St. Mary's Assumption (Wesel)
The Church of St. Assumption is the Catholic town parish church near the Grand Place in the center of Wesel . The house of God with the patronage of the Assumption of Mary goes back to a Dominican monastery founded in 1291 . After it was destroyed in the war, today's building was built in 1952 according to plans by Rudolf Schwarz . Since 2006, the church has been part of the parish of St. Martini , which was newly founded from the previous parishes of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt and St. Martini and was merged with the other parishes of St. Antonius and St. Johannes to form the parish of St. Nikolaus Wesel at Pentecost 2013 .
history
Monastery and parish church
In 1291 the Dominicans built their monastery with a church in Wesel . After the parish churches of St. Willibrord and St. Nikolaus had become Calvinist during the Reformation , the Dominican monastery and the Fraterherrenkirche St. Martin formed the support of the Catholic minority. The Dominican monastery existed until 1807.
The Gothic church was replaced by a baroque one in the 18th century and a neo-Gothic one at the beginning of the 20th century . Except for the crypt and the tower, this was destroyed in the Second World War. The tower later had to be demolished because of its disrepair; Only the ground floor with the portal vestibule remained .
Crypt with ducal tomb
Duke Adolf II of Kleve and his wife Maria of Burgundy chose the Carthusian monastery on Gravinsel as their final resting place. In the war of the Dutch against the Spaniards , in the first phase of the Eighty Years' War , soldiers and Wesel citizens destroyed the Carthusian monastery including the monastery church, whereupon the monks sought refuge with the Dominicans in 1590. At the same time they transferred the remains of the ruling couple buried near them to the crypt of the Dominican church. An inscription in the crypt commemorates the overpass.
The crypt was given a new shape during the reconstruction.
description
Today's church was built in 1952 according to a design by the Cologne architect Rudolf Schwarz . The floor plan of her nave is almost rectangular. It has a flat roof and is flush with a round apse . The nave has round arched windows , three on top of each other in size increasing to six axes. Numerous round windows of various sizes are inserted into the west wall, which together form a window rosette . In its shape the church resembles a Roman palace hall . The building is made of brick .
Of the neo-Gothic church building, only the portal with a wide, open pointed arch and flanking pinnacle tower remained . Behind it is the double portal to the vestibule as the entrance area to the church.
The crypt consists of two parts, the front old and the new crypt accessible through it. The old crypt was laid out in 1788 and served as a burial place for the monks until the monastery was dissolved in 1807. The new crypt was expanded into a three-aisled, four- bay lower church in 1934 . It is covered with groin vaults made of brick. The church is dominated by a high prism-shaped tower that stands free like a campanile . It was rebuilt in 1964 and replaced the neo-Gothic church tower, which survived the war destruction but had to be demolished in 1960 due to dilapidation.
Free standing tower
Neo-Gothic portal of the church
Figure on the main portal
Interior to the west
Peal
The church has three bells . They were manufactured by the Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock foundry in Gescher :
- The first bell, the Theresa bell, was cast in 1960. It weighs 1095 kg and has the tone "F". Its inscription reads: “AND THE SONGS OF MY LOVE DO NOT FULL”.
- The Marienglocke from 1978 with the tone “G” weighs 750 kg. Their inscription reads: “WHAT HE SAYS YOU DOES! (Joh. 2,5) ".
- Another bell, cast in 1978, with the name of St. Willibrord carries the sentence: “ABOVE ALL, LOVE EACH OTHER, BECAUSE LOVE KEEPS EVERYTHING TOGETHER” (Colossians Letter). It weighs 1943 kg and has the striking note "D '".
Furnishing
St. Dominic (around 1500)
St. Catherine of Siena
(around 1500)
From the Baroque church that could Crucifixion of de Grupello Gabriel be accepted. It is located behind the high altar and was created around 1717.
The altar is made of blue Belgian marble .
Above the altar hangs the Apostle chandelier , a wheel chandelier made from a brass-colored tire with twelve lights, one light for each apostle.
The seated statue of St. Willibrord is reminiscent of the Willibrordi tradition, it was created in 1975 by the artist Hildegard Bienen from Mariental , as was the tabernacle stele in 1982/1983. In the chest of the seated statue of St. Willibrord is a capsule with a relic of the saint, which used to be in the altar of the crypt.
The tabernacle was created by the Cologne goldsmith Hein Wimmer in 1956. The symbols of the triune God can be seen on the tabernacle doors: eye, cross and dove. The enamel colors blue, red and white stand out from the silver surface. The inscription ΙΧΘΥΣ (“ Ichthys ” = fish), written in Greek letters, is also in silver , an early Christian symbol for Christ . The ambo and the tabernacle stele in sandstone were also designed by Hein Wimmer.
To the right of the ambo there are figures of St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena , both made around 1500. The bronze baptismal font was created by Hans Dinnendahl (Telgte) in 1935, it stands on twelve cylindrical supports and thus also reminds of the twelve apostles who carried Christ's message into the world. Scenes from the history of salvation are attached to the walls.
The stations of the cross , located on the two long walls, were created by Cologne artist Hildegard Domizlaff between 1955 and 1958; they show figurative representations carved into slate.
In the church there is also the statue of Mary on the crescent moon , which was made by Ferdinand Langenberg from Goch towards the end of the 19th century ; The two groups of angels on either side of the cross in the vestibule, which come from a Marian altar in the neo-Gothic church, are also from him.
In the windows and in the round windows of the nave, glass ornaments on antique glass by Anton Wendling have been framed since 1964 . The colored glass in the door panels to the right and left of the cross and the glass painting above the cross in the vestibule were designed by Hildegard Bienen in 1989, the prophet Isaiah in the left and St. Dominic in the right door. In the window above the cross, the eye is shown as a symbol for God the Father and the dove as a symbol for the Holy Spirit .
On the bronze doors of the main portals to the vestibule, the events from the salvation stories of the joyful and painful rosary are depicted. In the tympana above the portals you can find Christ and Mary enthroned on the sickle of the moon, both also by Hildegard Bienen in 1988. The main portal of the Marienthal monastery church with the representation of the creed of Edwin Scharff probably served as a model for the design .
organ
Today's organ comes from the years 1952, 1960 and 1972 from the organ building workshop Breil in Dorsten , with 2912 pipes it has 39 registers and its disposition is:
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literature
- Ferdinand Köhler: The legacy of the "dogs of the Lord". Parish history and church chronicle. (published by the parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt) H. Peitsch, Wesel 1977.
- Willehad Paul Eckert : The Lower Rhine. Landscape, history and culture. 3rd edition, DuMont, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7701-1085-4 .
- Otto van de Locht: burial chambers and crypts in the Church of St. Mary's Assumption in Wesel. (published by the parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt) Peitsch, Wesel 1997.
- Otto van de Locht: The Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Wesel. (published by the parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt) Peitsch, Wesel 1999.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ New website
- ↑ archive.nrw.de
- ↑ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century e. V., Wesel, Catholic Church of St. Mary's Assumption
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 21.3 " N , 6 ° 36 ′ 46.6" E