St. Pius X. (Cologne)
St. Pius X. is a Catholic parish church in the Cologne district of Flittard , which was built between 1959 and 1962 according to plans by Margot and Joachim Schürmann and consecrated in March 1961 . The church is under the patronage of Pope Pius X , who was canonized a few years before it was built, and has been a listed building since 2001.
Prehistory and construction
The environment of the church is the 1937 created and developed in the 1950s Bayer - Werksiedlung in Flittard, from a Catholic parish was founded out on May 1, 1958th A competition for church building had already led to three designs in the summer of 1957, of which that of the Schürmann office was finally implemented - modified. After the groundbreaking ceremony in March 1959 and the laying of the foundation stone on July 19 of the same year, the church was used for church services from June 1960 and was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Ferche on January 28, 1961 .
In a second construction phase, the youth home opposite and the tower were erected from June 1961.
On June 19, 2001, St. Piux X. was added to the list of monuments of the city of Cologne under the number 8548 .
Building description
The church hall is located within a four-sided walled “sacred area” on a filled-up area; its superstructure protrudes from it in a cuboid shape. Within the walling, the church itself is located on its northern narrow side, supplemented by further community buildings on the southern wall.
The church itself consists of two structures , a single-storey flat cuboid that completely fills the wall rectangle on three sides and a 14 meter high, slated superstructure - the central nave - with a small edge length with two horizontal window strips. The lower, narrower one is made of colored glass and runs directly along the edge of the ground floor building, while the wider one is made of wavy glass along the edge of the roof. This makes the walls of the central room appear to be floating. The superstructure is actually not built on the lower structure, but hangs on a tubular steel roof structure that is open to the interior and extends over the entire ceiling surface and on which the side walls, a steel framework, are suspended with steel cables. Four thin steel columns support the construct.
The entrance to the church is through two doors on the inside of the substructure. This is structured here by an evenly rasterized wooden lattice wall closed with wired glass.
Inside, these two structures work together and form a brightly lit “high room” in the middle for the central sacred activities, and a low “surrounding area” for chapels and sacristy tract around the area . While the low wing is made of skeleton construction with brickwork, the walls of the central nave are clad with natural-colored shingles made of fir wood. The altar and organ areas opposite one another on the west and east sides are each slightly raised.
The 23 meter high brick bell tower with a circular floor plan and a diameter of 4.50 meters stands in the middle of the inner courtyard created by the surrounding wall and the buildings. It tapers towards the tip by one meter in diameter and is perforated by about 200 small hatches that serve as sound openings. Access to this courtyard is through two smaller openings on the long sides of the wall, which are axially aligned with the tower. Above the two yard gates are reliefs from basalt attached.
Furnishing
The two basalt door supports at the entrance gates depict John the Baptist with the Lamb of God in the east and Saint Michael fighting the dragon in the west . They were made in 1961 by Rudolf Peer, from whose hand the altar block and the baptismal font also come.
The approximately four-meter tall tower crowning , designed as the “angel cloud” in 1962, was designed by Werner Schürmann , the architect's brother.
The lower ribbon of windows around the nave consists of colored lead glazing by Paul Weigmann , in which the motifs of the heads of angels or saints alternate with ornamental structures.
A Madonna figure created in 1964 by Hans Karl Burgeff was replaced in 1976 by a vote in the community because it was apparently controversial.
After the previous organ had been destroyed by fire in February 1964, the community received a new organ on July 12, 1977 from Heyligers Orgelbau in Schmidtheim .
The five-part bell was cast in 1961 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock ; the impact sounds are b 1 -des 2 -es 2 -ges 2 -as second
Web links
- Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century eV with illustrations and explanations of the windows
- Image and video documentation of the community with numerous details about the construction of the church and historical recordings
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e The film: 60 years of St. Pius X. In: Parish council "Christians on the Rhine". September 6, 2018, accessed on April 12, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Search in the list of monuments. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Helmut Fußbroich, Dierk Holthausen: Architectural Guide Cologne: Sacred Buildings after 1900 . 1st edition. Bachem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1683-X , p. 178-179 .
- ^ A b Monika Schmelzer: Sankt Pius X. In: Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne (Ed.): Churches in Cologne. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 138 .
- ^ Cologne-Flittard, Catholic Church of St. Pius X. In: glasmalerei-ev.net. Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20 Jahrhundert eV, July 8, 2008, accessed on April 10, 2020 .
- ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells of Catholic churches in Cologne . Cologne 1985, p. 375 ( archive.org [PDF]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 46.4 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 23.9" E