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St. Helena Church Rheindahlen

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St. Helena Church Rheindahlen

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Rinaldini

June 26, 2021

The oldest surviving part of the medieval church is the Romanesque tower from the 12th century.

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Didada

March 7, 2025

There are two organs in the church.

The small chest organ in the choir room of St. Helena was built in 2014 by the organ building company Martin Scholz from Mönchengladbach-Hardt. The community was able to purchase this instrument in 2016 solely through donations from music enthusiasts.

With its 2 1/2 registers, which are made entirely of wood, it serves as an excellent continuo instrument for orchestral masses, oratorio performances and concerts.

The large organ by Seifert in St. Helena is divided into four so-called works and contains 40 sounding registers. The large pedal organ (8 registers) is placed in the side towers and the main organ (II. Manual/11 registers) is placed in the middle between them. To the left and right of the console, in C and C sharp divisions like all other works of this instrument, is the swell organ (III. Manual/13 registers). The Rückpositiv (I. Manual/8 registers) is located behind the player. This arrangement, in which many instruments were built in the heyday of organ building, the Baroque period, guarantees a great fusion of the organ sound with the best possible transparency of the individual voices (disposition see below).
The organ was built using the slider chest system. The action is purely mechanical and consists of many wooden strips, angles and abstracts. Made from the finest wood (hornbeam, cedar, spruce, etc.), it guarantees a fine and sensitive playing style that allows the organist to play in an artistically expressive manner. The register pulls (manubria) attached to the right and left of the keyboards are rectangular and arranged in such a way that several registers can be pulled with one handle. This is absolutely necessary for an organ without a setting system and therefore the arrangement was not based on foot numbers but on register families - an idea propagated by the then organ expert of the diocese, Münsterkantor Viktor Scholz, who also designed the disposition in collaboration with the organ building company and Dr. Kleine.

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Didada

March 7, 2025

The solid-looking organ case, the resonance chamber, has a supporting structure made of cambalateak wood, while the case itself is made of Spessart oak. The wooden veil boards are beautifully designed as branches with leaves. The local master painter Andreas Baum (already retired at the time) covered some of these with gold leaf, thus creating light spots.
The inauguration took place on June 24, 1984 as part of a celebratory vespers. Viktor Scholz played works by J. S. Bach, M. E. Bossi, A. Guilmant, Ch. M. Widor and improvisations. In the inauguration concert a few days later on June 27, 1984, the young cantor Reinhold Richter, who had been employed in St. Helena since 1982, played works by L. N. Clerambault, J. S. Bach, C. Franck, M. Reger and M. Dupré.
The congregation was very happy about this beautiful-sounding instrument, also because for too many years they had had to make do without an instrument that was appropriate for the beautiful neo-Gothic church. The purpose of the organ was therefore clear from the very first day and with its 2,998 pipes it continues to serve reliably in liturgy and concerts to this day, both to the greater glory of God and to the joy of the people.
In 2008, at the end of the major renovation of the interior of the church, the instrument was cleaned by Orgelbau Scholz, Mönchengladbach.

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St. Helena Church Rheindahlen

1. Hardter Wald Forest Path – Steinzeittor Rheindahlen loop from Hardt

2. JHQ Rheindahlen – Steinzeittor Rheindahlen loop from Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen

3. Entrance to Schloss Wickrath – St. Johannes Herdt Chapel loop from Rheydt-Odenkirchen

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