Christ Church (Bad Godesberg)

Christ Church Bad Godesberg, exterior view (2014)

Christ Church Bad Godesberg, interior view (2012)

The Christ Church is a Protestant church in the district of Plittersdorf the Bonn city district Bad Godesberg . The church stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The Christ Church was built in 1953 to designs by the architect Otto Bartning , who was particularly important for Protestant church building, with the assistance of Otto Dörzbach. Construction began on November 3, 1952, the foundation stone was laid on January 25, 1953. On November 29, the church was consecrated .

Architecture and equipment

The Christ Church is considered to be one of the most important of Bartning's post-war churches. The building is designed as a "winged church" so that four adjoining parish rooms can be used to expand the church if necessary. It is therefore equally suitable as a "celebration and weekday church". Accordingly, the church offers space for around 360 visitors for normal Sunday services and can be expanded to up to 850 seats on public holidays by opening the movable wooden folding walls, making it the largest Protestant church in Bad Godesberg.

The remarkable architecture directs the gaze to the open and light designed chancel: it is dominated by an atmospheric, eleven meter high quarry stone mosaic by the painter and sculptor Willi Sohl, which depicts the "Transfiguration of Christ". An eight meter high copper cross forms the center of the sanctuary. The baptismal bowl and the sacrament implements are from Prof. Dr. Rudolf Koch and were made by the Gotthold Schönwandt workshop in Nordeck / Gießen. The stand for the baptismal bowl was manufactured in 2002 by the art locksmith Heinz-Dieter Bastian based on a design by the Godesberg architect Wolfram Stolle. The pulpit is the work of the Cologne sculptor Jochem Pechau . Four cast bronze tablets with the symbols of the four evangelists rise above the pentagonal base , and above the inscription: "Watch and pray". A chandelier created in 2011 by the Godesberg artist Eberhard Koch represents a globe in a cubic shape, with Christ as the light of the world in its center. The four main meridians and circles of latitude form a cross at all points of contact. Since 2010, two modern wooden angel figures have been attached to the simple wooden side walls of the church.

The slender church tower with an open belfry is not connected to the church, but is clearly set off at an angle in front of the western side entrance of the church.

The Christ Church is the center of a community center. A large library was built on the southwest side of the church in 1972. The two-storey parish hall with sexton's apartment and a single-storey kindergarten (since 1955, rebuilt and expanded in 2013) and a youth room (1967, rebuilding 2013) adjoin in the longitudinal direction to the north . The parsonage and the family education center "Haus der Familie" (1965) with a multi-generation house are somewhat separated from it .

Organs and church music

From 1956 to 2018 the church had an organ by master organ builder Paul Ott . It was replaced in 2019 by an instrument by Claudius Winterhalter . Cantors of the Christ Church were Professor Friedrich Ernst Klaffke (1954–60), Dieter Kröker (1961–76), Ernst-Ulrich Scheler (1976–2008), Philipp Christ (2009), Michael Riedel (2010–2013), Barbara Dünne (since 2013).

The Winterhalter organ of the Christ Church

Winterhalter organ (since 2019)

In 2016 the parish commissioned the organ builder Claudius Winterhalter to build a new organ with 31 registers on 2 manuals and a pedal. The disposition was created in cooperation between the organ expert Manfred Schwartz and the organ building company. The Winterhalter organ was installed in autumn 2018 and inaugurated on Pentecost Sunday, June 9, 2019. The consecration concert on the same evening was played by Professor Johannes Geffert .

I main work Ca 3 01. Bourdon 16 ′ 02. Principal Major 08th' 03. Principal Minor 08th' 04th Solo flute 08th' 05. Bourdon 08th' 06th Salicional 08th' 07th Octave 04 ′ 08th. flute 04 ′ 09. Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 10. Octave 02 ′ 11. Mixture V 02 ′ 12. Cornett V (from g 0 ) 08th' 13. Trumpet 08th' Tremulant

II swell approx 3 14th Quintaton 16 ′ 15th Violin principal 08th' 16. Double covered 08th' 17th Viol 08th' 18th Vox Coelestis (from c 0 ) 08th' 19th Fugara 04 ′ 20th Transverse flute 04 ′ 21st Fifth flute 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 22nd Flageolet 02 ′ 23. third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 24. Mixture IV-V 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 25th Trompette harmonique 08th' 26th Basson Hautbois 08th' Tremulant Zimbelstern

Pedal Cf 1 27. Base (transmission) 32 ′ 28. Contrabass 16 ′ 29 Sub bass 16 ′ 30th Bourdon (= No. 1) 16 ′ 31. Octavbass 08th' 32. Covered bass (= No. 29) 08th' 33. Violoncello (= No. 28) 08th' 34. Bass octave (= No. 31) 04 ′ 35. trombone 16 ′ 36. Trumpet 08th' 37. Clairon (= No. 36) 04 ′

• Coupling II / I (mechanical), I / P (mechanical), II / P (mechanical), SUB II-I (electronic), SUPER II-P (electronic)
• Mechanical action mechanism
• Electric register action, electronic register control
• Midi in / out

Ott organ (1956-2018)

The three-manual organ with 44 sounding stops and 3170 pipes by the organ builder Paul Ott was inaugurated on July 15, 1956. A special feature in organ building was the second reverse positive built into the gallery balustrade as a pedal reverse positive . In 2015, an expert report by the regional church determined that a restoration of the Ott organ did not make sense. The parish therefore decided to replace it with a new organ. The organ was dismantled in June 2018. It should be heard from 2020 in the Saint Antoine church in Lyon, France.

I Rückpositiv Covered pommer 8th' Covered for musicians 8th' recorder 4 ′ Principal 2 ′ Forest flute 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Third flute 4 ⁄ 5 ′ Zimbel II 1 ⁄ 6 ′ shelf 8th' Tremulant

II major work Quintadena 16 ′ Principal 8th' Dumped 8th' octave 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Flat flute 2 ′ Fourth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ +2 ′ Mixture V-VI 2 ′ Trumpet 8th'

III upper structure Pipe whistle 8th' Wooden flute 8th' Principal 4 ′ Gemshorn 4 ′ Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Night horn 1' Sharp IV 1' Krummhorn 8th' Tremulant Zimbelstern

pedal Sub bass 16 ' Dacked bass 16 ' Principal bass 8th' Wooden dacked 8th' octave 4 ′ Sesquialter III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Backset VI 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 8th'

Pedal return positive Metal dacked 8th' Open flute 2 ′ Rauschpfeife III 2 ′ Rankett 16 ′ shawm 4 ′ Tremulant

• Coupling I / II, III / II, II / P
• Stop valves for Rückpositiv, Oberwerk, Hauptwerk, Pedal 1, Pedal 2, Rückpositiv-Pedal

Bells

The church tower houses three bronze bells , all made in 1953 by the Rincker in Sinn bell and art foundry .

No.	Liturgical Office	Mass (kg)	Chime	inscription
1	Death knell	490	g sharp 1	I LIVE AND YOU SHALL ALSO LIVE (Jn 14:19)
2	Call bell	290	h 1	O COUNTRY, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD (Jer 22:29)
3	Prayer bell	210	c sharp 2	JESUS ​​CHRIST YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND THE SAME ALSO IN ETERNITY (Heb 13: 8)

Parish

Pastors of the church were Helmut Kolfhaus (1954–1976), Georg Terpitz (1974–2001), Ernst F. Jochum (2001–2008) and Oliver Ploch (since 2008). Since the merger of the Christ and Paul parishes in 2003, the Christ Church has belonged to the Thomas parish in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. In addition to the Christ Church, the St. Paul Church in Friesdorf and the St. Thomas Chapel in Plittersdorf also belong to the Thomas parish. Since March 2010 the church has been the first open Protestant church in Bad Godesberg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 59, number A 4035
2. ^ Entry in the Otto Bartning work directory for church building
3. ↑ OBAK flyer on the Erlöserkirche Marl, May 2007 ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2013 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. (PDF; 1.9 MB)  
4. ↑ s. to ARCHITECTURE / church: God is driving geometry . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1953, pp. 30 ( online - December 23, 1953 ).
5. ↑ Eberhard Kennner: Evangelical between the Rhine, Swist and Erft. An anniversary book. Rheinbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-87062-117-9 , p. 98.
6. ↑ Festschrift "50 Years Christ Church Bad Godesberg 1953-2003", Ed. Thomaskirchengemeinde Bad Godesberg, Bonn 2003.
7. ↑ Festschrift "Fifty Years Christ Church Bad Godesberg 1953-2003", Ed. Thomaskirchengemeinde Bad Godesberg, Bonn 2003.
8. ↑ New organ should be ready by Christmas 2018 General-Anzeiger Bonn from November 22, 2016
9. ↑ New organ for Thomas parish General-Anzeiger Bonn from November 15, 2017
10. ↑ 800,000 euros for the Queen of Instruments General-Anzeiger Bonn from February 26, 2015
11. ↑ Evangelisch in Bad Godesberg, June 2018 , p. 15
12. ↑ Festschrift: The Winterhalter Organ of the Christ Church, June 2019

literature

• Hans Werner Hegemann: The Christ Church in Bad Godesberg , in: Baukunst und Werkform, Die neue Stadt, Frankfurt / Main 1954.
• 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. 179/180 .
• Ingrid Küster: Otto Bartning as church builder , dissertation, Bonn 1982.
• Barbara Kahle: German Church Architecture of the 20th Century , Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 978-3534036141 .
• Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 142-143.
• Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 120.
• Eleonore Schuckmann-Tröder: The Protestant Christ Church. Only 64 years old and already a monument . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual volume of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , ISSN  0436-1024 , Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV, Volume 55/2017, Bad Godesberg 2018, pp. 165-184. [not yet evaluated for this article]

Web links

Commons : Christ Church  - Collection of Images

• Thomas parish Bonn-Bad Godesberg, parish Christ Church with St. Thomas Chapel
• Brochure Open Christ Church (PDF; 392 kB)
• Website for the new organ

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '36.3 "  N , 7 ° 9' 7.3"  E