St. Paul (Cologne)
St. Paul is the name of a neo-Gothic parish church consecrated in 1908 on Vorgebirgstraße / Lothringer Straße (near Sachsenring ) in the city center district ( Neustadt-Süd ). The name of the Archbishop of Cologne , Paulus Melcher , was also the godfather. The patronage comes from the former Romanesque parish church and parish of St. Paul , which belonged to the collegiate church of St. Andrew and was east of it. This was demolished in 1807.
history
The Cologne chocolate manufacturer Ludwig Stollwerck was heavily involved in the construction. This is documented in a document that was enclosed in the tower knob and u. a. states: "Next to the first pastor of St. Paul, Peter Haas, who died in God on August 2, 1907, the members of the church council, city councilor Adolf Nöcker, Karl Steinmann and Ludwig Stollwerck, have the greatest merit in the expansion of this church."
The property on today's street “An der Pauluskirche” was acquired by the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1888 along with another property on Vondelstraße . At that time this area belonged to the parish of St. Severin or St. Pantaleon. With the beginning of the city expansion "Neustadt" a new parish became necessary, which was created in 1901 by the elevation of the rectorate Maria Hilf to the parish of St. Paul.
Ludwig Stollwerck was a member of the church council from the very beginning and since 1901 has been working intensively on building the new parish church of St. Paul. He brought up his friend, the Berlin architect Bruno Schmitz , who drew the first plans and worked intensively on the design of the cloister. His brother Heinrich Stollwerck was also involved in the planning, who had a "direct line" to Archbishop Simar through his friend Cathedral Chapter Schnütgen . In coordination with his friend, banker Louis Hagen (1855–1932) from A. Levy & Co. , who had converted to Catholicism, Ludwig Stollwerck obtained a loan of 500,000 marks.
After the death of Archbishop Simar in 1903, the church council under the leadership of Haas, Nöcker, Steinmann and Stollwerck was given the task of planning the building. The new Archbishop Fischer was rather negative about the building project, reduced the building cost to 350,000 marks, the architectural style to Gothic or Romanesque and, in an affront to Berlin's Bruno Schmitz, only allowed designs from Rhineland-Westphalia. His authoritarian demeanor prompted Heinrich Stollwerck to give up his commitment. Ludwig Stollwerck was able to prevent the failure of the project through his personal intervention and organized an architectural competition. The Cologne architect Stephan Mattar (1875–1943) won it with his neo-Gothic design “in cruce sola salus”.
On May 13, 1906, the Cologne building contractor Ferdinand Schmitz, a brother-in-law of Ludwig Stollwerck, laid the foundation stone. A bay-like box was built in the upper part of the south wall of the choir, the use of which was supposedly reserved for the Stollwerck family as donors. After the death of Pastor Peter Haas (1854–1907), the interior work was carried out by the new Pastor Heinrich Enshoff (1865–1923) under the direction of the Art Commission (Enshoff, Stollwerck, Steinmann, Nöcker). The altar of Mary, of which the middle group is still preserved, is unusual in St. Paul. The altar was built by the sculptors August Schmidt and Alexander Iven and shows next to the image of Mary u. a. the members of the church council. Ludwig Stollwerck can be clearly recognized by his characteristic center parting. Glass windows for the church were created by Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt, documents for this are in the Linnemann archive.
In 1908 Ludwig Stollwerck visited the Holy Father in the Vatican and told him about the new construction of the parish church of St. Paul in Cologne. For this purpose he had a box made of Stollwerck chocolate products that showed Cologne Cathedral on the outside and the new St. Paul Church on the inside.
In 1910, Ludwig Stollwerck was appointed Knight of the Order of the Holy Grave together with the other members of the building commission in recognition of their achievements .
(New) St. With St. Agnes, Paul is the best preserved example of church building in Cologne's Neustadt, even if the three spiers were no longer erected after the war damage and the tower now has a flat roof. Today there are three bells hanging in the tower ( strikes e 1 , f sharp 1 and g sharp 1 ).
literature
- Andreas Huppertz: Stephan Mattar . in: The Christian Art. Münster, year 1912/13, building description, pp. 180 to 212 - online , accessed on October 29, 2013
Individual evidence
- ^ Oepen, Joachim and Schaffer, Wolfgang: Church, pulpit, monastery, Greven Verlag Cologne, 2006.
- ↑ Tanja Junggeburth, Stollwerck 1839–1932. Entrepreneurial family and family business. Stuttgart 2014. p. 230.
- ↑ Tanja Junggeburth, Stollwerck 1839–1932. Entrepreneurial family and family business. Stuttgart 2014. p. 231.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '21.6 " N , 6 ° 57' 5.1" E