St. Aegidius (Aegidienberg)

Parish Church of St. Aegidius (2009)

The St. Aegidius Church is the Catholic parish church of Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef . The landmark of Aegidienberg is located on a hill that can be seen from afar on Aegidiusplatz in the center of the village. The namesake of the church is St. Aegidius . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

Parish Church of St. Aegidius (1907)

The church dates from the 12th century and was built as a branch of Honnef. During excavation work for underfloor heating for the church, altar foundations and the wall of a presumably rectangular previous church were discovered. Sights within the church are the baroque main altar from 1779 (restored in 1957) and the font from the 13th century (restored in 1961) , built with andesite from Stenzelberg . The parish church is the remainder of the church, which was demolished in the core in 1824 and rebuilt until 1827, in which the tower retained a rectangular portal and received its classicist nave . In 1889 the new rhombic roof was installed, with the church tower being raised by five meters. Further work was carried out by 1893, including the addition of several triangular gables . In 1923 the two aisles were added.

The church tower was badly damaged in the Second World War in 1945 and then restored in 1946. In 1962, the master sculptor Sepp Hürten had two bronze side portals installed and the “stucco aprons” to the left and right of the central nave, which are unique for the Rhineland. In 1986 and 2001/2002 the church was extensively renovated. During the last renovation, the stucco aprons were removed.

organ

The organ was built in 1929 by Johannes Klais Orgelbau , Bonn (Opus 730). The cone drawers are pneumatically operated from the free-standing gaming table. It has 15 registers (one of which is attenuated in the pedal).

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Principal 8th' Dumped 8th' Dulciana 8th' Octave 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Mixture II-III

II Positive C-g 3 Open flute 8th' Salicional 8th' Vox coelestis 8th' recorder 4 ′ Night horn 2 ′ Progressia III-IV

Pedal C – d 1 Sub bass 16 ′ Subtle bass 16 ′ Octavbass 8th'

• Coupling : II / I, Sub II / I, Super II / I, I / P, II / P
• Playing aids 1 free combination, hand register, fixed combinations (piano, forte, tutti), piano pedal, roller, roller off

Bells

The bell foundry Otto cast a total of five bronze bells for the Aegidienkirche in the years 1899, 1923, 1924, and 1926 for Jan (II) van Trier's bell from the end of the Middle Ages . With the exception of the ais bell from 1923, all bells fell victim to the bell annihilations of the two world wars. After the Second World War , the ringing was supplemented by bells from Mabilon . Today four bells ring from the tower of the Aegidienkirche:

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Casting year	Bell caster
1	Maria	1110	820	f sharp 1 -3	1955	Mabilon bell foundry, Saarburg
2	Aegidius	998	640	g sharp 1 +0	1538	Jan (II) van Trier, Aachen
3	Barbara	852	380	ais 1 -1	1923	Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen
4th	Guardian Angel	830	350	h 1 +0	1955	Mabilon bell foundry, Saarburg

literature

• Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages. , Aegidienberg 1964, pp. 101-127
• Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the Siegkreis . Printed and published by L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1907, p. 13. (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5, Section 4, p. 713) (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1984 , ISBN 3-590-32120-2 ) ( Internet Archive )
• Heinz Firmenich (revised by Karl Günter Werber ): City of Bad Honnef (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz : Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 12). 3rd, revised edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-541-1 , p. 13.
• Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , p. 95.
• 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. 334–335.

Web links

Commons : St. Aegidius  - Collection of Images

• Website of the parish of St. Aegidius ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 133
2. ↑ Restoration work on St. Aegidius - Remarkable ownership structure ( memento of February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Bonner Rundschau , August 8, 2001
3. ^ Renovation and repair of the parish church of St. Aegidius , Honnefer Volkszeitung, September 18, 2001
4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 446, 510, 524, 525, 526 .
5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 476, 486, 487, 488 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
6. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells in the dean's office in Königswinter (PDF), pp. 16-19.

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 46.6 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 16.7"  E