St. Paulus (Göttingen)
St. Paulus is a Catholic parish church in Göttingen . Her parish of the same name belongs to the Göttingen deanery of the Hildesheim diocese .
history
Almost 150 years after St. Michael , the Church of St. Paul was built in 1927 as the second Catholic church in the city after the Reformation and consecrated on July 21, 1929 by Bishop Nikolaus Bares . It bears the name of the Apostle Paul , whose monumental statue occupies the west pediment.
The funds for the construction of the church according to plans by the Essen architect Adam Weinhag (1879–1937) came together through years of local and national fundraising and a contribution from the Bonifatiuswerk . In the Second World War , the building was only slightly damaged, so that the exterior is complete and the original interior is partially preserved; most of the original interior was removed during a renovation from 1958 to 1968 against the background of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council .
The conceptual and artistic redesign of the choir was carried out by the Aachen silver and goldsmith Hubertus Förster.
From 1976 to 1986 Joop Bergsma was pastor at St. Paulus and dean of the Göttingen dean's office .
In 2018, the interior of the church was partially redesigned and received a new lighting concept along with a new color scheme.
Architecture and equipment
St. Paulus is a basilica in the heavy, late neo-baroque style. The representative west facade with gable, swinging entrance hall and balcony is flanked by two squat corner towers. The outer walls of the nave structure supporting arches between the upper clad windows. The Ostabschluss forms the flat circular apse with handling . Next to it rises the high rectangular bell tower with parapet, octagonal upper floor and hood . Embossed limestone blocks were used as material , the pilaster-like dividing elements on the west side as well as the cornices and window frames are made from smoothly hewn or chipped limestone.
The interior, too, is almost Romanesque heaviness and monumentality , despite the arches that have been modified in the “Baroque” style . The worship services were redesigned after the liturgical reform. The baroque ceiling painting (1936) by the artist Eduard Goldkuhle depicting the apotheosis of St. Paul shows.
Organs
Main organ
The electro-pneumatic cone and pocket organ was built in 1954 by the organ building company Gebr. Krell , Duderstadt . Planned she was Joachim Förster, the (†) worked until 1988 as organist and director and founder of the singing circle at St. Paul. Spread over three manuals and pedal , the organ has 39 registers with a total of 2794 pipes and 2 transmissions. Because of its symphonic sound spectrum, the organ of St. Paulus is also used for concert purposes. The organ's sound characteristics are unique in Göttingen.
In 2007 the instrument was last technically overhauled by the organ building company Gebrüder Stockmann , Werl, and the intonation was carefully changed so that the sound of an instrument, which grew out of the ideas of the organ movement , could essentially be preserved.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, Sub II / I, super octave coupling in I, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : roller, 3 free combinations, 3 fixed combinations, pedal combination, individual and total stops for the reeds
Chest organ
Organ builder Daniel Gruber from Schenkenzell in the Black Forest manufactured the chest organ for St. Paulus in 2004/2005 . Local, selected and seasoned woods from the Black Forest were used for their construction. The builder used ebony for the keyboard's upper keys, which is one of the non-European hardwoods. The one-manual chest organ has a total of 258 pipes (spread over 5 registers), 108 of which are made of wood. The disposition is adapted to the size of the church. By moving the keyboard, you can play on the chest organ not only in concert pitch with a ′ 440 Hz, but also a semitone lower (a ′ 415 Hz) or a semitone higher (a ′ 466 Hz). The chest organ in the choir is used for liturgy and concert purposes.
Disposition:
| 1. Shelf 8 ′ (tongue register of the Göttingen company Giesecke) |
| 2. Bourdon 8 ′ (wooden register and at the same time the foundation of the organ sound) |
| 3rd flute 4 ′ (wooden register from C to e0 covered, f0 to e1 covered with pipe, f1 to f3 open with tuning cover) |
| 4th fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′ (from c0 to f3 made of 60% tin-lead alloy) |
| 5. Doublette 2 ′ (C to f3 made of 60% tin-lead alloy) |
Bells
Originally the St. Pauluskirche had a 5-part bronze bell with the tone sequence as' - g '- f' - es' - c '. For war purposes, the four largest bells were pulled in to be melted down in Hamburg in 1942. In 1951 the community received three bells from the "Glockenfriedhof" Hamburg. Since then the overall chime of St. Paul is as follows:
g sharp '(re-voiced bell from the original stock)
fis' ("loan bell", origin Friedberg, year of casting 1699)
e '("loan bell", origin Troppau, year of casting 1637)
cis' ("loan bell", origin Opole, year of casting 1702)
Church music
St. Paul is also a place for church music. For many years the advantages of the large church space and its features have been regularly used by ensembles of very different casts for their performances.
The Singkreis St. Paulus eV (founded in 1954) is a non-denominational ensemble and at the same time the parish choir. Heiner Kedziora has been the musical director since 1990. The main task of the choir is to organize church services and devotions, at high festivals also with an orchestra and singing soloists. The spectrum of work ranges from the Renaissance to the modern age. The highlight is the annual autumn concert in St. Paulus. Traditionally, rarely performed works are performed here.
The St. Paulus Chamber Orchestra is made up of ambitious amateur musicians from the city and district of Göttingen on a project basis. The vocal parts are professionally cast.
The St. Paulus Singing Circle is recognized as a non-profit association. Singing and making music in social institutions has been a tradition since its foundation.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '21.4 " N , 9 ° 56" 37.7 " E