St. Joachim (Düren)

St. Joachim in Dueren-Nord

Klais organ

St. Joachim is a Roman Catholic branch church in Düren's inner city district Düren-Nord in North Rhine-Westphalia . The church was built between 1895 and 1897 according to plans by Heinrich Krings and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Joachim . The building is entered under no. 1/67 in the list of architectural monuments in Düren .

architecture

St. Joachim is a brick basilica in neo-Romanesque forms with a length of approx. 64 meters and a width of 33 meters. The three- story bell tower had a height of 71 meters until the tower was destroyed . Today it is about 43 meters high. It is located on the west side of the church. Left and right there is a round stair tower, the main portal on the lower floor of the tower and a rose window in the middle . On the upper floor is the bell chamber with two arched sound windows on each side. The tower forms the middle of the three-bay porch, formerly a baptistery and now weekday church, in north-south orientation with a semicircular apse in the north. The three-aisled nave is attached to this porch . The 8-meter-wide central nave has two bays and is vaulted with a ribbed vault. Each yoke of the central nave has two yokes of the side aisles on the left and right . These are a total of four bays and 3.50 meters wide. They are vaulted with a groin vault. The arcades between the central nave and the side aisle show a change of supports . The octagon adjoins the nave . In the north and south, the octagon has been expanded into a transept , which closes on each side with a choir closed on three sides . This central building is also surrounded by four hexagonal chapels. There are entrances on the two western ones and the side altars on the two eastern ones. In the east the building closes with the main choir. It is closed on five sides from the outside and semicircular from the inside. A dwarf gallery also runs around the choir and crossing dome . Two sacristies are added to the left and right of the choir .

The Joachimskirche in Düren is considered the most important neo-Romanesque church building by the Cologne architect Heinrich Krings .

history

General

On March 22, 1901, part of the parish of St. Marien was formed into the parish of St. Joachim in the north of the city. St. Joachim already existed as a rectorate . On January 1, 2010, the previously independent parish merged with the parish of St. Peter in Birkesdorf to form the new parish of St. Joachim and St. Peter . The parish church became the Birkesdorf church, since then St. Joachim has been a branch church of this new parish. Since 2008 the parish has belonged to the newly formed community of parishes (GdG) Düren-Nord .

In June 2015 it became known that the Joachimskirche will in future no longer be financed by the diocese of Aachen . This was the result of the Church Real Estate Management (KIM) process , which resulted from the diocese's savings measures. Thus all costs have to be borne by the parish. What will happen to the church in the future and whether it can be preserved as a church has not yet been clarified.

In September 2016, the church received new exterior lighting, as did the mosque on Veldener Straße .

Church building

In 1883 a church building association was founded. In November 1890, the Cologne architect Heinrich Krings presented a first draft for the new church. In the initial planning two choir towers were planned, as well as a lantern on the crossing dome . This first draft was examined by the Strasbourg cathedral builder Franz Schmitz , an architect named Goebbels and the Cologne diocesan builder Vincenz Statz . Schmitz called for a change in the size and height of the nave and choir, and Statz called for the plans for a still neo-Romanesque church to be reworked into a neo-Gothic building . In 1891 Krings presented the revised plans. The proposed changes were carried out by Franz Schmitz, but he stuck to the neo-Romanesque forms. Krings absolutely wanted to have the choir towers built, as this would have made the east view of the church look more harmonious, but ultimately, under pressure from the church building authorities, they were not built, and neither was the lantern on the dome . Only a cross was placed there. In 1892 the revised plans were finally approved by the Vicariate General of the Archdiocese of Cologne , to which Düren belonged until 1930.

In 1895 the city of Düren made a building site available free of charge. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 23, 1895 and the foundation stone was laid on August 18, 1895. The consecration of the three-aisled church, built in the neo-Romanesque style, followed on November 28, 1897 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Hermann Joseph Schmitz . Before that, in September of the same year, the future patronage , which until then was still dedicated to St. Joseph was intended to be transferred to St. Joachim , the grandfather of Jesus , changed.

During the Second World War , the church building was severely damaged in an air raid on Düren on July 5 and 6, 1944. The pointed spire and the vaults of the central nave and parts of the north aisle collapsed. During the great attack on Düren on November 16, 1944, the Joachimskirche, like almost all of northern Düren, was spared. In 1945 the first war damage was repaired free of charge by parishioners. In 1949 the vaults of the central nave and the north aisle were finally restored. Between 1976 and 1988 the church was renovated again. The tower was renovated and the old small spiers of the two stair towers were removed and replaced with smaller ones. In addition, a new main portal made of concrete was installed. Furthermore, the chancel was redesigned, the floor partially renewed and a new organ loft was built for the new Klais organ, which was installed in 1992. On December 18, 1988, the restored church was consecrated by the Aachen Bishop Klaus Hemmerle .

Furnishing

Inside the church there are still some pieces of equipment from the time it was built. So the two side altars, the baptismal font , the confessionals and the pulpit , but without a sound cover . These were carried out according to designs by Heinrich Krings. Various sculptures by the sculptor Wilhelm Albermann have also been preserved. These once adorned the high altar , which was removed from the church around 1964. The core of this was also designed according to a draft by Heinrich Krings, but was rebuilt and enlarged around 1927 so that the altar was given a canopy in neo-baroque shapes. In the choir there is a reliquary bust of St. Joachims from 1899. It is the work of Jülich goldsmith P. Woltz. The popular altar was probably placed in the choir during the renovations in the 1980s. It was created by the sculptor and architect Herbert Halfmann from Düren.

The stained glass windows of the church were designed by Maria Katzgrau . The three apse windows depict two angels and the creation . The windows of the side aisles depict John the Baptist , the Apostles Peter and Paul , John the Evangelist , Mary , and Martha of Bethany and Mary Magdalene . These were installed between 1957 and 1958. The windows of the weekday church represent geometric shapes and were used between 1980 and 1981. The floor covering from the time it was built is also worth mentioning. It was made by the Sinziger mosaic plate and pottery factory .

organ

The organ was built in 1992 by Hans Gerd Klais, Johannes Klais Orgelbau , in Bonn . The instrument (Opus 1701) has 34 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The game contractures and Registertrakturen are mechanical. The instrument was inaugurated on September 27, 1992.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Praestant 16 ′ Principal 8th' Flûte harmonique 8th' Salicional 8th' Dumped 8th' Octave 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Super octave 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Cornet V 8th' Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Trumpet 8th' Vox humana 8th' Tremulant

II Swell C – g 3 Night horn 8th' Drone 8th' Viola da gamba 8th' Vox coelestis 8th' Principal 4 ′ Transverse flute 4 ′ Octavine 2 ′ Cornettino II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Plein Jeu IV 2 ′ Basson 16 ′ Trumpet harm. 8th' Hautbois 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Violon 16 ′ Sub-bass 16 ′ Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave bass 8th' cello 8th' Tenor octave 4 ′ Bombard 16 ′ trombone 8th'

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

Bells

The bells were cast by the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen in October 1897 and consecrated in the Joachimskirche on November 14, 1897 and then hung in the tower. On February 18, 1942, the four large bells had to be delivered for armament purposes, only the Joseph bell remained in the tower. Fortunately, the bells were not melted down and returned to Düren on October 19, 1947. Thus, the bell of St. Joachim is the only completely preserved bell from this time in Düren.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	inscription	Caster	Casting year
1	Joachim	1,710	2,725	h 0	O Joachim, Patrone Corda nostra trahe, Ut Deum nunc amemus, In Coelo jubilemus.	Karl Otto; F. Otto, Hemelingen	1897
2	Michael	1,400	1,600	d 1	O Michael, Archangele, Dux noster semper strenue Daemonia repelle, DD Franciscus Palm, Marcoduri 1897	Karl Otto; F. Otto, Hemelingen	1897
3	Anna	1,200	1,162	e 1	O sancta Anna, loci Patrona Semper nos omnes Deo commenda.	Karl Otto; F. Otto, Hemelingen	1897
4th	Maria	1,120	800	f sharp 1	Virgo virginum praeclara, Ad thronum Dei nos adiuva, Ut perveniamus ad praemia.	Karl Otto; F. Otto, Hemelingen	1897
5	Joseph	1,040	662	g 1	O sancte Joseph, Deiparae sponse, Nostras familias fove ac protege.	Karl Otto; F. Otto, Hemelingen	1897

Motif: Te Deum laudamus

Pastor

The following priests worked as pastors from the foundation to the dissolution of the parish at St. Joachim :

from ... to	Surname
1901-1916	Heinrich Lauscher † March 27, 1919
1916-1926	Julius Spölgen † July 31, 1934
1926-1936	Wilhelm Böckling † July 26, 1936
1936-1950	Ludwig Menniken-Holley † August 17, 1961
1950-1968	Johannes Drieschmanns † April 6, 1990
1968-1993	Ferdinand Lützenrath † April 23, 2014
1993-2010	Bernd Naphausen

Web links

Commons : St. Joachim (Düren)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• St. Joachim parish on the website of GdG Düren-Nord
• Tower recording with single bells and full bells of the Catholic branch church St. Joachim in Düren

Individual evidence

1. ^ GdG Düren-Nord
2. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857–1925). Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, Bonn 2005, pp. 190–192.
3. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857–1925). Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, Bonn 2005, p. 48.
4. ↑ Website of the community of communities in Düren-Nord, October 25, 2015
5. ↑ Parish letter of the Catholic community of the communities of Düren-Nord, No. 6/2015, article: Completion of the project church property management (KIM) in the community of communities (GdG) Düren-Nord, pp. 6–7.
6. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/nord-dueren-erstrahlt-in-neuem-licht-1.1466382
7. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857–1925). Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, Bonn 2005, p. 48 ff.
8. ^ Karl-Heinz Küpper: Sankt Joachim in Düren. Building history. Einhard-Verlag, Aachen 1997, pp. 5-22.
9. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1857–1925). Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, Bonn 2005, p. 194.
10. ^ Karl-Heinz Küpper: Sankt Joachim in Düren. Building history. Einhard-Verlag, Aachen 1997, pp. 16-23.
11. ^ Website of the Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation, September 22, 2015
12. ↑ Catalog raisonné Johannes Klais Orgelbau, status VIII / 2015, p. 6.
13. ↑ to disposition , seen April 30, 2011.
14. ^ Karl-Heinz Küpper: Sankt Joachim in Düren. Building history. Einhard-Verlag, Aachen 1997, p. 22.
15. ^ 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, in particular pages 78, 509 .
16. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 97, 475 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
17. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann: Glockenmusik in der Düren region, p. 51.
18. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 307.
19. ↑ Dürener Zeitung No. 253, Monday October 30, 1916, Article: From the city and the district. (Concerning pastors appointed for St. Marien and St. Joachim)

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 47.5 "  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 42.5"  E