Johanneskirche (Düsseldorf)

The St. John's Church, also called City Church is the largest Protestant church in Dusseldorf. It is located at the end of the Berlin Avenue in the City Centre area. Before the tower façade is the Martin -Luther- Platz with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial, the Bismarck Memorial and the remains of the Moltke monument.

The St. John's Church is built in the round arch style. The nave is 61 meters long, the tower 87.5 meters high.

History

The Lutheran and Reformed congregation Düsseldorf joined at the insistence of the Prussian government in 1824 to a Union together. Since that time, the plan of a Protestant town church was built. The decision to build was made in 1859. Negotiations with the city about the plot lasted until 1874. After several unsuccessful drafts a design by Walter Kyllmann and Adolf Heyden in 1869 accepted by the community. This however had to be revised. 1875, finally, the foundation stone was laid. On December 6, 1881, the St. John's Church was consecrated.

A bomb attack on June 12, 1943 destroyed the hard Johannes Church. After the Second World War, the demolition of the church was discussed in favor of a change in traffic flow, but in the end she stopped. In March 1953, the church was reopened after its restoration. Larger tags inside happened in 1997 and 2008.

Outside of North

Choir

Pulpit

Main entrance

Side entrance

Organ

The great organ of St. John's Church was 1953/54, built by the Hamburg organ builder Rudolf von Beckerath as mechanical grinding chest organ and overhauled in 2001. Since then, the Spieltrakturen of the pedal and the entire organ stops are electric. In 2001, the electrical coupling have been added, as well as a MIDI port. The disposition is - except for the mixture (No. 39) - remained unchanged.

  • Pairing: Mechanical Normal Pairing: III / II, IV / II, I / P III / P
  • Electrical coupling Normal (2001 ): I / II, III / II, IV / II, III / I, IV / III, I / P, II / P III / P IV / P
  • Electrical Suboktavkoppeln (2001): III / II, III / III
  • Electrical Superoktavkoppeln (2001): III / II, III / III

Bells

The largest Protestant bells Düsseldorf consists of five bells in the beat tones a0, c1, d1, e1 and g1. The smallest and the two largest bells are works of Bell and Art Foundry Rincker from the year 1952. The other two bells are memorial bell from 1782 and 1860. All the bells hanging on deep cranked steel yokes.

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