Kreuzherrenkirche
Kreuzherrenkirche stands in Düsseldorf’s old city centre as a former monastery church of the Kreuzherren order. Its brick exterior shows large tracery windows and stepped buttresses. Inside, a high two-nave hall presents five bays, two choirs, slender octagonal pillars, and ribbed vaults.
A chapel called Liebfrauenkapelle stood here by about 950 and remained a pilgrimage destination until the mid-fourteenth century. The Kreuzherren received the chapel and hospital in 1443. Construction began that year, while a second nave later reflected the building’s combined parish and pilgrimage roles. Secularisation in 1803 brought uses including a stable and storage. Restoration began in 1960, and reconsecration followed in 1990.
Today, St.-Ursula-Gymnasium uses the building as a school church and auditorium, so the interior is not open to the public. The organ came from Rotterdam Cathedral and was built around 1850 by F. A. Loret. Seifert restored it in 1990, preserving ten registers across one manual and pedal with mechanical action.
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