St. Dionysius (Borbeck)
The Catholic parish church of St. Dionysius is a listed church building in Borbeck , a district of Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia .
History and architecture
The patronage indicates a foundation in the 10th century. The church is a mother church from which 21 parishes have emerged. Some of them are located in Groß-Borbeck and Oberhausen . According to older research and a model in the Essen Ruhrland Museum , a Romanesque building first stood in the 12th century , which was extended Gothic in the 13th century . The medieval building was demolished in 1860. A new building became necessary because the old church had become too small.
In 1862 Pastor Johann Joseph Legrand laid the foundation stone . The three-aisled, neo-Gothic brick basilica was built in 1862/63 according to a simplified design by Vincenz Statz from the year 1854, commissioned by the builder Clemens Guinbert by the building officer Carl Krüger from Düsseldorf and under the supervision of the Essen district builder August Kind . The church was consecrated by the Archbishop of Cologne, Paulus Melchers, in 1867. The choir is polygonal, the west tower is in front. During the Second World War , on October 25, 1944, the building was hit by two aerial mines and, apart from the tower, was badly damaged. The reconstruction work lasted until 1951. From 1962 to 1963 the interior of the church was redesigned. Instead of the vault, a folded concrete ceiling was installed. The celebration altar was brought forward and the vacated choir room was separated by a wall. This is how a worship chapel was created . The sacrament house was built into the wall and thus became a place of exposure .
In 2018, several months of restoration work will be carried out on the church tower. With an investment of around one million euros, financed by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Diocese of Essen and the parish , the overhaul of the natural stones, the replacement and grouting of bricks and the replacement of the tie rods that stabilize the tower on its west side, in front.
Furnishing
An epitaph of the Essen abbess Elisabeth von Manderscheid-Blankenheim from the 16th century made of Baumberger sandstone. The abbess kneels in front of the crucifix in the middle.
organ
The organ was built in 1983 by Romanus Seifert using parts of the pipe material from the previous organ . The instrument has 41 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electric.
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- Coupling : III / I, I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : 3,999-fold setting system
literature
- Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia I: Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , S. #.
- Ludwig Theben, Theo Kellersohn: Parish Church of St. Dionysius, Essen-Borbeck . In: Heinz Dohmen (ed.): Image of the sky. A thousand years of church building in the diocese of Essen. Hoppe and Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1977, without ISBN, pp. 88–90.
Web links
- History of the parish church of St. Dionysius
- Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (architectural monument)
- Extract from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (ground monument)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Episcopal General Vicariate Essen, Dept. Information / Episcopal Press Office (ed.): Our common path. 25 years of the Diocese of Essen . Edition Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1982. ISBN 3-88867-019-5 . P. 66.
- ↑ St. Dionysius restores the church tower; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 5, 2018
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 27.9 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 59.5 ″ E