Franz von-Sales Church (Düsseldorf)-Wikipedia

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Franz von-Sales Church, seen from Siegburger Strasse

The Franz von-Sales Church a branch church of the Catholic parish of St. Maria Rosenkranz built in 1969 to 1971 according to the designs by the architect Hans Schwippert in the Oberbilk district of Düsseldorf on the district border, which it is assigned to the church.

The church stands at the southern end of Siegburger Straße and borders directly to the Südpark.
The property on which the Franz von Sales Church was built was previously the location of the Scheidlingsmühle, which was first mentioned in 1435 and burned down to the foundations in 1893. [first] [2] Subsequently, the excursion industry “Zur Scheidlingsmühle” was on the property, which was sold in 1966 by the city to the St. Maria Rosenkranz parish in 1966 for the new building of a branch church.

The Sunday service has been celebrated in an old municipal school in nearby Gerberstrasse since the early 1920s. That emergency church already stood under the patronage of St. Franz von Sales, probably on the occasion of his 300th anniversary of death in 1922, the Pope Pius XI. had dedicated an encyclical. The growth of the municipality and the construction of several neighboring schools required the construction of a larger branch and school church, the planning of which began in summer 1967 and which was built by architect Hans Schwippert from autumn 1969 to autumn 1971. [first] The church was consecrated on October 8, 1971 by the Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Hubert Luthe. [first] The choice of the church patron is justified in the tradition of the older emergency church and in the relationship of the saint on the education and the educational tasks of the surrounding schools.

The striking circuit of Schwippert, which also revised the equipment of St. Maria Rosenkranz and rebuilt the Pauluskirche after the war, is made of red brick. Friedrich Kohlmann and Ernst Kayser were also involved in the construction. [3] The round building with an egg -shaped floor plan [3] Has three excuses. [first]

A special feature of the listed church is its interior, which is reminiscent of an ancient theater or an auditorium: the altar is at the deepest point and the semicircle around it arranged benches stand at the back.
Schwippert’s idea was the shape of a flatfish with the sanctuary as a head and the entrances as fins. [first]

For the sacrament house with the tabernacle in a semicircular niche of the outer wall, old millstone found with a diameter of 1.40 meters was used in the start -up work as the foundation stone to commemorate the formerly important Scheidlings mill.

The interior is also characterized by its very good acoustics. The inner wall is a masonry with different widths, partly unfirmed joints. This increases the sound in a natural way. For this reason and because of the sloping seating, the church is also particularly suitable for concerts and other performances.

The organ was built in 1958 by the organ builder Paul Ott (Göttingen). The grinding store instrument has 11 registers on two manuals and pedal. The game and register tractures are mechanical. [4]

I main work C–f 3
first. Metallpommer 8′
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Mixtur III first  1⁄ 3′
4. Krummhorn 8′
II secondary work C–f 3
5. Wood -stacked 8′
6. Pipe flute 4 ′
7. Principal 2′
8. Sahe first  1⁄ 3′
Pedal C–f first
9. Subbass 16 ′
ten. Open bass 8′
11. Ranket 4 ′

In addition to the work -day school services, the Catholic Polish mission will take place here weekly Sunday evening masses in Düsseldorf. In addition, on the second Christmas day, on Easter Monday and three to four more Sundays a year, a sacred mass, which is particularly designed with new spiritual music, is celebrated. [5] The update service- a new form of service, in which praise and worship songs play a central role- has also found its home here and is celebrated three times a year.

In 2006, for reasons of maintenance, the church council decided to sell the building to another Christian religious community. [6] In the current pastoral concept [7] the church has become more important. A specific sale is no longer mentioned. Only about the future of the Franz von Sales Church with those responsible for the Archdiocese of Cologne had to be discussed.

  • On the consecration of the church to Saint Franz von Sales in Düsseldorf , 1971 (without specifying a publisher, published in accordance with the HBZ composite database in the self-publisher of the architect Hans Schwippert)
  1. ↑ a b c d It is Manfred Becker-Huberti (ed.): Düsseldorf churches. The Catholic churches in the Düsseldorf city dean. J.P. Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2219-3, p. 92.
  2. ↑ Feel good in Wersten ( Memento of the Originals from August 14, 2011 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. @first @2 Template: Webachiv/Iabot/www.wohllfuehlen-in-wersten.de
  3. ↑ a b Paul Ernst Wentz: Architecture leader Düsseldorf. A guide to 95 selected buildings. Droste, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3-7700-0408-6, object no. 64
  4. ↑ More information about the organ
  5. ↑ Catholic services in Düsseldorf, queried on August 20, 2010
  6. ↑ http://www.meinegemein.de/uploads/media/die_zukunft_der_franz-von-sales-kirche_01.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.meinegemein.de/fileadmin/redaktions/downloads/pastoralkonzept__endversion_pgr_april_2016.pdf

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