St. Francis (Bonn)

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St. Francis in Bonn

St. Franziskus is a Catholic branch church in the northern part of Bonn , which belongs to the parish of St. Petrus . It is on the corner of Adolfstrasse and Georgstrasse (address: Adolfstrasse 77). The church stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The church was built from 1960 to 1962 as the parish church of the St. Franziskus parish, founded in 1952, based on a design by the Cologne architects Karl Band and Werner Fritzen. The parsonage, which was built in 1954, and its chapel were included in the new building, the latter being converted into a sacristy . In 1964 the free-standing bell tower of the church was completed (without bells), a kindergarten and a youth home. The ground plan of the church is that of an elongated rectangle. The vault resembles the shape of a tent. An extensive gallery extends into the nave . The baptistery is located in a tower-like extension in the east of the church, the choir , which forms a triangle on the west side. The last renovation of the church took place in 2000.

In the early 1990s, St. Francis lost its parish church status. The community was dissolved and merged with St. Mary in 2000 . The latter became part of the new parish of St. Petrus Bonn-Mitte in 2010. Since then, the now branch church and the former parish house have housed the city ​​youth pastoral care , which operates under the name Campanile . In the church there are church services on weekdays and on weekends youth masses and the masses of the Coptic congregation .

In March 2018, an approximately three meter high sandstone cross was erected on the outer wall of St. Francis, which comes from the Immerather parish church of St. Lambertus ("Immerather Dom") , which had been demolished two months earlier . The cross came to Bonn on the initiative of Curt Delander .

organ

The organ was built in 1965 by the Klais / Bonn company . The 17 registers are distributed over two manuals and pedal. A special feature of the asymmetrically designed organ front are the pipes of the bassoon 16 ′ register that protrude horizontally into the church . The organ has the following disposition:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden dacked 8th'
3. Octave flute 4 ′
4th Gemshorn 2 ′
5. Mixture IV
6th Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
7th Reed flute 8th'
8th. recorder 4 ′
9. Principal 2 ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Scharff III
12. Sesquialter I-III
13. Dulcian shelf 16 ′
Tremulant
Pedal Cf 1
14th Sub bass 16 ′
15th Open bass 8th'
16. Wood octave 4 ′
17th bassoon 16 ′

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn ( Memento of the original dated December 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 3, number A 3152 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bonn.de
  2. ^ Website of the youth pastoral care. Retrieved December 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Website of the Coptic Church orthoxen
  4. Jump up ↑ Stefan Hermes: Cross of Immerath Cathedral placed on St. Franziskus Church in Bonn. In: General-Anzeiger online, March 19, 2018, accessed on March 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ Information about the organ

literature

  • Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49–69. Attempt to take stock . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Art and antiquity on the Rhine . Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 21 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 184 .
  • 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. 24-25.

Web links

Commons : St. Francis  - Collection of Images


Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 30.4 ″  E