To the Holy Spirit (Cologne)

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Tower of the Holy Spirit Church
View of the church from the southeast

The Holy Spirit is a Catholic church in Cologne district ruler .

history

After the folding rule had grown rapidly in the 1920s, a separate community grew in the southern part of the district, independent of the parish of St. Pius . The rectorate parish of the Holy Spirit was separated from St. Pius on December 8, 1931. At the beginning of 1931 the contract to build the church according to the plans of the Cologne architects Pasman and Bonnan was awarded to the company Fuchs & Becker based in Zollstock. Construction began in April, and on June 7, 1931, the Cologne city dean Löbbel laid the foundation stone, which was embedded in the north wall of the choir . The consecration of the church by the auxiliary bishop Wilhelm Stockums took place on May 16, 1932. The relics of the martyrs Auxilius and Eutropius were let into the altar .

During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged in the bombing . The reconstruction under the leadership of the civil engineer Jakob Langenhövel was completed at the end of 1950 and was celebrated with a solemn pontifical office with Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ferche . Another expansion according to the plans of Karl Band was celebrated in 1957 with a renewed pontifical office with Auxiliary Bishop Ferche.

Furnishing

The Aachen sculptor Norbert Perseke designed the Pietà of the day band, lights, candlesticks and the lectern.

Bells

The ringing of bells in the townscape-defining bell tower includes five bells. They were created by the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock and consecrated on May 30, 1965.

  • Holy Spirit bell (1500 kg)
  • Mary Bell (1000 kg)
  • Karl Borromeo Bell (570 kg)
  • Pope John XXIII Bell (400 kg)
  • Bell of the Holy Angels (180 kg)

organ

The organ of the Rieger Orgelbau company was consecrated on October 30, 1960 and inaugurated by the cathedral organist Professor Josef Zimmermann .

Web links

Commons : Zum Heiligen Geist (Cologne-Zollstock)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Josef Rosenzweig: Folding rule How it was and how it was. Heimatverein Alt-Köln, Cologne 1976, pp. 134–153.

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 17 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 25 ″  E