Minoritenkirche (Cologne)
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The Catholic Minorite Church ( St. Mary's Conception ) on Kolpingplatz in Cologne is a church building from the 13th century. It is used today by the community and the Kolping Society .
history
In the style typical for Franciscans , it was laid out as an elongated Gothic building. The early Gothic choir was built from 1245 to around 1260 , and the three-aisled nave was completed in the 14th century. As a mendicant order church , it does not have a steeple , but has a roof turret .
When the revolutionary troops occupied Cologne from 1794 onwards, the church served as a warehouse and became increasingly dilapidated; After the expulsion of the Minorites, whose monasteries were closed by the Napoleonic occupying power in 1804, the poor administration of the city of Cologne used them as an institution and hospital church from 1808 as part of the secularization .
1846 she went as Annex Church of the Cologne Cathedral in the possession of the cathedral chapter over. 1850, said Archbishop flagellum to Firmungs - and ordination Church the archbishopric Cologne, connected to an external renovation, which lasted until the 1862nd The merchant Johann Heinrich Richartz (1795–1861), who had the Wallraf-Richartz Museum built on the site of the former Franciscan monastery , donated 40,000 thalers for the renovation of the church. The interior renovation was carried out by Adolph Kolping , who was appointed rector of the Minoritenkirche in 1862, with extensive fundraising. The Cologne journeyman's association, newly founded by Kolping, had already been using the Minorite Church as an association church since 1849 , so that the future connection was established through the personal union of the General Praeses of the Journeyman's Associations and the Rector of the Minorite Church. As part of a neo-Gothic style adjustment of the furnishings towards the end of the 19th century, the baroque high altar was replaced by a late Gothic winged altar that is still in existence today, which Auxiliary Bishop Baudri acquired in 1889 and donated to the Minorite Church on the occasion of his sixty-year jubilee as a priest, so that it could serve as the rear wall of the high altar. This work, created around 1480 in Lower Saxony, originally comes from the Nicolaikirche in Alfeld (Leine) , from which it was removed in 1888. Inside the altar shows three-dimensional decorations, while the outside shows painterly decorations. While the painting, which contains four scenes each from the life of Our Lady and the legend of St. Nicholas , was restored on the basis of the remaining painting by the Cologne painter Batzem , the inside is probably taken over, with the Mother of God holding the Baby Jesus under a rich canopy, surrounded by angels, accompanied by figures of saints. The figure of the Mother of God with the child is the centerpiece of depictions from the life of Jesus, which range from the Annunciation to the Resurrection.
In the Second World War , fire destroyed the church, the vaults and parts of the south aisle were lost. Reconstruction by the Kolping Society was completed in 1958.
In 2009/10 the church was extensively restored for 1.85 million euros, including the entire roof with ridge turrets. The archbishopric contributed most of the costs. A new addition to the church is a glass crucifix by the Düsseldorf artist Thomas Kesseler, which hovers in the choir above the altar, and a bust of Kolping next to his grave.
The tracery of the west wing has been preserved from the cloister of the Minorite monastery . Today it is integrated into the building of the Museum of Applied Arts .
Tombs
Johannes Duns Scotus and Adolph Kolping , both of whom were beatified by John Paul II , are buried here and immortalized on the portal doors designed in 2006 by the sculptor Paul Nagel .
organ
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In 1997 a new organ was inaugurated by the organ building company Romanus Seifert & Sohn (Kevelaer). The instrument has 44 registers , divided into three manuals and pedal . The game contractures which are mechanically, Registertrakturen electrically. The swell is equipped with barker machines.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Coupling : 768-fold setting system
Bells
Two bells , which were cast by Feldmann & Marschel in Münster, hang one above the other in the roof turret . They replace two bells from 1754 and 1853 that were destroyed by the war. In parallel with the "Churches on Neumarkt" ( St. Aposteln , Antoniterkirche and St. Peter ), Sunday will be rung in with both bells on Saturday at 4:45 p.m. In the evening at 7:30 p.m., the Mary's bell rings for the Angelus .
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Ø (mm) |
Weight (kg) |
Nominal (16th note) |
inscription |
| 1 | Maria | 1954 | 790 | 280 | h 1 -2 | “Maria, my first bell praises your holy year. Immaculata, my mouth is singing to you forever. " |
| 2 | Kolping | 1952 | 660 | 160 | d 2 ± 0 | "In 1711 I was poured / in 1865 I announced Kolping's death / 1942 I was struck in the marrow / 1952 I rose again after severe hardship / In suffering the soul is steeled." |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gerhard Hoffs: Bell music of Catholic churches in Cologne. PDF document, pp. 63–66. ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Kracht : Adolph Kolping: priest, pedagogue, publicist in the service of Christian social reform. Herder publishing house. Freiburg im Breisgau u. a. 1993, pp. 159-163, ISBN 3451213273 .
- Heinrich Neu: The Minorite Church in Cologne. Münster-Verlag, Cologne 1949.
- Bernhard Ridder: Kolping's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the family shrine of the Kolping sons, Kolping Verlag, Cologne 1958.
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 21 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 19 ″ E