St. Brother Klaus
St. Brother Klaus is a Catholic church in the Cologne district of Mülheim , which was built between 1956 and 1958 according to plans by the architect Fritz Schaller and consecrated in November 1957 . The church is under the patronage of Nikolaus von Flüe and has been a listed building since 2001.
history
The church was planned as the center of the Brother Klaus settlement of the same name . The church DEWOG (German Housing Association Cologne) was responsible for planning and awarding the contract, and since 1956 it has also been responsible for the further development of the estate . The parish of St. Antonius, responsible until then, founded a church building association, and in August of the same year the Rectorate Parish of St. Brother Klaus was founded. A planning contract with Fritz Schaller was closed on June 9, 1956 from, and during the inauguration of the Brother Klaus settlement as well as on the occasion of taking place in Cologne 77th German Catholic Conference took Cardinal Josef Frings , the foundation stone was laid in front on 28 August 1956th In May 1957 the topping-out ceremony was celebrated before Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ferche on 19/20. November 1957 the new church was consecrated.
In February 1958 the church got a second portal on the west side. The associated youth home was completed in May 1958; it was expanded the following year. The altar sacristy also had to be enlarged again in 1960.
Ten years after construction, the roof was replaced with copper sheet due to cracks. The tower was also renovated in the following years and clad with copper on the front side because the concrete had chipped off.
In 1967, St. Brother Klaus was awarded the Cologne Architecture Prize, and on February 5, 2001, it was added to the list of monuments of the city of Cologne under the number 8488 .
Building description
From the outside, the design of the church corresponds almost completely to a concept that Schaller had presented a few months earlier for the chapel of the Archbishop's House in Cologne, but which was not selected for implementation. It is divided into three structures : The one-storey church space, which has an almost square floor plan, is covered by a flat, uneven diamond roof. A hexagonal upper floor grows out of this, the concrete roof of which takes up the angles of the lower roof. As the third structure, the tower, which is twice as high as the church including the structure, slides into the church from the side. The main entrance is also located here under a curved canopy.
In the interior, ten round pillars, which lift the superstructure out of the church, mark the “nave”, at the ends of which - each raised - the places for the place of baptism and the altar are located. The complete hexagonal upper facade is structured by a tracery made of precast concrete parts, which is filled with leaded glass windows . In the lower part of the room, the walls are mostly closed, only to the right and left of the altar and baptismal place are there further room-high windows that correspond to the windows on the upper facade.
In the outer, lower areas of the church there is space for chapels, sacristy and confessionals. The organ and choir stands are located to the side of the altar. Opposite the tower and entrance hall, the sacristy is installed, which emerges as a risalit on the north side .
Furnishing
Almost the entire interior of St. Brother Klaus is from Elmar Hillebrand : Starting with the altar of green dolomite , in the relics of companions of the Cologne city patrons St. Gereon and St. Ursula were walled up, and Taufkanzel came in 1972 still cross, tabernacle , the Eternal light and a holy water font added. Hillebrand created the tower and roof crowning on the exterior.
In 1964 Georg Meistermann created the windows for the upper storeys . Older windows from 1957 were made by Rudolf Krüger.
The organ with one manual and nine registers by Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn was installed in 1959 and expanded to 17 registers in 1974.
According to the Cologne bell book , the bell has three parts and was cast in the Mabilon bell foundry in 1990 . The impact sounds are fis 1 -GIS 1 -h 1 . Another source mentions a fourth bell with a strike tone g 1 , which may have been cast in 1507 by a Johann von Andernach.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Emanuel Gebauer: Fritz Schaller: the architect and his contribution to sacred buildings in the 20th century . Editor: Ulrich Krings. Ed .: The Lord Mayor / City Conservator (= Stadtspuren . Volume 28 ). Bachem, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7616-1355-5 , p. 206-211 .
- ↑ a b c Carsten Schmalstieg: Saint Brother Klaus . In: Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne (Ed.): Churches in Cologne. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 40 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Helmut Fußbroich, Dierk Holthausen: Architectural guide Cologne: sacred buildings after 1900 . 1st edition. Bachem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1683-X , p. 134-135 .
- ↑ Search in the list of monuments. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
- ^ Willy Weyres: New churches in the Archdiocese of Cologne 1945-1956 . 2nd Edition. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1957, p. 138 .
- ^ Parish of St. Brother Klaus . In: Bruder-Klausen-Bund (Ed.): Brother Klaus circular . Sachseln September 2015, p. 5 ( docplayer.org ).
- ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells of Catholic churches in Cologne . Cologne 1985, p. 552 ( archive.org [PDF]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 3.2 ″ N , 7 ° 0 ′ 39.7 ″ E