Old St. Paul
St. Paul is the name of a former Romanesque parish church and parish in the medieval city of Cologne, which was later subordinate to the St. Andreas collegiate church . It was initially a single-aisled hall building upstream of St. Andrew to the east. It was closed during the French period in 1803 and laid down in 1807.
Emergence
It is possible that a parish of St. Paul was attached to the collegiate church of St. Andreas even before the city was expanded in 1106 . The small church, which stands in a narrow space between the street and the immunity of the collegiate church, is said to have been built around 980 at Archbishop Warin's orders , according to Gelenius . In the Cologne sources it appeared in 1151/65 under the name “S. Pauli Hermanus ”.
description
The modest hall building with an approximate base size of 7 × 14 m lay with its east gable in the street. A first expansion took place in 1369 with the addition of a south aisle, which was followed by an expansion of the main nave in 1472. Due to extensive donations, the south aisle was replaced and a side aisle was also added on the north side. The now three-aisled church was consecrated in 1476 by the papal legate for Germany, Alexander. In 1491 the building was arched and a sacristy was added on the north side , above which a chapel dedicated to St. Erasmus was installed. In 1497, the widow "Hermans von Oy" donated a large sum for woodwork on the building, and at the beginning of the 16th century foundations were made for church maintenance. Further construction measures were mentioned for the year 1654, but details are missing.
After completion of all extensions and modifications, an ensemble of ships lying next to each other was created on a trapezoidal floor plan , which was specified with a width of 5 rods and a depth of 42 feet . According to a plan from 1702, the entire structure had three rectilinear gable roofs and had already received a squat tower with a curved helmet around 1654 (the Mercator plan still shows a roof turret) on the west side of the main nave . The parish of St. Paul was connected with a Michael vicarie of the Andreasstift.
environment
On the south side of the church there was a double-arched immunity gate of the collegiate church, which was flanked by bronze boys' figures. The entrance and adjoining churchyard of St. Paul were on the west side of the little street Andreaskloster, the east side is said to have been equipped with large windows. The rectory was initially on the south side of Komödienstraße, from 1479 on the east side of Marzellenstraße.
Succession
The patronage was later transferred to the neo-Gothic parish church of St. Paul in Cologne's city center , which was consecrated in 1908 . The excavations carried out in 1936 on the occasion of a new building in the Andraskloster brought the knowledge of a formerly semicircular apse on the west side of the previous building. Some of the parts of the once rich furnishings of St. Paul have been preserved and are now in the Church of St. Andrew.
literature
- Ludwig Arentz, H. Neu and Hans Vogts ; Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): The art monuments of the city of Cologne , Volume II, expansion volume the former churches, monasteries, hospitals and school buildings of the city of Cologne. Verlag L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1937. Reprint 1980. ISBN 3-590-32107-5 , p. 103 f
- Hermann Keussen: Topography of the City of Cologne in the Middle Ages , in 2 volumes. Cologne 1910. ISBN 978-3-7700-7560-7 and ISBN 978-3-7700-7561-4
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Keussen : Topography of the City of Cologne in the Middle Ages , Bd. II. Sp. 105 a
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '30.8 " N , 6 ° 57' 20.4" E