Rüngsdorf church tower

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Old church tower
View into the apse
View of the old church

The Rüngsdorf church tower , a Romanesque choir tower , is the only remnant of the old St. Andreas parish church in the Rüngsdorf district of Bonn , which belongs to the Bad Godesberg district. It stands together with grave crosses of the 17th / 18th century and a stone paths cross as a monument under monument protection .

history

The Rüngsdorfer Church of St. Andrew was in a document dated 31 March 1131, the Pope Innocent II. The Bonn Cassius pen ownership at the ecclesiam Rinnigestorph confirmed first mentioned. The exact year of construction of the first St. Andrew's Church in Rüngsdorf is unknown. The Romanesque choir tower still preserved today dates from approx. 1200. The church thus belonged to the group of choir tower churches in the Bonn area, which were mainly built in the vicinity of the Vilich monastery . With St. Laurentius in Lessenich, another parish church with a choir tower was incorporated into the Cassius monastery.

Maybe it has traded at St. Andrew to a fortified church, as they in the tower room on loopholes features. The space above the apse , which is open today , was used to store the community files and fire extinguishers and also served as a room for the council meetings. The new parish church was built between 1900 and 1902. The old church should be completely demolished. However, due to a lack of money, no new bell tower could be built. So the decision was made to keep the old church tower, which still serves as a bell tower today.

Bells

Two of the three old bells have been preserved. These date from the years 1746 and 1790. In 1888 - probably by Christian Claren from Sieglar - the Marien and Andreas bells were cast. In one source it is referred to as the "medium" bell and is therefore very likely to have had the strike note g 1 . This bell was delivered and destroyed in World War II. It was not until 1980 that a new bell could be donated and the bell cage completed again.

No.
  		Name
(position) 		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 Maria 1790 Nikolaus Simon, Frankfurt 1,128 ≈845 f 1 −4
2 - 1746 Engelbert Joseph Fuchs, Cologne 906 ≈450 a 1 −6
3 Angelus bell 1980 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher 837 378 h 1 −9

literature

  • Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the city and the district of Bonn . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1905, p. 338 f. (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province , Volume 5, Section 3, p. 634 f.). (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-590-32113-X ) ( Internet Archive )
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland, arr. and exp. Edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 2005.
  • 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. 174–176. [not yet evaluated for this article]
  • Udo Mainzer : Romanesque choir tower churches in the vicinity of Bonn . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 1 (2/2009), pp. 27–40.

Web links

Commons : Church tower St. Andreas (Rüngsdorf)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 21, number A 1704
  2. ^ A b German Hubert Christian Maaßen : History of the parishes of the dean's office in Bonn. Part II: Bonn Land . In: Karl Theodor Dumont (ed.): History of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Cologne . Hanstein-Verlag, Bonn 1899, p. 195.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Hoffs: Bell music of the Catholic churches in Bonn . Pp. 134-138.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 3.4 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 20.4"  E