St. Ewaldi (Aplerbeck)
St. Ewaldi Aplerbeck is a Roman Catholic parish church in Dortmund district Aplerbeck . The parish of St. Ewaldi Aplerbeck belongs to the entire parish of the same name of St. Ewaldi Dortmund in the Archdiocese of Paderborn . Church patrons are the Ewaldi brothers who, according to tradition, died as martyrs here in Aplerbeck at the end of the 7th century .
history
When industrialization began around 1850, many Catholic families moved to Aplerbeck. Since the Aplerbecker adhered to the Protestant faith since the Reformation, the new citizens lacked their own community with a church. The community first tried to buy the Georgskirche, which had fallen into disrepair at that time . After this failed, the congregation bought a Kötterhof on January 1, 1867 as a mission center. This was rebuilt and the prayer room was to be created from the barn. However, before the rooms could be used properly, the barn and the roof of the Kotten burned down on October 23, 1867. Fortunately for the community, the fire insurance had been taken out two days earlier.
With the completion of the emergency church on Marsbruchstrasse in 1868, a two-story building with a roof turret , two school rooms and a prayer room was created. So the church had a first home, but also a lot of debt. The purchase and renovation of the Kottens cost the community 8,700 Reichstaler. Despite the money from the fire insurance and the willingness of the community members to donate, a mountain of debt of 6,900 Reichstaler remained. The community school started in 1868 with 75 children, in 1870 already 247 children attended the school.
The first St. Ewaldi Church from 1880
The community's desire for a real church remained. In 1873 a plot of 68 a (6800 m²) in a central location was acquired by the municipality. The neo - Romanesque three-aisled basilica with a transept and an octagonal crossing tower with a copper-covered folding roof is based on plans by Cologne architect August Carl Lange . The church was built from 1877 to 1880 and was consecrated on December 21, 1880. The rectory, which still stands today, was also built by the Cologne architect Lange in 1884 after money and bricks were left over. In 1894 the Aplerbeck parish became an independent parish. The name of the church and the community refers to the legend of the Ewaldi brothers, who according to local tradition are said to have suffered their martyrdom in Aplerbeck.
The second St. Ewaldi Church from 1971
Since the community grew rapidly after the war, the old church from 1880 turned out to be too small. A new, larger church was built from 1968 to 1971 southeast of the old church. The old parish church was demolished in 1974, which many Aplerbeckers regret to this day. The architect of the new church was Aloys Sonntag . The ground plan of the church is based on a square surrounded by octagonal niches, the so-called conches . This gave the building a circular orientation and no longship. The windows were designed by Wilhelm Buschulte . Each of the modern designed windows has a different theme.
After renovations in 1991 and 1992, the church was rebuilt in 2008. The church was no longer too small, it was too big for the congregation. The ground plan of the church was changed, a chapel was partly built into and partly attached to the church. This chapel is used for church services today when only a small number of visitors are expected.
Furnishing
organ
The organ of the St. Ewaldi Church was rebuilt in 1987 by the organ building company Siegfried Sauer from Höxter . It has sliding drawers with a mechanical action mechanism and an electrical stop action mechanism . Eight of the registers of the new organ come from the previous organ of the first St. Ewaldi church.
The organ has a total of 30 registers, which are distributed among the main, swell and pedal parts . Of the total of 2092 pipes , 142 are made of wood, the others are made of metal. The largest pipe measures 3.15 m, the smallest pipe 4 mm.
The disposition of the St. Ewaldi organ is:
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- Coupling : II / I (electrical), I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 32-fold typesetting system , registerfetter, sequencecircuit
- Secondary register: Zimbelstern , glockenspiel c – d 3
Altar cross
The triumphal cross behind the altar dates from the transition from Romanesque to Gothic , the original is dated to around 1250. It is on loan from the Protestant parish of Aplerbeck in the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund . In the church, as in the Protestant Georgskirche, there is a copy of the cross. On a crutch cross in red color with a blue border is a Christ figure with a nimbus and a crown as a living Christ with his head tilted to the right, curly hair and beard. He shows a gentle expression. Around the hip, knotted on the right side, he wears a loincloth with beautifully worked out folds. The basic features of the shape, especially the pronounced rib arches and the profiling of the abdomen, indicate a Romanesque influence, while the feet, which are folded over and fixed with a toenail, show a Gothic influence.
Baptismal font
The baptismal font, on which the Ewaldi brothers can be seen among others, comes from the Cologne sculptor Toni Zenz . In 1982 it was installed in the church.
Bells
The bells of St. Ewaldi were re-cast in 1948. After the war, three bells could be bought by the community. The White Ewald bell sounds with the tone “g”, the Black Ewald bell with the tone “e” and the Josefs bell with the tone “a”. Another bell came in 1950, the Theodor bell, tuned to the tone "d", donated by a community member. When the old Ewaldikirche was demolished, the bells were placed on the new church. It was not until 1980 that the Ewaldikirche got a new bell tower, a campanile . It is separated from the church and stands on a concrete pedestal that can be walked on. The octagonal tower consists of four tower segments made of exposed concrete and placed one on top of the other. It has no tower hood, just a flat roof with a side cross.
literature
- Siegfried Niehaus: Aplerbeck. Heinrich Borgmann Publishing House, Dortmund 1977.
- Georg Eggenstein (Ed.): Aplerbeck. Six profiles - one face. Limosa publishing house, Clenze 2010 ISBN 978-3-86037-402-3 .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 31 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 28 ″ E