St. Josef (Moers)
The St. Josefs Church is the Catholic parish church in the city center of Moers , North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2008 it has been part of the newly founded large parish of St. Josef with the three other formerly independent parishes of St. Bonifatius with St. Markus and St. Ludger .
Location
The church is located near Moers Castle and the fort square , in the inner area of the former fortress star that once surrounded the castle, and opposite the Marienheim, built in 1778, the first Catholic church building in Moers since the Reformation, which now houses the kindergarten.
history
The oldest church in the city, the Bonifatiuskirche, was built in the 10th or 11th century. It was located where the old cemetery chapel now stands on Rheinberger Strasse. Later, in 1444, the Johanniskirche was added for the Carmelites , which has served as the Evangelical town church since the Reformation .
Count Hermann von Neuenahr-Moers pushed through the Reformation permanently in the city and in the county of Moers by 1560 at the latest . After the Reformation - apart from the Spanish occupation between 1586 and 1597 in the war of the Dutch against the Spanish, i.e. in the first phase of the Eighty Years War - there was no Catholic church in Moers for a long time.
The re-establishment of a Catholic community began around 1700. In the first decades of the 18th century, the residents of Moers encountered Catholics almost exclusively as members of the garrison .
That changed after the Seven Years' War , when former French soldiers, craftsmen and day laborers joined them. In 1771 the Prussian King Friedrich II allowed a collection for the construction of a Catholic church. Two years later he issued the building permit , granted a building subsidy and entrusted Pastor Anthonius Eickhoff with the execution. Construction of the church began on June 9, 1778 and was completed by the beginning of August 1779. The church was consecrated on August 24, 1779. This church, an early classical building with its polygonal floor plan, cannot be seen today that it was originally a church. As Marienheim it currently houses the kindergarten . It was last fully renovated in 1973.
In the course of industrialization , combined with the increase in the number of Catholics in the course of the 19th century, the construction of a larger church became necessary. The new building was built between 1868 and 1871, financed by collections.
A storm caused the tower dome to collapse before completion. In the devastating fire in 1929 the church was badly damaged and the entire roof structure was destroyed. The upper floor of the tower and the helmet were renewed after the fire in 1930/31.
In 1942 aerial bombs damaged the church and destroyed the tracery windows . The church was restored until 1948, when the window openings were reduced in size as narrow, unframed windows. An interior renovation was carried out in 1976, with the expansion of the organ gallery and the installation of new floor heating .
architecture
Today's house of worship is a three - aisled neo - Gothic pseudo - basilica . The building was designed by the architect Franken from Kempen and built from 1868 to 1871. It consists of brick with a polygonal three-apse closure, with five bays and a transept adjoining the south side, divided into two storeys and divided by two bays , on its ground floor the sacristy is located and on the upper floor a gallery open to the inside of the south nave . The high west tower in front of it is crowned by a copper-covered tower dome .
The naves are closed by ribbed vaults , the main apse with a three-dimensional star vault . The interior design also corresponds to the simple exterior of the brick building. Eight slim round pillars , each with four service templates, separate the ships. The leaf capitals with the rich naturalistic foliage are based on that of the Xanten Cathedral .
Furnishing
The glass pictures of the three choir windows were designed by Professor Heinrich Dieckmann and executed in 1958 by the glass painters Josef and Hans Mencke in Goch . In the middle they show the resurrection of Christ , including the three women who want to anoint the body of Jesus. In the left window there are scenes from the life of St. Joseph , the patron saint of the church, in the right window St. Paul , patron saint of the diocese of Münster , Barbara , patron saint of miners , and Thekla .
A group of figures made from wood, the “ Visitation of the Virgin Mary ” from the 18th century, in the moving forms of the Flemish Baroque , indicates connections to Gabriel de Grupello . A protective cloak Madonna is in the left, the statue of Joseph with the baby Jesus in her arm in the right apse. The altar , the ambo and the tabernacle stele in sandstone were designed in 1982/83 by Ursula Legge-Suwelack from Bonn .
The two murals in the choir are from the time it was built and show the birth of Christ and the death of St. Joseph. In 1985 they were discovered and restored. A glass window in the tower room above the main portal, “The water miracle of St. Clemens ”, was written by Friedrich Baudri in 1865.
In addition, there is a Pietà in the tower room , which was originally part of a memorial for the fallen of the First World War , opposite the image of the Virgin " Perpetual Help " and near the northwest entrance area there is the image of " Ascension of Christ " and the Pentecostal group, a fragment from a carved altar .
organ
Today's organ with 29 registers , two manuals and a pedal was built in 1987 by the Stockmann brothers . It is arranged as follows :
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P.
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations , 1 free pedal combination + tutti, each as push buttons + pistons corresponding; Shutter release button; Adjustable tremulants; Individual storage for reeds, mixtures, 16 'register.
- Remarks
Technical specifications
- Grinding wind chest .
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Action :
- Mechanical tone action.
- Electric stop action.
List of pastors (not complete)
- Anton Eickhoff OP , 1774–1784
- Johann Velder OP, 1784-1814
- Franz Friedrich Josef Kaiser OFM Cap , 1814–1824
- Peter Gerhard Bannes, 1824-1830
- Johann Theodor Haentjes, 1830–1837
- Gerhard Franz Drießen, 1837–1848
- Hermann Müngersdorf, 1848–1857
- Andreas Wertmöller, 1857–1863
- Jakob Troost, 1863–1873
- Peter Josef Koven, 1873–1898
- Hermann Horstmann, 1898–1908
- Carl Henscher, 1908–1930
- Heinrich Bücker, 1994–2011
- Joachim Klaschka, 2011–2014
- Karsten Weidisch, 2014–2016
- Herbert Werth, since 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article at RP-Online "The hour of birth of St. Josef"
- ^ Ms. Nettesheim. In: Die Heimath. Weekly newspaper for customers of the history of the Lower Rhine . 1877, No. 6, p. [27] 23. Online version
- ^ Glasmalerei-ev.de Foundation Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV
- ↑ Disposition of the organ in St. Josef, Moers. Thomas Nolte, archived from the original on March 21, 2005 ; Retrieved January 1, 1900 .
literature
- Dr. Wolf Strache : Moers with a foreword by Mayor Albin Neuse and city director to Wilhelm zum Kolk; DSB Verlag; The beautiful books; Row D "German Cities"; Volume 32; Stuttgart; 1st edition 1965
- Birgit and Rainer Schiffler: The architectural and art monuments; Home calendar of Wesel district 1983; Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 1983; ISBN 3-8062-0288-5
- Gabriele M. Knoll: The Lower Rhine; Landscape, history and culture; Du Mont Buchverlag Cologne; 3rd edition 1997; ISBN 3-7701-2283-6
- Margret Wensky: Moers the history of the city from the early days to the present; Volume 2; From the Prussian times to the present; Böhlen Verlag Cologne Weimar Vienna 2000; ISBN 3-412-04600-0
- Giesbert Knopp: Moers; Burg, Schloss - Kulturzentrum Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Grafschafter Museum and History Association Moers eV; Werner Verlag Worms; Regional Association of Rhineland 2004; ISBN 3-88462-205-6
- Margreth Wensky: history stations; A walk through the history of the city of Moers; Published by: City of Moers 2007
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 58 " N , 6 ° 37 ′ 33" E