St. Gertrud (Essen)
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Characteristic tower of St. Gertrud
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Church building
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St. Gertrud is a Catholic parish church in the north of downtown Essen, which was rebuilt after the Second World War .
history
The original three-aisled hall church was built between 1872 and 1877 according to plans by August Rincklake near the former Viehofer Tor . It was stylistically based on early Gothic models and was dedicated to Saint Gertrude von Nivelles . Destroyed in the Second World War, the church was rebuilt in major changes by the Essen architect Emil Jung until 1955 .
The tower of the church is now 59 meters high. Before World War II it was 75 meters.
Before the structural reform of the Diocese of Essen in 2008, St. Gertrud was associated with the now-dissolved parish of Essen Cathedral and the also dissolved parish of St. Marien im Segeroth . Today the parish of St. Gertrud includes the churches Heilig Kreuz in the southeast quarter , St. Bonifatius in Huttrop , St. Ignatius in Holsterhausen and St. Michael am Wasserturm .
Church furnishings
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The church houses a 91 cm high monstrance made of gilded silver with the year 1521. Above the six-sided foot there is a six-sided base on which a glass cylinder with two side high struts with the statuettes of Saints Peter, Paul, Sebastian and Christian. Above the cylinder is the structure of St. Gertrude, God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Web links
- Homepage of the parish of St. Gertrud
- St. Gertrud's bells ring as a sound recording
- Tower recording with full bells in the Catholic parish church of St. Gertrud in Essen
Individual evidence
- ^ Dohmen, Sons: Churches, chapels, synagogues in Essen. Essen 1998, p. 83.
- ↑ http://kirchbau.de/php/300_datenblatt.php?id=13953&name=keiner
- ^ Paul Clemen : Art monuments of the city and the district of Essen. (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 2/3.) Düsseldorf 1893, p. 114 f.
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 39.8 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 47.2 ″ E