St. Remigius (Düsseldorf-Wittlaer)

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St. Remigius
Floor plan 1894

The Catholic parish church of St. Remigius in Düsseldorf-Wittlaer is a Romanesque basilica from the 12th or 13th century, which emerged from a hall church . The parish of the same name belongs to the Catholic parish community of Angerland / Kaiserswerth.

history

St. Remigius was built in the 12th to 13th centuries. In the 12th century it was initially designed as a single-nave hall church, then expanded into a three-aisled basilica in the following century. The first written source that mentions the parish of St. Remigius comes from the year 1144. The baptismal font dates from around 1200.

architecture

The central nave reveals its origins as a single-nave Romanesque hall church. The basement of the tower is in front. The structure as a three-aisled low-rise basilica goes back to the 13th century. The side aisles are pulled forward up to half the width of the tower in the west. The upper aisles have eight blind arcades with half-column structure , and an arched window sits in every second round screen. The side aisles each have five arched windows, the position of which is not coordinated with the upper facade windows. The transept is square and the same width as the tower. To the east is the apse , the ceiling of which consists of a three-cap vault with ribs and shield arches and which is provided with three round windows. The tower is three-story. The basement is not structured, the first floor is structured by cornices, pilaster strips and arched friezes, the bell is on the second floor. Accordingly, there are two sound windows on all sides.

Furnishing

The equipment is partly due to the 15th century. Under the pastor Franz Vaahsen , the church was refurbished in the 1920s and 1930s with sacred art in the spirit of avant-garde modernism. Ewald Mataré created the crucifixion group, the altar cross, the tabernacle and designed windows for the northern sacristy. Further windows were designed by Jan Thorn Prikker in 1926 and 1927 . The redesign was completed in 1937 with a window that was created as a joint effort by Heinrich Nauen and Wilhelm Teuwen .

organ

The organ of the Remigius Church was built in 1998 by the organ building company Josef Weimbs (Hellental). The purely mechanical instrument has 14 registers on slider drawers .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Bourdon 8th'
3. Praesant 4 ′
4th Schwegel 2 ′
5. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – g 3
7th Gemshorn 8th'
8th. Salicional 8th'
9. Beat 8th'
10. recorder 4 ′
11. Flageolet 2 ′
12. Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub-bass 16 ′
14th Covered bass 8th'

Web links

Commons : St. Remigius (Wittlaer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Dorothea Escher: From altar to ciborium. St. Remigius Wittlaer - Church from A to Z . In: Supplement to the Heimat-Jahrbuch Wittlaer . Volume 4. Ratingen 2004.
  • Friedrich Scheiermann: Sacred art in Wittlaer . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch Wittlaer 1980 . Düsseldorf 1979, p. 41-43 .
  • Werner Witthaus: The saint who should disappear . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch Wittlaer 1980 . Düsseldorf 1979, p. 44-46 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archdiocese of Cologne
  2. ^ Archdiocese of Cologne
  3. ↑ cf. the information on the website of the builder company

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 16 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 18.7"  E