St. Gallus (Küdinghoven)

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St. Gallus zu Küdinghoven
The Romanesque tower

St. Gallus is the Roman Catholic parish church of Küdinghoven , a Bonn district in the Beuel district . The basement of the church tower still testifies to the Romanesque church. The church building stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

The possession of the church, originally consecrated to the Theban martyrs , by the Vilich monastery was given to Konrad III in 1144 . officially confirmed. Therefore, it must be assumed that there is a church in Küdinghoven at this point in time. The former choir tower , made of basalt rubble on the two basement floors , is attributed to the 12th century and can be classified in the group of choir towers in the vicinity of the parish churches incorporated into Vilich Abbey. This tower with choir and apse was joined to the west by a small nave. Around 1680 the patronage changed from the Theban martyrs to St. Galldown. Due to the poor condition of the sacred building, Vilich Abbey planned to rebuild the church in the late 18th century, but this was initially not carried out due to the abolition of the abbey in the course of secularization in 1803. In 1795 the monastery had appointed a pastor for St. Gallus for the last time.

On June 13, 1843, the foundation stone for a new church was finally laid. The design came from State Building Director Christoph Hehne and was revised by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . Since there was no room for an extension to the west, it was made to the east of the choir tower, thus transforming the tower from an east to a west tower. On October 19, 1845, the new church, a classical hall building, was consecrated. In 1897 the upper floor of the tower was removed and a new neo-Romanesque bell chamber made of tuff was added.

organ

The organ was built in 1981 by the Johannes Klais Bonn company . It has two manuals and 25 stops , a mechanical performance and an electrical stop action. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Open flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Super octave 2 ′
6th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Mixture V
8th. Cornett V (from a)
9. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
10. Tube bare 8th'
11. Salicional (CH in number 10) 8th'
12. Vox coelestis (from c 0 ) 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th recorder 2 ′
16. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
17th Scharff III-IV
18th Cromorne 8th'
19th Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
20th Sub bass 16 ′
21st Octavbass 8th'
22nd Dumped 8th'
23. Choral bass 4 ′
24. Rauschpfeife III
25th trombone 16 ′

Bells

The tower has four bells . The oldest of them is the Gallus bell , which was cast in 1673 by Johannes Bourlet from Jülich. There was probably a larger bell made of the same cast that was destroyed in the First World War . The Gallus bell came back to Küdinghoven. In 1922, the Weule bell foundry cast three very large iron chilled cast iron bells, the largest of which bears the old inscription of the large Bourlet bell from 1673:

JOANNES V BOCK ABT AND MR. ZS BLESSES ME
I CALL JOANNES
FREYHERR V BAUR Z FRANKENBERG AMBTMANN TAKEN ME
WILHELM MEINA MARGARETHA VON GEFFERTZHAGEN ABBATISSA Z FIELICH HOITZ SI + + + KLASSENS +
JOANNES BOVRLET ME FECIT ANNO D 1673
No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg, approx.) 		Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 John 1922 Friedrich I. Weule, Bockenem 1,750 2,000 d 1  +2
2 Heart of jesus 1,580 1,600 f 1  +2
3 Maria 1,280 900 g 1  −6
4th Gallus 1673 Johannes Bourlet, Jülich 880 430 h 1  −7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 31, number A 1535
  2. ^ Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: Architekturführer Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1997, p. 140
  3. ↑ Information and photos about the organ
  4. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Glockenmusik der Katholischen Kirchen Bonns , PDF file, pp. 169–171.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Gallus (Küdinghoven)  - Collection of images


Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 48 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 59.6 ″  E