St. Martin (Dortmund)

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Church of St. Martin in Dortmund-Körne

The St. Martin Church is a Catholic church building in Dortmund district Körne , Gabelsbergerstraße 32. The patron is Martin of Tours , one of the most popular saints of the Catholic Church. The two-story hall church with a free-standing bell tower was built in 1959/1960.

history

As early as 1928, the desire for a new church building arose out of the St. Liborius parish, whose close connection to the mother parish and the diocese of Paderborn was underlined by the naming of the new parish and its church, St. Martin. St. Martin was a friend of St. Liborius. The first Holy Mass of the community took place on October 18, 1931 in the attic hall of the "Elektrohof" with around 300 believers. This had to be elaborately prepared for each service and then "dismantled" again. From October 9, 1932, the St. Martin Chapel, the former office building of a construction company (at Westfalendamm 275), was available after the inauguration by city dean Roettgers. Although the groundbreaking ceremony for a new garrison church of St. Martin took place in March 1939 as a place of worship for the community and for the barracks on the eastern part of Westfalendamm, the new church had to be canceled and postponed due to political pressure. The Martinskapelle was largely destroyed in a bomb attack on October 6, 1944, whereupon the community moved to the lower floor of the Scherer family's house (Westfalendamm 281) as an emergency chapel.

After the Second World War, the community decided to rebuild the destroyed Martinskapelle according to the plans of the architect Alfred Kalmbacher. On August 28, 1948, the restored chapel was inaugurated by Provost Aufenanger. From April 1, 1949, St. Martin was a branch with the status of a parish vicarie with its own asset management and from July 1, 1952 an independent parish. For a plot of land exchanged with the city, an architectural competition for a parish center with a church, sacristy, rectory, hall, youth home and kindergarten was held on June 29, 1958, limited to architects Otto Weicken (Unna), Theo Schwill (Dortmund), Klaus Rosiny ( Mehlern) and Gastreich, Moritz, Tebarth (Dortmund), which Theo Schwill was able to win.

Four months after construction began (June 22, 1959), on October 18, 1959, Prelate Lorenz Henneke laid the foundation stone for today's St. Martin Church in Körne, which was inaugurated on October 1, 1960 by Paderborn Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger . Subsequently, Pastor Fritz Hermann celebrated divine service versus populum for the first time in this community (with a view to the community), two years before the Second Vatican Council in which this was declared the "normal case".

Except for the suggestion of an apse, the clear cubic room with brick walls made of brown-yellow clinker bricks, the almost completely glazed north side and the curved concrete segments of the ceiling are completely pillarless. In the west there is a working day chapel. A connecting passage in the north leads from the sacristy annex to the rectory.

Furnishing

Altar and Tabernacle

The altar , which was erected in the Martins Church on September 23, 1960 and , like the tabernacle, was created by the sculptor Hildegard Domizlaff , is a four-ton block made of Anröchter dolomite , decorated with alabaster stones. On its main wall towers over the relics of St. Theodora, a Byzantine empress and martyr, the image of Kyrios , the ruler Christ. He is holding the Gospel in his hand with the inscription "Pax - Peace". This is supposed to symbolize the peace and friendship with God through Jesus Christ and was the foundation of a community member in the amount of 12,000 DM.

window

The eight square lead glass windows on the south side of the church, designed by Rudolf Krüger and manufactured by the company Deppen & Söhne (Osnabrück), were installed towards the end of June 1960. They show representations from the life of St. Martin:

  • Division of the coat
  • Task of military service
  • the hermit in the cell at Tours
  • his election as bishop by the parish of Tours
  • the destruction of a pagan temple by his preaching
  • the healing of a girl through the anointing of the sick
  • the temptation of Satan
  • Death and admission into glory

organ

South wall with gallery and organ; Oberwerk (in front of chorale bass), pedal section (right), breast section (below) and main section (left)

The organ, which had been planned in the mid-1950s and was ordered from the Hillebrand organ building company on March 15, 1968 by a donation from a Dortmund entrepreneur worth 145,000 DM , was handed over to its intended use on March 15, 1970. It rises with its asymmetrical prospect on its own gallery , which extends over half the south wall of the room. The slider chest instrument has approx. 2600  organ pipes for 36  registers , distributed over three manuals and a pedal with mechanical performance and electrical register action , the chest and upper works are swellable .

The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – a 3
Pommer 16 ′
Principal 08th'
Capstan whistle 08th'
octave 04 ′
Flute 0 04 ′
octave 02 ′
Forest flute 02 ′
Mixture IV-VI
Zimbel III
Trumpet 08th'
II Oberwerk C – a 3
Metal dacked 08th'
Viol 08th'
Principal 04 ′
recorder 04 ′
Gemshorn 02 ′
Oktavlein 01'
Sesquialtera II 0
Scharff IV
Dulcian 16 ′
Krummhorn 08th'
Tremulant
III Breastwork C – a 3
Wooden dacked 0 08th'
Quintad 08th'
Reed flute 04 ′
Principal 02 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Zimbel III
shelf 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
octave 08th'
Ged.-Bass 08th'
Chorale bass 04 ′
Peasant flute 0 02 ′
Mixture IV
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 08th'

Bells

Thanks to a generous individual donation, in 1962, after 30 years, the St. Martin parish received four of its own cast steel bells, which were ordered from the Bochum Association and consecrated by Pastor Hermann on August 19. The bells are cast on the notes d '- f' - g '- a'. With the exception of the f 'bell, all are designed as minor octave bells and weigh 1316, 1098, 515 and 462 kg. These bear the following inscriptions:

  • 1. HL Martin, exalted Shepherd, pray for your church.
  • 2. HL Joseph, pray for us.
  • 3. HL Mary, Mother of God, pray for the unity of the Church.
  • 4. HL Reinold, protect our city.

literature

  • Alfons Wiegel, Klaus Korfmacher, Bernd Hipler; Editorial Committee (Ed.): 1960–2010. 50 years of St. Martin's Church. Brochure on the occasion of the 50th consecration day of the St. Martin Church on October 1, 2010. Catholic St. Martin Church Dortmund, Dortmund 2010 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : St. Martin, Dortmund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Program brochure_Day of the Open Monument Dortmund 2019 , pp. 80–81; accessed on May 16, 2020 (PDF).
  2. ↑ a b website of the parish of St. Martin , accessed on May 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ Wiegel: 1960-2010. 50 years of St. Martin's Church. 2010, p. 13 ( online , accessed May 16, 2020).
  4. ↑ Wiegel: 1960-2010. 50 years of St. Martin's Church. 2010, pp. 16-17 ( online , accessed May 16, 2020).
  5. ↑ Wiegel: 1960-2010. 50 years of St. Martin's Church. 2010, p. 19 ( online , accessed May 16, 2020).
  6. ↑ Wiegel: 1960-2010. 50 years of St. Martin's Church. 2010, p. 18 ( online , accessed May 16, 2020).
  7. ↑ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century. V .: Dortmund, Kath. Kirche St. Martin , accessed on May 16, 2020.
  8. ^ Martin Blindow: Organ history of the city of Dortmund. A documentation from the beginnings to the 20th century. Lit, Berlin / Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0895-2 , p. 171.
  9. ↑ Wiegel: 1960-2010. 50 years of St. Martin's Church. 2010, pp. 19-20 ( online , accessed May 16, 2020).

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 25.2 "  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 47.8"  E