St. Paulus (Nowy Bytom)
St. Paulus ( Polish: Kościół Świętego Pawła) is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Ruda district of Nowy Bytom (Peace Hut ) in Poland . It was built in neo-Romanesque style in 1911–1912 based on a design by the architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp .
location
The church is located on Plac Jana Pawła II , the central square of the district, which is also the center of Ruda Śląska due to the town hall built here in 1929.
history
In the course of industrialization , the eastern part of Upper Silesia developed into a coherent industrial area of the mining industry. In the catchment area of industrial enterprises, numerous housing estates, as to the coal mine caused God's blessing and the ferrous peace hut of the same settlement Peace hut . The building of social facilities such as church buildings could hardly keep up with the rapid increase in population.
In 1903 the Friedenshütte community already had more than 10,000 Catholics, without there being a local church. For this reason, the Catholic Church Building Association Friedenshütte was founded in 1905 . Even if large donations could be achieved and the construction project was co-financed by the companies of the Friedenshütte and the Graeflich Schaffgotschen Werke , the funds were limited. Not least because the architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp waived any fees and carried out the building supervision himself, a monumental church could be built, which with 1000 seats could accommodate 4000 believers.
Due to numerous orders in the region, Klomp had opened a branch in nearby Katowice in addition to his Dortmund office .
After the laying of the foundation stone on May 2, 1911, the consecration by the Breslau Auxiliary Bishop Karl Augustin was carried out on August 15, 1912, with a large participation of the population . After the completion of the church, construction of the rectory began and was completed in 1913, also according to Klomp's plans.
After this part of Upper Silesia was assigned to Poland in 1922, the Nowy Bytom parish was founded in 1925 .
architecture
The design took the opportunity to give the extensive industrial estate Friedenshütte an urban center. To the west of the main residential street , Morgenrothstrasse (today ul. Niedurnego) , a spacious market square was laid out, the western end of which was the church. Due to the expansive shape of the building and the extensive staircase, which is flanked by monumental seat images of Saints Florian and Barbara, the new building was anchored on the almost undeveloped square.
The church is a three-aisled basilica on a cruciform floor plan with a front tower. It measures 68 meters in length and 32 meters in width in the transept. About a porch in the tower, the three-bay nave is entered, this is followed by the short transept and the choir in an apse and an ambulatory expires. The main nave is greatly widened at the expense of the side aisles, which are only 3.5 meters wide and end in side choirs. The 30 meter wide main nave gives the basilica church space an open space that takes up reform efforts in church construction. Various additions are added to the clear basic form, which make the overall appearance appear divided and diverse. The tower is flanked by two stair towers and two apses. The transept also ends in apses, while the sacristy and a confessional chapel emerge from the choir.
The vault was made of reinforced concrete . The sculptor Matthias Beule made the partly preserved interior and the building sculpture based on Klomp's designs . He also created the plaster reliefs that enliven the exterior.
Due to the monumental appearance and the rich design, St. Paulus is one of the most important neo-Romanesque buildings in Silesia. Klomp managed to draw from Romanesque and Byzantine style elements in an undogmatic way and thus to create an unmistakable new whole.
Web links
- Parish website , Polish
- Paulus Church and rectory, Friedenshütte. , Planning documents in the holdings of the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität Berlin .
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 8 ″ N , 18 ° 52 ′ 25 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d See History of the Church Congregation , Polish.
- ↑ a b c Cf. contribution by Irma Kozina in: Ewa Chojecka et al: Sztuka Górnego Śląska od Średniowiecza do końca XX wieku. Muzeum Śląskie, Katowice 2004, ISBN 83-87455-77-6 , Polish.
- ^ Cf. Dehio-Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler in Polen: Schlesien .