St. Helena (Rheindahlen)
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St. Helena is the Roman Catholic parish church of Rheindahlen , a district of Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The oldest surviving part of the medieval church is the Romanesque tower from the 12th century. It is also the oldest surviving structure in Rheindahlen. At the time of construction, the church belonged to the Archdeacon Wassenberg within the diocese of Liège . In 1330 the church by Bishop was Adolf from Liege to Cologne Pin St. Maria im Kapitol incorporated. The Romanesque church had become so dilapidated in the course of the 15th century that it was demolished in 1510 except for the tower and the north aisle and replaced by a new building.
St. Helena was then expanded into a three-aisled basilica in the form of a staggered church in the architectural style of the late Gothic . Since 1515, the church also served as a monastery church for the Franciscan convent founded in 1433 under the patronage of St. Catherine . The south aisle was set up as a sister church. After the city fire on July 5, 1647, the church was badly damaged. In 1803 the Franciscan convent was closed.
The new building of the church, which began in 1910 and was completed in 1915 under the direction of Caspar Clemens Pickel , which was erected at a right angle through the middle of the old church, resulted in a new structure on a cross-shaped floor plan with an octagonal tower above the crossing, the spire of which rises 130.21 m above sea level NN lies. It is unique on this scale. The old church was included as the entrance area of the new church. The size of the old church is thus clearly visible after the new building has been erected. In the church there is a well-preserved oak figure of Saint Anthony . This 1.14 m high figure was created in 1480 by the Utrecht artist Adriaen van Wesel . During the bombing raid on Rheindahlen on February 25, 1945 and by artillery fire , parts of the church were partly badly damaged, so that they had to be rebuilt in the post-war years.
organ
The organ of the parish church was built in 1984 by the Seifert organ builder from Kevelaer. The instrument has 40 registers (around 3000 pipes) on three manual works and a pedal .
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literature
- Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld . The art monuments of the Rhine Province, Düsseldorf 1893. P. 83f.
- Georg Dehio : Rhineland (= Handbook of German Art Monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia, Part I). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-422-03093-0 , p. 957.
References and individual references
- ^ Otto von Mülmann: Commercial statistics from Prussia . Third part: The administrative district of Düsseldorf. tape 1 . J. Baedeker, Iserlohn 1864 ( special history of the individual cities in the Google book search [accessed on November 25, 2012]).
- ^ Herbert Reiners: Loca Desiderata, Mönchengladbach city history . Ed .: Wolfgang Löhr with the support of the Sparkasse Foundation for Art and Science, the Reiners Foundation GmbH and the Josef and Hilde Wilberz Foundation. tape 1 . Rhineland publishing and operating company of the Rhineland Regional Association, Brauweiler Abbey, Pulheim 1994, ISBN 3-7927-1375-6 , p. 13 .
- ↑ Reinhardt Hootz: German art monuments . A picture handbook - Lower Rhine. 2nd Edition. Deutscher KunstVerlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 393 .
- ↑ Information on the organ of the parish church of St. Helena, MG-Rheindahlen on the website of the "Förderkreis Gestliche Musik in St. Helena".
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 50.7 " N , 6 ° 21 ′ 44" E