St. Bruno (Cologne)
St. Bruno is a Catholic parish church in the Cologne district of Klettenberg , which was built between 1924 and 1926 according to plans by the Mainz cathedral master builder Ludwig Becker and heavily modified after the Second World War. The church was consecrated in October 1926 and is under the patronage of the medieval Archbishop Bruno of Cologne . It has been a listed building since 1983.
history
Since 1914 the parish of St. Nikolaus in Sülz has been trying to build a branch church . A plot of land was acquired during the First World War and in 1919 the architect Becker was commissioned to plan a large church with 950 seats and 1200 standing places. The Cologne architect Hans Hansen was responsible for the interior .
After the groundbreaking ceremony and the start of construction on August 17, 1924, almost a year later, on June 1, 1925, Cardinal Karl Joseph Schulte laid the foundation stone for the church, which he also consecrated on October 10, 1926. In the following years until the Second World War , the church was further equipped, among other things with bells, a crypt, the windows and an organ.
After an air raid in 1942 had destroyed the roof and the windows of the church, only the tower and outer walls of St. Bruno remained after another attack in 1944. Immediately after the end of the war, a provisional emergency church was set up in the adjacent parish hall, the so-called Brunosaal , before Hans Hansen was commissioned with the first reconstruction in 1948. This “new” church was consecrated again in 1949, this time by Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Stockums .
A fundamental renovation was started after just a few years - among other things, because the Rabitz ceiling had severe cracks. The choir was now given deeply drawn concrete tracery windows, the ceiling was smoothed again and the niches in the side walls were also dispensed with. St. Bruno received new furnishings, a new floor and new relics.
Other slight changes resulted from renovations following the Second Vatican Council from 1973.
On January 18, 1983 St. Bruno was added to the list of monuments of the city of Cologne under the number 1271 .
Finally, from 2005, a renewed renovation of the ceiling was necessary, with which further changes were made to the interior.
Building description
St. Bruno is not geosted , but blends - slightly higher - with the entrance side on the Klettenberggürtel into the residential development. However, the facade jumps back a little, creating a small plateau. The original architecture by Ludwig Becker was "moderately expressionistic" and had baroque or neo-classical echoes. Facing the street is the massive tower, which was preserved during the war and is covered with a tail hood made of copper and houses the vestibule. It is equipped with symmetrically connected auxiliary buildings on the side. The nave with gable roof is in the style of a basilica from lower, narrow aisles with pent roofs accompanied with a - - also lower apse completed. In terms of proportions, this is a counterpart to the tower opposite and is illuminated on both sides with deeply drawn concrete tracery windows, which are a work of the post-war period.
Furnishing
left: Jacob's fight with the angel of God, Elmar Hillebrand, 1966
right: The good shepherd in the thorns of human existence, Elmar Hillebrand, 1967
Two marble sculptures by Elmar Hillebrand flank the forecourt on the street side. They depict Jacob's fight with an angel and Jesus as the good shepherd . Hillebrand also designed the altar, the bronze candlestick and the baptismal font.
The triumphal cross on the main altar of the church was created in 1957 by the Cologne artist Hanns Rheindorff . For the production of silver and enamel , members of the community donated jewelry and silverware. The tabernacle designed as an ark also comes from Rheindorff and Lotte Fries.
The artist Jakob Berwange selected scenes from the Old Testament for the four windows in the crypt .
The organ built in 1940 by Johannes Klais Orgelbau in Bonn was expanded in 1959 and completely overhauled in 2008. It has three manuals, a pedal unit and a total of 44 stops; Your console is still in its original state with regard to the buttons, the switches for the registers and the wood paneling.
The four-part chime from the Bochum Association was made from cast steel in 1948 after three of the four original bells from the Otto bell foundry from 1929 had been melted down during World War II. The strikes are h 0 –d 1 –e 1 –g 2 .
Web links
- Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jh. EV with illustrations and explanations of the windows
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The building history of St. Bruno. In: kirche-sk.de. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Carsten Schmalstieg: Sankt Bruno . 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. 41 .
- ↑ Search in the list of monuments. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
- ↑ The Triumphal Cross. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Cologne-Klettenberg, Catholic Church of St. Bruno. In: glasmalerei-ev.net. Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20 Jahrhundert eV, July 8, 2008, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Organ. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
- ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells of Catholic churches in Cologne . Cologne 1985, p. 245 ( archive.org [PDF]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 40.8 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 28.8" E