St. Pius X. (Wuppertal)

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Saint Pius X

The church Sankt Pius X. in the Wuppertal district of Barmen is a Catholic church from the 1960s.

history

As early as after the end of the First World War, plans were made to found a separate community in the north of the parish of the Barmer Herz-Jesu-Kirche . A church building association raised money to build a new church, which fell into disrepair due to the inflation of the 1920s. A second collection of donations from the 1930s onwards lost its value due to the currency reform in 1948 . A third attempt after the Second World War finally led to the construction of the church, which was built after 1958 by Rudolf Schwarz and his colleague Kurt Faber in 1960–1964 and consecrated to Pope Pius X, who was canonized in 1954, as a branch church of the Sacred Heart.

Today the parish of St. Pius X is one of three parishes of the parish association Barmen Nord-Ost. In 2001 the building was listed as a historical monument.

Church building

The rectangular building on the ground plan of two adjacent squares lies on a small hill in front of a cemetery. The building is supported by a reinforced concrete skeleton, the walls are made of red bricks. A gable roof made of reinforced concrete is crossed by two transverse gable roofs, whereby six identical, glazed triangular gables complete the building at the top. Underneath there is a continuous ribbon of windows, the simple building does not have any further windows. The entrance is on the southern narrow side of the building, the altar of the church is (as is usually the case with Protestant churches in Wuppertal) in the north. A simple open bell tower is free-standing in the garden around the church.

organ

The organ was built in 1978 by the Siegfried Sauer workshop from Höxter . The instrument has 24 registers , which are divided into three manual works and pedal . However, the console only has two manuals. For the instrument, parts of an originally single-manual organ by the Philipp Furtwängler & Sons workshop from 1850, which came to this church in 1964, were used. Grinding and cone chests are controlled by electric action . The following disposition was created in 1978 when it was built:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th' H
Reed flute 8th' H
octave 4 ′ H
Gemshorn 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ H
Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ H
Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Pommer 8th'
Coupling flute 4 ′
Schwiegel 2 ′
Septsalicet (from g °) 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
Sharp octave 1'
II thoracic swelling C – g 3
Dumped 8th' H
Flute 4 ′ H
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Zymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′ H
Octave bass 8th'
Covered bass 8th'
Piffaro II 4 ′ + 2 ′ H
bassoon 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
    • Works separator RP / I

Remarks

  1. ↑ from g 2 a 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ chorus is added
H = These registers date from the middle of the 19th century.

literature

  • Sigrid Lekebusch, Florian Speer (ed.): Churches and places of worship in Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, 43). Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch, 2008, ISBN 978-3-87707-721-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the organ. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Organ Journal of the workshop Westphalian organ builders S. Sauer, ed. 1978, the spelling of the register names follows this sheet

Web links

Commons : Sankt Pius X. (Wuppertal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
  • Internet presence of the parish association Barmen-Nordost zu St. Pius X. Retrieved on December 12, 2014 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 37.6 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 41.4"  E