St. Clemens (Cologne-Niehl)
St. Clement is a Catholic church in Cologne district of Niehl , in the years 1962 to 1964 by the architect Karl band built and in December 1964 ordained was. The church is under the patronage of Clement of Rome .
history
The parish of St. Clemens was founded in 1938 from several neighboring parishes in Nippes , Weidenpesch and Niehl and became an independent rectorate parish in 1947 and a canonical parish in 1963 . The smaller church from the 1930s by the architect Theodor Brück, which had been in use until then, was destroyed in the war. The new building by Karl Band was consecrated on December 19, 1964 by Auxiliary Bishop Augustinius Frotz .
Building description
The church, which stands with its north side on a rectangular floor plan directly on a multi-lane street, presents itself to the outside through striking rows of roof gables and a very plastic shape of the facade. A multi-fold roof results in five gables on the side walls and three gables on the end walls. Protruding wall pillars form a “ concrete strut ”, the shapes of which trace rows of houses - a possible symbol for the “house of God”. This very angular basic form of the building is broken up by round buildings set at different depths for the tower, baptistery and confessional chapels as well as the apse on the western choir wall , which arch out convexly on all sides from the building. The stepped apse takes up the same height as the church interior, the baptistery opposite is floor-high, and the two confessional chapels on the south side are even lower. The 32 meter high tower with its folded helmet dominates the street front and can be seen from afar.
All walls except for the entrance side are made of red brick masonry, whereby the sides are exposed through large, pentagonal windows in the gable surfaces. The curve of the apse is traced by a ribbon of windows.
On the eastern front side, the two entrance doors are axially symmetrical to the right and left of the central baptistery - all three elements are each in one of the three gable surfaces. The wall surface consists of a grid of precast concrete parts that are filled with white glass, resulting in an “ opaque light curtain” that illuminates the interior.
The entrance area - open to the church hall - is subdivided by a freely positioned organ gallery made of strong concrete beams. These also shield the baptismal area, the floor level of which is slightly lowered. The walls of the large hall do not take up the structure of the external building, but are made of calm, undivided brickwork. The dominant feature of the interior is the wooden ceiling, which simulates the plastic roof shape cast in concrete.
Towards the altar area, the floor level drops slightly in order to raise the generous altar area again through a slight step. In the choir apse, tall, slender concrete pillars form a kind of " ambulatory " that evidently invokes Gothic forms.
The working day chapel is located on the ground floor of the round tower, which is open inwards and is also accessible from the outside through the tower entrance.
Furnishing
Most of the furnishings - both stone and bronze work - come from the artist and sculptor Heinz Gernot . Between 1964 and 1972 he created the altar, the baptismal font, cross and ambo as well as the tabernacle .
The windows are all works by the glass artist Wilhelm Buschulte . For the side windows he chose brown, gray and ocher tones in a free composition; blue dominates in the light band of the choir. Small openings in the tower chapel are made of concrete glass in the four basic colors.
The two-manual organ with 22 registers was made in 1964 by Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn .
The five-part chime was cast by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock . Three of the bells date from 1969, two more from 1984. The chimes are 1 –f 1 –g 1 –b 1 –c 2 .
literature
- Birgit Kastner: From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age: the church buildings by Karl Band in Cologne and in the Rhineland . (incl. CD version of the entire dissertation). Wernersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-339-8 , p. 162-168 .
Web links
- Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jh. EV with illustrations and explanations of the windows
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Kastner: The sacred buildings of the Cologne architect Karl Band (1900-1995) . Dissertation. tape II . Bonn 2012, p. 197-198 .
- ↑ MauNieWei - St. Clemens. Retrieved May 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Monika Schmelzer: Saint Clemens . 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. 49 .
- ↑ a b Birgit Kastner: From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age: The Church Buildings by Karl Band in Cologne and in the Rhineland . (compressed book version of the dissertation). Wernersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-339-8 , p. 162 .
- ↑ Helmut Fußbroich, Dierk Holthausen: Architectural Guide Cologne: Sacred Buildings after 1900 . 1st edition. Bachem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1683-X , p. 192-193 .
- ↑ Cologne-Niehl, Catholic Church of St. Clemens. In: glasmalerei-ev.net. Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20 Jahrhundert eV, July 8, 2008, accessed on April 10, 2020 .
- ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells of Catholic churches in Cologne . Cologne 1985, p. 578 ( archive.org [PDF]).
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 26.5 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 48.6 ″ E