Christ the King (Küppersteg)

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Christ the King (Küppersteg)

The Christ the King Church is a catholic church in the Leverkusen district of Küppersteg .

history

The church, a brick building - hall church with gable roof , high, narrow arched windows and a large, arched inwardly offset louvre windows in the portal wall, in 1928, designed by Dominikus Böhm built. The transversely rectangular bell tower (52 meters high) was added in the second half of the 1950s under the direction of Gottfried Böhm . The top of the tower is crowned by a sculpture "Swarm of Angels" designed by Sepp Hürten . The church is illuminated at night.

The parish of Christ König Küppersteg, together with the parishes of Herz Jesu and St. Antonius Wiesdorf and St. Stephanus (Bürrig), has formed the Wiesdorf-Bürrig-Küppersteg parish association since 2002, and since autumn 2009 as a parish community with a joint parish council. On January 1, 2012, these parishes merged to form the new parish of St. Stephanus, Leverkusen. Parish church is St. Stephen.

Bells

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Caster
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 Michael bell 1958 Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling,
Heidelberg bell foundry FW Schilling 		1414 1911 cis 1 +1
2 Holy family bell 1958 Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling,
Heidelberg bell foundry FW Schilling		 1226 1232 e 1 +3
3 Judas Squidward Bell 1958 Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling,
Heidelberg bell foundry FW Schilling		 1085 848 f sharp 1 +1

See also

Web links

Commons : Christus-König-Kirche (Leverkusen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne , Volume 152, 2012, Item 1, No. 5, p. 8
  2. ^ Gerhard Hoffs (ed.): Bell music in the city dean of Leverkusen . P. 43ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 51.1 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 43.2 ″  E