Evangelical Pauluskirche Bochum
The Protestant Pauluskirche is a listed church building in Bochum- Mitte in North Rhine-Westphalia .
History and architecture
The simple hall church made of quarry stone stands on an elevated, formerly centrally located square. The building with a three-sided choir was constructed between 1655 and 1659. During the Second World War , the church was destroyed and restored in simplified forms by Karl Ernst Prein from 1949 to 1950. The tower shaft was extended by a bell house . The rusticated tower portal with Ionic columns on high pedestals is marked 1655. On the attic there is a coat of arms and a dedication stone; remains of an ogival window have been preserved above it. A flat wooden ceiling was drawn into the interior. The choir is separated by a triple arc. The choir windows were created by Willy Heyer between 1962 and 1964. The three-part cast steel bell sounds in es′-ges′-as ′.
literature
- Georg Dehio , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2
Web links
- Brief history (accessed March 22, 2012)
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 53 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 7 ″ E