St. Joseph (Gelsenkirchen-Schalke)

St. Joseph, tower front on Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse

St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Gelsenkirchen district of Schalke .

history

With the stormy industrial development of the Ruhr area and the rapid growth of the working-class district of Schalke, the local Catholic community also grew. In the 1870s, the Catholic school, the Catholic workers' association and other church associations as well as an emergency church were established . In the 1880s, the planning and construction work began on the representative parish church based on a design by Peter Zindel , for which a plot of land in the center of Schalke on the main traffic artery Kaiserstraße (today Kurt-Schumacher-Straße ) was acquired. In 1891 the parish was established and placed under the patronage of St. Joseph . On All Saints' Day in 1894, the first Holy Mass was celebrated in the new church . The church consecration was carried out by the Paderborn Auxiliary Bishop Augustinus Gockel on June 20, 1896. In the following years the church received a rich wall and vault painting.

After the First World War , several new parishes were spun off from the area of ​​St. Joseph.

The bomb attack of November 6, 1944 and the subsequent city fire that lasted for days destroyed 90% of Schalke's buildings. Only burned-out wall fragments remained from the St. Joseph's Church. Reconstruction began in 1951 and was completed on August 2, 1953 with the solemn consecration of the altar by Archbishop Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger .

Since 1958 the parish of St. Joseph belongs to the newly founded Ruhr diocese .

In the decades that followed, the church underwent various changes. Most of the stained glass windows made around 1960 are by Walter Klocke . In 1970 today's Breil organ was installed. In 1985 St. Joseph was given its current appearance during a comprehensive interior renovation.

Since 2007, the St. Josephs Church has been the parish church of the newly established St. Joseph parish, which also includes Bismarck , Heßler , Feldmark and Schalke-Nord with their churches and has 18,500 parish members. In one of the windows, among other things, Saint Aloisius von Gonzaga is depicted as a footballer in the Schalke colors.

Building

St. Joseph is a neo-Romanesque three-nave brick - basilica with two towers in the west and round apse in the east. The original transept was not rebuilt after it was destroyed in the war, the very high spiers were replaced by lower ones. The exterior is richly structured with arched friezes and pilaster strips . In the tympana of the three portals there are mosaic depictions of the Good Shepherd , the Lamb of God on the book with seven seals and the Eucharist (bread and fish, chalice with host).

The interior has a strong effect with its classic proportions, the change of columns and the sensitive painting. During the reconstruction, the vault was replaced by a flat wooden ceiling.

organ

Today's organ is already the third instrument in St. Joseph's Church. It was built in 1970 by the organ builder Franz Breil (Dorsten). The organ has 42 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3 Dumped 8th' Principal 4 ′ Coupling flute 4 ′ Gemshorn 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Scharff V 1' Krummhorn 8th' Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 Dumped 16 ′ Principal 8th' Dumped 8th' octave 4 ′ Pointed flute 4 ′ octave 2 ′ Night horn 2 ′ Mixture V Zimbel III Trumpet 16 ′ Trumpet 8th'

III Swell C – g 3 Wooden flute 8th' Dulz flute 8th' Principal 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Principal 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Sif flute 1' Mixture IV Third cymbal III bassoon 16 ′ Schalmey 8th' Hautbois 4 ′ Tremulant

Pedal C – g 1 Principal bass 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' Dacked bass 8th' Choral bass 4 ′ Intoxicating fifth II Backset V trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Clarine 4 ′

• Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
• Playing aids : three free combinations, one free pedal combination, storage

Bells

The renowned Otto bell foundry supplied a total of ten bronze bells with a total weight of 11,750 kg for the Josephs Church on Schalke in 1894, 1923 and 1929. Except for the small conversion bell from 1929 (c ′ ′, 340 mm, 34 kg), which is used today as a cemetery bell, all other bells fell victim to the bell confiscations of the two world wars of the past century. Today there are five Euphon bells by Karl Czudnochowski from 1953 in the tower of St. Joseph. They were ordered instead of new bronze bells so that they would not be confiscated and melted down in a new war.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The football saint watches over the St. Joseph Church in Schalke. In: WAZ. Retrieved June 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ More information about the organ of St. Joseph
3. ^ 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. 242 to 244, 507, 525, 532 .
4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 224 to 226, 473, 487, 493 .

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the parish
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~26~12626

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '13.3 "  N , 7 ° 5' 28.9"  E