St. Ludgerus (Essen)

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St. Ludgerus Church

The parish church of St. Ludgerus is in the Essen district of Rüttenscheid and belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Lambertus. The first neo-Romanesque church building from 1890 was destroyed in World War II.

history

Old church around 1910

First church building

A first church at this point, the corner property on Wegenerstraße / Wehmenkamp, ​​was built between 1889 and 1890. This neo-Romanesque church was consecrated on July 13, 1890, after which the independent parish was founded on September 16, 1894. A month later, on October 18, 1894, the consecration by Auxiliary Bishop Hermann Joseph Schmitz took place.

During the First World War there were also some fallen soldiers in the St. Ludgerus parish, for whom a memorial is still standing on the church today.

Extension of the Church

In the years 1932 to 1933, extensive extensions to the church took place according to the plans of the Essen architect Johann Kunz. Since the previous church building was too small, the entire front, wider part of the church space was added in the New Objectivity style, whereby the size of the church space was more than doubled. Services took place during the renovation in Hall 6 at Messe Essen .

Finally, the now new church was consecrated on March 1, 1933 by Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Hammels .

After the Second World War

The Church of St. Ludgerus was largely destroyed by bombing on September 26, 1944.

After the war, on October 5, 1945, Karl Johannes Heyer , later founder of the Pax-Christi Church in Essen (see list of sacred buildings in Essen ), was appointed chaplain of St. Ludgerus. He held this position until 1949. The reconstruction was not completed until 1950.

Today's church

In 1957 the large fresco was added to the apse, showing Christ enthroned in the revelation of the last book of the Bible, John. In the same year, H. Brouwer created the windows of the left side chapel and the windows of the main portal, which show the city patrons Cosmas and Damian and St. Ludgerus . The altar with the altar cross and the tabernacle , created by the Cologne sculptor Toni Zenz , date from 1957 and 1958 . In 1960 Vincenz Pieper designed the windows in the main nave. In the mid-1960s, the statues by the artist Heinzen were added, left and right on the walls in the main nave, depicting St. Ludgerus as a missionary and Joseph of Nazareth .

In 1987 and 1988 the church was fundamentally renovated, with the interior being given its current color scheme. In 1993 the Easter candlestick was added as a further work by Toni Zens.

For the Ludgerus year 2009, the old baptismal font from the old church was put back in the middle of the main portal after it had been donated to the Holy Family parish on Margarethenhöhe in 1922 ; later it was installed in the church of St. Martin in Rüttenscheid, after its laying down in 2006 the baptismal font came back to St. Ludgerus.

Bishop Ludgerus is depicted with an image of the original St. Ludgerus Church on a tympanum on the right in the entrance to the underground car park.

organ

The organ of the Swiss organ building company Mathis dates from 2000 . The instrument has 39  registers on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C – a 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Viol 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Duplicate 2 ′
Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cornet V 8th'
bassoon 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C – a 3
Violin principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff III-IV 1'
Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – a 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Tube bare 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Vox coelestis 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
Transverse flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octavine 2 ′
Plein jeu IV-V 2 ′
Trumpet harm. 8th'
Basson-Hautbois 8th'
Clairon harm. 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 32 ′
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Covered bass 8th'
Bombard 16 ′
prong 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, III / l, III 16 '/ I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P, III 4' / P

Bells

In 1911 the renowned Otto bell foundry cast bronze bells for the newly built St. Andreas Church as well as for St. Ludgerus in Rüttenscheid. St. Ludgerus received four bells, but all of them were melted down during the First World War. In 1933 and 1937, the Otto bell foundry supplied St. Ludgerus with five bronze bells, of which only the smallest, the c '' bell, survived the confiscation of bells in the Second World War. After the war Otto cast three new bronze bells, so that today a four-part Otto bell rings in the tower of St. Ludgerus with the notes: f '- as' - b' - c ''.

literature

  • Heinz Dohmen, Eckehard Sons: Churches, chapels, synagogues in Essen. Nobel-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-922785-52-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon ( Memento of April 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); last viewed on June 8, 2011.
  2. ↑ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century: Essen-Rüttenscheid, Catholic Church St. Ludgerus , accessed on July 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Wir Vier" - newspaper for St. Lambertus, May 2009 edition, page 5 ; last viewed on July 1st, 2019.
  4. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the builder company ( Memento from July 24, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ 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. 292 to 295, 518, 538, 540 .
  6. ↑ 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. 261 to 264 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 57.7 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 12 ″  E