Evangelical Church (Honrath)

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The Evangelical Church in Honrath
Inside towards the organ

The Evangelical Church is a parish church in Lohmar - Honrath in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The church was first mentioned in documents in 1209, when Count Arnold von Hückeswagen donated his own church to the Gräfrath monastery . The church was consecrated to Saints Margaretha and Georg . The Romanesque church tower still preserved today dates from this time . On its first floor there is a chapel that was connected to the neighboring Honrath Castle by a bridge arch.

The Reformation was introduced at the church in 1646, but the Gräfrath monastery retained the right of patronage until it was abolished in 1803. The Romanesque nave was replaced by a hall in 1856/57. After a fire, the tower received its neo-Gothic slate pyramid in 1895.

Around 1990 the church attracted attention when the Protestant church musician Peter Neumann made parts of his complete recording of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's masses here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the booklet accompanying the publication on EMI Classics.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland, arr. and exp. Edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 2005.
  • Evangelical Church Community Honrath (Ed.): 150 Years Evangelical Church Honrath . Lindlar 2007.
  • 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. 381–384. [not yet evaluated for this article]

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church (Honrath)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 25.3 "  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 18.2"  E