St. Josef (Verden)
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The Church of St. Josef in Verden (Aller) in Lower Saxony is the Roman Catholic parish church . It is located on the Altstadt-Wallring and is also the center of a deanery of the Hildesheim diocese and has the rank of a provost church .
history
In the Middle Ages, Verden was the seat of the Catholic diocese of Verden , which was dissolved in the course of the Reformation.
Members of the local garrison and many new citizens who moved from other regions of the empire made the desire for a new Catholic Church in Verden more urgent in the 19th century. However, the realization was delayed by the Bismarck culture war .
On August 5, 1894, after a year of construction, St. Josef was consecrated by Bishop Wilhelm Sommerwerck . The design came from Richard Herzig .
After war-related damage, it was rebuilt until the 1950s. Particularly after the Second World War and the strong growth in the community due to displaced persons, the importance of the local community grew, which in the period that followed set up various facilities such as a kindergarten and a nursing home in the vicinity of the church under the support of Caritas . Provost Clemens Burchardt in particular was a formative personality in the community during this period. In addition to the former expellees and their descendants, ethnic German repatriates from Poland and the former Soviet Union , community members of Italian origin and immigrants from southern and western Germany now form the most important groups within the community.
architecture
The church is a geostete three naves, neo-Romanesque basilica of brick . The tower facade (city side) is extended to a west block with polygonal flanks. The elaborate painting of the building is remarkable. It was created in the Nazarene style by Franz Müller and Eduard Goldkuhle , who came from the Düsseldorf School of Painting . After being repainted in the 1950s, it was restored in 1987.
organ
The organ was built in 2004 by the organ building company Lothar Simon from Borgentreich. The slider chests -instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids: 256-fold electronic typesetting system
Bells
For the newly built St. Josef Church, the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast two bronze bells with the chimes f 'and g' in 1894. The f'-bell was replaced by a new f'-bell during World War I in 1928, which were also melted down. After the surrender in 1945 Otto cast new bronze bells with the tones es 'and b' delivered. The Otto bells have the following diameters: 1305 mm and 870 mm and weigh 1350 kg and 420 kg. As with other Otto bells from the 1950s and 1960s, the bell ornament was designed by the artist Clara Kress .
Catchment area
The catchment area of the Propsteigemeinde includes the city of Verden (Aller), the municipality of Kirchlinteln , the eastern part of the municipality of Langwedel , Rethem (Aller) , Dörverden and Blender .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ of St. Josef
- ^ 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. 20, 96, 159, 404, 507, 531, 560 .
- ↑ 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. 43, 48, 113, 375, 474, 492, 505, 514 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
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Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 57.2 ″ N , 9 ° 13 ′ 57.5 ″ E