Friedenskirche (Kessenich)

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The church's distinctive, free-standing bell tower in September 2011

The Protestant Church of Peace in the Kessenich district of Bonn at Franz-Bücheler-Strasse 10 was given its name to commemorate the Second World War, which was only recently completed when it was inaugurated . The church building , consecrated in 1955, is a listed architectural monument .

history

The Protestant community in Kessenich did not have its own church until 1955; until 1955 it used the nearby Luther Church , which was inaugurated in 1903 in what is now the southern part of Bonn, for worship. After clarifying the financing and acquiring a suitable building plot, the foundation stone was laid for an own church in March 1954 . The design came from the church building councilor Rudolf Hellwag, who had received 1st prize in a previous competition. The construction work was carried out by the Bonn company Gemüngt & Schneider . On March 20, 1955, the inauguration took place by the President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , Heinrich Held , the theologian and pastor Renatus Hupfeld and the parish priest Arnold Schumacher. Various choirs and soloists from the St. Thomas Choir in Leipzig framed the celebration.

The parish hall is attached to the church building . The first built was demolished in 1994 and replaced by a larger new building with a cellar. Behind the church is the rectory, which was also completed in 1955.

The choirs of the Friedenskirche are known in the region. For the tenth anniversary of the children's choir, it performed the musical Jesus Christ Superstar in 2009 under the cantor Katharina Wulzinger .

Architecture and equipment

Basics

The building has a square floor plan with cut corners, creating an octagon. Central buildings with such an octagonal floor plan have been used frequently in church construction since ancient times. It is conceivable that the conception of the church in Kessenich was based not only on practical building considerations but also on the Christian meaning of the number 8 as the perfect number ( resurrection of Christ ). The church is spanned by a tent roof . The free-standing bell tower tapers in three steps and has a cross-crowned flat roof .

The interior of the church building offers space for the raised chancel with pulpit and baptismal font, benches for 600 people, a gallery with the organ, a sacristy and the entrance hall. The altar, the baptismal font and the pulpit are made of Baden shell limestone . The wall behind the altar was covered with black shell limestone. In front of it is a room-high, light maple cross.

window

The church window was designed by Hans Heinrich Adam from Aachen; The execution was carried out by the specialist glass painting workshop Karl Jörres from Kessenich. The floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows run as two rows of windows on the long walls to the right and left of the altar up to the gallery; the individual windows in these rows are each divided by seven vertical concrete struts. The left row of windows depicts the Apostles' Creed in an abstract form , the right row shows scenes from the works of Christ described in the New Testament .

Images and symbols are used in the eight parts of the left-hand row of windows to represent: God, the Almighty Father (symbolism), the fall of man ( Eve with apple ), redemption ( birth of Christ ), the virgin birth (symbolism), suffering and death of Christ ( Dying on the cross), the resurrection (open grave), the last judgment and eternal life (symbolism). The right window sequence shows: Jesus in the Temple , Christ in the Jordan, the wedding in Cana , the Sermon on the Mount , the healings , the miracle of calming the storm, the garden of Gethsemane and the Last Supper .

Antependia

The university professor Kurt Wolff designed the church's antependums . The production was carried out by the workshop for evangelical paramentics of the Diakoniewerk Kaiserswerth , they were commissioned until 1991 and stand for Bible texts that the artist represented symbolically:

  • Violet pulpit curtain: Liberation for life , analogously: We are not caught in fear, hopelessness and guilt, but liberated to live (based on Matthew 4, 16).
  • White pulpit curtain: light of the world , analogously: God is with people (based on 1 John 2, 8b).
  • Red pulpit curtain: Burning thorn bush , analogously: In the thorns in which we are entangled, flames shine that do not destroy, but testify to God, who is hidden from us but always close, who loves us (based on Exodus 3, 2-7).
  • Green pulpit curtain: tree of life , analogously: light is also there where the tree appears withered, life also arises where it is dark (based on Jeremiah 17, 7 and 8).

organ

The gallery organ , installed in 1957 , was made by the Cologne organ builder Willi Peter . In 2003 the organ was renovated by the Lenter company in Sachsenheim . It has 31 registers on three manuals and a pedal with almost 2000 pipes . The game action is mechanical. The organ has mechanical slider chest , electric register pull magnet and a combination system with 128 storage locations. The mechanical coupling cannot be controlled via the setting system.

Disposition
I Swell C – g 3
1. Suavial 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Gemshorn 2 ′
6th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
7th Scharff III 1'
8th. Chalumeau 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
9. Dumped 16 ′
10. Principal 8th'
11. Pointed flute 8th'
12. Octave 4 ′
13. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Octave 2 ′
15th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Trumpet 8th'
III Breastwork C – g 3
17th Dumped 8th'
18th Quintad 8th'
19th Reed flute 4 ′
20th Principal 2 ′
21st Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Cymbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
23. musette 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
24. Sub bass 16 ′
25th Principal 8th'
26th Dumped 8th'
27. Choral bass 4 ′
28. Rauschpfeife IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
29 trombone 16 ′
30th Trumpet 8th'
31. Clairon 4 ′
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P

Peal

The bell was cast in the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg and consists of three bells that are named Faith , Love and Hope . A Bible verse is attached to each one:

  • Faith : “If you do not believe, you will not remain” (Isaiah 7: 9) - big bell
  • Love : “Remain in my love” (John 15: 9) - middle bell
  • Hope : “Rejoice in hope” (Romans 12:12) - little bell.

The bells in tones g , a and c were put into service on Pentecost Sunday 1955. Since the tower standing on unstable ground got cracks from the vibrations of the three bells, only the big bell is swung; the smaller ones are posted.

See also

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 , p. 106/107.

Web links

Commons : Friedenskirche (Kessenich)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 20, number A 3993
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Jurgilewitsch and Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district , ISBN 978-3-41680-6-060 , Bouvier , Bonn 1990, p. 106.
  3. ^ Stefan Knopp, Friedenskirche in Bonn Cantor Katharina Wulzinger says goodbye after 14 years , February 21, 2014, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  4. ↑ Rotraut Wisskirchen : On the octagonal floor plan of the Friedenskirche Bonn , in: Our subject: 50 years of the Friedenskirche , parish letter The letter. Information from the Evangelische Friedenskirchengemeinde Bonn , February to April 2005, No. I / 05, Evangelische Friedenskirchengemeinde Bonn, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Ingrid Mante: The pulpit paraments in our Friedenskirche , based on an interpretation by Renate Gerhard in 1995, in: Our topic: 50 years of the Friedenskirche , parish letter Der Brief. Information from the Evangelical Peace Church Community of Bonn , February to April 2005, No. I / 05, Evangelical Peace Church Community of Bonn, p. 11f.
  6. ↑ Michael Verhey: Our church windows , in: Our subject: 50 years of the Church of Peace , parish letter The letter. Information from the Evangelical Peace Church Community of Bonn , February to April 2005, No. I / 05, Evangelical Peace Church Community of Bonn, p. 13f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 43.2 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 43.9"  E