Rigal Chapel

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The Rigal Chapel (2007)

The Rigal'sche Chapel is a Protestant chapel in the center of Bad Godesberg , a district of Bonn . It is located on the corner of Kurfürstenallee and Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse opposite the so-called “Rigal'schen Wiese” immediately north of the former Chinese embassy . It is used by the Evangelical Johannes-Kirchengemeinde Bad Godesberg, the Evangelical Francophone Congregation as well as the Regional Convention West of the High Church of St. John's Brotherhood and, since July 2017, by the initiative "Prayer House Bonn".

The Rigal'sche chapel stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The building was built between 1856 and 1858 as a private chapel by Baron Ludwig Maximilian von Rigal-Grunland in connection with the neighboring palace-like villa, Schloss Rigal, based on a design by the architect Christian von der Emden (1796–1869). It was the first independent Protestant church in Godesberg and in what is now Bonn's urban area on the left bank of the Rhine. The foundation stone for the new building took place on 11 June 1856, the consecration of the chapel took place on 1 July 1858. On 17 October 1860 gave Rigal-Grunland a church of the Protestant parish Bonn; the previous branch community of Godesberg became independent in June 1861 and only came into the possession of the chapel including the property and a capital for the maintenance of the building through a donation on August 29, 1874.

Towards the end of the Second World War , the roof turret of the chapel was damaged by shell bullets on March 8, 1945. On November 20, 1966, an eternity Sunday , the last service of the Protestant parish took place in the chapel. In 1983 the roof turret was demolished as a late consequence of the war damage and then rebuilt true to the original by January 1985.

architecture

The chapel is a simple brick building with partly Romanesque and partly more modern forms, the round-arched facade elements and surrounding block frieze . The top of the gable protrudes as a console . The floor plan of the church is rectangular, but is complemented by a five-sided apse , which is closed on the inside, and two square extensions that resemble transepts . The original equipment of the chapel has largely been preserved. Their neo-Gothic seating dates from 1884–1888. The patronage boxes on the side arms of the chapel are remarkable .

On the east side of the chapel, to the left of the entrance portal, there is a crossroads that presumably dates back to the 18th century and was moved here from what was then Deutschherrenstrasse in front of Rigal Castle in the course of the construction of the Chinese embassy between 1982 and 1984.

literature

  • Evangelical Johannes-Kirchengemeinde Bad Godesberg (Ed.): Evangelical in Godesberg: 150 years Rigal'sche Chapel . Bonn 2008 (ceremony for the anniversary of Rigal's Chapel). [not yet evaluated for this article]
  • Andreas Denk , Ingeborg flag : Architectural guide Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 108.
  • 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. 148-149. [not yet evaluated for this article]
  • Eva Ammermüller: The Rigal'sche Kapelle - a Huguenot foundation . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 6 (1968), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 1968, pp. 86–95.

Web links

Commons : Rigal'sche Kapelle  - Collection of pictures

References and comments

  1. ↑ 1898–1955 Ludwigstrasse ( entry in the Bonn street cadastre)
  2. ^ Regional Convention West - High Church St. John Brotherhood. In: west.johannesbruderschaft.eu. Retrieved November 12, 2016 .
  3. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 181
  4. ↑ a b c d e Eva Ammermüller: The Rigal'sche Chapel - a Huguenot foundation . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , issue 6/1968.
  5. ^ The houses on Kurfürstenallee , VHH for the Open Monument Day 2011, 2011
  6. ^ Josef Niesen : Bonner Personenlexikon. 3. Edition. Bouvier-Verlag, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 , p. 391.
  7. ↑ Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , Issue 23/1985, Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV , Bad Godesberg 1985, ISSN  0436-1024 , p. 248.
  8. ^ Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV (Ed.): Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Issue 21/1983, Bad Godesberg 1984, ISSN  0436-1024 , pp. 145/146.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 43.6 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 21.1"  E