St. Georg, Aplerbeck

St. Georg
St. Georg
	Georgskirche
	51°29′37″N07°33′42″E / 51.49361°N 7.56167°E Coordinates: 51°29′37″N07°33′42″E / 51.49361°N 7.56167°E
Location	Aplerbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Denomination	Protestant
Website	www.georgsgemeinde.de
Architecture
Architectural type	Cross basilica
Style	Romanesque
Completed	ca. 1150
Administration
Parish	Evangelische Georgs-Kirchengemeinde Dortmund

Last updated February 23, 2019

St. Georg is a church and Protestant parish in Aplerbeck, now part of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a Romanesque cross basilica (Kreuzbasilika) from the 12th century. The only building in Dortmund of its kind, it is a listed monument.^[1]

Aplerbeck was a village in Germany documented first in 899. Since 1929, it has been a suburb (Ortsteil) of Dortmund in the Ruhr district of North Rhine-Westphalia, located in the city's south-east. The river Emscher, a tributary of the Ruhr, crosses Aplerbeck.

Dortmund is, with a population of 586,600 (2017), the third largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and Germany's eighth largest city. It is the largest city of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with some 5.1 million (2011) inhabitants, as well as the largest city of Westphalia. On the Emscher and Ruhr rivers, it lies in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is considered the administrative, commercial and cultural centre of the eastern Ruhr.

North Rhine-Westphalia is a state of Germany.

In the 19th century when the town grew due to industrialisation, a larger church was built, and St. Georg fell into disrepair. It served as a community hall from 1926, and was restored as a church from 1963. It is again the parish church, while the larger church has been mostly used for concerts since 1999.

Industrialisation period of social and economic change from agrarian to industrial society

Industrialisation is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society, involving the extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.

The Große Kirche Aplerbeck is a Protestant church in Aplerbeck, now part of Dortmund, Germany. It was built from 1867 to 1869 in Gothic Revival style, designed by Christian Heyden. A listed monument, it is used by the parish St. Georg, serving mostly as a concert church.

History

A church in Aplerbeck was first mentioned in a document of 899. Remnants of an early church were found when the present building was restored in 1963. The present Georgskirche is dated between 1150 and 1160.^[2]

The church became Lutheran with the Confessio Augustana of 1612. Due to industrialisation in the 19th century, a new church was built in Aplerbeck, which was later called Große Kirche Aplerbeck, dedicated in 1869. The Georgskirche fell into disrepair. It was struck by lightning in 1872, but not restored. In 1894, a plan to demolish the ruin was not supported by the Prussian government.^[2] The street on which it was located was eventually named Ruinenstraße (ruin street) because of the condition of the church.^[3]

The church was a ruin until 1926. A plan to make it the centre of a community hall with a restaurant, or a museum, was declined by the conservator (Landeskonservator) Johannes Körner, who demanded that the Romanesque building should be restored without alterations. He could not prevent the building of a war memorial with a sculpture of Michael the archangel next to the steeple, which led to the name "Michaelisbau".^[4]

The church was used as a hall for Nazi assemblies, and also after World War II. In 1963 finally, the church was restored to its former appearance and was called Georgskirche again.^[2] It serves as the main parish church, after declining attendance failed to fill the Große Kirche for regular services.^[5]

Literature

Siegfried Liesenberg (1992), Die Georgskirche in Aplerbeck (in German), Dortmund-Aplerbeck: Gustav Kleff

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References

↑ "Denkmalliste der Stadt Dortmund" (PDF). dortmund.de – Das Dortmunder Stadtportal (in German). Denkmalbehörde der Stadt Dortmund. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
1 2 3 "Aplerbeck damals". aplerbeck-damals.de (in German). Retrieved 15 April 2018.
↑ "Straßennamen". Ihr Infoportal im Stadtbezirk Aplerbeck (in German). Aplerbecker Geschichtsverein. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
↑ Hans Georg Kirchhoff; Siegfried Liesenberg, eds. (1998). 1100 Jahre Aplerbeck (in German). Essen: Klartext Verlag. p. 55. ISBN 3-88474-735-5.
↑ Bauerfeld, Jörg (10 January 2010). ""Geburtstag" / Große Kirche Aplerbeck ist 140 Jahre alt". Ruhr Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2018.

External links

Official website
850 Jahre Georgskirche / Festwoche vom 12. bis 18. September Georgsgemeinde 2011

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[Denkmalliste-1] "Denkmalliste der Stadt Dortmund" (PDF). dortmund.de – Das Dortmunder Stadtportal (in German). Denkmalbehörde der Stadt Dortmund. Retrieved 16 June 2014.

[Damals-2] 1 2 3 "Aplerbeck damals". aplerbeck-damals.de (in German). Retrieved 15 April 2018.

[Geschichtsverein-3] "Straßennamen". Ihr Infoportal im Stadtbezirk Aplerbeck (in German). Aplerbecker Geschichtsverein. Retrieved 8 May 2015.

[Kirchhoff/Liesenberg-4] Hans Georg Kirchhoff; Siegfried Liesenberg, eds. (1998). 1100 Jahre Aplerbeck (in German). Essen: Klartext Verlag. p. 55. ISBN 3-88474-735-5.

[Bauerfeld-5] Bauerfeld, Jörg (10 January 2010). ""Geburtstag" / Große Kirche Aplerbeck ist 140 Jahre alt". Ruhr Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 9 March 2018.