St. Mary's Conception (Düsseldorf)

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St. Mary's Conception (Düsseldorf)
Front view
place Dusseldorf
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Cologne
Patronage Immaculate conception
Construction year 1894 to 1896
Construction type Three- aisled basilica
function Branch church
inside view
Art historical description based on a time table
St. Mary's Conception, interior view of the choir, 1904. In the front right the pulpit with figural decorations by the sculptor Anton Josef Reiss
Grave of Firminus Wickenhäuser

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary's Conception - also called Marienkirche - on Oststrasse in the center of Düsseldorf was built between 1894 and 1896 according to plans by the Mainz cathedral builder Ludwig Becker . It was designed in the style of a cathedral and is a typical example of Rhenish neo-Gothic .

history

When the parish of Süd-Pempelfort was branched off from the Derendorfer parish, it was decided to build a new church. A public competition was announced for this, in which the design by architect L. Becker was awarded first prize. The St. Mary's Conception Church (Marienkirche) was built from 1894 to 1896 according to Becker's designs.

From 1932 until his arrest by the Gestapo in 1936, Joseph Cornelius Rossaint was chaplain at the Marienkirche; a plaque on the portal commemorates him. The church was badly damaged in an air raid during World War II in 1943.

The reconstruction lasted from 1950 to 1969, the architect was Josef Lehmbrock from Düsseldorf. From 1976 to 1982 a restoration took place under the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Dahmen , who brought the interior closer to the original structure.

On January 1, 2011, the parish of St. Mary's Conception merged with the parishes of St. Lambertus and St. Maximilian to form the parish of St. Lambertus Düsseldorf .

In Advent 2014, the Franciscans left their old monastery on Immermannstrasse and the corner of Oststrasse. They moved from the neighboring Franciscan monastery of St. Antonius , which was later demolished, to the building of the Marienkirche - St. Mary's Conception, where they live in a fraternity .

Br. Firminus Wickenhäuser , who died in the call of holiness and whose bones had rested in the crypt of the old monastery church for decades, was transferred to St. Mary's Church in a solemn procession at the beginning of 2015.

The demolition work on the old and dilapidated old monastery site began on July 13, 2017 and has been completed. This marked the end of the 164-year history of the Franciscan monastery on Immermannstrasse and the corner of Oststrasse.

Building description

The church building with a high main and two low side aisles has two hexagonal main towers. These are presented to the aisles on the west side. A chapel is attached to the last two fields of the side aisles.

Between the twin towers there is a “spacious vestibule” on the outside and the organ stage on the inside.

The church building is a three-aisled basilica with "wide-spreading transept wings". The high choir is provided with a gallery. An independent building, which houses the sacristy and a meeting room, adjoins this passage of the main choir on the south side.

In addition to the high choir, the church building also has “four side choirs arranged like a chapel wreath”.

Furnishing

The furnishings from 1896 included the high altar and the confessional by Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg . The Düsseldorf sculptor Anton Josef Reiss created the figurative decorations in St. Mary's Church, including the cross above the altar and the Madonna. Together with his student Alexander Iven , he created the Way of the Cross in the St. Mary's Conception Church in Düsseldorf. Seven windows depicting the seven sorrows of Mary were made by the Cologne-Lindenthal glass painting company Schneider and Schmolz . The equipment was destroyed in World War II. In 1962/1963, large concrete and glass windows by Günter Grote were installed.

organ

Klais organ in the Church of St. Mary's Conception in Düsseldorf

The organ of the Church of Mary Conception was built in 1956 by the organ building company Johannes Klais (Bonn) and installed in a new case in 1982 (Opus 1607). The instrument has 44  registers ( slider drawers ) on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I positive C-g 3
1. Reed flute 8th'
2. Quintad 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th recorder 4 ′
5. Principal 2 ′
6th Gemshorn 2 ′
7th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
8th. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Scharff IV-V 1'
10. Krummhorn 8th'
11. zinc 4 ′
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
12. Quintadena 16 ′
13. Principal 8th'
14th Open flute 8th'
15th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
16. Octav 4 ′
17th Coupling flute 4 ′
18th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Super octave 2 ′
20th Cornet V (from e 0 ) 8th'
21st Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Bombard 16 ′
23. Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
24. Wooden principal 8th'
25th Suavial 8th'
26th Beat 8th'
27. Principal 4 ′
28. Pointed flute 4 ′
29 Swiss pipe 2 ′
30th Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
31. Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Dulcian 16 ′
33. Schalmey 8th'
34. Head trumpet 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
35. Principal 16 ′
36. Sub bass 16 ′
37. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
38. Octav 8th'
39. Pommer 8th'
40. Choral bass 4 ′
41. Night horn 2 ′
42. Backset VI 2 ′
43. trombone 16 ′
44. Bass trumpet 8th'

Illustrations

  • Front view, earlier

  • Length view

  • cross-section

  • Exterior view of the portal

  • Interior view of the choir

  • Front view

  • Layout

Web links

Commons : St. Maria Reception (Düsseldorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Manfred Becker-Huberti (Ed.): Düsseldorfer Kirchen. The Catholic churches in the city dean of Düsseldorf. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2219-3 , p. 81f.
  2. ^ A b c d Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 103
  3. ↑ franziskaner.de: Düsseldorf
  4. ↑ Kunst-Glasmalerei Schneiders & Schmolz GmbH Koeln-Lindenthal: List of a number of already executed glass paintings together with a few illustrations . Cologne 1902, p. 10 .
  5. ^ Opus list. (PDF) Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Information on the Klais organ, registered users only → Organ of the Marienkirche

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 20.6 ″  E