St. Nicholas (Dorsten)

Church of St. Nikolaus from Klosterstrasse

The St. Nikolaus Church is a sacred building in the Hardt district of Dorsten . The church designed and built by Manfred Ludes was consecrated in 1964 . The parish of St. Nikolaus belongs to the parish association of St. Agatha .

history

timeline

The great concern and wish of the Bishop of Münster , Dr. Michael Keller to plant smaller churches was welcomed by Provost Westhoff, pastor of St. Agatha. In accordance with the wishes of the bishop, the St. Nikolaus Church Building Association was founded in 1959. The members of the association tried to create additional help for the church building through donations and collections.

On December 6, 1962, the groundbreaking ceremony was quietly done. On June 6, 1963 the foundation stone was laid by Vicar General Laurenz Böggering with great sympathy from the parishioners . A lead sleeve with a certificate was walled in. Finally, on May 3, 1964, the church consecration in St. Nikolaus was carried out by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Tenhumberg . The congregation experienced its first solemn high mass in the completely filled church .

Provost Westhoff, his chaplains Lepping and Sicking and also the local Franciscan brothers looked after the community. On the first Sunday in September 1964, Pastor Wernsmann was introduced to his office as the first pastor of St. Nikolaus.

At Pentecost 2009 the parish of St. Nikolaus was dissolved and merged with the parishes of St. Agatha, St. Johannes and Heilig Kreuz to form the new parish of St. Agatha.

Previous pastor of the parish

Pastor Hubert Wernsmann (September 1964 - August 2, 1969)
Pastor Bernhard Fiedler (September 20, 1969 - June 24, 1988)
Pastor Franz Wilke (September 4, 1988 - September 28, 2003)
Pastor Norbert Becker (December 6, 2003 - July 2009)

With the parish association , a pastoral care team is responsible for pastoral care.

Concept of church

The ground plan of the church is based on a pentagon facing east . The soaring main room is surrounded by a ground-floor wreath that accommodates the entrances and side rooms. The filigree, free-standing bell tower also has a pentagonal floor plan. Two closed wall panels and a pillar in the pentagonal top carry the bell chamber and the helmet, which is crowned by the St. Nicholas ship, which can be seen from afar. In the pentagonal main room with a continuous upper band of windows, the actual room for the congregation is once again summarized by six supporting columns and a parabolic wall behind the altar island. The four bench blocks are aligned with the altar , which, thanks to the parabolic screen and the structure of the folded ceiling, is clearly the focal point of the room.

Below the organ gallery, lowered two steps, axially to the altar, emphasized by a wall and two columns, is the baptismal font , whose importance as an entrance sacrament to the community of the faithful is so clearly illustrated.

organ

The organ was built by the organ builder Franz Breil (Dorsten). The slider chests -instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Principal	8th'
2.	Wooden flute	8th'
3.	Gemshorn	8th'
4th	Octave	4 ′
5.	Coupling flute	4 ′
6th	Swiss pipe	2 ′
7th	Cornettino I-III
8th.	Mixture IV-VI	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
9.	Trumpet	8th'

II Swell C – g ³
10.	Drone	8th'
11.	Salicional	8th'
12.	Beat	8th'
13.	Principal	4 ′
14th	Transverse flute	4 ′
15th	Nasard	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
16.	Principal	2 ′
17th	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
18th	Fifth	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
19th	bassoon	8th'

Pedal C – f ¹
20th	Sub bass	16 ′
21st	Octave	8th'
	Wooden flute (= 2.)	8th'
22nd	Lovely trumpet	16 ′
	Trumpet (= 9th)	8th'

Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P; II / II as a sub-octave coupling

Community actions

ParishNfest

A special highlight of the year has long been for the community festival. It has taken place annually since 1979 together with the neighboring evangelical community.

Cycle pilgrimage to Annaberg (Haltern)

Since 1986 the cycle pilgrimage has been taking place on the feast of Ascension Day together with the parish of St. Josef .

Holiday camp

Since 1990 around 65 children, 16 carers and a cooking team have been traveling to the Dutch island of Ameland . Around 400–500 children have been involved since the beginning, many of them four or five years in a row.

In 2005 there was the first youth camp with 12 young people and 5 supervisors, which went to Lägerdorf near Hamburg . In 2006 it will be near Bremen .