St. Josef (Frintrop)

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St. Josef in Essen-Frintrop
St. Joseph around 1900

The Church of St. Josef is a Roman Catholic church building started in 1874 in the Essen district of Frintrop . The parish church is now a listed building .

history

A first Catholic church, the so-called Heidkirche, was given to Frintrop in 1857. However, it was located in the area that fell to Oberhausen after the incorporation on April 1, 1915 , because Frintrop was allocated to Essen and Oberhausen. In 1864 the mother parish of St. Dionysius in Borbeck began to think about building a new branch church in Frintrop. Around ten years later, after enough money had been collected, the friar Paschalis Gratze OFM from Werden received the planning order. A clergyman from St. Dionysius was appointed rector.

Wilhelm Knotte and his son Hermann from Frintrop purchased the building site for the St. Josef Church on January 20, 1873. The farmer Wilhelm Knotte was the first chairman of the church building committee at that time and owned large estates in Frintrop. The street Himmelpforten has had this name since 1915, based on the church. Between 1891 and 1915 it was called Hermannstrasse, named after Hermann Knotte.

On May 27, 1874, construction of the St. Joseph Church in Oberfrintrop began in the open. The first phase of construction was completed in 1877. A three-aisled, neo-Gothic brick hall church was built with a ribbed vault on round pillars. The inauguration took place on October 14, 1877 by the Borbeck vicar and parish administrator Schüller. The first fair followed on October 21st of that year. The church choir was also founded in 1877. In 1884 the Rectorate St. Josef was founded without its own asset management. On October 16, 1891, the Archbishop of Cologne signed a deed of establishment with demarcation and property regulation of the future parish of Frintrop. This was followed by government approval on December 31, 1892 and the final parish elevation on March 28, 1893.

The transept, the 64 meter high tower and the choir were added in March 1895 as an extension to the church, which had meanwhile become too small. This reversed the original eastern orientation from Paschal's ridge to a western one. The consecration of the new chancel took place on April 26, 1896. The church tower with tower cross and cock was completed on October 23 of that year. The consecration of the now completely finished church took place by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Fischer in September 1897.

The name of the church goes back to the Borbeck pastor Josef Legrand (born on June 6th, 1798 in Rellinghausen , died on March 20th, 1877), who campaigned for the construction of the St. Joseph Church as well as for the buildings of St. Dionysius in Borbeck and St. Maria Rosenkranz in Bochold . The construction of the St. Josef Church in the late 19th century in Oberfrintrop promoted construction activity, with some representative residential and commercial buildings being built adjacent to and on Frintroper Strasse.

In 1994 the St. Josef Church was placed under monument protection.

On March 1, 2008, St. Josef became a large parish. Since then it has been merged with the parishes Herz Jesu (church closed in 2008), St. Antonius Abbas , St. Hermann-Josef (church closed in 2010), St. Franziskus ( Bedingrade ) and St. Paulus ( Gerschede ).

Furnishing

window

15 windows in the choir and in the transept of the church were made by the Berlin artist Paul Corazolla . They were created in 1987 and 1990 and depict the resurrection cycle.

The windows were made possible by a donation made in 1984 by a church member who emigrated to America after the First World War and who was baptized in St. Joseph's Church in 1896. One of the windows shows the donor's face.

Bells

In 1896 Pastor Schlenter ordered four bronze bells with the strike tone series: d '- e' - f sharp '- g' from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen. The bells were delivered in 1897 for the church tower that had just been completed. The bell, tuned to tone g ' , with a diameter of 1.05 meters and weight 759 kilograms was not damaged in the war and is still there today. The three other bells were destroyed by the effects of the war: one tuned to f sharp ' with a diameter of 1.14 meters and around 1200 kilograms, one tuned to e' with a diameter of 1.28 meters and 1403 kilograms and one to d ' tuned with a diameter of 1.41 meters and a weight of 1756 kilograms.

In 1933 a bronze bell was cast by the company Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from Gescher , which came on loan from the Ehrenfeld community in Upper Silesia, now Gosławice , to the St. Josef Church. It is tuned to f ' , has a diameter of 1.17 meters and weighs 920 kilograms.

Another bronze bell was on loan from the Kentz community in Bielitz / Upper Silesia. It was cast by Franziskus Stancke in Troppau , the year of casting being given as 1658/1838. The bell tuned to d ' has a diameter of 1.28 meters and weighs around 1200 kilograms.

In 1955, the fourth bronze bell followed, with which the original ringing was completed again. This bell with the name Josef was made by the Mabilon bell foundry . It is tuned to c ' and has a diameter of 1.55 meters and a weight of around 2330 kilograms. It has two inscriptions: HL. JOSEF, PRAYER FOR THE SHEPHERD AND THE CHURCH GIVE US PEACE, O LORD! PARISH CHURCH OF ST. JOSEF ESSEN-FRINTROP 1955 , and on the other side: FROM THE VICTIM OF THE BELIEVING BORN TO THE PROCLOSURE OF JOY AND SORRY, READY TO SERVE, ST. I AM consecrated to JOSEF. The company coat of arms follows below.

organ

In 1904, the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company installed a three-manual organ with 52 registers in the Sankt Josef Church. In 1928 the church was given an organ with three manuals and 22 registers by his son Hans Klais, who took over the management in 1925 .

The Klais organ was replaced in 1980 by a new organ from the Saarland organ builder Walcker-Mayer . It has 39 sounding registers on three manuals and a pedal with electric slide drawers and has a free-standing, mobile console . The total of 2838 pipes are made up of 202 wood, 86 copper, 732 natural cast and 1838 pewter pipes.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Choir flute 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. recorder 4 ′
4th Schwiegel 2 ′
5. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th cymbal III
7th Rankett 16 ′
8th. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
9. Bourdon 16 ′
10. Principal 8th'
11. Flûte harmonique 8th'
12. Salicional 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Gemshorn 4 ′
15th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. octave 2 ′
17th Mixture V-VI
18th Cornett V 8th'
19th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
20th Cor de nuit 8th'
21st Viol 8th'
22nd Vox coelestis 8th'
23. Principal 4 ′
24. Flûte octaviante 4 ′
25th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
26th Octavine 2 ′
27. Tertz 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
28. mixture IV
29 Basson 16 ′
30th Trumpet harm. 8th'
31. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
32. Principal 16 ′
33. Sub bass 16 ′
34. octave 8th'
35. Dumped 8th'
36. Choral bass 4 ′
37. mixture IV
38. Bombard 16 ′
39. Trumpet 8th'

literature

  • Catholic parish of Sankt Josef, Frintrop: 125 years of St. Josef Essen-Frintrop. Essen 2002

Web links

Commons : St. Josef  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Frintrop Citizens and Tourist Association: 1800 - 1899: History of the districts of Frintrop & Bedingrade ( memento of the original from July 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved April 1, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / essen-frintrop.org
  2. ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 .
  3. ↑ Catholic parish Sankt Josef, Frintrop: 100 years in and around St. Josef Essen-Frintrop 1877–1977. Essen 1977, DNB 891002022
  4. ↑ Stories about the parish of St. Dionysius Essen-Borbeck ; accessed on March 31, 2016
  5. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; Retrieved November 9, 2016
  6. ↑ Derwesten.de of May 25, 2016: The window fairy tale of St. Josef ; accessed on June 16, 2016
  7. ↑ F. Otto: accounting and cash book . Hemelingen 1896.
  8. ^ 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, here in particular pp. 78, 508 .
  9. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 97, 390, 474 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  10. ↑ Bell books of the Diocese of Essen: St. Josef, Frintrop ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved April 1, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherbes.de
  11. ^ Johannes Klais, Orgelbau, Bonn, part 15/1930 ; Retrieved April 1, 2016.
  12. ^ Gerhard Walcker-Mayer Orgelbau, organ in Essen-Frintrop ; Retrieved April 1, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 26.3 "  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 46.4"  E