St. Bartholomew (Cologne-Ehrenfeld)

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St. Bartholomew's grave church
Chapel room

The grave church of St. Bartholomew is a former Roman Catholic parish church in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, which has been used as an urn cemetery since 2014 , in which the ashes of the deceased are buried in grave chambers . The church is supported by the Catholic parish of the Saints Rochus, Dreikönigen and Bartholomäus. It is the first and so far (as of 2019) only grave church in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

history

In 1955 the architect Hans Schwippert , a representative of functionalism , was commissioned to plan the church. It was built in 1958–59 and consecrated in December 1959; the church tower was built in 1962. The deliberately simple church was built on a roughly square floor plan and shows the raw exposed concrete inside , the outer facade was clad with red brick. In 1978 the colored windows created by Giselbert Hoke were used, followed in 1988 by the Way of the Cross made by Ludek Tichy . In April 1995, the church was as under number 7460 monument to the Cologne monument list added.

In 2006, after the merging of the three parishes of St. Rochus, St. Dreikönigen and St. Bartholomäus, the church council decided to transform the St. Bartholomäus church into a grave church. The architectural competition to transform the church into a columbarium was announced in January 2011. In 2011 the roof and the facade of the building were renovated and the design by the architect Hans-Peter Kissler from Wiesbaden was selected for conversion into a grave church. In March 2013, the Archbishop's General Vicariate issued the building permit.

On January 24, 2014, St. Bartholomew's Church of the Holy Sepulcher was opened and blessed by Auxiliary Bishop Melzer , the first urn burial in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher took place on January 27, 2014.

Interiors and furnishings

A prayer room was created with a tomb, which is intended to invite people to reflect on life and death through the windows designed by Giselbert Hoke, which depict Franz von Assisi 's song of the sun , and a way of the cross by the Czech artist Ludek Tichy. The sacred objects and a curtain made of a metal mesh that separates a central chapel area from the tombs were recreated.

In steel walls with surfaces made of burnished brass, there are 2400 urn spaces in 800 double and 800 single chambers around the chapel area. After the rest period has expired, the ashes are placed in an “eternity room” under the walkway and the associated nameplate is attached in a chapel to continue to commemorate the deceased.

Web links

Commons : St. Bartholomäus (Köln-Ehrenfeld)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Data and facts on the St. Bartholomäus website (accessed on February 11, 2016).
  2. ↑ St. Bartholomäus was not recorded under Helmholtzplatz 11, but with the nearby address Melatener Weg 27; see. Search the list of monuments of the city of Cologne: "DLNR 7460, Melatener Weg 27, Ehrenfeld, Sankt Bartholomäus church, entry from April 27, 1995" (accessed on February 11, 2016).
  3. ↑ “Bringing death back into life.” Kölnische Rundschau, January 24, 2014 (accessed on February 11, 2016).
  4. ^ Redesign of the Saint Bartholomew Church into a columbarium. Website of the architects Kissler + Effgen (accessed on February 11, 2016)
  5. ↑ St. Bartholomew Cologne. Kirchbautag.de (accessed on February 11, 2016)


Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 14.7 "  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 10.5"  E