St. Michael (Lanstrop)
The Michael Church is under monument protection standing Catholic church building in Dortmund district Lanstrop , Michael Street 2. The patron is the Archangel Michael .
history
The parish in Lanstrop , which originally belonged to the parish of Kurl, was converted to the Protestant faith in 1569 by Pastor Hermann Rosenbaum . After his death in 1619, the old catholic faith continued through the patronage of Mr. Dietrich von der Recke . Thus, the Lanstrop community remained largely Catholic until the 20th century, unlike the largely Protestant neighboring communities. In the course of industrialization , especially the coal mining of the neighboring mines Kurl and Prussia , the population in Lanstrop increased further. As a result, the St. Johannes Baptist Church in Dortmund-Kurl became too small, and the desire for its own church soon grew. On July 4, 1897, the Catholic men’s assembly from Lanstrop and Niederaden applied to the pastor in Kurl to hold their own church service in Lanstrop. The pastor agreed, so that a rented barn of the Brockhaus restaurant was converted into a prayer room and inaugurated on June 1, 1898. In the same year, Baron von Wenge-Wulffen gave the church building association a piece of land. In the years 1907–1908 a vicariate of the later rectory was built right next to the church property . The architect Hermann Wielers was commissioned to propose a neo-Gothic church without a tower for around 57,000 marks . But the Kurler church council rejected this proposal. Thereupon, on April 2, 1911, Wielers created the final design of a complete neo-Romanesque hall church with a tower. After the approval of the church council, construction began. In the meantime, Lanstrop had been an independent parish since October 1, 1910 and thus broke away from the Kurl mother parish. The construction of its own church became a sign of independence for the Lanstrop community.
The church construction from 1912 to 1913
The foundation stone was laid on October 6, 1912 . The construction work was largely outsourced to local companies, such as the building contractor Grundmann from Lanstrop. Donations from parishioners contributed to the beautification of the church building inside and out. After a year of construction, the church was completed and the inauguration took place on September 28, 1913 . The total cost of the new church building was over 81,000 marks.
architecture
Michael Church is a three-aisled, neo - Romanesque stepped hall with a side tower facing the east and a chapel with a semicircular apse adjoining the west . The towering nave is flanked by tiered aisles that end in front of the choir apse. The end of the church is formed by a north-facing semicircular choir apse, to which the sacristy is attached. The brick nave walls are structured by buttresses and arched windows. The wall surfaces are divided by pilaster strips between buttresses and arched windows. Above that there are strikingly designed arched friezes that unite with the pilaster strips. The Eckfassungen, flying buttresses and cornices are with cut stones from Rüthener sandstone blinded and the Church give a defensive character. The intermediate surfaces were plastered using the pebble wash plaster technique. The south side is equipped with a total of three portals , of which the middle one forms the main portal. It consists of a little protruding ornately designed gable porch, in which a neo-Romanesque step portal is framed with narrow columns and capitals . On the gable porch there is a figurative representation of St. Michael the Archangel , who gave the church its name. Behind it rises a generously designed wheel window that is divided into six spokes. Above it follows a simply shaped triangular gable with sweeping arched friezes and a triple window set in stone . The striking side tower adjoining the east aisle is divided into four tower segments. On the two lowest tower segments, the masonry is broken through by triple and biforic windows, in the third tower segment by two arched sound hatches . This is where the bell chamber is located , with a total of three bells . The gable triangles above, parallel to the substructure, are each provided with a tower clock . This is followed by a diamond helmet covered with copper sheet with a tower ball , tower cross and weathercock .
The bells
Shortly before the completion of the church, three bells were ordered from the Otto bell foundry in ( Bremen -) Hemelingen . They were tuned to the notes "c", "g" and "a" and were given to St. on September 20, 1913. Michael the St. Mary and St. Consecrated Francis. In 1917, the year of the war , the two largest bells had to be delivered and melted down for armament purposes. The congregation then only had the small "a" bell. Only in 1926 were two new bells ordered and inaugurated on February 28, 1926. In the Second World War , the two largest bells were melted down again. In 1968, two new bells were purchased from the Bochum Association . They sound in e ′ and g ′.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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, especially pages 519, 528 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 483,489 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 34.8 " N , 7 ° 34 ′ 1.4" E