St. Pius (Alsfeld)

St. Pius (2002)

The Church of St. Pius was a Catholic parish church consecrated to Pope Pius X , which existed from 1963 to 2011 in the Oberhausen district of Alsfeld .

location

The church building was located in Oberhausen-Alsfeld in the Sterkrade district at the confluence of Försterstrasse and Jägerstrasse. The address of the parish office was Försterstrasse 5, kindergarten and parish home were on Jägerstrasse. The buildings were demolished in 2011 and residential buildings were erected in their place.

history

Foundation stone of St. Pius Church from 1962

On November 14, 1958, the church council of the mother parish Herz Jesu Sterkrade decided to build a new church in Alsfeld due to the increased number of believers. An architectural competition was then put out to tender and the design by the Hausen / Rave architectural team from Münster was ultimately awarded the contract. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 1, 1962, and the foundation stone was laid on June 3, 1962 in the presence of the dean Theodor Denkhoff (1904–1972). From March 10, 1962, until the completion of the church building, an emergency church in the former Effkemann cinema on Weseler Str. Served as a church service room.

On June 29, 1963, the new St. Pius Church, a single-nave hall church, was inaugurated by the then Essen Bishop Franz Hengsbach . A church tower was never built.

In the course of a restructuring of the diocese of Essen , the parish of St. Pius parish was returned to the mother parish Herz Jesu Sterkrade in April 2004. In 2006 it received the status of a so-called further church , as a result of which no further funds were granted for maintenance and preservation by the bishopric. After the mother parish Herz Jesu lost its parish status in 2007 and efforts to maintain the St. Pius Church had failed, the property was sold. On January 13, 2008, Holy Mass was celebrated for the last time in St. Pius with the then Essen Bishop Felix Genn . The altar relics of St. Pius and Boniface were transferred to the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Sterkrade. In 2011 the church building was demolished and apartments were built in its place. The former foundation stone of St. Pius with its copper sleeve and the foundation stone certificate are exhibited in a showcase in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Sterkrade.

Relics of St. Pius X and St. Boniface after being transferred to the Herz-Jesu Church (Oberhausen-Sterkrade)

Furnishing

Chancel of St. Pius Church during the last Holy Mass in 2008

The Kevelaer artist Heribert Reul (1911–2008) designed in 1963 and 1968 for St. Pius altar, altar candlestick, choir cross with body, choir wall hangings, church portal with three mosaics, stations of the cross, skylights, parish seals, tabernacles, stela and baptismal font.

In the side chapels there were glass window works by the Dutch artist Hubertus Brouwer (1919–1980).

On May 1, 1964, a statue of the Virgin Mary by the Münster sculptor Hilde Schürk-Frisch was blessed and erected in the church .

organ

In February 1968 an organ was ordered for the church from the Seifert organ builder from Kevelaer , which was inaugurated in 1969. On January 3, 1981, the instrument was destroyed by arson. After the funds had been raised in a short time and with great commitment from the community, a new, larger instrument was commissioned from the Weigle company , which was inaugurated on July 3, 1983. A three-manual organ with 30 sounding stops , four pre-prints and a coupling manual was created, largely without special playing aids .

Prospectus of the Weigle organ in St. Pius

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 Quintad 16 ′ Principal 8th' Wooden dacked 8th' Harp pipe 8th' Octave 4 ′ Pointed Viola 4 ′ Dacked pipe ( preliminary draw) 4 ′ Cornetino IV Super octave 2 ′ Forest flute 2 ′ Fifth (preliminary print) 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Light trumpet 8th' Tremulant

III Swell C – g 3 Wooden flute 8th' Salizional 8th' Beat 8th' Swelling principal 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Nasal fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Swiss pipe 2 ′ Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Octävlein ( advance copy ) 1' Scharff IV 1' musette 16 ′ Hautbois 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Sub bass 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' Gemshorn 8th' Dolkan (labial) 4 ′ Pipe pommer 4 ′ Schwegel (advance deduction) 2 ′ Rauschpfeife IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ bassoon 16 ′ Dark trumpet 8th'

Coupling : coupling manual, II / P, III / P,

In the course of the church's abandonment, the instrument was sold and, in 2008, the Kreienbrink company moved it to the newly designed auditorium of the Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito in Parma, Italy.

List of priests

Here the chief clergymen of St. Pius are listed.

Effective time	title	Surname	Remarks
1961–1962	Vicarius Expositus	Franz Schröer	from the time of the establishment of the Expositur St. Pius to the elevation to the parish
1962-1984	Pastor	Franz Schröer	Pastor Schröer died after a serious illness in office on December 14, 1984, after him the Franz-Schröer-Weg in the former parish of St. Pius is named
1985-2004	Pastor	Peter Bonna
2004-2008	Pastor and pastor	Norbert Ghesla	from the amalgamation of the Sacred Heart and St. Pius, through the incorporation of the Sacred Heart into the large parish of St. Clemens Sterkrade in 2007 to the closing of the church

Individual evidence

1. ^ WAZ Oberhausen: When churches become houses. , accessed September 5, 2017
2. ^ Roland Günter, Janne Günter: The unknown Oberhausen , Wuppertal 1983, p. 62, ISBN 3-87294-218-2 .
3. ↑ Festschrift 1961-1986 25 years of St. Pius, Sterkrade-Alsfeld
4. ^ History of the Sacred Heart Congregation 2001–2010 , accessed on September 5, 2017
5. ^ Work by Heribert Reul in St. Pius , accessed on September 5, 2017
6. ↑ Page of the Research Center for Stained Glass at St. Pius , accessed on September 5, 2017
7. ^ Gustav K. Ommer: Modern organs on the Lower Rhine. 1988, ISBN 3-7954-0386-3 , p. 220 f. Entry on the Weigle organ St. Pius on the organ index page with disposition , viewed on September 7, 2017
8. ^ Parma (Italy) Auditorium of the Conservatorio A. Boito Renovation 2008 , accessed on September 5, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 49.7 "  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 0.5"  E