to which the Gilde- / Keldagau around Krefeld-Gellep also belonged. Even before Suibertus settled in Kaiserswerth in 695 , the place was evangelized by Scottish monks from the St. Martin monastery in Cologne. At the time of the Carolingians there was a crown property (villa) in Mündelheim. Frequently a chapel was built near such royal estates, which was then the center of Christian life.
The current church was built between 1220 and 1230, when the place belonged to the Counts of Berg . The patronage and the entire church assets were donated to the Lambertus Foundation in Düsseldorf in 1308 . The Düsseldorf chapter was entitled to patronage and the income until secularization .
The building is a late Staufer vaulted basilica with a choir area and an apse . The nave of the predecessor church, which probably had a single nave, was excavated; it probably dated from the 11th century. The tower was added in the middle of the 12th century. Two pillars on the west wall of the side aisles also date from this period. The remains of a Romanesque portico have been preserved at the main entrance . The masonry is covered with tuff . During the Second World War, the five-story tower was badly damaged by fire. The ground floor and the eastern part up to the nave roof are still preserved, the rest has been renewed. The sacristy built in the 19th century was demolished in 1971 and the apse of the south aisle was exposed.
The capitals in the interior are unusually rich with buds, birds, foliage and in the southeast side aisle with a head mask. A fresco painting from the 14th century can be seen on the north wall of the nave . St. Catherine is shown with a wheel. The painting is the remainder of a larger cycle that adorned the nave arcades and was destroyed by war damage.
Furnishing
- The main altar is a restored, earlier side altar, it was placed below the apex of the choir area.
- The baptismal font is marked 1710 in the chronogram .
- The Pietà is a work from the second half of the 15th century.
- The life-size figures of St. Dionysius and St. Maria Magdalena were created around 1700.
- A painting from the 16th century hangs in the tower hall. The resurrection of Christ is shown. This is probably the rest of a winged altar from the Netherlands.
- The antependium of an altar is also located in the tower hall . The representation of St. Dionysius is a high baroque carving.
Picture gallery
Tower from the west
Choir with altar
Organ loft
Baptismal font in the left aisle
Rectory
literature
- Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X
- Heinz Dohmen: image of heaven, a thousand years of church building in the diocese of Essen . Verlag Hoppe and Werrry, 1977
- Magdalena Kraemer-Noble: St. Dionysius in Duisburg-Mündelheim . Rhenish art sites. Brochure. Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection , 1979, ISBN 978-3-88094-270-7 .
Web links
- History and Architecture (accessed July 26, 2012)
- The St. Dionysius Church in Duisburg-Mündelheim. "Kulturtankstelle" from the diocese of Essen and RUHR.2010 ( PDF ; 4.4 MB)
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 18 ″ N , 6 ° 41 ′ 1 ″ E