St. Pius (Cologne)
The St. Pius Church is a Catholic church in Cologne district ruler .
development
After the construction of an emergency church in a shed on the corner of Zollstocksweg and Höninger Weg, the church was built between 1913 and 1915 according to plans by Eduard Endler . It is made up of elements from the late Gothic period and borrowings from the forms of the Renaissance and Baroque . On May 10, 1915, the church was consecrated by Felix Cardinal von Hartmann . After the destruction of the Second World War , it was rebuilt according to plans by the Cologne architect Karl Band .
Its church tower , which was rebuilt until 1956 , is one of the tallest in Cologne today.
Furnishing
The front wall of the choir with the depiction of The Gate into the Future , like the colorful windows of the nave, was designed by Wilhelm Buschulte . The choir window was created by Hans Lünenborg . Will Thonett designed the windows of the crypt .
The wooden cross in the choir was created by the Düsseldorf sculptor Herbert Belau , a student of Professor Ewald Mataré . The altar, the stele of the tabernacle and the Easter candlestick are works by Karl Matthäus Winter . The organ comes from the organ building company Seifert & Sohn . With seven bells, the church also has one of the largest bells in Cologne.
Known priests
- Joseph Frings , chaplain in folding rule
- Peter Haanen , pastor in Zollstock
Steeple
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Web links
- A tour of our parish church erzbistum-koeln.de
literature
- Joseph Rosenzweig (ed.): The St. Pius parish Cologne Zollstock. For its 25th anniversary . Cologne folding rule 1933
- Josef Rosenzweig: Folding rule How it was and how it was. Heimatverein Alt-Köln, Cologne 1976, pp. 134–153
- Karlheinz Steimel: 100 years - Catholic Church in Cologne-Zollstock
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Frings, Dieter Froitzheim Cardinal Frings: Life and Work , p. 342
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 37 ″ E