Friedenskirche (Aegidienberg)
The Evangelical Church of Peace in Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , was built as a tent church in 1960/61 and equipped with a bell tower in 1980 . It is located in the church village of Aegidienberg on Friedensstrasse, corner of Auf dem Romert, and borders the municipal cemetery .
history
The need to build a Protestant church in Aegidienberg arose in particular from the population growth as a result of the expulsions after the Second World War and the election of the nearby city of Bonn as the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949), which led to a surge in the number of Protestant Christians - from one person in 1905 to 145 in 1946 - in the congregation, which was previously almost exclusively Catholic. A first pastoral care of evangelical believers in Aegidienberg took place from 1933 by the pastor of the evangelical church in Koenigswinter , where the services were held with an average participation of about 25 community members in a room of the old Aegidienberger school. The last church services took place there at the end of 1939. The failure of the planned construction of an own chapel led to the demise of Protestant community life in 1940. It was not until 1948 that Protestant services were held again with increasing regularity in the chapel of the Catholic monastery of St. Josef in Aegidienberg. In 1957 the representative of Aegidienberg , who was elected to the Königswinter presbytery for the first time, applied for the construction of his own church building. It was approved in 1959 after the number of Protestant parishioners had grown to 355.
The choice for the location of the church fell early on on the property "Im Romert" on the edge of the church village of Aegidienberg. At an exhibition of small churches in Düsseldorf , the presbytery selected a model by the Stuttgart architect Wilfried Pfefferkorn, which had been awarded a prize in a competition for small churches that could be moved. The possibility of a later dismantling of the church was foreseen in this model through the materials used. In June 1959 negotiations to finance the new building began between the regional church office , district synod and the Protestant parish. The foundation stone was laid on October 29, 1960; after a construction period of three months, the church on February 4, 1961 was inaugurated and officially named in "peace church". One of the gifts received on the occasion of the consecration of the church was a pulpit Bible by Eugen Gerstenmaier, President of the Bundestag at the time . According to the final accounts, the construction of the church took costs of DM 118,000 .
In 1966 a newly built parish hall next to the church was inaugurated. In 1967, the previous church windows were replaced by 71 colored cathedral glass panes. On April 1, 1974, the Evangelical Church Community Aegidienberg left the parish association with the Evangelical Church Community Königswinter as an independent corporation under public law . In 1980 the Friedenskirche was expanded to include a bell tower at a cost of 92,000 DM , which was manufactured in Thomasberg and from there transported as a whole to Aegidienberg. When the church was renovated again in 1985, the church windows that were only installed in 1967 gave way to larger specimens. In 1992 the center of the parish was expanded again to include a rectory and in 1998 a day-care center . The most recent redesign of the church took place in the course of renovation and interior renovation from autumn 2002 to spring 2003.
architecture
The Friedenskirche is designed on the base of an equilateral triangle with a truncated tip (extreme trapezoid) as a tent roof church in a glued wood frame construction. The roof is pulled far down into the corners from the tetrahedral top. Since the redesign in 2002/03, the entire interior of the church has been rotated by 180 ° compared to the original state: Instead of the previous entrance area at the top of the trapezoid, there is now the white painted altar wall with a light birch cross, the altar with attached Ambo and in the middle of the church hall, the baptismal font , and the place of the former altar wall joined the new, with the organ - loft built over the entrance area with a two-leaf double door is framed by narrow to roof-reaching windows. Up to the wood-paneled roof, the side walls are completely filled with windows framed by square, white bars, over which a triangular canopy is pulled over. The interior renovation was carried out with the aim of relocating the entrance from the street to the square-like center of the community center and thereby enhancing it. The rows of chairs are aligned with the altar. They offer space for around 150 people. The central aisle with the baptismal font is generally kept free over a large area. The bell tower of the Friedenskirche is a free-standing wooden shingle tower with a height of 20 m. It is equipped with three bells (dis 2 , F # 2 and gis 2 equipped), which are also operated remotely and since 2002 shingles from Alaska cedar covered. They are named Johannes (baptismal bell), Peter (prayer bell) and Paulus (death bell).
organ
In 1962, the church received an organ from the Cologne company Willi Peter, financed by donations from community members . In 1977 the Oberlinger company carried out a renovation, almost a new construction, of the organ.
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- Coupling : Pedal Coupler
literature
- Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages. Published by the author in collaboration with the Aegidienberg community, Aegidienberg 1964, pp. 155–160.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages.
- ↑ Fifty years ago intended as a temporary solution , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, February 4, 2011
- ↑ a b The Friedenskirche in a new guise , General-Anzeiger , February 7, 2003, p. 8
- ↑ 20,000 pieces of wood stand for cohesion , General-Anzeiger, May 13, 2003, p. 7
- ↑ a b Ways to Wood: Sacred Buildings - Bad Honnef-Aegidienberg, Protestant Church
- ↑ a b Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg district . Bouvier, 1990, pp. 335 f.
- ↑ Gerhard Baumgärtel: The Evangelical Church Community Aegidienberg. Bad Honnef-Aegidienberg 2002, pp. 99-100.
- ↑ Gerhard Baumgärtel: The Evangelical Church Community Aegidienberg. Bad Honnef-Aegidienberg 2002, pp. 101-102.
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 44.4 " N , 7 ° 17 ′ 56.4" E