St. Nikolaus (Cologne-Sülz)
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
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
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".
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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) |
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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
- ↑ Marius Horstschäfer: The new Mühleisen organ. Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas in Cologne-Sülz. Festschrift 2009.
- ↑ 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.
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ 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
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '8.6 " N , 6 ° 55' 36.3" E