St. Nikolaus (Cologne-Sülz)

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St. Nikolaus in Cologne-Sülz
South side
View through the nave towards the choir

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Nikolaus on Berrenrather Straße on Nikolausplatz in Cologne-Sülz belongs to the parish of St. Nikolaus and Karl Borromäus. Together with the Church of St. Bruno in Cologne-Klettenberg, it forms the pastoral care area Sülz-Klettenberg in the dean's office in Cologne-Lindenthal .

The church was built between 1903 and 1909 according to the plans of Franz Statz , the son of the cathedral builder Vincenz Statz in the neo-Romanesque style from tuff and basalt and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Nicholas .

history

Due to the growth of Cologne from the middle of the 19th century and immigration from outside in the area of ​​today's Lindenthal district , a separate church was necessary for the Sülz district; the way to the next Catholic church in Kriel meant more than half an hour's walk. Despite the Kulturkampf , private initiatives made it possible from 1875 to build a church building on the corner of Marsiliusstrasse and today's Nikolausstrasse, which was then called Mittelstrasse.

In 1886 Archbishop Philipp Krementz sent the Aachen priest Franz Josef Hubert Becker to the St. Nikolaus is the "side church of Sülz, parish Kriel". On June 29, 1892, after years of negotiations with the mother church in Kriel, this side church was named an independent parish church.

In the meantime, however, the building was no longer able to cope with the rush of Catholics, and so between 1903 and 1909 the citizens of Sülz financed a new building on a field on Berrenrather Strasse on the former site of a Nikolaus chapel, which had been documented since 1201 and was laid down in 1474 during the Burgundian Wars . The so-called Sülzer Cathedral , a three - aisled neo - Romanesque basilica with a transept and a slender tower with a rhombic roof , was built under the direction of Franz Statz, son of the cathedral builder Vincenz Statz .

Furnishing

Mosaic in the war memorial chapel

The initial equipment included a wooden relief behind the priest's seat with a canopy by A. Schmidt, a baptismal font from 1892, the 14 Stations of the Cross by Ludwig Feldmann and a statue of St. Nicholas.

In 1919 Johannes Osten created three neo-Byzantine mosaics in the main apse and in the war memorial chapel , made by the company Puhl & Wagner . The apse mosaic depicts Jesus as Pantocrator between John the Baptist and the Mother of God .

In 1960 Heinrich Windelschmidt made the windows of the choir with the evangelist symbols and the transept windows . The two murals by Peter Hecker in the altar niches below the choir also date from 1960 . In 1978 Paul Weigmann designed the 24 upper clad windows , in which garlands of fruit are depicted, and Olaf Höhnen created the altar.

organ

Mühleisen organ from 2009

In November 2009 a new organ from the Mühleisen company from Leonberg was inaugurated. The instrument has mechanical key actions and electric stop action. A special feature is the second swell device of the swell mechanism in the tower room, so that the swell mechanism can be used as a "remote mechanism".

I main work C – a 3
1. Praestant 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Drone 8th'
4th Viola di gamba 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
9. Mixture V-VI 2 ′
10. Cornet v 8th'
11. Trumpet 8th'
II swell positive C – a 3
12. Reed flute 8th'
13. Quintatön 8th' H
14th Salicional 8th'
15th Unda maris 8th' V
16. Octave 4 ′
17th recorder 4 ′
18th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Duplicate 2 ′
20th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
21st Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Scharff IV – V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Cor anglais 8th'
24. clarinet 8th' V
Tremulant
III Swell C – a 3
25th Drone 16 ′
26th Violin principal 8th'
27. Lovely covered 8th'
28. Flute 8th'
29 violin 8th'
30th Aeoline 8th'
31. Vox coelestis 8th'
32. Fugara 4 ′
33. Transverse flute 4 ′
34. Piccolo 2 ′
35. Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
36. Harmonia aeth. II-IV
37. Contrabassoon 16 ′
38. Trumpet harm. 8th'
39. oboe 8th'
40. Clarine 4 ′
Tremulant
Solo work C – a 3
41. Flauto myrabilis 8th'
42. Tuba myrabilis 8th'
43. Campanae (a 0 –e 2 ) V

Pedals C – f 1
44. Pedestal 32 ′
45. Principal bass 16 ′
46. Sub bass 16 ′
47. Fernbass (No. 25) 16 ′
48. Octave bass 8th'
49. Bass flute 8th'
50. Violoncello (No. 29) 8th'
51. Choral bass 4 ′
52. trombone 16 ′ H
53. Bassoon (No. 37) 16 ′
54. Trumpet 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, Solo / I, Solo / II, Solo / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, Solo / P
    • Super octave coupling: III / III, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: I / I, III / III
  • Playing aids : additional swell step for swell in the tower room ("Fernwerk"), electricalsetting system , crescendo roller, Goerlino (Sordino prepared for no. 43)
  • Remarks
V = vacant, prepared for later additions
H = historical register from the holdings of the previous organ

Bells

In the tower there is a ringing made of four bells , whose heavy construction (“rib”) is accompanied by a great volume of sound; the chime disposition has the bell motif "O Savior, tear open the heavens". Of the previous four-part bell from 1908, only the small bell survived the two world wars. Instead of the Otto bells from 1908, which were melted down during the wars, three new bells were cast for St. Nikolaus by the Otto bell foundry in 1957 . It is one of the few larger bells that Otto was able to deliver for Cologne after the Second World War. The bell hangs in a massive steel bell cage, with the two larger bells hanging below the two smaller bells. For the angelus at 12 and 7 p.m. the bell 1 hits 3 × 3 times; Bell 3 rings for a few minutes. On Fridays at 3 p.m. outside of Holy Week, the large Sacred Heart bell reminds of the hour of Christ's death. The Sunday bells consist of bells 2 to 4; at high feasts the full bell sounds.

No.
  		Surname
 Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Weight
(kg) 		Nominal
(16th note)
1 Heart of jesus 1957 Karl (III) Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1622 2800 c 1 -1
2 Maria 1957 Karl (III) Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1350 1700 it 1 +1
3 Nicholas 1957 Karl (III) Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1212 1200 f 1 -1
4th Gertrud 1908 Karl (I) Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1082 850 g 1 −1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marius Horstschäfer: The new Mühleisen organ. Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas in Cologne-Sülz. Festschrift 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Gerhard Hoffs: Bell music of Catholic churches in Cologne. PDF, p. 839 f. ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.glockenbuecherebk.de
  3. ^ 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. 81, 516, 555 .
  4. ↑ 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 pp. 65, 481, 510 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Web links

Commons : St. Nikolaus (Cologne)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '8.6 "  N , 6 ° 55' 36.3"  E