St. Francis (Dortmund)
St. Franziskus , usually called the Franciscan Church, is the second post-Reformation Catholic church in Dortmund . It is located on Franziskanerstrasse in the eastern city center.
history
In the course of industrialization , the traditionally Protestant city of Dortmund experienced a strong influx of new Catholic citizens. The provost church was soon no longer sufficient for worship and pastoral care. Therefore, in 1895 Franciscans (OFM) of the Saxon Franciscan Province (Saxonia) came to Dortmund and held services in a small chapel on Hamburger Strasse. In 1896 the building site for the monastery building and church was acquired. The Dortmund architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp designed a three-aisled basilica in the neo-Gothic style with a two-bay, single-nave choir. After the completion of the monastery, the construction of the church began in 1901. The consecration was celebrated on June 13, 1902.
The building was badly damaged during World War II .
After St. Francis was initially only a monastery church , then also a branch church of the Propsteigemeinde, the church became the parish church of the independent parish “St. Francis and Anthony ”. In 2004, due to the decline in the number of believers and priests, it was merged with the parish “Christ our Hope”. In 2002, Petit & Edelbrock in Gescher cast two new bronze bells in e ″ and f sharp ″. The overall bell sounds in e ″ –fis ″ –gis ″.
The church is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .
Brother Jordan
Jordan Mai was one of the most famous Franciscans of the monastery and is venerated by many believers in Dortmund and beyond for his holy life. The beatification process for Brother Jordan has been going on for many years, and it is carried out in particular by the Franciscans. Jordan's bones, originally buried in the neighboring Ostfriedhof , were reburied in the church in 1950.
literature
- Markus Hunecke OFM: The Friars Minor in Dortmund. In: Dieter Berg (ed.): Franciscan life in the Middle Ages. Studies on the history of the Rhenish and Saxon order provinces. Werl 1994, pp. 27-45.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 43.4 " N , 7 ° 29 ′ 19.9" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ No. A 0461. 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 13, 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.
