Jaegerstraße 11
The house Jaeger Road 11 is under monument protection standing villa in Wuppertal zoo area .
description
The building is a two-story residential building in the Wilhelminian style . The villa, built between 1893 and 1894 by the architects Hermanns & Riemann from Elberfeld , is completely solid with a plastered facade. The facade side facing Jaegerstraße is divided vertically by two rows of windows, as is the case on the northeast side, but there with three windows on the ground floor. Both parts of the building have a roof at the same height and a point of contact in the middle of the roof. The horizontal of the building is structured by several, completely encircling cornices which, in addition to the height of the floor of the first floor, also run around the slightly overhanging roof. Those roof collars are supported on the sides by simple free chevrons with simple carvings. The windows are matched to the surrounding cornices and friezes with stucco frames and set the plastered facade a brightly colored accent. The house entrance is located exactly on the central axis of the southwest side, which is covered by a small canopy with the same free space as the roof collar.
A large open space was set in front of the building on the north side, which was originally adorned with several ornamental ponds and extensive greening. This area has now been built over with a modern apartment building.
Since 1992, the house is a listed building and was in the monument list entered the city of Wuppertal.
Maximilian Kolbe Chapel
There has been a need for a church service room in the zoo district, which at that time was largely inhabited by Roman Catholic residents, since its creation at the end of the 19th century. Originally, the parish of Sankt Remigius in Sonnborn , which had its own church again since 1879, had plans to build a Roman Catholic church in the west of the district. With the inauguration of the Sankt Joseph am Nützenberg church in 1911, however, the majority of the Catholics in the west of the Elberfeld who had to be looked after fell to the parish of Sankt Joseph, which meant that the plans to build a church were abandoned and a decision was made to build a parish hall instead. However, the following war years prevented these plans from being carried out.
In May 1966 the house was bought by the parish of Sankt Remigius in order to build a chapel in the basement for the Catholics living in the zoo district. No funds were available for the construction of a new zoo parish hall , instead the villa for sale could be bought cheaply. A larger room on the north side of the building was extended to the east with a choir-like extension and now offered around 40 seats, and a parish apartment was built in the further basement. The upper floor was rented out as an apartment by the municipality and secured additional income. The first mass in the chapel was celebrated in May 1964 and has been held weekly since then. The chapel, previously known as the zoo chapel, was placed in July 1981 by the Archbishop of Cologne , Joseph Höffner, under the patronage of the Franciscan Minorite Maximilian Kolbe, who was canonized a little later . As part of an initial renovation in 1982, the Wuppertal-born artist Hans-Peter Brahm completely redesigned the windows of the chapel in a contemporary style. The right window shows Maximilian Kolbe in prisoner clothing in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , the left window in the same position as Kolbe Christ in Suffering. The windows are now in the Saint Remigius Church, where they are artificially illuminated in front of the concrete wall and thus still achieve a colored effect.
The Maximilian Kolbe Chapel has not received any financial support from the parish of Sankt Remigius since 2004, and the chaplain has been carrying out the services on a voluntary basis ever since. In 2007 the last service took place in the chapel, the building was profaned and sold. After extensive renovation and renovation work, it is now privately owned.
literature
- Parish of St. Remigius Sonnborn: Commemorative publication for the 40th anniversary of the parish church of St. Remigius in Wuppertal-Sonnborn, Das Maximilian-Kolbe-Fenster , p. 10 and p. 12, Wuppertal 2016
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Parish community Wuppertal west
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Catholic churches remain Westdeutsche Zeitung from August 19, 2009
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 34 " N , 7 ° 6 ′ 34" E