St. Mary's Birth (Kupferdreh-Dilldorf)
St. Mary's Birth is a listed Roman Catholic church building in the Essen district of Kupferdreh , Dilldorf, which has been a listed building since 1989 . It was built in the neo-Gothic style from 1876 to 1879 from light brown Ruhr sandstone . The reason for the construction of the church was the sharp increase in the number of believers in Dilldorf. The church is on Dilldorfer Strasse and is dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus .
The church will soon be profaned .
history
The foundation stone of the church was laid on October 18, 1876. The church was consecrated on September 8, 1879 by Auxiliary Bishop Fischer . The church was not finished in 1879. The high altar, the side altars, the church tower with the three bells, the roof turret with the smaller bell and the tower clock were only built some time later. The tower clock was installed in 1900. In 1906 St. Mary's Birth received her first organ (from the organ building company Franz Breil GmbH ) as a replacement for the old organ from the chapel , which had become too small in the meantime. In December 1915 the church received electric light. The first major renovation had to be carried out in 1925, as mountain damage had caused a subsidence of about 45 cm. The Adler colliery financed the first painting and the renovation of the church. The church building has had heating since 1928. At the beginning of September 1929, the return of the oldest Dilldorf bell (roof bell), which had been lost and was found, was celebrated for the 50th anniversary of the church. In 1942, three bells had to be given as a metal donation from the German people for weapons production in the Second World War . After the war it turned out that there had been no more meltdown. There were around 15,000 bells in the port of Hamburg . The three Dilldorf bells were later found on a ship in the port of Münster and returned to Dilldorf in the summer of 1947. Then the tower was sharpened, the bells hung up again and the tower walled up. In the early 1970s, the liturgical areas were renovated by the Essen architect Rolf Grundmann. Before that, mining damage safeguards were repeatedly necessary. In the course of the renovation, the high altar was removed. A new altar, the baptismal font and the tabernacle are made of the same stone.
In 1946 the Breil organ was repaired . In 1964, St. Mary's Birth received a new tower clock. In 1968 the sacristy was enlarged and in 1973 a wooden Way of the Cross came into the church. It comes from the same artist from Oberammergau as a statue of the Virgin Mary. In 1973 the organ was also completely overhauled . In 1986, an expert report confirmed the suspicions of vigilant parishioners that the oak beams in the church tower were badly decomposed by pigeon droppings and water. The ringing of bells caused a tremor in the tower. Then a concrete ceiling was put in at a height of 40 meters under the full bell cage and the tower spire was firmly anchored. Seating cracks in the walls were intercepted by facing panels , which impaired the acoustics . The windows were leaking. They were exchanged by Peters in Paderborn and designed with a new kind of photographic quotation with the figures of St. Liudger , St. Ursula and St. Gereon (there are altar relics of the latter in St. Mary's Birth). All around the figures there is a colored lead glazing with an outer protective glazing.
On November 23, 1989, the church building was placed under monument protection. In the early 1990s, a complete renovation of the church was necessary. The architect Klemens Link and restorer Dieter Berchem took care of the implementation. Among other things, three choir windows were redesigned during the renovation. The screen printing process was used for cost reasons .
The figure of St. Joseph of Nazareth from the former parish church of St. Joseph is now in the Dilldorf church.
Steeple
church Square
Central nave
entrance
The church
architecture
The north-facing neo-Gothic hall church resembles a castle and stands at the end of the Deilbach valley or near the confluence with the Ruhr valley surrounded by the forest ridge . Visitors come to the main entrance of the church via a staircase with five steps. St. Mary's Birth has a small side entrance in the left aisle. Both towers of the church have been covered with sheet copper since 1961. With only three nave bays, the church appears short and sturdy between the drawn-in tower and the transept. The architect Dr. Paschalis had planned an additional vault unit; however, the idea was discarded because Kupferdreh was not incorporated. The choir, on the other hand, presents itself as very spacious and, with its slightly swaying seven parts of a decagon, represents a strikingly rich, independent central space structure. This is otherwise more likely to be observed in large cathedral churches (for example the 9/14 choir of Aachen Cathedral ). What is striking is the way in which Paschal's Gratze processed the supports as square pillars with corresponding semicircular templates, proportioned capitals and the slightest transitions to the ribbed vault . Here, neo-Romanesque influences suspected. The architect used the details and shapes several times at other locations. The initial type of interior painting underlined his intentions more than today's discreetly restrained coloring.
The five windows in the choir from 1989 come from the former cathedral builder Heinz Dohmen .
The incomplete closure of the church
Apparently, at the beginning of the 2010s, consideration was given to giving up the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary for a short time. From the point of view of the church council, there were too many churches in the parish of St. Josef Essen Ruhr peninsula . Therefore at least one church building should be closed. At the same time, the St. Josef Church still existed in the center of Kupferdreh. Since it was much more in need of renovation and a renovation would have cost over a million euros, the choice fell on the parish church of St. Joseph for the demolition. This decision led to anger and incomprehension among the local Catholics. They didn't want their parish church to be closed.
Ultimately, this project was implemented in favor of the diocese of Essen . One reason for the continued existence of the Dilldorf Church was most likely the protection of monuments.
Bells
Bells in the roof turret
The church currently has two ridge bells. The bell from the early 1790s was cast in the Belgian city of Leuven .
|
Mass (kg, approx.) |
inscription | Casting year |
| 54.88 | ANDREAS VAN DEN GHEYN ME FUDI LOVANII ANNO 1791 | 1791 |
The following bell was cast in Sieglar .
|
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Casting year |
| 300 | 1858 |
Bells from 1886
In 1886, three bronze bells were cast for the Church of St. Mary's Birth at the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen, at that time still a place on the outskirts of Bremen. The bells have slight ribs and all have the same decay, they are standing . The Otto bell of Dilldorf is one of the oldest still preserved Otto bell rings.
The motif of the bells is pater noster .
| No. | Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
inscription |
| 1 | Francis | 1,420 | 1,550 | des ′ + 2 | Nos coelestium fac consortes civium./ Make us companions of the saints in heaven. |
| 2 | Maria | 1,300 | 1,300 | es ′ ± 0 | Sancta Dei Genetrix OPN / Holy Theotokos, pray for us. |
| 3 | Joseph | 1,220 | 850 | f′-3 | Oratione Sancte Joseph juva nos./ Help us, St. Joseph, through his intercession. |
literature
- Heinz Dohmen , Eckhard Sons: Churches, chapels, synagogues in Essen . Ed .: Norbert Beleke. Nobel, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-922785-52-2 .
Web links
- M. Reuter: St. Mary's Birth, Essen-Dilldorf: One of the oldest still extant OTTO bells. In: carookee.de. October 10, 2014, accessed July 7, 2016 .
- Bell book City Deanery Essen ; Dilldorf bells from page 220, accessed on April 19, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Far-reaching decision in the parish development process. In: st-josef-ruhrhalbinsel.jimdo.com. August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Short chronology of the church "St. Mary's Birth" in Dilldorf. In: carookee.de. February 25, 2011, accessed May 19, 2019 .
- ^ Dilldorf Church of St. Mary's Birth. In: dilldorf.de. November 2014, accessed January 19, 2016 .
- ↑ M. Reuter: The Church of St. Mary's Birth in Dilldorf. In: carookee.de. February 13, 2011, accessed January 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Essen-Kupferdreh-Dilldorf, Catholic Church of St. Mary's Birth. In: glasmalerei-ev.de. February 13, 2011, accessed January 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen. (PDF; 756 kB). In: geo.essen.de. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
- ↑ Inventory for the Church of St. Mary's Birth. In: kirche-vor-ort.de. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Two churches in town are one too many. In: waz.de. October 25, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
- ↑ The history of the Dilldorf bells. In: carookee.de. Retrieved May 19, 2019 .
- ^ 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. 212, 213, 442, 503 .
- ↑ 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. 200 to 202, 471 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '4.5 " N , 7 ° 5' 0.2" E