St. Aegidius (Buschdorf)

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April 2015, aerial view of the church from the southwest

The Catholic parish church of St. Aegidius in the Buschdorf district of Bonn has been part of the Catholic parish of St. Thomas More since 2013 . The draft for the extraordinary church building was one of the last projects of the architecture professor and church building specialist Johannes Krahn . The building was built at the end of the 1970s and replaced the Aegidius Chapel in Buschdorf , which had been in use until then, as a parish church.

history

Buschdorf (then a hamlet ) was probably already a district of this parish when the Graurheindorfer parish was first mentioned in a document in 1131 . Until the parish became independent in 1977, it was replaced gradually. In 2002, the shortage of priests in the Catholic Church forced the merging of four parishes, including the Buschdorfer St. Aegidius parish, into the parish association of Bonn Northwest . In 2012, Buschdorf and seven other parishes merged to form the parish of St. Thomas More .

In 1974 an architecture competition for a new church in Buschdorf was announced, which was won by the Hausen - Rave architectural team from Hiltrup. The realized design by Johannes Krahn was also created in 1974, the year he died. In 1977 the empty buildings of the Buschdorf monastery courtyard were demolished in order to create building land for the new church and the parish center. The construction was carried out between 1978 and 1980 by a Frankfurt architectural community (Krahn, Lorenz and Sauer) with the participation of the Krahn son (also: Johannes Krahn). The church consecration took place on March 30, 1980 by the auxiliary bishop Josef Plöger .

Since the completion of the new parish church, the previously used chapel of the same name has been called Alt St. Aegidius to distinguish it .

Sepp Hürten: Annunciation , relief on the bronze portal (1989), photo from 2010
Copy of a matron stone from the 2nd century, September 2007

Architecture and equipment

The architecture of the church building is striking both inside and out. The floor plan of the church symbolizes the sacrificial death of Christ in the form of a more organic cross. The shell construction is curved on all four sides, the lighting creates an idiosyncratic spatial impression. The massive concrete walls are clad inside and outside with quarry stone. With horizontal and vertical ribbon windows, these walls appear more delicate on the outside; indoors they provide light and space. The oval church tower consisting of two concrete shells stands at one of the four corners of the building, which is equipped with a flat roof. Two modern flat roof buildings that belong to the parish ensemble also correspond to the zeitgeist. In the lexicon of religion in the past and present , church building is confirmed to have a “return to the transcendent quality” and an impression of “clear geometric shapes, selected materials and techniques and subtle light effects”.

For the interior of the church, sculptor Sepp Hürten made the bronze and stone furnishings in 1980 : the two-sided altar cross (with motifs of the dead and risen Christ), the celebration altar , the tabernacle on a stele , the baptismal font , 14 reliefs of the cross and a five-armed Mary chandelier with a rose motif . The wooden Pietà by an unknown artist from the 20th century comes from the Aegidius Chapel in Buschdorf . From 1986 Hürten also created the entrance portal made of bronze with reliefs depicting the apostolic creed .

The church organ dates from 1981 and was built by the organ building company Klais from Bonn. The unusual organ tower is hexagonal in order to do justice to the spatial structure. The organ has two manuals and 22 registers . The designer was Hans Gerd Klais. On the 25th anniversary of the organ, the organist of the Bonn Minster , Markus Karas , played in the Buschdorf parish church in December 2006.

A copy of a Matronenstein found nearby in 1964 was set up on the church grounds southeast of the rectory; the original is in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum . A historical boundary stone made of basalt lava with Bonn's coat of arms and dating (1549) from Dransdorf was also placed on the church forecourt.

Web links

Commons : St. Aegidius (Buschdorf, Bonn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Christel Diesler, St. Aegidius - Church and Church Equipment, in: Diesler et al., Christmas cribs in 63 Bonn churches and chapels , ISBN 978-3-931739-63-8 , Katholisches Bildungswerk Bonn (ed.), 2014, on the Catholic website Parish of St. Thomas More
  • 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. 74-76. [not yet evaluated for this article]

References and comments

  1. ^ Church Alt St.-Aegidius in: Open Monument Day: Bonn and Siebengebirgsraum , Working Group of Bonn History Associations, Monument Authority of the City of Bonn, City Archives and City History Library, Workshop Baukultur Bonn, September 9, 2012, p. 14
  2. ↑ Hans Dieter Betz et al. a. (Ed.), Religion in Past and Present: IK , Volume 4: Religion in Past and Present: Concise Dictionary for Theology and Religious Studies , ISBN 978-3-16146-9-442 , Mohr Siebeck , 1998, p. 1141
  3. ^ Gabriele Zabel-Zottmann, Sculptures and Objects in Public Space in the Federal Capital of Bonn. Compiled from 1970 to 1991. With consideration of a selection of previously and subsequently compiled works (dissertation University of Bonn), Part 2: Catalog, Annex: Alphabetical Register of Artists , Bonn 2012, p. 4
  4. ^ Opus list from Orgelbau Klais Bonn, Opus No. 1590
  5. ↑ Catalog raisonné, as of September 2012 , Klais organ building
  6. ↑ 25 years of the Klais organ , website of Orgelbau Klais, Bonn
  7. ^ Inscription catalog of the city of Bonn , No. 67

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 29 "  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 7.6"  E