Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church (Cologne-Lindenthal)
The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church is a Protestant community center built in 1979 with the church of the Evangelical Community of Cologne in the Cologne district of Lindenthal (Deckstein). Today it is one of three Protestant churches in the Lindenthal parish, alongside the Paul Gerhardt Church and the Matthäuskirche . The church is named after the theologian and resister against National Socialism Dietrich Bonhoeffer .
history
The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church was built as a preaching place for a retirement home planned from 1970 for the Lindenthal district of Deckstein after the suggestion of the pastor at the time to combine it with a parish hall for the Protestant Christians Deckstein. After this proposal was accepted in 1972, the Dr. Schulze Jöhnssen & Vieten commissioned with the conception and construction. The laying of the foundation stone and the topping-out ceremony for the building were celebrated together on August 28, 1979, and on May 11, 1980, it was inaugurated with a festive service. The glass work comes from the Cologne master glazier Hans Lauten , who installed it before the inauguration. The altar cross, the baptismal font and the altar candlesticks by the blacksmith Thaddäus Schröder were also available for the inauguration . The organ , which was only erected after the inauguration, was used for the first time on July 12, 1981.
architecture
The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church is a small hall church with a pentagonal (pentagonal) floor plan and is located with the attached community rooms east of the old people's home maintained by the Clarenbach factory on a corner plot at the beginning of the street “An der Decksteiner Mühle” and Gleueler Straße. The floor space is slightly lowered compared to street level. The walls have no plinths and are made of white sand-lime brick. They extend over about one storey to a ribbon of windows with stained glass windows surrounding the entire building. Above this is an attic and then the five-sided roof pyramid covered with slate , which is slightly shifted to the east and ends in a box-like extension.
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A front garden and an anteroom form the entrance to the church and the community center, from which access to all the rooms belonging to the community center and the church hall are accessible. The church hall has a fully glazed entrance side, all other walls have the structure of the concrete framework. In the middle of each of these four walls there is a concrete stand that supports both the concrete beam under the ribbon window and the end beam above the windows; the corners of the room are therefore free of columns. The concrete framework consists of gray exposed concrete, the interior facades are painted white. The altar with the altar candlesticks, the church cross and the baptismal font are together with two baroque angel figures on a single-tier dais in the eastern tip of the church hall. This is where the theme of Hans Lauten's ribbon of windows begins, beginning with chaos and the creation of light out of darkness through images of the elements and the seasons to reconciliation. The wooden ceiling pyramid ends in an open dome top , the opaum , and refers to a tent metaphor in the biblical Revelation of John :
“And I heard a loud voice from the throne say: Behold, the tent of God with the people! And he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, their God. "
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne (ed.): Cologne churches. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. 1st edition, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 177.
- ^ A b c Günther A. Menne, Christoph Nötzel (ed.): Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 , pp. 99-100.
literature
- Günther A. Menne, Christoph Nötzel (Hrsg.): Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 , pp. 98-99.
- Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne (ed.): Cologne churches. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. 1st edition, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 177.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 57.8 " N , 6 ° 53 ′ 52.6" E