Helenenkapelle (Bonn)

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Exterior view of the St. Helena Chapel in Bonn

The Helen Chapel (or St. Helena's Chapel) is a church building in Bonn - the center and is considered the only surviving Romanesque chapel a Stiftskurie in the Rhineland .

It was probably built as a house chapel around 1160 under the then provost of the Cassius monastery , Gerhard von Are , who introduced the veneration of St. Helena in Bonn, and served the canons of the Cassius monastery as a prayer room. The chapel was renovated in 1657 by the canon Johann F. Fabritius.

During the bombardment of Bonn in 1689 by the Elector Friedrich III. von Brandenburg - the later first King Friedrich I in Prussia - the chapel was badly damaged. The restoration did not begin until 1752. The solemn altar consecration took place in 1760. During the secularization , the church building became private property in 1803. The city of Bonn has been the owner since 1905. During the Second World War , the chapel was again badly damaged, with the cross vault displaced by air pressure and the paintings largely destroyed by moisture. The subsequent reconstruction took place until 1949. In the course of renovation work in the 1960s, frescoes in the interior of the chapel were uncovered, which probably date from the 13th to 15th centuries. On April 23, 1973 the restored Helenenkapelle was reopened.

The chapel is now surrounded by buildings and can only be seen from the outside from the first floor of the SinnLeffers fashion house . A staircase in the colonnades of the street Am Hof leads to the simple prayer room measuring 3.5 × 3.5 meters with a cross vault , a semicircular apse and floor slabs from the time the chapel was built. It stands as a monument under monument protection .

On January 27, 2020, the Bonn local time reported on the Helenenkapelle.

  • Further exterior view

  • The apse of the chapel

  • Remnants of frescoes on the left apse arch

  • Fresco on the vault of the apse

  • Remnants of frescoes on the right apse arch

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Helena Chapel (Bonn)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The fate of the war in German architecture. Loss - damage - reconstruction. Documentation for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 1: Nord , Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-02685-9 , p. 382 f.
  2. ^ Karl Gutzmer : Chronicle of the city of Bonn . Chronik-Verlag, Dortmund 1988, ISBN 3-611-00032-9 , p. 248.
  3. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 5, number A 896
  4. ↑ https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendung/lokalzeit-bonn/video-was-wird-aus-der-helenenkapelle-in-der-bonner-innenstadt-100.html

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 3.4 ″  E