St. Adelheid am Pützchen

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Portal of Sankt Adelheid am Pützchen
Adelheid Church in the background, the chapel on the left, the fountain in the foreground

St. Adelheid am Pützchen is a Catholic church in the Bonn district of Pützchen . The building is a historical monument.

history

According to the legend of the spring miracle of Pützchen, the abbess of the Vilich monastery , Adelheid von Vilich , knelt down in the open field during a great drought and pleaded for divine assistance. A spring sprang up at the point where her abbess staff touched the ground. In the immediate vicinity of the later Adelheidis fountain , an Adelheidis chapel was built by the 17th century at the latest , at which a chaplain appointed by the Vilich abbess worked from 1679. In 1688 the General Commissioner of the Lower Rhine Province of the Carmelite Order obtained that the pilgrimage site at the Adelheidis fountain was assigned to the order. In 1706 the order built the Carmelite monastery . In order to cope with the growing number of pilgrims, it was decided in 1724 to build a church. The church was consecrated in 1760.

After the secularization , the Carmelites had to leave the monastery in 1803. It then served as the home of the alum hut owner Leopold Bleibtreu . Bleibtreu sold the property in 1843 to the Prussian state, which from 1847 set up a " detention center for depraved women " there. From 1866 the building complex served as an “ insane asylum ”, which burned down in 1887 along with the church adjoining the monastery building. The baroque interior of the church building was destroyed. The church was rebuilt by 1891. In 1897 Pützchen became a chapel congregation with its own asset management within the parish of Vilich, and in 1906 it became an independent “Parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel”.

In 1942 the church was again badly damaged in World War II and was restored to match the state of the late 19th century by 1959 and extensively renovated in 1979/80.

From March 1926, the Discalced Carmelites of Cologne lived in the old building of the monastery from 1941 until the end of the war, with one interruption; they sold the building in 1998 and it was later converted into apartments and offices.

Carmelites worked again from 2011 to August 2019 in St. Adelheid: The order CMI , founded in India, was given the pastoral care of the "Catholic Church Community Association Am Ennert", to which the parish has been a member since 2010.

architecture

The simple hall church with retracted choir and semicircular apse is supported on the southwest facade facing Marktstrasse / Adelheidisplatz by four mighty buttresses . The northern facade is attached to the former monastery building. On the western side of the portal, three transversely oval windows, two elliptical panels and three elongated arched windows are embedded in the wall. A roof turret sits slightly backwards above the west facade . The heavy entrance door is framed by a baroque portal made of stone . It bears the coat of arms of Charles III. Philip of the Palatinate .

The interior, which is based on Baroque ideas, is structured by Ionic pilasters and pairs of pilasters, which support a flat barrel vault with stitch caps .

Furnishing

Altars

The main altar with the retable made of Savonnière stone was created in 1962 by the artists Elmar Hillebrand and Theo Heiermann . It shows the story of creation . Since the congregation's reredos were too simple, Hillebrand drew on decorations with colored chalk, such as blue lilies. The sculptor has immortalized a church mouse on the back. The heavy bronze doors of the entrance portal also come from Hillebrand.

The two side altars were created in 1958 by Karl Matthäus Winter .

organ

View of the organ

The organ in the pilgrimage church was built in 1962 by the Rieger organ builder from Vorarlberg . The slider chests -instrument has 28 registers on two manual stations and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Coupling flute 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. recorder 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Hollow flute 2 ′
8th. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
9. Sifflet 1'
10. Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
12. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
13. Reed flute 8th'
14th Willow pipe 8th'
15th Principal 4 ′
16. Pointed flute 4 ′
17th Super octave 2 ′
18th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Scharff IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
20th Rankett 16 ′
21st shawm 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Principal 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Octavbass 8th'
25th Pommer 8th'
26th Beard pipe 4 ′
27. Rauschpfeife III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
28. trombone 16 ′

Bells

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 ) 		inscription
 
1 Maria 1958 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher 738 250 c 2 +5 St. Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for us!
2 Joseph 1958 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher 651 167 d 2 +5 St. Joseph, patron saint of workers and the dying, pray for us!
3 Adelheid 1958 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher 615 140 it 2 +6 St. Adelheid, parish patroness of Pützchen, pray for us!

Parish

The parish of Sankt Adelheid is merged with the neighboring parish of Sankt Antonius (Bonn- Holtorf ) and the larger parish of Christ König (Bonn- Holzlar and - Hoholz ) to form the parish community "Am Ennert", since January 1st 2010 "Catholic parish association Am Ennert". The parish of Sankt Adelheid has around 3,000 church members.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Adelheid am Pützchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '35.9 "  N , 7 ° 9' 2.6"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 3, number A 791
  2. ↑ Carl Jakob Bachem: Beueler Chronik . In: Studies on the local history of the Bonn-Beuel district . No. 26 . Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-922832-06-7 (192 pages).
  3. ↑ a b Die Karmeliterstraße , Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Beuel am Rhein , accessed on January 1, 2020
  4. ↑ a b c d e Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer and others: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005, p. 189
  5. ^ Carl Jakob Bachem: The history of the foundation of the parish on Pützchen . In: Catholic parish of St. Adelheid am Pützchen (ed.): 100 years of the parish of Pützchen 1906-2006 . Bonn 2006, p. 16-32 .
  6. ↑ a b c Andreas Denk , Ingeborg Flagge : Architekturführer Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 135
  7. ^ Dorothee Haentjes-Holländer : The pilgrimage church of St. Adelheid am Pützchen. Discovery of an art space (= Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch eV [Hrsg.]): Small contributions to memorials and history in Bonn on the right bank of the Rhine . Volume 2 ). Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-9812164-4-8 (48 pages).
  8. ↑ Fathers surprisingly leave Bonn parishes by Martin Wein, February 28, 2019 in General-Anzeiger , Bonn; Growing and becoming of the young Christ König congregation on the website of the Catholic Church Community Association Am Ennert (at the end)
  9. ↑ a b St. Adelheid am Pützchen: The church mouse on the altar , General-Anzeiger Bonn , August 4, 2014
  10. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the builder company
  11. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells of the Catholic Churches in Bonn . PDF file, pp. 162–165.
  12. ↑ https://gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de/seelsorgebereich-am-ennert/gemeinden/gremien/
  13. ^ Website of the Parish Community Am Ennert on the website of the Archdiocese of Cologne, accessed on July 18, 2019