St. Mary under the cross

St. Mary under the Cross

St. Maria unter dem Kreuze is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Unterrath district of the North Rhine-Westphalian capital Düsseldorf in Germany .

history

The construction of the neogothic held three-aisled basilica took place in the years 1869 to 1873 by the architect August Rincklake consecrated it was on September 14 1,873th

Between 1930 and 1931 the church was expanded by Paul Sültenfuß . An extensive restoration took place in the early 1970s.

The former parish of St. Maria under the Cross was merged on January 1, 2011 due to a lack of priests into the large parish of the Holy Family with more than (2012) 13,000 believers.

organ

The organ was built in 1974 by the organ builder Willi Peter (Cologne). The slider chests -instrument has 24 registers on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 1. Pommer 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Covered 8th' 4th octave 4 ′ 5. recorder 4 ′ 6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th Night horn 2 ′ 8th. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 9. Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C – g 3 10. Hollow flute 8th' 11. Viol 8th' 12. Principal 4 ′ 13. Transverse flute 4 ′ 14th Super octave 2 ′ 15th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 16. Sesquialtera II 17th Sharp IV 1' 18th oboe 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 19th Sub bass 16 ′ 20th Principal bass 8th' 21st Covered bass 8th' 22nd Choral bass 4 ′ + 2 ′ 23. Rauschbass III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 24. trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

• Manfred Becker-Huberti (Ed.): Düsseldorf churches. The Catholic churches in the city dean of Düsseldorf. JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2219-3 , pp. 93/94.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More information about the organ

Web links

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

• Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 26.3 "  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 32"  E