Hildegard Church (Rüngsdorf)
The St. Hildegard Church in the Rüngsdorf district of Bonn in Bad Godesberg was built in the 1960s and is a listed building . It belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Andreas and Evergislus in the parish association Bad Godesberg and thus to the Archdiocese of Cologne (pastoral district south) . The round church is consecrated to St. Hildegard von Bingen .
location
The address of the church is Im Meisengarten 47 ; it is located on Deichmanns Aue in a residential area with trees around 100 meters southwest of the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food and at a distance of 300 meters from the Rhine . Since the district boundary to Mehlem runs nearby , the church is sometimes incorrectly described as belonging to this district.
history
The church was built from 1961 according to plans by the church builder and architect Emil Steffann . The architect Heinz Bienefeld was involved in further planning, including for a kindergarten that had not been implemented . The Rhenish industrial family Werhahn financed the construction of the church because they wanted to create a parish for a family member. The then Federal Chancellor and Werhahn relative, Konrad Adenauer , arranged with Cologne's Archbishop Josef Frings after completion in 1963 that the Werhahn descendants take over the parish.
In 1964, Steffann was awarded the Great Art Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for building a church.
Refurbishment and remodeling
When Wolfgang Picken took over as pastor in the Rheinviertel, discussions began in 2004 about the future of the church, which is rarely visited. In addition to considerations of selling the building, a redesign of the interior was discussed, which was then implemented at the beginning of 2009 under the architect Robert Jansen after the listed building was placed in 2006. The altar was set one step lower, the walls were whitewashed, and the painting over the sandstone capitals was reversed. Impregnation was removed from the natural stone floor and the pews, corresponding to the shape of the building, were placed around the altar in a horseshoe shape. The church organ was put out of a niche, and an induction system for the hard of hearing and new lighting were installed. On March 28, 2009, the church was reopened with a Faust reading by the actor Joachim Król .
As was determined in the course of the church renovation, there had been no consecration at the opening of the church , as it fell at the time of the Second Vatican Council , to which the Cologne bishops had traveled to Rome. The plot was later forgotten, so that it was only carried out in 2009 after the completion of the renovation work as part of the relic sinking.
Monastery church
Since 2006, St. Hildegard has also served as a monastery church. This year, a monastery was set up in the reconstructed rectory for initially five Indian Franciscan Sisters . The monastery of St. Hildegard is a branch of Provinzialats St. Paul Provincial House of Palam in New Delhi in the archdiocese of Cologne. The St. Paul Provincial House belongs to the Franciscan Clarist Congregation , a religious order that was established in India around 1888 and received papal recognition within the Syro-Malabar Church in 1973 . In India the community operates in 20 provinces and 3 regions.
The church is also used regularly for the benefit events of the Rheinviertel community foundation .
architecture
The architectural form of the church building is inspired by the Basilica minor Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome . The octagonal church interior with a circular, lower gallery stands on a round plate with a diameter of 32 meters. According to the architect's wishes, the chosen church shape should express the function as an interdenominational, sacred meeting place. In the west a 16 meter high tower with a steep spire and a cross standing on it leans at a small distance. The masonry of the church building consists of unplastered greywacke . The gable roofs are covered with slate , the roof girders are made of spruce wood. On the top of the roof there is a golden fruit representation, which contains elements of the Romanesque pine cone and a grape umbel - the connection between fertility (pine) and vitality (grape).
The ensemble of buildings , which is integrated in a small, tree-lined park, includes a sacristy , the sexton's apartment and the former half-timbered rectory , which is now used as a monastery building.
Furnishing
The interior looks like a two-storey round hall. It has eight arcade vaults and eight arched windows each above in the upper aisle . The simple altar on an originally three-tier (today: two-tier) pedestal is made of greywacke. The font also comes from the time the church was built. A tabernacle serves as a side altar, it is designed in a mixture of Art Nouveau ornamentation and Byzantine mosaic art . A modern crucifix hovers over the altar .
At the entrance to the church there was an icon from the first half of the 17th century, which was painted over in the middle of the 18th century; Material: tempera on softwood. She is said to have depicted the breastfeeding Mother of God ( Maria lactans ) and to have been inspired by Greek icons of the Passion Madonna type . The depiction there of the Archangel Michael , who is equipped with the traditional attributes of the Passion (cross, lance and sponge) in the right upper corner of the portrait, is rare . Thus, in the representation, the childhood of the Son of God is to be connected with the death of the Savior.
Missing relic
On the occasion of the renovation in 2009, the grave in the altar was opened. There should be a relic of the namesake; however, the grave was empty. Initially, the Benedictine nuns of the Eibingen Abbey who were addressed rejected the parish 's request for a relic to be handed in because of many other inquiries, but then decided to transfer a body relic. The Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Heiner Koch was able to lower the relic of Saint Hildegard into the altar on October 31, 2009 at the consecration.
Theft of the icon
On August 6, 2014, the icon from the 17th century was stolen. The icon of Mary, secured with a protective grille, was stolen during the day after the castle was broken open during the week. The pastor responsible, Wolfgang Picken, then turned to the press and threatened the thief with a curse related to the icon. Regional subscription and tabloid newspapers (including the Bild newspaper ) reported accordingly. According to Picken, historical records existed that the icon's painter (a monk) placed a curse on the work of art against anyone who would ridicule it or usurp it. In the 19th century, the icon is said to have been stolen from a monastery and given back by the perpetrator because illness and misery struck him.
Concerts
Due to the special acoustics of the round building, St. Hildegard is regularly used for musical events of the Rheinviertel community foundation and the Bonn Beethoven Festival. Přemysl Vojta , Tobias Koch , Peter Materna , Florian Weber , Patricia Kopatchinskaja , Mari Kodama , Julian Steckel , Éric Le Sage and Paul Meyer have given concerts here since 2009 .
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 , pp. 176–177. [not yet evaluated for this article]
References and comments
- ↑ No. 3936, according to. List of acc. § 3 DSchG NW registered monuments, ground monuments, movable monuments and monument areas of the city of Bonn , city of Bonn, lower monument authority p. 18
- ↑ Wolfgang Voigt, Heinz Bienefeld, 1926-1995 , Deutsches Architekturmuseum (ed.), Volume 3 of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt (Main), series of publications on the plan and model collection of the Deutsches Architektur-Museum in Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-80301 -2-029 , Wasmuth , 1999
- ↑ Konrad Adenauer's daughter Libet Werhahn was married to Hermann Josef Werhahn . Joseph Frings was an uncle of Werhahn.
- ↑ a b "There was fringing and teasing" , February 4, 2009, Bonner General-Anzeiger
- ↑ Manfred Sack , Architecture: Emil Steffann - Perfect Simplicity , December 5, 1980, Die Zeit
- ↑ a b c Michael Wenzel, St. Hildegard in Rüngsdorf: A Gem turns 60 , December 5, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger
- ↑ a b Ebba Hagenberg-Miliu, St. Hildegard's Church will reopen after its renovation , March 27, 2009, Bonner General-Anzeiger
- ↑ a b "Hildegard answered our prayers!" - Hildegard Church solemnly consecrated, Hildegard relic in the altar on the website of the Catholic parish of St. Andreas and Evergislus (archive 2009)
- ↑ Franciscan Clarist Congregation , the archbishopric of Cologne Website
- ↑ Theft in Sankt Hildegard: Valuable Icon of Mary stolen , August 7, 2014, Bonner General-Anzeiger
- ↑ Valuable icon had already disappeared: Maria and child stolen from Bonn church , August 8, 2014, image
- ↑ Dieter Brockschnieder, Theft in Church: Pastor threatens icon thief with a curse , August 7, 2014, Bonner Rundschau
- ↑ Stolen picture in Rüngsdorf: Warning, icon thief! Your loot is under a curse, Aug 7, 2014, Express
- ↑ Materna and Weber play in St. Hildegard: Memory of the painter Martin Noël , October 29, 2015, Bonner General-Anzeiger; Jan Crummenerl, St. Hildegard in Mehlem: Patricia Kopatchinskaja - Back to the roots , September 24, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger; Thomas Kliemann, St. Hildegard Church in Mehlem: Concert with Peter Materna and Florian Weber , April 15, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger; Mari Kodama on September 18 at 8 pm in the Hildegard Church , website of the Rheinviertel community foundation ; Benefit concert in Rüngsdorf: "Winter Sounds" in St. Hildegard , January 30, 2015, Bonner General-Anzeiger
Web links
- Christina zu Mecklenburg, Mehlem: St. Hildegard Church , on the website of the Catholic parish of St. Andreas and Evergislus in the Bad Godesberg parish association, 2006
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 19.2 " N , 7 ° 10 ′ 54.6" E