St. Joseph (Manfort)

The St. Joseph Church is a Catholic church in the Leverkusen district of Manfort . It is the seat of the parish of the same name in the pastoral care area of Leverkusen Southeast.

history

The three-aisled church made of plastered brick masonry shows work stone structures. The transept and the west tower with its slate spire and lantern are partly in Gothic-style. The church was consecrated on December 21, 1913.

Furnishing

The brothers Erwin and Helmut Plönes created the neo-Gothic window with the Christmas story above the main altar.

Bells

In the year of the consecration, in 1913, the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen supplied two bronze bells for the St. Joseph Church with the tones dis 'and f sharp'. Only the small f sharp bell still exists today. The larger dis-bell in been melted down due to the war. After the Second World War, the community acquired steel bells from the Bochum Association to avoid repeated bells being confiscated.

No.	Surname	Casting year	Caster	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg)	Percussive ( HT - ¹ / ₁₆ )
1	?	1953	Bochum association for cast steel production	1600	1535	cis ¹ -5
2	?	1953	Bochum association for cast steel production	1350	930	e ¹ -5
3	?	1913	Karl (I) Otto Bell foundry Otto	1145	1000	f sharp ¹ -5
4th	?	1953	Bochum association for cast steel production	1045	434	g sharp ¹ -6

Web links

Commons : St. Joseph (Manfort) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

^ Gerhard Hoffs (ed.): Bell music in the city dean of Leverkusen . P. 53ff.
^ 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 p. 519 .
↑ 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 p. 483 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

51.032493 7.013048Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 57 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 47 ″ E

[1] Gerhard Hoffs (ed.): Bell music in the city dean of Leverkusen . P. 53ff.

[2] 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 p. 519 .

[3] 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 p. 483 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).