Mary's Conception (Wuppertal)

St. Mary's Conception in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel

Inside view

The Church of the Conception of Mary in Wuppertal - Vohwinkel is a Roman Catholic church and, along with the churches of St. Bonifatius, St. Ludger and St. Remigius, one of the four preaching sites of the Wuppertal West Parish Association .

history

On December 8, 1889, the Reverend Felix Wamich and the Church Board of decide Sonnborn in Vohwinkel a plot at the intersection Gustavstraße / Friedrichstrasse (until 2011 Lettow-Vorbeck-Straße , now Edith Stein -Straße ) for construction to buy a church. After a church building association was founded in 1890, all the necessary measures to build an emergency church were initiated. On September 18, 1893, the new Ludgerus Church and the rectory were completed and three years later the congregation was elevated to an independent chapel congregation, in 1901 the Vohwinkel congregation became an independent parish.

Due to the considerable growth of the town of Vohwinkel in the second half of the 19th century, the emergency church became too small, and the pastor Franz Bosbach tried to build a larger church. After the Catholic women of the Archdiocese of Cologne held a collection for the construction of a votive church on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the dogmatization of the Mother of God received without inheritance debt, Pastor Franz Bosbach succeeded in using the proceeds from this collection for the construction of a new church in Vohwinkel were used.

The Düsseldorf architect Joseph Kleesattel was responsible for planning the new church in neo-Gothic style . On July 29, 1906, the foundation stone was laid by the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Anton Fischer , and on October 13 of the following year the church, initially known as St. Mary Immaculate , later called St. Mary's Conception , was consecrated. The old St. Ludgerus Church was demolished beforehand, the old rectory remained until 1973.

In 2011, Lettow-Vorbeck-Strasse, on which the church was built, was renamed Edith-Stein-Strasse , largely due to an initiative of the parish.

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1972 by the Dutch organ building workshop Verschueren and has 28 stops on two manuals with pedal and a movable console. The playing and stop actions are electric.

I. main work Quintad 16 ′ Principal 8th' Darling Dumped 8th' octave 4 ′ recorder 4 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 2 ' mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Trumpet 8th'

II. Swell Salicional 8th' Reed flute 8th' Singing principal 4 ′ Pointed flute 4 ′ Principal 2 ′ Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sesquialter I-III Scharff III-IV 1' Dulcian 16 ′ Hautbois 8th' Clairon 4 ′

pedal Principal bass 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Principal bass 8th' Covered bass 8th' Choral bass 4 ′ Flat flute 2 ′ Rauschbass III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P

literature

• Catholic parish of St. Mary's conception (ed.): 100 years of the parish of St. Mary's conception, Wuppertal-Vohwinkel 1896–1996 , Wuppertal 1996

Web links

Commons : The Conception of Mary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
• Parish Association of Wuppertal West

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lettow-Vorbeck: Will the street be renamed after all? West German newspaper . Retrieved January 6, 2017.
2. ↑ Thanks be to Catholicism - The organ in St. Mary's Conception at Vohwinkel. The organ journal. Retrieved January 6, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 48 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 17 ″  E