St. Gertrud (Düsseldorf-Eller)
The Catholic parish church of St. Gertrud (originally St. Gertrudis ) in Düsseldorf district of Eller is a neo-Gothic church. The church on Gertrudisplatz was preceded by three churches in other locations. The parish of the same name was founded in 1624 and is now part of the Eller- Lierenfeld parish community, which has existed since 2000 .
Building history
First castle chapel
The first church in Eller was in Eller Castle . The exact age of this castle chapel , consecrated to St. Gertrude von Nivelles , is not known. The chapel , however, is believed to have been built together with the first castle of the Lords of Elnere , who have been known as an influential and wealthy knight family since 1151, as a subsidiary church of the Gerresheim monastery . It is mentioned for the first time in a Cologne trial file from 1230, which testifies to a dispute between the chaplain of the chapel in Eller and the subdean of Cologne cathedral , in which the chapel was occupied with the interdict . The first mention of the altar in the castle chapel is from 1368.
Second castle chapel
After 1469, when the moated castle was rebuilt, the chapel was moved to the outer bailey and demolished in 1829 after a larger church outside the castle grounds was completed. A memorial stone donated by the local Kolping family in 1950 is now at the former location of the chapel in front of the castle.
Classicist hall church
At the beginning of the 19th century, when Eller had reached the number of 800 inhabitants, the long overdue new construction of a village church could not be postponed. The first correspondence with the authorities of the then Grand Duchy of Berg dates back to 1813. After the old moated castle was demolished in 1826 and replaced by a classicist manor house , the construction of a larger parish church outside the castle grounds was finally inevitable, as the old castle chapel is now in the area of the new garden parterre . Construction supervision for the new village church was entrusted to the department of the Düsseldorf government headed by Adolph von Vagedes ; Agricultural inspector Anton Walger, who was subordinate to Vagedes, created the draft plans for the new church. Since the design made by master builder Walger was too complex, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, as head of the Prussian Oberbaudeputation, was asked to make a cheaper proposal to the Düsseldorf government. In an expert opinion of May 3, 1827, Schinkel explained his design of a hall church with arched windows and a tower on one narrow side and suggested the brick, which is native to the Lower Rhine, as the facade material. This classicist church in the type of the so-called Schinkel normal church was built from 1827 to 1829 on the corner of Gumbertstrasse and Ellerkirchstrasse and was consecrated in May 1829. The Eller cemetery was also moved from the castle area to Ellerkirchstrasse in 1831. But even the new Schinkel parish church had become too small again after a few decades and was demolished again after the consecration of the new church on Gertrudisplatz in 1901. The name Ellerkirchstrasse and a memorial plaque on the Wilhelminian-style tenement house at Gumbertstrasse 185 still remind of the former location of the third church in Eller.
Neo-Gothic church
The current Catholic parish church is the fourth church building in the history of Eller. It was erected in the open field on today's Gertrudisplatz, the then newly laid out Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz, according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Sültenfuß , with whom the first negotiations about a new church had already been started before 1896, as a neo - Gothic three-aisled brick basilica with a portal tower Consecrated March 1901 by the then Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne and later Cardinal and Archbishop Anton Fischer . Around the same time, the St. Gertrudis Monastery of the Katharin Sisters located directly behind the church on the corner of Gertrudisstraße and in 1904 the rectory a little further away on the Alt-Eller 31 property were built in the same brick neo-Gothic style. The Gertrudis monastery was abandoned and demolished around 1970 and the Catholic parish center was built from exposed concrete in its place.
The new church was not painted until 1934/35. During the Second World War, St. Gertrud was badly damaged in an air raid in 1943. The tower burned down and the tower spire fell on the nave and destroyed two vaulted yokes. In 1948 the church was restored to such an extent that it could be used again. The repairs were, however, only makeshift. The Gertrudiskirche was completely restored with the rebuilding of the spire between 1974 and 1980. During this time the Holy Mass was celebrated in the parish hall of the parish center.
organ
The organ was built in 1935 by the organ builder Johannes Klais (Bonn) and reorganized in 1999 by the Weimbs organ builder . The slider chests -instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and pedal . The keyboards and stops are electric.
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- The first manual of the organ is designed as a coupling manual .
- Further coupling : I / P, II / P, Super Octave coupling SW / SW; HW / HW; SW / Ped. HW / Ped. Sub-octave coupling SW / SW
The super and sub octave couplings are automatically effective in the coupling manual.
Bells
In 1911 and 1953, the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen cast four bronze bells for the church in Eller. The ringing of St. Gertrud includes three historic OTTO bells from 1911, whose sound structure is similar to the OTTO bells in Cologne Cathedral, which were cast in the same year.
| No. | patron | Nominal | Casting year | Caster |
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| 1 | Maria | d¹-2 | 1911 | Otto, Bremen - Hemelingen |
| 2 | Engelbert | e¹-3 | 1911 | Otto, Bremen - Hemelingen |
| 3 | Agnes | f sharp 1-2 | 1911 | Otto, Bremen - Hemelingen |
| 4th | Sebastianus | g'-5 | 1953 | Otto, Bremen - Hemelingen |
| 5 | a ' | 2014 | Brother Michael Reuter, Maria Laach | |
| 6th | H' | 2019 | Schmitt, Brockscheid |
"Resurréxi"
Parish history
In 1624 Eller was withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the Gerresheimer Stift and the independent parish of St. Gertrudis was created. The castle chapel became the parish church and the chaplain became the pastor of this new parish .
Branch churches
It was not until 1932 that a small wooden church was built with St. Augustine in the southeast of Eller, east of the castle park. However, it did not remain a branch church of St. Gertrudis for long, because three years later it was headed by a rector and in 1955 its catchment area was elevated to a rectorate parish.
After the Second World War, the community grew particularly strongly in the southwest of Eller. That is why the St. Hedwig branch church was built there from 1972 to 1974 , but it was given up again in 1996, profaned in 2006 and then converted into a retirement home.
Parish community
In the course of the diocesan restructuring, the Archbishop of Cologne , Cardinal Joachim Meisner , has the Parish Association Eller-Lierenfeld with the three parishes of St. Gertrud in Eller, St. Augustinus in Eller and St. Michael in Lierenfeld with effect from April 19, 2000 of the pastoral office in the rectory of St. Gertrud. It essentially covers the area of the Düsseldorf districts of Eller and Lierenfeld. In 2005, the parish association became the Eller-Lierenfeld parish community, to which around 12,000 Catholics belong. St. Gertrud is by far the largest and oldest of the three parishes and churches, while the parishes of St. Augustine and St. Michael did not emerge until the 20th century. From 2001 to 2013 Reinhard Kluth was the cantor of the pastoral care sector ;
Pastors and Primaries
The current pastor has been Joachim Decker since April 2000. His predecessors since the church was built on Gertrudisplatz were Winand Selbach (1898–1921), Oskar Tillmann (1921–1929), Karl Baums (1929–1937), Richard Ludewig (1937–1957), Paul Wistuba (1957–1977) and Anton Scheuss (1977-1999). St. Gertrud is the home parish of the Archbishop of Berlin , Heiner Koch , who celebrated his episcopal prime as Cologne Auxiliary Bishop on May 14, 2006 in the Gertrudiskirche.
literature
- Ludewig, Pastor [Richard]: 600 year celebration of St. Gertrudis parish Düsseldorf-Eller , [self-published] Düsseldorf 1950
Individual evidence
- ^ State capital Düsseldorf: Schinkel in the Rhineland. 1991, exhibition catalog, pp. 90–91.
- ↑ More information about the organ ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2016 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.
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, particularly pages 52, 302, 514, 518, 549 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 74, 269, 411, 482, 505 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Web links and sources
- Sankt Gertrud: 600 years
- Catholic parish of Sankt Gertrud
- Parish community Eller Lierenfeld
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 59.9 " N , 6 ° 50 ′ 23.1" E