St. Suitbertus (Remscheid)
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.
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- 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.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 100 years of St. Suitbertus Church in Remscheid, Remscheid, 1983
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ More information about the organ ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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)
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 42.8 ″ E