St. Nikolaus (Stoppenberg)

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Parish Church of St. Nicholas

The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus is a listed church building in Stoppenberg , a district of Essen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The three-aisled building made of red sandstone was built from 1906 to 1907 according to plans by the Cologne architect Carl Moritz at the foot of the old church hill. The nave are commonly arranged like aisles and the chorus square with semi-circular apse , outsourced as low extensions. The compact-looking exterior with a mansard roof is structured by buttresses and tracery windows. The entrance facade with the tuff crucifix in the gable is framed by eight-sided pointed towers.

The church hall is vaulted with a wide coffered wooden barrel. It is also supported by round pillars placed freely in front of the wall. The lightweight ceiling was drawn in in 1936 after mining damage . Due to renewed mountain damage, the church was closed in 1974 and extensively renovated until 1977. In conjunction with the security measures and the interior has been newly adopted . The blue of the bin and the pink of the round pillars were renewed according to the findings.

As a result of subsidence - caused by intensive coal mining at the nearby Zollverein colliery , the tunnels of which also run directly under the church - the church building has sunk by around twelve meters since it was built. In addition, there is a horizontal shift of around 2.5 meters and an expansion of the property by around 0.6 meters in width, which makes it more difficult to maintain the building.

Furnishing

  • The furnishings in the Beuron style and Art Nouveau are almost completely preserved. The high altar was made according to a design by Carl Moritz, two side altars, the apse paintings, the confessionals, the pulpit and the plastic stations of the cross in the blind triforium.
  • The panel painting depicting the crucifixion of Christ in an old gable frame was painted in the second half of the 16th century, the donor was a Jesuit.

Schwanhildenbrunnen

At the staircase in front of the church is the Schwanhildenbrunnen, which was also built in 1915 based on a design by Carl Moritz. Abbess Schwanhild stands with the model of the church between the Archbishop of Cologne Anno II and his chaplain Heinrich von Essen.

Takeover by the Chaldean Catholic community

Coat of arms of the Chaldean Catholic Church

The parish church of St. Nicholas was taken over by the Chaldean Catholic Church on Sunday, June 14th, 2020 . This is an Eastern Syrian rite united with Rome . This community of oriental Christians are ethnic Assyrians from Mesopotamia . Most of the members of this parish are from Iraq and have had to leave their ancestral home due to persecution, instability and discrimination. In the entire Ruhr area , the parish church of St. Nikolaus is now the spiritual center for around 500 Assyrian families who belong to the Chaldean Catholic Church. The Assyrians speak Syriac Aramaic to this day and celebrate the liturgy in Aramaic .

literature

  • Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (arr.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia I, Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , S. #.
  • Heinz Dohmen: Image of Heaven. A thousand years of church building in the diocese of Essen. Hoppe & Werrry, Mülheim (Ruhr) 1977.
  • Svante Lundgren: The Assyrians: From Nineveh to Gütersloh. Lit Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-13256-7 .

Web links

Commons : St. Nikolaus (Stoppenberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on November 12, 2016
  2. ↑ ZDF documentation Terra X - Expedition Germany Part 1: A journey through time through 500 million years; 2013
  3. ↑ Chaldean Catholic parish celebrates first mass in St. Nicholas. June 26, 2020, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ From: rwm: Chaldean community celebrates first mass in St. Nicholas. In: New Ruhr word. June 14, 2020, accessed on June 27, 2020 (German).


Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '33.1 "  N , 7 ° 2' 14.3"  E