St. Suitbertus (Remscheid)

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The church of St. Suitbertus received its bell tower in the western extension in 1895
St. Suitbertus from the northeast (2004)

The St. Suitbertus Church is a Catholic church in the city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The neo-Romanesque , three-aisled basilica with transept was built from 1883–1884 according to plans by August Carl Lange and consecrated on September 28, 1884. The bell tower was built in 1895.

The church is dedicated to St. Dedicated to Suitbertus .

local community

Today the church belongs to the parish of St. Suitbertus in the Remscheid deanery in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

On January 1, 2011, the formerly independent parishes of St. Engelbert, St. Marien, St. Suitbertus and St. Josef merged to form the parish of St. Suitbertus.

organ

The organ was built in 1962 by the organ builder Klais (Bonn). The instrument has 33  registers on three manuals and a pedal . The playing and register actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C–
Wooden dacked 8th'
Venetian flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Sif flute 1 13
Acuta III-IV
Stick game III
Wooden shelf 8th'
II main work C–
Quintadena 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Singing dumped 4 ′
Hollow flute 2 ′
Sesquialter II
Mixture IV-V
Trompeta de batalla 8th'
III Swell C–
Wooden flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Nasard 2 23
Schwegel 2 ′
third 1 15
Scharff IV
Trumpet harm. 8th'
Hautbois 4 ′
Tremulo
Pedal C–
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave 8th'
Beard pipe 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Rauschpfeife III
trombone 16 ′
Holzschalmey 8th'
  • Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

After the bell tower was completed in 1895, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen delivered three bronze bells that survived the confiscation of bells in the two world wars of the past century.

Bells of St. Suitbertus in Remscheid
No.
 
Casting year
 
Caster,

Casting location
 

Diameter
(mm)
Mass
(kg)
Chime
1. Suitbertus bell 1895 F. Otto,

Hemelingen / Bremen

1773 3220 b 0 ± 0
2. Catherine's bell 1462 1896 des' +3
3. Our Lady Bell 1287 1315 it '+2

Web links

Commons : St. Suitbertus (Remscheid)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 100 years of St. Suitbertus Church in Remscheid, Remscheid, 1983
  2. Institutional scheme of the Archdiocese of Cologne ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. (PDF; 935 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzbistum-koeln.de
  3. More information about the organ ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular 78, 4423, 443, 508 .
  5. Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 97, 474 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  6. Glockenbuch Deanery Remscheid ( Memento of the original from October 6, 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. (PDF; 207 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glockenbuecherebk.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 41.7 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 42.8 ″  E