St. Stephanus (Essen)
The former church of St. Stephanus stood on the edge of the western Essen district of Holsterhausen . It was designed by the architects Emil Jung and Josef Wingenfeld and designated in 1954. After the church was closed in 2008, construction was put down at the beginning of 2018.
Church building
The parish and parish patron was the Holy Martyr Stephen , patron saint on December 26th.
After the growth of the mother parish of St. Mary's Conception , the history of St. Stephen's church building began in 1914 with the first purchase of building land. The church building association was not founded until 1927, and in 1928 the property was doubled.
Work on the church building designed by the architect and master builder Emil Jung government began in 1929. In October 1930 he was benediziert and in the Second World War hit hard on 25 October 1944, a bomb attack and on 12 December 1944 finally destroyed.
The second church building was erected on the old foundations in the years 1952–1953, also by Emil Jung, together with Josef Wingenfeld, and assigned on September 19, 1954. The façades were clinkered in a manganese color in the 1970s.
In 2009 the church was profaned in the course of restructuring in the diocese of Essen . The last service took place on April 6, 2008.
A takeover of the church by a Serbian Orthodox community, which had been celebrating its services in the church since 2003, did not materialize. The building was therefore sold in 2011 to the Heimstatt Engelbert Foundation, which is now part of the Franz Sales House . An originally planned change of use did not make economic sense, so the demolition began at the beginning of 2018. On April 28, 2018, the church tower was blown up.
organ
In 2009 the organ was expanded, and it came to the Church of the Holy Family on Margarethenhöhe .
Bells
The bells of the original church building from 1930 were destroyed during the Second World War.
|
No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
inscription |
Bell foundry |
Casting year |
| 1 | - | 1500 | 2016 | cis' | - | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1930 |
| 2 | - | 1250 | 1162 | e ' | - | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1930 |
| 3 | - | 1100 | 804 | fis' | - | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1930 |
| 3 | - | 980 | 563 | g sharp ' | - | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1930 |
In 1968 the post-war church received the following four new bells. They were removed from the profane church in 2009 and taken to Vilnius , Lithuania .
|
No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
inscription |
Bell foundry |
Casting year |
| 1 | Stephen Bell | 1272 | 1200 | it '+ 1 | St. Stephen strengthens our faith |
Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1968 |
| 2 | Marienbell | 1170 | 1000 | f '+ 1 | St. Mary Help of Christians |
Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1968 |
| 3 | Elizabeth Bell | 1030 | 700 | g '+ 2 | St. Elisabeth Schütze sick and afflicted |
Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1968 |
| 3 | Ludger bell | 960 | 500 | as' + 3 | St. Ludger City and Diocese are recommended to you. |
Hans Hüesker, Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock | 1968 |
Glass
All windows in the oval nave were from 1954 and were made by the artist Wilhelm de Graaff. They were destroyed during the demolition work.
altar
The altar of St. Stephen came to the parish church of St. Chrysanthus and Daria in Haan in 2010 .
local community
On March 31, 1930, the pastoral care district was separated from the mother parish and raised to the status of an independent rectorate parish of St. Stephanus. In 1933 the rector, appointed in 1930, was made rectorate pastor. In 1941 the parish boundaries were reorganized, and in 1951 it was elevated to a canonical parish . On April 1, 2004, the parish was abolished and the parish was assigned to the parish of St. Mary's Conception, which in turn became part of the newly founded parish of St. Antonius on April 1, 2008 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Dohmen / Eckard Sons: Churches, chapels, synagogues in Essen . Ed .: Norbert Beleke. Nobel-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-922785-52-2 , p. 71 .
- ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical association for the city and monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 53 .
- ↑ Holsterhauser Burgerbund e. V .: First and Second World War ; accessed on February 9, 2018
- ^ Profanation decree . In: Church official gazette diocese of Essen . 53rd year, no. 02 . Essen January 29, 2010, 6 ( bistum-essen.de [PDF; accessed on February 22, 2018]).
- ^ Entry on the community of the Holy Archdeacon and First Martyr Stephan in the Orthpedia. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
- ↑ St. Stephen's Church is to be demolished ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 10, 2016; accessed on February 9, 2018
- ^ Asbestos discovery delays church demolition in Holsterhausen In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of February 7, 2018; accessed on February 9, 2018
- ↑ Excerpt from the Glockenbuch Essen, pages 190–194 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on February 9, 2018
- ↑ Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century e. V .; accessed on February 9, 2018
- ↑ Document on the dissolution of the Catholic parish and church community of St. Stephen in Essen-Holsterhausen and the allocation of the parish area to the Catholic parish and church community of St. Mary's Conception in Essen-Holsterhausen . In: Church official gazette diocese of Essen . 47th volume, no. 6 . Essen May 28, 2004, 48.
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 28.3 " N , 6 ° 58 ′ 42.6" E