St. Marien (Elberfeld)

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The church of Sankt Marien in Wuppertal is the second sacred building built in the 19th century for the Catholic community of Elberfeld .

history

Sankt Marien Elberfeld, 1894

The immense population growth in Elberfeld in the second half of the 19th century also made it necessary for the Catholic community of Elberfeld to build new churches and to re-parish new residential areas. In 1882 the Laurentius community decided to build two new churches, the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in the north of the city and the Marienkirche on the slope of the Hardtberg in the east of Elberfeld.

She was able to fall back on a property acquired in 1879 by a church building association for the east of the Elberfeld which had existed since 1868. The foundation of the association and its name go back to the Elberfeld teacher Johann Georg Breuer, who wanted to commemorate the old Marien- Vicariate with the Marien- Patrozinium , which owned a nearby property but disappeared with the Reformation .

It is not certain who was the architect of the building. Sources name a Neuss city architect Schmitz or the company Tüshaus & von Abbema from Düsseldorf. The foundation stone was laid on September 15, 1884 by Bishop Bernhard Thiel from Costa Rica, and the Barmer dean Peter Meisloch consecrated the church on June 10, 1886.

In 1888, Franz Eggert built an organ with 24 registers , which were divided into two manuals and a pedal. In 1930 the organ was rebuilt and expanded to three manuals and 48 voices.

The roof structure of the church was completely destroyed in a bombing raid during World War II on June 23, 1943. The reconstruction took place from 1947 to 1949.

architecture

The historicist building, idiosyncratic in its mixture of different stylistic elements, is a three-aisled basilica on the floor plan of a Latin cross with a single-nave transverse arm and a semicircular choir adjoining the crossing, and uses mainly late Romanesque and some Gothic style elements. As is typical of the Catholic churches in Wuppertal, the south-east facing church has a double tower facade in front of it, and the entire building is walled up with yellow brick. During the reconstruction, the octagonal crossing tower was not reconstructed and flatter, protruding roofs were built, which look alien to the style and characterize the image of the church.

organ

The organ , destroyed in 1943, was replaced by a new one by Carl Bürkle in 1962. The three-manual instrument is controlled by an electro-pneumatic cone loader and has 30 registers with the following disposition :

I Rückpositiv C–
Reed flute 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Prefix 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
Rohrnasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Capstan whistle 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Cimbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Tremulant
II main work C–
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Gems recorder 8th'
octave 4 ′
Flat flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
III subsidiary work C–
Gemshorn 8th'
Salizional 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sharp IV 1 ⁄ 2 ′
oboe 8th'
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Back set IV
trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination, tutti, roller

literature

Web links

Commons : Sankt Marien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tüshaus, Bernhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 475 .
  2. ^ Organ in St. Marien, Elberfeld , accessed on July 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '35.3 "  N , 7 ° 9' 20.9"  E