Kreuzkirche (Bonn)
The Kreuzkirche is a Protestant church in Bonn . It has been the church of the Kreuzkirchengemeinde since 1871, and also the Protestant city church of Bonn. With a seating capacity of 1200 it is the largest Protestant church in the Rhineland and the largest church in Bonn. The Cross Church stands as a monument under monument protection .
history
After the Rhineland became Prussian in 1815 , the "Evangelical Congregation of all Evangelical Lutheran and Evangelical Reformed Citizens" was founded in 1816. In 1817 King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the community the castle chapel for the use of church services. In the following period, evangelical life in Bonn developed, u. a. with the opening of a Protestant school, the establishment of the Rhenish Provincial Committee for the Inner Mission in Bonn and the establishment of the Friedrich Wilhelm Foundation.
On December 15, 1866, the foundation stone was laid for the church on Kaiserplatz, which was built according to plans by the Bonn university master builder August Dieckhoff . The church was consecrated on December 18, 1871. In 1928 the church received the first large organ. In 1935 the church was renovated, with the neo-Gothic ornamentation being largely removed.
After the Kreuzkirche was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944, an emergency church was set up first. In 1947 it was named Kreuzkirche . In the years 1951 to 1954 the church was rebuilt and consecrated according to plans by the Trier architect Heinrich Otto Vogel . With the design of the interior vaults as a folded work on slender concrete round pillars, he refers to the neo-Gothic ribbed vaults of the pre-war period and anticipates forms that he used a few time later in the design of the nave vaults in the Martinskirche (Kassel) , his main work. In 1963 the church received its new bell. In 1967 the crypt was redesigned as a church service room.
Furnishing
The interior of the Kreuzkirche is kept simple and has little equipment.
The choir windows were created by Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen (Stuttgart). They show scenes from the life of Jesus, pictures of the apostles and other biblical scenes.
The altar and the cross were designed by Arnold Rickert . The altar is made of Graubüttelbrunn shell limestone. The cross is made of oak, studded with copper. The marks of Jesus are indicated by red semi-precious stones. The symbols of the evangelists (human, lion, bull, eagle) can be found at the ends of the bars . In the center is the Lamb of God with the cross.
The pulpit was designed by Rolf Scheibner. Your foot is made of basalt. The pulpit itself is covered with brass. It shows Christ as the teacher of the world in the middle, Moses on the right and the Apostle Paul on the left.
The font was designed by Eugen Keller . The base is made of basalt, the baptismal font is covered with gold mosaic. On the baptismal font is a representation of defeated demons. Rose window in the main portal
There is a large rose window above the main portal.
The organ was designed by building officer Heinrich Otto Vogel . The double doors on the organ front, which were painted by Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen, are remarkable. The left door shows David playing the harp in front of King Saul. The right door shows the trumpets of Jericho.
organ
The large organ of the Kreuzkirche was built in 1956 by the organ building company Paul Ott (Göttingen). The slider chests -instrument has 65 registers , four manuals and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric. The coupling is optionally mechanical or electrical. The organ was extensively renovated in 1982 and most recently in 2001 by the organ building company Karl Schuke (Berlin) and expanded to include a 4000-fold set system.
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- Coupling I / II, III / II, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
The first bell of the Kreuzkirche was cast in 1879 by the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock . The three bells with the chimes a 0 , c 1 and d 1 weighed 3,651, 1,974 and 1,356 kg. There were also two small bells for the clock strike , which were delivered during the First World War. The two large bells were removed for the Second World War, so that only the small bell (d 1 ) remained. It survived the war bombing and was rung after the reconstruction in 1954 until the new bell was purchased.
The Rincker bell and art foundry cast five new bells in 1963; the three large bells are similar in size and pitch to their 19th century predecessors. The bell is coordinated with almost all inner-city churches, especially that of the cathedral basilica . On June 4, 1966, for the 150th anniversary of the Protestant community in Bonn, the bell rang for the first time at 7 p.m. The existing tower clock is no longer connected to the bells via a striking mechanism. All bells hang in a monumental four-story steel bell cage on straight steel yokes. From a static point of view, counter pendulums were installed for all bells. In 2011 the four existing sound windows were enlarged to their original height and fitted with oak sound blinds in order to approximate the historical exterior and to improve the acoustics of the bell chamber.
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Name (position) |
Casting year |
Foundry, casting location |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
| 1 | Love (cross bell) | 1963 | Bell and art foundry Rincker, Sinn | 1,830 | 3,606 | a 0 −4 |
| 2 | hope | 1,558 | 2,300 | c 1 −2 | ||
| 3 | Faith | 1,383 | 1,605 | d 1 −3 | ||
| 4th | Joy (christening bell) | 1,230 | 1,151 | f 1 −1 | ||
| 5 | Peace (Our Father Bell) | 1,100 | 831 | g 1 −2 |
At noon at 12 noon and in the evening at 6 p.m., the bells 4 and 3 ring with bells. On Fridays at 3 p.m. at the hour of Christ's death, the great bell rings. At the end of the week, bells 5, 4 and 2 will be rung at 5:50 p.m. Half an hour before the main service on Sundays and public holidays, there is a prelude, which is usually done by bells 4, 3 and 2. Bells 4, 3, 2 and 1 will ring the bell until the service begins; Bell 5 is added on feast days. She herself is also rung to the Our Father. The big bell rings alone on Good Friday to baptize bell 4.
Individual evidence
- ↑ To the Kreuzkirche
- ↑ Kreuzkirche is in the spotlight across Germany ; Bonner General-Anzeiger from September 26, 2011
- ^ Pulpit speeches in Bonn's Kreuzkirche on Kaiserplatz ; bonn-evangelisch.de of January 24, 2010
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 28, number A 798
- ↑ Willy Weyres, Albrecht Mann: Handbook on Rhenish Architecture of the 19th Century 1800–1880.
- ↑ Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis
- ↑ Information on the story
- ↑ More information about the equipment
- ^ Helmut Heyer: The Kreuzkirche in Bonn: Origin and Fate of the Evangelical City Church. Bonn 1988, p. 119
- ↑ More information on the history and disposition of the organ , as seen on September 1, 2011.
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. 25-30.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 55 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 8.7 ″ E