St. Clara Collegiate Church

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St. Clara:
The brick cathedral at Hörde
View from the north

The Collegiate Church of St. Clara is a Roman Catholic church in the Hörde district of Dortmund .

history

The church was built as a successor church to the original collegiate church belonging to the Clarenberg monastery . After opening the Hörder ironworks by Hermann Diedrich Piepenstock in 1840 the city Hoerde reported a strong influx of Catholic workers. The Catholic community decided against the advice of the Westphalian state curator to demolish the old monastery church.

On May 5, 1863, the foundation stone for the new church was laid. A neo-Gothic brick building was built according to plans by the diocesan building councilor Arnold Güldenpfennig . After about two years of construction, the church was consecrated on May 30, 1865. Because of its approx. Two million red bricks , it is also called the brick cathedral .

During the Second World War , the church and tower were largely destroyed by bombs on May 22, 1944. After the war, the church was restored and the interior was extensively renovated and modernized between 1985 and 1995. In February 1988, the tower got its original spire back after it had been destroyed during World War II and rebuilt after the war in a different form. In 2009 the exterior was completely renovated.

Modern glass art by Wilhelm Buschulte can be found in the church .

organ

The organ from the Stockmann Brothers workshop in Werl was built in 1995. The slider chests -instrument has 36 registers on two manuals and pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically. The instrument has the following disposition :

I main work C– 3
Pommer 16 ′
Praestant 08th'
Capstan whistle 08th'
Quintad 08th'
octave 04 ′
Night horn 04 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 02 ′
Forest flute 02 ′
Mixture V 02 ′
Zimbel IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 08th'
Tremulant
II Swell C– 3
Tube bare 16 ′
Principal 08th'
Dumped 08th'
Salicional 08th'
Vox coelestis 08th'
Principal 04 ′
Coupling flute 04 ′
Schwiegel 02 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sif flute 01'
Scharff IV 01'
Basson 16 ′
Trumpet harm. 08th'
Hautbois 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C– 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 08th'
Covered bass 08th'
Principal 04 ′
Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 08th'
Clairon 04 ′

Bells

The crossing tower bears a very sonorous steel bell from the Bochum club from 1954, tone sequence c sharp'-e'-f sharp'-g sharp '. The big bell is reserved for high feasts.

The church is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

Parish

The parish of the Collegiate Church of St. Clara has a 32% stake in the Catholic St. Lukas Gesellschaft mbH , which operates the Catholic Hospital Dortmund-West, the St. Josefs Hospital in Hörde , the St. Rochus Hospital in Castrop-Rauxel and the St. Lambertus care facilities in Castrop-Rauxel.

Others

As a typical church building from the 19th century in the Ruhr area, the collegiate church of St. Clara is one of the stops on theme trail No. 26, sacred buildings of the tourist network of the Route of Industrial Culture, which was designated in 2013 .

literature

  • Theodor Lotz, Bernhard Amedick: History of the Catholic Stiftsgemeinde in Hörde. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Provost Heinrich Wigger , Jos. Tümmers, Hörde in Westphalia 1928.

Web links

Commons : St. Clara (Hörde)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ of the collegiate church
  2. ↑ No. A 0012. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) In: dortmund.de - The Dortmund city portal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, accessed on June 17, 2014 (size: 180 kB).

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 18.9 "  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 12.4"  E