Brother Klaus settlement

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The Bruder-Klaus-Siedlung is a settlement in the Cologne district of Mülheim . It was named after Brother Klaus , the patron saint of Switzerland .

location

The settlement is located in the north-east of the Mülheim district and borders the Stammheim district to the north and the Höhenhaus district to the east . It is bounded in the south-east by the Mülheim feeder, in the east by the A3 , in the north by the Dünnwalder Kommunalweg (L101) and in the west by a railway line.

history

Foundation stone of the settlement, "taken from Cologne Cathedral", from 1948

The founding of the Bruder-Klaus-Siedlung can be traced back to Karl Müller (born December 30, 1898 in Erkelenz ), who was then Catholic priest of the parish of St. Franziskus in Cologne- Bilderstöckchen . From 1946 onwards, Karl Müller gathered a group of bombed out, war refugees and returnees who, under his chairmanship, founded the Neuland eV settler community on March 18, 1947, which still exists today . Planning began with the involvement of the settlement agency of the Archdiocese of Cologne , which was initially the client. On August 14, 1948, the foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Josef Frings , for which a stone from the north tower of Cologne Cathedral was used. The Swiss hermit and national saint Niklaus von Flüe , Brother Klaus, was named the patron saint of the settlement . The basic principle of the first new buildings was that they were built with the help of self and neighbors . Depending on their size, the properties should be able to supply their residents with agricultural products, including keeping small animals. However, this form of resettlement was more tedious than planned. In the spring of 1949, the Neuland settlement community took part in the founding of the Gemeinnützige Siedlungsgesellschaft mbH Aachen , which moved its headquarters to Cologne that same year. Under their direction, the expansion of the Bruder-Klaus-Siedlung was carried out according to plan, especially after the city of Cologne acquired the necessary area on October 28, 1949, some of which was already in use and development. During the 1950s, expansion progressed rapidly after the German Housing Association (DEWOG) joined the Aachener Siedlungsgesellschaft as the developer of the quarter. In gratitude for help from Switzerland after the Second World War , the newly laid streets were named after Swiss places and landscapes (e.g. Davoser, Schwyzer, Geneva, Zug and Zermatt Klause or Solothurner, Lucerne or Zurich way).

On July 18, 1960, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visited the Bruder-Klaus-Siedlung and the Stegerwaldsiedlung in Cologne-Mülheim, both new housing estates from the 1950s of the CDU-affiliated DEWOG.

Catholic parish of St. Brother Klaus

On August 20, 1956, the parish of St. Brother Klaus was separated from the Mülheim parish of St. Antonius as the rectorate parish. On the eve of the 77th German Catholic Day taking place in Cologne,  August 28, 1956, the foundation stone was laid for the building according to a design by the a. D. Fritz Schaller , after the Brother Klaus congregation had been blessed by the then Archbishop of Cologne, Josef Cardinal Frings . After 15 months of construction, the church was consecrated on November 19, 1957, and the first pastor was introduced on November 20, 1957 in the presence of Cardinal Frings. The church is a broad building with a high hexagonal central nave made of towering concrete tracery and a tower 35 m high.

In 1966 there were 3007 Catholics in the district of the parish. In addition to the church and its outbuildings, the parish had a day-care center, a youth home and, since 1964, a country school home in Winnerath . The neighboring Catholic primary school, built by the city of Cologne between 1959 and 1962, is also looked after by the parish. Since the merger on January 1, 2011, the parish has been part of the parish association Christen am Rhein , consisting of the parts Stammheim, Flittard and Brother Klaus-Siedlung.

The St. Brother Klaus Church is the home church of the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki , who grew up here, worked as an altar boy and youth group leader and also celebrated his primacy in 1985 . The Cologne priest Franz Meurer also grew up in the Brother Klaus settlement.

  • Santa's brother Klaus

  • Park side

  • Central nave in modern tracery

  • View from the youth home

  • Niche with sculpture of the church patron

Greened former military facility with an avenue

Green area of ​​the settlement

The green space in the middle of the estate goes back to a design by the municipal gardening director Fritz Encke from 1925, according to which the former intermediate plant XIIa was redesigned from 1926 to 1929 as an air and light bath for children . The facility is part of Encke's planned integration of the area of ​​the Cologne fortress ring previously used for military purposes in the outer green belt on the right bank of the Rhine . In the years after the Second World War, the first settlers used the nascent Bruder-Klaus-Siedlung for residential and assembly purposes, the remaining buildings were largely destroyed in 1961. The original ramparts and ditches can only be seen in rudiments. The current size of the green area is 2.56 hectares and is one of the city's listed buildings.

Personalities related to the Brother Klaus settlement

literature

  • Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. 26th edition. Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1966.
  • Manfred Becker-Huberti (ed.): Cologne churches. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. Verlag Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 .
  • Emanuel Gebauer: Fritz Schaller. The architect and his contribution to sacred buildings in the 20th century. (= Stadtspuren. Monuments in Cologne. Volume 28), JP Bachem, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7616-1355-5 .
  • Manfred Gorny: 1948-1998 50 years in between. The history of the Brother Klaus settlement in Cologne-Mülheim. Self-published, Cologne-Mülheim 1998.
  • Werner Heinen, Anne-Marie Pfeffer: Cologne: Settlements 1888-1988. (= Stadtspuren. Monuments in Cologne. Volume 10.II) JP Bachem, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7616-0934-5 .
  • Henriette Meynen: The Cologne green spaces. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland. Volume 25), Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-590-29025-0 .
  • Eva-Christine Raschke: Cologne: School buildings 1815-1964. History-meaning-documentation. (= Stadtspuren. Monuments in Cologne. Volume 15) JP Bachem, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1471-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gorny: 1948-1998 50 years in between. 1998, pp. 194-242.
  2. ^ Carsten Schmalstieg: Saint Brother Klaus . In: Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne (Ed.): Churches in Cologne. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 40 .
  3. ↑ Handbook of the Archdiocese of Cologne. Volume II, 1966, p. 321.
  4. ^ Raschke: Cologne: School buildings 1815-1964. 2001, p. 504.
  5. ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 17, 2014

Web links

Commons : Bruder-Klaus-Siedlung  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 2.6 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 39.8 ″  E