Resurrection Church (Bonn)

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The seven-step staircase to the entrance to the Church of the Resurrection on the Venusberg

The Church of the Resurrection in the Venusberg district of Bonn is a Protestant church from the 1950s that can accommodate up to 500 people. The architecturally sophisticated landmark on the Venusberg is located at the Hague route 69/71 and is since 1999 as a monument under monument protection .

history

After the Second World War , of the Protestant churches in Bonn, only the Luther Church was not damaged; it initially served the evangelical believers from Venusberg for devotion. From 1954 a parish office was set up for the parish of Venusberg and Ippendorf. In 1956 a competition to build a church was announced, which the Düsseldorf architect Denis Boniver won with his project. With the round design of the central building, Boniver tied in with the work of Otto Bartning , who designed the Resurrection Church in Essen in the 1920s . The foundation stone was laid on February 24, 1957, and the church was consecrated on October 27, 1957. As the first pastor of the new church, Martin Preuss looked after the congregation until January 1975. In 1963 an organ by the Bonn organ builder Johannes Klais was installed. It has two manuals , a pedal, twenty registers and 1,370 pipes . The 50th anniversary of the church was celebrated in October 2007 with a festival weekend consisting of church services, a community festival, an open-air concert and art exhibitions.

Architecture and interior design

The building is a rotunda with an attached step consisting of a wreath of windows. The basement is made of bricks. The windows on the upper floor are suspended between concrete supports. On the upper floor there is the small and flat belfry, which protrudes slightly towards the entrance of the church and contains four bells. There is a concrete cross on the belfry. The main portal is three-winged.

The round interior contains an altar opposite the entrance. It stands on a five-tier high choir leaning against the wall . To the right of the altar is the slightly raised pulpit, which is massive in its appearance, and to the left is the organ on the gallery. The font stands in a niche under the organ. Altar, pulpit and baptismal font were made from shell limestone by the Mettmann stonemason Horst Strempler . Behind the altar hangs a simple, around 6 meter high wall cross made by an Ippendorf carpenter, and diagonally above the pulpit is a bronze Corpus Christi by Josef Elter , which was originally made in mirabelle wood and only cast twice. Three stained glass windows by Johannes Schreiter (made by Karl Jörres) from 1957 show the motifs " Phoenix from the ashes ", "Pelican who nourishes his young with his blood" (reference to the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ) and " Lamb with victory flag ", Execution in antique glass and lead. The ceiling construction made of wood in the form of a star hides the supply lines running above it.

"The dark blue ceiling with star-shaped curtains in deep yellow clearly explains the meaning of the space, which is made up entirely of circular segments, as a microcosmic concept."

- Andreas Denk (1997)

See also

literature

  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 51.
  • Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49–69. Attempt to take stock . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Art and antiquity on the Rhine . Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 21 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 182 .

Web links

  • Website of the Evangelical Resurrection Church Community in Bonn

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Venusberg / Ippendorf: Evangelical Resurrection Church Community Bonn , April 26, 2010, Evangelical Church District Bonn
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 24, number A 3494
  3. ↑ a b c d The church building , website of the community, based on: D. Höroldt / W. Joch (ed.), Evangelical churches and parishes of the church districts Bonn, Bad Godesberg and Sieg und Rhein , Dümmler, Bonn 1996
  4. ↑ Publications of the Bonn City Archives , Volumes 40–41, City History Library Bonn, ISBN 978-3-79280-5-756 <, Bonn 1988, p. 125
  5. ↑ Pommersches Heimatbuch , Volume 2010, Pommersche Landsmannschaft - Kulturabteilung, p. 59
  6. ↑ Mira Hildebrandt, Jubilee on the Venusberg: 50 Years of the Resurrection Church Bonn , Evangelical Church District Bonn
  7. ↑ a b Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow, The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg district, ISBN 978-3-41680-6-060 , Bouvier Verlag , 1990, pp 124
  8. ↑ Kerstin Wittmann-Englert u. a., Tent, Ship and Apartment: Church Buildings of Post-War Modernism 1950-1980 , in: Frank W. Rudolf, Baustile 7: Moderne 1950-1979
  9. ↑ a b c Gabriele Immenkeppel, Church of the Resurrection on the Venusberg: House of God with almost no rough edges , July 30, 2014, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  10. ↑ Bonn-Venusberg, Evang. Resurrection Church , Foundation Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting eV
  11. ^ Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: Architekturführer Bonn .

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '55.8 "  N , 7 ° 5' 38.2"  E