Heart of Jesus (Wiesdorf)
The Catholic Church of the Heart of Jesus is located in Wiesdorf , a district of Leverkusen .
history
The house of God is also known as the “City Church”. It was built according to the plans of the Langenfeld architect Bernhard Rotterdam . The consecration took place on October 5, 1929. The 45 m high brick tower, a symbol of the city after the Bayer Cross and the Water Tower, was not completed until the beginning of 1930. The nave is 60 m long and 17.50 m high. The interior was designed "location-conscious" in the style of an industrial workshop. The tall, slender arched windows in the south and west facade were designed by the Dutch artist Jan Thorn Prikker .
The parish of Herz Jesu and St. Antonius Wiesdorf, together with the parishes of Christ König Küppersteg 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.
organ
The organ was inaugurated on May 31, 1965. It was through the company originally in 1927 Klais for a holiday house of Bayer AG built and given away later to the community. It has 47 registers , three manuals and a pedal and is played via an electric action . She stands in front of the glass windows that Thorn-Prikker designed.
Bells
The tower houses the following bells:
No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
1 | Holy Spirit bell | 1902 | Bochum Association | 1,990 | 3,300 | a 0 +3 |
2 | Mary Bell | 1930 | Bochum Association | 1,680 | 1,900 | c 1 +2 |
3 | Joseph Bell | 1930 | Bochum Association | 1,490 | 1,350 | d 1 +1 |
4th | Anthony Bell | 1930 | Bochum Association | 1,390 | 1,080 | e 1 -2 |
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the parish association Wiesdorf-Bürrig-Küppersteg parish association
- Description and history on the website of the Internet Initiative Leverkusen eV (with picture)
References and comments
- ^ Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne , Volume 152, 2012, Item 1, No. 5, p. 8
- ^ Opus list of the Klais company , accessed on December 11, 2019 (PDF)
- ↑ The history of the organ in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , accessed on December 11, 2019.
- ↑ Gerhard Hoffs (Ed.): Bell music in the city dean of Leverkusen . P. 125ff.
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 52.8 " N , 6 ° 58 ′ 59.9" E