St. Suitbertus (Solingen)
The Catholic Sankt-Suitbertus-Kirche is located in the Solingen district of Höhscheid . It is the parish church of the pastoral care area Solingen-Süd.
history
The church was built in 1901 as a Neo-Romanesque -cropping in the midst of the southwestern portion of the mother parish of St. Clement , above the river valley in the Pilghauser Hofschaft Weeg . The square tower was added in the same style in 1930. Between 1962 and 1964, the chancel with transepts and sacristy was added according to plans by the architect Josef Lehmbrock. At the beginning of the 1980s, the church was partially restored.
On the first Sunday of Lent in 1965, the first reforms of the liturgy came into force. This made it possible for the priest to turn to the community during the celebration of Holy Mass. The solemn consecration of the altar by the bishop was postponed further and further because it was feared that further changes might be necessary. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the canonical parish and the 105th anniversary of the church choir Cäcilia Weeg, the episcopal consecration of the altar was carried out on May 21, 2005 by the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner , as part of a pontifical office .
architecture
The church building is 35 meters long and 17 meters wide; the roof height is 20 meters. The square tower is 36 meters high. Instead of the usual top, a 7.5 meter high copper-clad helmet made of openwork wood was mounted. A three meter high cross forms the end. Four steel bells ring for the service. A spacious wooden roof stretches over the entire church. The old way of the cross in the pious style of the 19th century has been restored.
window
The former outer windows have been incorporated into the room as light openings, further colored leaded glass windows from the 1960s on the sides of the nave show the sacraments on the right and represent the creed on the left. Pastor Willy van Deursen left windows financed by donations with the in 1991 and 1993 the good shepherd or the sending out of the disciples from four segments each in the left and right chancel. A Bavarian glassworks created particularly colorful, hand-blown special glasses.
Sanctuary
The Solingen sculptor Henryk Dywan designed the black stone altar that rises up in front of the projecting wall in the central axis of the transept, together with the chancel . When this happened in 1964, the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council was still to come. In the room concept, there was no separate space for the ambo and the priest's seat . A donor made it possible to create a new ambo with the four symbols of the evangelists and a priestly seat raised by one step next to the tabernacle . The figure of the parish patron, the holy bishop Suitbertus, stands next to the baptismal font.
Lady Chapel
The Lady Chapel is located in front of a crucifix next to a Madonna with the baby Jesus . A window of the Madonna's protective cloak found its place here, the foundation of a former parishioner who emigrated to America.
Sanctuary
Lady Chapel
organ
In 1983 the organ was renovated and expanded by the Limburg organ builder Wagenbach , who built the instrument in 1948. The festive consecration of the renewed organ with 27 registers on September 11, 1983 was the symbolic conclusion of the construction work.
- I main work : Principal 8 ', Reed Flute 8', Quintatön 8 ', Octave 4', Recorder 4 ', Night Horn 2', Sesquialter II, Mixtur IV, Trumpet 8 '
- II positive : open flute 8 ', Gedackt 8', salicional 8 ', principal 4', transverse flute 4 ', principal 2', fifth 1 1/3 ', Scharff IV, English horn 16', oboe 8 ', crooked horn 8', Tremulant
- Pedal : Subbass 16 ', Principalbass 8', Gedacktbass 8 ', Bass flute 4', Choralbass IV 2 2/3 ', Trombone 16', Trumpet 8 '
- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 34 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 23.8" E