Matthew Church (Cologne-Lindenthal)
The Matthäuskirche is a Protestant community center with a church of the Evangelical Community of Cologne in the Cologne district of Lindenthal, built from 1975 to 1977 . Today it is one of three churches in the Lindenthal community alongside the Paul Gerhardt Church and the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Church . The church is named after the evangelist Matthew .
history
The Matthäuskirche was planned after the Protestant congregation in the part of Lindenthal north of Dürener Strasse was redistributed back to Lindenthal by the Braunsfeld congregation as part of a reorganization of the congregations. From there, the district was given to the Braunsfeld community in 1950. A triangular plot of land on Herbert-Lewin-Strasse, which the Braunsfeld community had previously bought, was chosen as the building site. This was particularly favorable for the believers who lived further east of the Paul Gerhardt Church . 1965, decided parish line (presbytery) for the construction of a community center with prayer hall, in 1966 a church building association to support the construction was founded in 1970 and the presbytery wrote an architectural competition for the construction of the church. This was won by the two architects Peter Busmann and Godfrid Haberer ( Busmann + Haberer ), who were entrusted with building the church.
The foundation stone for the new building was laid on August 29, 1975, the inauguration of the community center took place on April 24, 1977. In 1980, an organ built by Willi Peter was installed in the prayer room and in 1994 a new font created by Werner Mally was inaugurated.
architecture
The Matthäuskirche and the community center are located on a property with a triangular floor plan on the corner of Dürener Strasse and Herbert-Lewin-Strasse in Lindenthal. It is a modern complex of three structures made up of individual cubes, which are offset from one another and thus have a loose appearance. They are built into the lines of the two streets without any delimitation. The main building of the community center consists of two four- to five-storey building blocks clad with black Eternit slabs with a flat roof, between which spans a two-storey high and also flat-roofed double block clad with black artificial shingles, which contains the prayer house and the community hall. The two rooms are about half a floor below street level.
The entrance is formed by a large vestibule on the ground floor and the entrance to the prayer room is on the fully windowed long side in the east, which is pierced by a pillar that supports the upper floor. The two end walls with windows and the pillars as well as the crossbeam running diagonally across the hall are cast from exposed concrete . Inside, the view is directed through the diagonals to the white sand-lime brick wall opposite the entrance, where two exposed concrete pillars form a compartment in which the altar stands in the middle . The altar is raised from the floor via a wooden and semicircular dais and illuminated by a high light shaft with indirect daylight, which the wooden ceiling of the room leaves free through a recess in front of the altar wall. Behind the altar hangs a crucifix, also located in the area of the altar in granite designed, winding Taufsäule and a lectern . The stalls are arranged in a semicircle and are oriented towards the semicircular altar street. The community hall is separated from the prayer hall by a folding wall so that the two rooms can be connected to form a larger hall.
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne (ed.): Cologne churches. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. 1st edition, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 57.
- ^ A b c d Günther A. Menne, Christoph Nötzel (ed.): Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 , pp. 98-99.
literature
- Günther A. Menne, Christoph Nötzel (Hrsg.): Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 , pp. 98-99.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 58 ″ N , 6 ° 55 ′ 18 ″ E