Paulus Church (Werl)

Paulus Church

The Protestant Paulus Church is a church building that characterizes the townscape in Werl in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

In 1965 the Evangelical Church Community had grown to 4,345 members. The previously used Johanneskirche became too small. The foundation stone for the new church was laid on July 24, 1964, and it was consecrated on the fourth Sunday of Advent in 1966. The plans come from the architect Ernst Dossmann. The simple reinforced concrete skeleton body creates a clear structure in the interior without any mystifying effects. Only the altar area is highlighted by the artistically designed windows with special light. The side of the altar in the interior is made of green sandstone. Until 1994 there was only a steel bell in the single bell tower. It was replaced by five bronze bells (strikes: d ", f", g ", a", b "). The tower was renovated in 1993.

organ

The first organ, built by the Werler organ building company Stockmann , came from the Johanneskirche . But although the instrument was undersized for the new, larger church interior, a new organ could not be bought until 1990. It was built by the Eule company from Bautzen. The slider chest instrument has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The stop action is mechanical and electrical (double action), the game actions are mechanical. The instrument has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Bourdon 16 ′ Principal 08th' Reed flute 08th' octave 04 ′ Coupling flute 04 ′ Gemshorn 02 ′ Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Mixture IV 02 ′ Trumpet 08th' Tremulant Zimbelstern 0

II Swell C – g 3 Drone 08th' Viol 08th' Unda Maris (from c 0 ) 0 08th' Principal 04 ′ Pointed flute 04 ′ Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 02 ′ third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Sif flute 01' Scharff IV 01' Shawm oboe 08th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Principal bass 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Octave bass 08th' Bass flute 08th' Choral bass 04 ′ Back set IV 0 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 08th'

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P as step and pull
• Playing aids : Fixed combination (Tutti); Tongue down; 64-fold typesetting system with sequence switch up / down; Swell step and hand lever for the blinds of the swell
• Effect register: Zimbelstern with 8 bells (f ³ , g ³ , b ³ , c ⁴ , d ⁴ , f ⁴ , d ⁴ , c ⁴ )
• Non-acoustic stops : Vox Strigis, as a gift from the organ builder, a wooden owl (Pauline) pulls the “Schuhu” of a wooden pipe out of the inside of the organ
• Tuning : pitch a ¹ = 440 Hz at 18 ° C; Mood floating evenly

Furnishing

The altar stone, the pulpit and the font are works by the artist W. Kreutter. They were made from Lirchheim shell limestone .

literature

• Amalie Rohrer / Hans Jürgen Zacher (ed.): Werl history of a Westphalian city Volume 2 , Bonifatius Druck Buch Verlag 1994, ISBN 3-87088-844-X

Web links

• Brief history (accessed August 5, 2012)

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '19 "  N , 7 ° 55' 14.3"  E