St. Hubertus (Essen-Bergerhausen)
The Catholic Church of St. Hubertus is a listed church building in the Bergerhausen district of Essen .
History and architecture
The parish was spun off from the parish of St. Lambertus Rellinghausen in 1913 . The church building plan was drawn up by Josef Kleesattel from Düsseldorf. He opted for neo-Gothic forms. The church patron was related to the patron of the mother parish; Hubertus followed Lambertus to the bishopric in Liège.
The foundation stone was laid on March 2, 1913. The walls were made of brick , the facing from Weiberner tuff . The church was consecrated on July 5, 1914 by Auxiliary Bishop Lausberg from Cologne and was badly damaged in the Second World War . The vault collapsed and the windows were destroyed. After the war, a flat ceiling was installed, which was decorated with stucco moldings. However, this solution was neither architecturally nor acoustically acceptable. According to plans by the architect Sensen from Oberhausen , a neo-Gothic vault was designed in exposed brickwork and pulled in in 1974/75. To reduce the weight of the vault, perforated bricks were chosen, alternating with smooth bricks. The sanctuary was moved forward and lowered by two steps. The painting of the room is coordinated with the changing colors of the vaults. The Alta quartzite floor looks simple. The formerly open vestibule was closed with simple copper doors.
In 1986 the church building was placed under monument protection.
Since the restructuring in the Ruhr diocese from 2006 to 2008, the Hubertuskirche has belonged again to its mother parish St. Lambertus. The church tower , completed in July 1914, is 62.53 meters high, after the St. Barbara Church in Kray , which is a good ten meters higher , the second highest in the city of Essen. On January 3, 2014, after a lightning strike, there was a fire in the church tower. The iron cross on the top of the tower and parts of the wooden roof structure had to be secured and removed after the smoldering fire, so that the tower was lost a total of five meters in length. The top will be repaired as part of the renovation of the ailing south wall of the tower that has already been scaffolded. This renovation work will cost around 3.5 million euros.
Furnishing
The former high altar and communion bench were made in the Goldkuhle workshop in Essen-Huttrop and donated by the Vietinghoff- Schell family from Essen-Rellinghausen . The celebration altar was made from Carrara marble according to the architect's designs . In its central part are the tracery of the former communion bench.
In 1930 an organ with two manuals and 16 registers by Klais from Bonn was installed, but it was destroyed in the war in 1945. Today's two-manual organ with 24 registers from Breil dates back to 1982 and was renovated in 2011.
Following the closure of the St. Raphael Church in Bergerhausen is its twentieth year old belfry with the five-part Hüesker -Geläut 2011 in the Hubertus Church translocated Service. The original belfry had become dilapidated after almost a hundred years. Two of the four old bells that were cast by the Bochumer Verein are currently set up in front of the Hubertus Church.
From 1938 to 1939 Peter Hecker designed three choir windows on the theme of Christ and the twelve apostles. They were renewed after the war from 1963 to 1964 according to his reconstructed drafts with black solder painting on antique glass . Further windows in the choir, the choir chapel, in the upper aisle as well as in the transverse and side aisles were made ornamentally with cryolite glass in lead in 1975 based on designs by Hubert Spierling . The windows in the baptistery above the door are by unknown artists.
The copy of the beautiful Madonnas comes from the Salzburg area. The Way of the Cross in cast aluminum is a work by Willi Dirks. The crucifixion group, which used to be the upper end of the high altar, is the work of the Goldkuhle workshop in Huttrop.
inner space
Entrance hall with access to the tower
Baptistery
Madonna statue
Two of the four old bells
Wooden sculpture St. Anna Selbdritt
In the north aisle, in front of the walled-up, former entrance to the church, there is a wooden sculpture in a saint's house, which was made in 1985 by Josef Wellinger from bronze. The house was given to Pastor Heinrich by the parish on his 70th birthday.
The carved oak sculpture is called Anna selbdritt and represents the three generations of grandmother, mother and child. The tallest person is Jesus' grandmother Anna , depicted one head smaller, but grown up, daughter Maria stands on her right and her son on her left Jesus. The original Jesus child of the plastic was lost at some point and was later added again. He is holding a blue ball, the meaning of which remains unclear. Mary, the mother of Jesus, holds a book with strange characters in her hands that refer to the Old Testament .
The sculpture in the Hubertus Church dates from the beginning of the 16th century when it was donated on the occasion of a smallpox epidemic. The illustration of the three generations gave hope at the time, since such a meeting would have been rare at the time of smallpox . The wooden sculpture used to stand in a saint's house in Rellinghausen, where it was a station for processions. It was painted over white at the beginning of the 19th century in the then classicistic style. In 1865 the owner bequeathed this chapel, including the sculpture, to the parish of Rellinghausen. In 1870 the portrait came into the possession of Gutehoffnungshütte , which operated the Ludwig mine . It was on Rellinghauser Strasse opposite the confluence with Leinestrasse in a niche in the wall. After the expansion of Rellinghauser Strasse, the wooden sculpture was moved to the Hubertus Church near the baptistery in 1928. The sculpture spent the time of the Second World War in the rectory. It was not until 1985 that it was given its current location with the new glass house.
literature
- Heinrich Wasser: Parish Church of St. Hubertus, Essen-Bergerhausen . In: Heinz Dohmen (ed.): Image of the sky. 1000 years of church building in the diocese of Essen . Verlag Hoppe and Werry, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1977, pp. 106-109.
Web links
- Excerpt from the Essen list of monuments (PDF; 411 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DerWesten.de v. October 21, 2014: Essen's highest church tower is in Kray ; accessed on October 21, 2014
- ↑ DerWesten.de from January 5, 2014: Reconstruction of the highest church tower in Essen decided ; accessed on October 21, 2014
- ↑ DerWesten.de of June 30, 2014: After a lightning strike in the church tower, the Essen community moved together ; accessed on October 21, 2014
- ↑ Klais Orgelbau: Catalog raisonné (PDF; 335 kB); last viewed on October 21, 2014
- ^ Foundation Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV ; accessed on October 21, 2014
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '19.7 " N , 7 ° 1' 50.6" E