Holy Spirit Church (Aachen)
The Heilig-Geist-Kirche is a Roman Catholic branch church in the city of Aachen , which was built between 1929 and 1930 according to plans by Otto Bongartz . The church belongs to the parish of St. Jakob / Aachen and is located on the corner of Hohenstaufenallee and Körnerstraße.
history
During the First World War , efforts were made to build a new church within the parish of St. Jakob. The parish also created a building fund of 50,000 gold marks , which, however, had become worthless due to inflation . However, since a new church to the southwest of the Jakobskirche was urgently needed due to the increased population, the pastors of Aachen's inner city parishes founded a community association on April 1, 1925. A church tax has now been levied for the first time within this community association, since a new building could not be financed from donations alone. As early as 1928, the current site of the church on the corner of Hohenstaufenallee and Körnerstrasse was purchased.
On May 3, 1929, the parish association of St. Jakob promised 250,000 Reichsmarks for a new church and the establishment of a new pastoral care district. Thereupon the church council of the Jakobspfarre took out a loan of 70,000 Reichsmarks in order to be able to build the Holy Spirit Church. On July 22nd, 1929, a church building association was founded. On June 11, 1928, an architectural competition for the new church was announced. On January 10, 1929, the jury, chaired by Dominikus Böhm, awarded Rudolf Schwarz and Hans Schwippert second place and Cologne city planning officer Otto Bongartz first place. The construction of the church according to plans by Otto Bongartz began in 1929 and the foundation stone was laid on October 27, 1929. The new church was consecrated on July 6, 1930 .
In 1934, the parish of the Holy Spirit was removed from the parish of St. Jakob and raised to an independent parish and the Holy Spirit Church to a parish church . The church lost this status, however, as the parish was dissolved on January 1, 2010 and re-parish with the mother parish of St. Jakob. Since then, Heilig Geist has again formed a branch congregation of this parish, as it did between 1930 and 1934.
During the Second World War , the church was damaged by artillery fire from the advancing Americans in October 1944. The organ was destroyed and the roof structure caught fire, which could be extinguished. The windows were also damaged. After the end of the war in Aachen on October 21, 1944, the church was restored within three weeks so that the first service after the war could be celebrated on November 11, 1944.
Furnishing
There is modern equipment in the interior. Particularly noteworthy are the stained glass windows by the artist Anton Wendling . They were used since 1955 according to the original designs from 1930. The people's altar was consecrated on June 25, 1978 by the Aachen bishop Klaus Hemmerle . Before that, the high altar from 1930 was removed and the entire chancel rebuilt.
Bells
In the year of the consecration, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen supplies three bronze bells with the disposition f ′ - g ′ - b ′. The two smaller bells were melted down during World War II. The f-bell still exists today. In 1951 Otto restored the old peal by casting two new bells. It was expanded in 1963 with a fourth bell from the Eifel bell foundry in Mark.
| No. | Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
Caster | Casting year |
| 1 | Holy Spirit | 1394 | 1830 | d ′ +9 | Johannes Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark, Brockscheid | 1963 |
| 2 | - | 1400 | 1035 | f ′ +9 | Ernst Karl Otto, F. Otto , Hemelingen | 1930 |
| 3 | - | 1163 | - | g ′ +4 | Karl (III) Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen | 1951 |
| 4th | - | 1036 | - | b ′ +8 | Karl (III) Otto, F. Otto, Hemelingen | 1951 |
Motif: ideal quartet
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 75 Years of the Holy Spirit - 1930–2005 History and Present of the Catholic Church Community of the Holy Spirit in Aachen With its pastoral care district Maria im Tann Edited by Thomas Kreft with the assistance of Franz-Joseph Nix. On behalf of the Catholic parish Heilig Geist zu Aachen, Aachen 2005, p. 11 ff.
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially pages 535, 549 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 495, 505 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
- ^ Norbert Jachtmann: Bells in the Aachen City Region , p. 27 f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 53.5 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 27.8" E