St. Ignatius (South Quarter)
The St. Ignatius Church is a Roman Catholic church building in Essen 's Südviertel district .
history
After the previous building, erected from 1923 to 1924, was destroyed in the Second World War , the church was built as a parish church belonging to the parish of St. Gertrud and as the last project by the Essen architect Emil Jung in the years 1958 to 1961.
St. Ignatius was the church of the former Jesuit monastery in Holsterhausen . The order left the city of Essen in spring 2012 after around 400 years.
The geometric window compositions made of concrete glass in the chancel, in the side aisles and in the entrance date from the year the church was built and were designed by the glass artist Wilhelm Buschulte . The four windows in the chapel made of antique glass with lead and black solder were designed by the glass painters Wilhelm de Graaff and Nikolaus Bette in 1959 . They show Mary with the child , Ignatius von Loyola , a scene on the sea and Christ's Way of the Cross .
In November 2013 the ailing church tower was put down. Previously, the bell had been out of order for a long time, for fear that the vibrations could trigger rockfalls on the dilapidated tower. The church building is owned by the Italian community. The parish and monastery house was renovated for parts of the parish of St. Gertrud at a cost of around one million euros.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jennifer Schumacher: Church tower of St. Ignatius in Essen-Holsterhausen is demolished ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 20, 2013
- ^ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV: Catholic Church of St. Ignatius ; accessed on February 14, 2020
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '46.7 " N , 7 ° 0' 9.7" E