Heart of Jesus (Barmen)

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Facade 2008
The bell for evening mass

Herz Jesu is the Catholic church in the Unterbarmen district of Wuppertal .

history

The large increase in the population of Barmen at the end of the 19th century made the construction of a Catholic church for under-mercy and the parish of the mother community of St. Antonius seem imperative. In the 1870s, the area north of the Wupper around Bismarckstrasse (today Hünefeldstrasse ) was also built on. In 1888 a church building association was formed, which in the course of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus , which became very popular again in the 19th century, chose the name in 1894 (ten years after construction began on the Elberfeld church of the same name ), a year later bought the building site and soon afterwards Gerhard August Fischer entrusted with the planning. The building was erected between June 1902 and November 1903, the furnishings were created in the years after the inauguration.

The Codex Iuris Canonici made it mandatory for new churches to be based on medieval architectural styles until 1918. The Herz Jesu follows - like most of the Catholic church buildings of the time - neo-Gothic models. It is a three-aisled hall church with a five-eight choir, facing south-east towards the banks of the Wupper , behind whose entrance façade a tower rises up in the middle. The building receding from the street forms a small rectangular square with the buildings on the left and right after the church, the rectory and a former monastery building.

The facade at the topping-out ceremony in 1903

The entrance facade and a few meters of the long sides are walled up with tufa stone, dividing elements are made of sandstone, the other walls are plastered. The two-storey facade, structured by buttresses, reflects the three-aisle structure of the interior. A third facing storey with tracery windows and triangular gables, which originally covered the roof and the lower tower storey, was removed in 1963 because it was dilapidated; the middle part received a simple triangular gable. A large rose window is located above the central main portal, the narrower sides each show three narrow windows under blind arches on the ground floor, and narrow, high tracery windows on the upper floor.

The 29 m high tower rises on a square floor plan, the upper two floors are octagonal, on four sides of the second floor there are small octagonal turrets, an eight-sided pyramid roof with a cross and a cockerel crowns the tower.

Although the church survived the Second World War with minor damage (the furnishings from the time it was built are almost completely preserved), the vaults, which were no longer load-bearing, had to be replaced in the 1980s. The outer facade and the tower were renovated in 2006-2008. The church now has 310 seats.

On July 8, 1996, the church was recognized as a monument and entered in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.

organ

The first organ was inaugurated in 1903. It was an electro-pneumatic instrument that was built by the organ builder Paul Faust . As part of an expansion of the organ in 1935, 14 registers of the Faust organ were reused. In 1953 the disposition was changed slightly. The pocket cone store instrument today has 36 stops on three manuals and pedal . The actions are electro-pneumatic.

I main work C–
1. Lovely Gedackt 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Jubilee flute 8th'
4th Dulciana 8th'
5. Praestant 4 ′
6th Night horn covered 4 ′
7th Octav 2 ′
8th. Mixture V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C–
9. Gemshorn 8th'
10. Salicional 8th'
11. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
12. Cornett 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th recorder 4 ′
15th Gemshorn fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Forest flute 2 ′
17th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Sif flute 1'
19th Cymbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
20th Trumpet 8th'
21st Clarine 4 ′
III positive C–
22nd Reed flute 8th'
23. Italian principal 4 ′
24. Fifth flute 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Swiss pipe 2 ′
26th Krummhorn 8th'
Pedals C–
27. Contrabass 16 ′
28. Sub bass 16 ′
29 Delicately packed 16 ′
30th Octavbass 8th'
31. Bass flute 8th'
32. Choral bass 4 ′
33. Peasant pipe 2 ′
34. Nursing trombone 16 ′
35. Trumpet 8th'
36. Clarine 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / I (also as super and sub-octave coupling), III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

In the tower of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche hangs a six-part peal of different bell-makers. It consists of four bells that were cast by the Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock foundry in 1954 and 1964 as a replacement for bells that fell victim to the confiscation of bells during the two world wars. Of these previous bells, only a bronze bell from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen remains, which was cast in 1908. It sounds on c '', has a diameter of 780 mm and weighs 340 kg. In addition, the community received a loan bell from West Prussia after the war.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information about the organ. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; Retrieved November 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orgel-information.de
  2. ^ 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, here in particular pp. 447, 517 .
  3. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 481 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '47.3 "  N , 7 ° 10' 27.8"  E