Annakapelle (Rommersdorf)
The Catholic Anna Chapel (also called "Anna Cathedral") in Rommersdorf , a district of the city of Bad Honnef in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district , was built in 1868/69. It is regarded as a landmark of Rommersdorf and stands as a monument under monument protection .
location
The chapel is on the corner of Rommersdorfer Straße / Spießgasse (address: Rommersdorfer Straße 84) at the southwest entrance of Rommersdorf, opposite the confluence of the Frankenweg.
history
The Anna Chapel was created according to a design by the Cologne architect August Carl Lange , who is best known for his neo-Gothic works. It was built as a foundation of the Baroness Odilia Carolina von Bongart (* 1809), which she intended as a house chapel for her mother. Von Bongart was the owner of the nearby fire castle , in whose park a St. Anna was dedicated to the wayside shrine . As apartment for the Rectors of the chapel the house spit alley served ninth lived there at the end of World War II, Joseph Frings , Archbishop of Cologne (1942-1969), as a result of war-related destruction of his Cologne hotel and took in the chapel at the Holy Mass in part . In 1948/49 the Annakapelle served as a garrison church for the Belgian occupation troops stationed in the city .
The last restoration of the chapel took place from 1990 to 1993. Since then, a “root nativity scene” has been set up there at Christmas time. The chapel was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bad Honnef on December 23, 1991.
architecture
The Anna chapel is kept in neo-Gothic forms. It has a vestibule crowned by pinnacles and large tracery and mosaic windows . The nave is raised, the choir is vaulted and contains a carved altar. The sacristy is on the left side of the entrance, on the right there is a prayer room with the family crest of the founder.
The church patron saint, the holy mother Anna , finds herself with her daughter Maria as a statue in the chapel. The choir windows, partly destroyed by damage in the Second World War, were made in 1922 by the Belgian painter Fritz Roderburg and can be attributed to Expressionism . The chapel's original neo-Gothic interior was first removed in the 1960s, before at least the communion bench was restored in later years. A tabernacle door with a depiction of a pelican feeding his young and thus symbolizing Christ has also been preserved in its original state . It serves as a wall decoration and is attached to the left side of the sacristy . The chapel has had its own organ since 1996.
literature
- Karl Günter Werber : The pearl among the chapels . In: horizon. Newspaper for the Catholic Church Community Association Bad Honnef , issue 22, December 2010, p. 8/9.
- Hermann-Joseph Löhr (Photos: Heinz Werner Lamberz): A piece of heaven made of stone - Volume III . Verlag Media World, Asbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813291-3-1 , p. 93/94 .
- Karl Günter Werber: Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition, Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 69/70.
- Heinz Pfälzer: Usere Anna-Dom - From the protective canopy to the everlasting stone (125 years of St. Anna-Chapel) (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV : Studies on the local history of the city of Bad Honnef am Rhein , issue 9). Bad Honnef 1993. (Takeover from Rommersdorf-Bondorfer Bürgererverein eV) [not evaluated for this article]
- Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Rhöndorf (ed.); August Haag : Pictures from the past of Honnef and Rhöndorf . Complete production JP Bachem, Cologne 1954, pp. 103-105.
- J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 255–261 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 153
- ^ Joseph Strange : Genealogy of the lords and barons of Bongart . Commissions-Verlag der L. Schwann'schen Verlagshandlung, Cöln and Neuss 1866, p. 68. ( online )
- ^ Karl Günter Werber: Honnefer walks .
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '4.4 " N , 7 ° 13' 31.4" E