Aegidius Chapel (Buschdorf)
The Aegidius Chapel (also: Aegidienkapelle or Alt St. Aegidius ) in the Bonn district of Buschdorf is the former parish church of the place and is now used for devotions and special occasions. It is dedicated to Saint Aegidius and belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Thomas More . The chapel is considered an example of early neo-Gothic church construction in Bonn and is a listed building .
location
The chapel at Buschdorfer Straße 60 is located around 200 meters east of the small Buschdorf Castle on a trade route from Aachen via Düren , Lechenich and Buschdorf to Bonn ("Aachener Weg") that has been important since the early Middle Ages . This is where the Friedländer meets the Buschdorfer Straße .
history
A first chapel was built in Buschdorf in 1693 and consecrated in 1694. It was made of clay framework and was covered with straw. A successor building was built on the site of today's chapel in 1782 and consecrated to St. Aegidius. This chapel was also made of clay framework with a flat ceiling, but was already covered with slate . A clergyman came from Bonn on Sundays. The chapel fell into disrepair in the 19th century. In 1869, thanks to the efforts of the Rheindorf pastor Cornelius Thomas, the current chapel was built in the same place. The Cologne diocesan master builder Vincenz Statz designed the building.
Originally, Buschdorf belonged to the parish of St. Margareta in Graurheindorf . In 1908, the Royal Prussian Government in Cologne granted permission to set up the Buschdorf chapel community as a dependent rectorate of the Archbishop's Chair in Cologne . In 1921 the chapel community Buschdorf was raised to the status of a rectorate parish . Since 1977 the chapel has belonged to a canonical parish . Between 1978 and 1980 the new parish church was built in Buschdorf; she is also referred to as St. Aegidius . Today the chapel u. a. used for church music performances.
architecture
The chapel stands in a row of houses that was already present or planned during construction. The church building is therefore characterized by only a short transept and a concentration on the front facade. The sides of the hall are structured by stepped buttresses . The brick facade made of field fire bricks is unplastered. The central axis of the facade is emphasized by a two-part pointed arch window above the door. Between the door and the window there is a rectangular half-relief on which two angels kneel to the left and right in front of the heart of Jesus . There is a clover leaf rosette above the window . There is a finial on the top of the pediment . The roof has a large turret with two bells. When defects were found on the roof during the restoration in 1935, the municipality replaced it with a tower on the right-hand side of the façade that overlooked the roof. During the renovation in 1981/1982, this renovation was reversed.
The church interior has five bays and a three-eighth end in the choir. The interior is closed off by an ogival cross-ribbed vault and stretched out by high blind arches and three window slits. Remnants of a neo-Gothic painting in colored tendrils were found during the restoration of the vaults, which were the basis for a new painting.
Furnishing
The altar, the ambo and the sediles were created by Sepp Hürten ; they have been in the chapel since the 1980s. The Way of the Cross was acquired under the Buschdorf pastor and later Bonn philosophy professor Aloys Müller ; it was designed in painted clay by an artist with the pseudonym "honeycomb". A large crucifix is attached to the wall above the altar . A wooden Pietà from the 20th century by an unknown artist was given to the parish church in Buschdorf.
Church window
The church building is equipped with 14 leaded glass windows. With the exception of two windows in the choir, all windows date from around 1900 and are made of antique glass and lead with processing by black solder and silver yellow and some are equipped with slug glasses . The artist is unknown. The discs show patterns, the pointed arches depict apostles: Andrew , James (the elder) , James , Judas Thaddäus , Paul , Peter , Simon and St. Thomas as well as Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Joseph of Nazareth . One window remained motif with a diamond pattern . The two younger windows at the south end of the choir were designed by Hubert Schöllgen . They date from 1936 and were made according to the inscription by Joh. Schönartz from Düsseldorf. Here Saint Aegidius is depicted twice: once as a hermit (also interpreted as Saint Francis with his animals) and on the other hand as a bishop with a model of the chapel as it was in 1936 (with a side bell tower).
organ
The first organ in the chapel was replaced by a harmonium from the church of St. Maria Magdalena in Endenich . In 1993, as part of the renovation work that was taking place, an organ from Oberlinger was installed on a gallery . It is a replica of a baroque organ for smaller churches with 11 registers on two manuals (for four registers each) and a pedal (for three registers). The cladding can be opened and is designed in peasant painting.
See also
Web links
- Day of the Open Monument 2017 in Buschdorf , presentation of the Aegidienkapelle on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Buschdorf, YouTube
- Adelheid Schmitz – Brodam, Aegidienkapelle on the website of the Catholic parish of St. Thomas More
- To the chapel near Buschdorf in GenWiki
Individual evidence
- ^ Church Alt St.-Aegidius in: Open Monument Day: Bonn and Siebengebirgsraum , Working Group of Bonn History Associations, Monument Authority of the City of Bonn, City Archives and City History Library, Workshop Baukultur Bonn, September 9, 2012, p. 14
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn , Lower Monument Authority, from June 1, 2017, No. A 1651, Buschdorfer Straße , p. 15 ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bonner Geschichtsblätter , year 40, Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Verein Alt-Bonn and Stadtarchiv Bonn, Der Verein, 1993, p. 8
- ↑ Bonn-Buschdorf, Chapel Alt-St. Egidius , Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 35.2 ″ N , 7 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E