Christ Church (Königswinter)

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The Christ Church is a Protestant church built in the neo-Gothic style according to plans by the master builder Christian Heyden in the years 1863 and 1864 in the old town of Königswinter in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and, with the Church of the  Resurrection in Ittenbach , one of the both preaching sites of the Evangelical Parish of Königswinter. It stands as a monument under monument protection .

Christ Church in Königswinter (2013)
View of the Christ Church around 1900
Interior view of the Christ Church 2012

Exterior construction

The Christ Church is a single-nave brick building , a hall church with a western tower in front. The rectangular nave has a three-sided choir , the hall a star vault on slim wall pillars and the tower a pointed helmet . The church tower was purified in the 1920s and the pinnacles were reconstructed in the 1970s .

Vestibule

In the anteroom of the church there is a colored representation of the seal of the community above the vestibule, which is modeled on the coat of arms of the reformer Philipp Melanchthon and shows the brazen serpent ( Numbers 21: 4-9) winding around the cross.

altar

The altarpiece was created in 1903 during the tenure of pastor and superintendent Ernst Rentrop by the Düsseldorf painter Heinrich Johann Sinkel . It depicts Christ's word on the cross, “It is finished” and shows Mary and John next to Christ on the cross .

window

The church windows were made in 1901–1905 by the glass painter Hans Müller-Hickler from Darmstadt. The inscriptions show that most of them are foundations of parishioners.

Bells

Until Whit Monday 2019, the Christ Church had a small ring made of three cast steel bells , which was cast by the Bochum Association in 1951 . They bore the inscriptions Glory to God on high, Peace on earth and Pleasure to men , their beats were g 1 , b 1 and c 2 . A used five-part bronze bell has been sounding since July 2019, which comes from the Epiphany Church in Düsseldorf-Rath , which has now been demolished . The five bronze bells , which in the Hessian 1964-1968 Rincker bell and art foundry cast have, impact sounds fis 1 , gis 1 , ais 1 , cis 2 and dis 2 and bear the inscriptions He is our peace , blessed are those who suffer for they are to be comforted , God is love , Jesus says: Come to me all and O country country country hear the word of the Lord .

organ

From 1872 to 1901 a work by the organ builder Johannes Adolph Ibach was in the Christ Church. In 1902 the company Eberhard Friedrich Walcker built in their Opus 905, a completely pneumatically designed work, the housing of which was manufactured according to plans by the Honnef architect Ottomar Stein from February 23, 1900. The arrangement of the organ was:

I Manual C-g 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
flute 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Mixture III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C-g 3
Gemshorn 8th'
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Voix celeste 8th'
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Covered bass (transm.) 16 ′
Violonbass 8th'

In 1976 the Gebrüder Oberlinger company installed the present organ behind the existing prospectus of the Walcker organ. Initially 10 sounding registers were placed on the twin store, in 1984 and 1986 the organ work was then completed by the Peter company from Cologne, the five vacant register sticks were occupied and a general sill was installed. In 2014 the organ was completely cleaned. Since then the disposition has been:

I Manual C-g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Smalled up 4 ′
Pointed Octave 2 ′
Sesquialter II
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C-g 3
Covered 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Wide principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cymbel III
Schalmey 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Revelation 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 50
  2. ↑ Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.)
  3. ↑ Jörg Schulze: Church building of the 19th century in the old Siegkreis. (= Landeskonservator Rheinland, workbook 21) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0320-3 (also dissertation RWTH Aachen University, 1972), p. 184.
  4. ^ Organ in Königswinter , accessed on September 29, 2015.

literature

  • Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 344–346.
  • Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 110.
  • Erwin Krakowski: Congregation book of the Evangelical Church Community Königswinter: One hundred years Evangelical Church Königswinter. Königswinter 1964.

Web links

Commons : Christ Church  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 23.9 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 46.8"  E