St. Laurentius (Mintard)

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St. Laurentius (west side)
Information board at the church
Small chapel on the church grounds

The St. Laurentius Church is a Roman Catholic sacred building in Mintard , a district of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr .

St. Laurentius Mintard interior view

history

The parish church of St. Laurentius was built in the 2nd half of the 12th century in connection with the establishment of the parish. The oldest parts of the furnishings date from the end of the century: the Theophilus bell and the font made of Namur blue basalt. The church tower is no older either. For the view that a parish church already existed in Mintard in the 9th century, one invokes the so-called Regenbirgische Urkunde , which was dated to 873. This document has been proven to be a forgery from around 1200 since 1909. The Laurentius patronage is first documented in the 16th century. What the church looked like before its reconstruction in 1660/61 could only be discovered by excavation. There is no evidence of changes in the 14th century claimed in literature. 1302/1303 the parish church was incorporated into the Gerresheim monastery - the abbess had already had the patronage beforehand - which u. a. Loss of part of the parish income meant.

In 1660/61 the church was rebuilt after the destruction of the Thirty Years' War . During the Second World War , it was so destroyed by an air mine on July 22, 1942 that it had to be officially closed. After provisional repairs, it was re-inaugurated on Epiphany in 1946 and thus used for worship. In 1961 the 300th anniversary of the current church was celebrated.

The affiliation of the parish to the pastoral care area Kettwig / Mintard, the dean's office Ratingen and the archdiocese of Cologne did not change anything after the incorporation of Mintard into the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1975, since the parish boundaries were determined when the diocese of Essen was established in 1956 and at the Incorporation were not changed; they are still based on the political administrative boundaries that were in force at the time of establishment. The community (Essen-) Kettwig / (Mülheim-) Mintard belongs to the Archdiocese of Cologne, while the other districts of Essen and Mülheim belong to the Diocese of Essen.

On January 1, 2011 the parish “St. Peter and Laurentius, Essen-Kettwig ”. It is the amalgamation (fusion) of several parishes with the churches of St. Peter, St. Laurentius, St. Joseph, St. Matthias and the Maria im Maien chapel. The previously existing parishes were dissolved.

architecture

In 1890 the church was changed by the architect Fischer from Wuppertal-Elberfeld. Two extensions were added to the tower sides and the main portal was renewed. Since then, the main nave of the church has had a barrel vault, the side aisles have flat plaster ceilings.

In 1972 the entire nave, altars and altarpieces were finally restored. Today the church is well designed and well maintained, which is why it is often chosen as a wedding church.

Bells

The three historical bells were completely restored (welded) in 1999. The large Romanesque bell with a heavy rib (weight 900 kg, Ø 1074 mm, strike tone g 1 ) dates from around 1180–1190. It is one of the oldest and largest Romanesque bells in the Rhineland and is now used exclusively as a festival bell. The timbre of the bell "is bitter, almost demonic with a clearly singing undertone and a rich mixture area". The two smaller bells (weights 450 and 280 kg, strikes a 1 and c 2 ) were cast in 1546 and 1437.

literature

  • Johannes Paul Arand: St. Laurentius, Mülheim-Mintard. In: Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (ed.): Witnesses of the city's history. Architectural monuments and historical places in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-784-0 , pp. 30–37.
  • Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the city and district of Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1894 (Nachdr. Warburg 1995), digital: https://archive.org/details/DieKunstdenkmaelerDerRheinprovinz.Band3StadtDuesseldorf , p. 152 f.
  • Ernst Haiger: Denomination and burial place: Noble graves in the St. Laurentius Church in Mintard in the 17th and 18th centuries . In: Journal of the Mülheim ad Ruhr history association . 92, The parish church in Mintard , 2017, ISSN  0343-9453 , p. 69-111 .
  • Brigide Schwarz : The parish church of Mintard in the Middle Ages: Church - parish parish - clergy. Ibid. Pp. 11-68.

Web links

Commons : St. Laurentius (Mintard)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Poettgen: On the inscription and age of the Romanesque bell in Mintard . In: Yearbook for bell technology . tape 7/8 1995/1996 , p. 179-184 .
  2. ^ Walther Zimmermann: Romanesque baptismal fonts on the Lower Rhine . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . tape 155/156 1954 , pp. 472-500, especially 483 .
  3. ↑ Scientific edition with a representation of the evidence of forgery in: Rheinisches Urkundenbuch. Older documents up to 1100, edit. by Erich Wisplinghoff: Düsseldorf 1972 (publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde 57), Vol. 2, pp. 69–71, No. 178; on the dating of the forgery: Hugo Weidenhaupt: Das Kanonissenstift Gerresheim 870–1400, in: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch 46, 1954, pp. 1–120, here: pp. 30f.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Oediger: The Archdiocese of Cologne around 1300. Booklet 2: The churches of the archdeaconate Xanten (Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province, Vol. 9, Booklet 2), Bonn 1969, p. 227f. Note 1.
  5. ↑ For the first time with Paul Clemen (ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt und der Kreis Düsseldorf (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz 3,1), Düsseldorf 1894, reprint Warburg 1995, p. 152f.
  6. ^ Church of St. Laurentius on the pages of the parish of St. Peter and Laurentius
  7. ↑ Kurt Kramer: The bell and its peal. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2nd edition, 1988.

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '  N , 6 ° 54'  E