St. Josef (Remscheid-South)

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First building plan from 1912 in the style of an early Romanesque basilica
St. Josef Church in Remscheid-Süd (built 1928)

The St. Josef Church is a Roman Catholic church in the southern district of the city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Organ gallery, St. Josef Church in Remscheid (new organ from 1988)
The colorful main window above the organ loft of St. Josef was destroyed in the Second World War
The five bells of St. Joseph in 2004

history

In 1904 the St. Josef Church Building Association was founded. The excavation and masonry work began on July 27, 1914, based on designs by the archdiocesan master builder Heinrich Renard . The church was to be built in the style of an early Romanesque basilica . The building site was donated by Johann Vaillant , founder of the heating device technology company " Vaillant ". Only a week later, on August 3, 1914, construction work was stopped as a result of the outbreak of the First World War . 77,000 Reichsmarks were lost. Only in 1925 did the dream project of an own church in the southern district come closer again - with the establishment of a new church building association and soon concrete architectural plans. A Catholic elementary school (Schule Menninghausen) had existed in the immediate vicinity since 1898; building the church on the opposite side of the street was a longed-for goal. For financial and urban planning reasons, Cardinal Schulte's favored design of a neo-baroque sacred building had to be discarded. After new, simpler designs by the same Lenneper architect - Otto Christ - the municipality then courageously decided on a design in the style of the then ultra-modern "New Objectivity" . After only ten months of construction, St. Josef was inaugurated on December 16, 1928 by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Hammels .

The church belonged to the parish of St. Suitbertus until November 1, 1951 as the rectorate church; after that it was home to an independent, growing parish. On January 1, 2011, the formerly independent parishes of St. Suitbertus, St. Josef, St. Marien and St. Engelbert merged to form the parish of St. Suitbertus .

St. Josef is the only church in Remscheid to have a crypt that is used for weekday masses and special religious offers.

organ

Today's organ was built in 1988 by the organ builder Seifert (Kevelaer); the consecration took place on October 30, 1988. The instrument has 26 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C–
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Covered 8th'
octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Sesquialter I-II
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture IV
Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Swell C–
Wooden flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Transverse flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff IV
Dulcian 16 ′
Hautbois 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Covered bass 8th'
Tenor octave 4 ′
Rauschpfeife III
trombone 16 ′

Bell story

A total of five bells now ring the church. The four newly cast bells from 1965 bear the patronage name “St. Josef " , " St. Marien " , " St. Michael " and " St. Helena ” . An old loan bell from 1620 has been hanging in the tower since July 25, 1952. It was returned to a Czech community in December 2014. As a replacement, the Remscheid parish received a bell cast in 1960 from the Ruhr area, which was no longer needed there. "St. Elisabeth “ has now found a new home in St. Josef and completes the five-part bell again.

December 24, 1929 - First bell

For lack of money, the new rectorate parish could only afford to buy a single bell in 1929. Foundryman Ernst Karl (Karl II) Otto in Hemelingen near Bremen made the 1.22 meter wide and 1,182 kilogram piece from cast steel. The bell, consecrated on December 15, 1929, was named "Guardian Angel Bell". It sounded in the tone "f". Inscription: "Holy Guardian Angel, protect us in battle"

February 21, 1942 - Bells are confiscated

In the years of World War II, innumerable bells were pulled down from the church towers; they were to be melted down for the arms industry and converted into cannons. While in some churches (including Remscheid) at least one of the chimes was spared, to the great pain of many believers, St. Josef had to give up their only bell. Nor did she return.

1952 - loan bell

A so-called loan bell from Oderberg in the Teschen district survived the war unscathed and found its way into the bell room of the Remscheid St. Josef Church on July 25, 1952. The bronze piece weighs 1,200 kilograms, is 1.27 meters wide, sounds on the strike note "f" and was cast in 1620 by Hans Knauf in Troppau.

1965 - Four new bronze bells

At the initiative of Pastor Josef Wolters, four new bronze bells were financed through donations, which were cast in the Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock foundry in Gescher on December 2nd, 1965 and consecrated on the 4th Sunday of Advent 1965:

  • "St. Josef ", 1800 kg, 141 cm," d ", inscription: " Saint Joseph, patron saint, pray for us! "
  • "St. Maria ", 680 kg, 103 cm," g ", inscription: " Maria, Queen of Peace, keep us the peace! "
  • "St. Michael ", 450 kg, 92 cm," a ", inscription: " Holy Guardian Angel, protect us in the fight! "
  • "St. Helena ", 400 kg, 90 cm," b ", inscription: " Holy Helena, through the cross and suffering lead us to eternal glory! "

December 3, 2014 - loaned bell will be returned

At the urging of the municipality of Bohumin (Oderberg) and the Czech embassy, ​​the bell that was cast there in 1620 was returned. To do this, the middle arc in the tower had to be broken. As a replacement, St. Josef received the “St. Elisabeth "from the Gladbeck church St. Elisabeth with the inscription: " St. Elisabeth, be us guidance and protection ” .

Specialty

The crowned Fatima Madonna in the Remscheid Church of St. Joseph was created in Fatima in 1964 and blessed by the local bishop.

In the entrance area of ​​the church there has been a "Fatima Madonna" in a niche since the 1960s; it serves the community for personal devotion. Burning votive candles in front of it are an expression of prayer. Kind donations from parishioners made this particularly successful and almost life-size representation of the Blessed Mother possible. It was made especially for the Remscheid St. Joseph Church in the Portuguese pilgrimage site of Fatima and blessed by Bishop Venancio. The features of the statue are breathtakingly lively. The long-standing (1975 - 2004) and beneficial pastor of the community, Pastor Karl-Ernst Jeners († 2004), was allowed to crown the figure with the permission and goodwill of the Cologne church authorities.

Holy masses in other languages

Croatian: Every Sunday at 4:00 p.m.

Portuguese: Every first Sunday of the month at 5:00 p.m.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1928-1978 50 years of the Catholic parish church St. Josef Remscheid-Süd, commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Catholic parish church St. Josef Remscheid-Süd, text and design: Kurt Kalkum
  2. ↑ More information about the organ ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Heinrich Otten, Silke Kammann: God's houses. Remscheid churches in text and images. 2008, p. 160.
  4. ↑ 1928-1978 50 years of the Catholic parish church St. Josef Remscheid-Süd, commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Catholic parish church St. Josef Remscheid-Süd, text and design: Kurt Kalkum
  5. ^ Church newspaper for the Archdiocese of Cologne, edition 14/2014, p. 35

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 19.2 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 34.5 ″  E