St. Johann Baptist (Bad Honnef)

St. Johann Baptist (2007)

Rear view

The Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist is a landmark of the city of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located northwest of the town hall on the market and church square in the center of the city. The church stands as a monument since 1988 under monument protection .

history

Today's church has at least two previous buildings, the older of which can be dated to the early 8th century. This three-nave stone church was replaced by a late Romanesque church before the Gothic hall church , also with three aisles, was built after 1500 using the five-story tower and two pillars of the previous church. It was built in Trachyt vom Drachenfels in two construction phases. In 1859/1860 the church tower received a new, eight-sided gothic helmet and new gables. From 1913 to 1914, a transept was added according to plans by the Cologne architect Eduard Endler . In 1964/1965 the tower and nave were re-plastered , and further renovations in 1979 and 2010/2011. A thorough renovation began for the first time in 38 years in September 2017 and was completed in early December 2018.

Furnishing

The sacrament house in the left choir belongs to the preserved original furnishings . His figure program dates from the end of the 15th century and was made by a Cologne workshop. A sandstone sculpture from 1514 stands in the left wall of the transept and represents the Holy Sepulcher . The baptismal font of the church comes from the Romanesque previous building and is therefore the oldest piece of furniture. He was from Siebengebirgsmuseum - Trachyt created and revised in 1939 and supplemented by a hand driven copper lid. The holy water font dates back to the 14th century, but has only been in the Honnef church since 1939 - when it was acquired in Ittenbach . A representation of the church patron can be found in the right aisle. Also worth mentioning are a high-quality alabaster relief depicting the flagellation of Christ, created around 1550, as well as a Rhenish statue of Mary made of stone from the 15th century.

One of the most important pieces of equipment in the church is a Gothic tower monstrance with rich figurative decorations, the Löwenburger monstrance . A goldsmith's workshop in Cologne made them at the end of the 15th century. A sundial dates from the 17th century and was replaced by a wheel clock in 1747 . More recently added works are a votive picture to commemorate pilgrimages to Bornhofen Monastery in 1939 and the "Sacred Heart Carpet", which covers a Romanesque pillar. In 1960 the colored choir windows by the Cologne glass painter Pauly were created. A life-size baroque crucifixion group on the southern outer wall of the church dates from 1987 .

A Servatius relic from the Bad Honnef Servatius chapel is also kept in the church of St. Johann Baptist .

organ

The organ in the parish church was built in 1961 by the Breil company . The remote control was built by an unknown builder in a baroque case for a church in Langenfeld- Richrath and is now used here as an auxiliary work , designed as a portal organ. The overall system thus has 46 stops , distributed over three manuals and pedal . The main organ's action is mechanical, the auxiliary organ is electrical. The stop actions are electric. The disposition is as follows:

I Rückpositiv C – g ³
1.	Dumped	8th'
2.	Dulz flute	8th'
3.	Principal	4 ′
4th	Quintad	4 ′
5.	Principal	2 ′
6th	Third flute	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
7th	Zimbel III
8th.	Krummhorn	8th'

II Hauptwerk C – g ³
9.	Drone	16 ′
10.	Principal	8th'
11.	Tube bare	8th'
12.	Octave	4 ′
13.	recorder	4 ′
14th	Hollow flute	2 ′
15th	Intoxicating fifth II
16.	Mixture IV	2 ′
17th	Trumpet	8th'
18th	Vox humana	8th'

II Fernwerk C – g ³
19th	Principal	8th'
20th	Dumped	8th'
21st	octave	4 ′
22nd	Schwegel	2 ′
23.	Sesquialter II
24.	Mixture IV-VI
25th	bassoon	16 ′

III Swell C – g ³
26th	Gemshorn	8th'
27.	Wooden dacked	8th'
28.	Quintad	8th'
29	Principal	4 ′
30th	Viol flute	4 ′
31.	Fifth	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
32.	Pointed flute	2 ′
33.	octave	1'
34.	Scharff IV-V
35.	Third cymbal III-IV
36.	oboe	8th'
37.	zinc	4 ′
	Tremulant

Pedal C – f ¹
38.	Principal bass	16 ′
39.	Thought bass	16 ′
40.	Octave bass	8th'
41.	Thought bass	8th'
42.	Octave flute	4 ′
43.	Night horn	2 ′
44.	Rauschpfeife IV
45.	trombone	16 ′

Pedal Fernwerk C – f ¹
46.	Sub-bass	16 ′

Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

In 2019 the organ was restored by Weimbs Orgelbau and a setting system was added.

Bells

There are 6 bells in the mighty tower of St. Johann Baptist:

No.	Surname	Mass (kg)	Percussive ( HT -¹ /₁₆ )	Casting year	Bell caster
1	Christ	2650	h ⁰ +3	1954	Mabilon bell foundry , Saarburg
2	Maria	1800	cis ¹ +1	1854	Christian Claren, Sieglar
3	?	1100	e ¹ +5	1817	Friedrich u. Heinrich Bernhart, Tiefenbach
4th	Joseph	750	f sharp ¹ +3	1954	Mabilon bell foundry , Saarburg
5	Theresia	550	g sharp ¹ +3	1954	Mabilon bell foundry , Saarburg
6th	Hubertus	480	a ¹ +3	1960	Mabilon bell foundry , Saarburg

literature

Rolf Junker: A crucifixion shawl made it possible . In: Homeland and history association “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV: 150 years of the city of Bad Honnef . Edition Blattwelt, Niederhofen 2012, ISBN 978-3-936256-50-5 , pp. 192-201. [not yet evaluated for this article]
Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition, Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , pp. 16-23.
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 , p. 326-330.
Heinz Firmenich (revised by Karl Günter Werber ): City of Bad Honnef (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz : Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 12). 3rd, revised edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-541-1 , pp. 8-12.
Ernst Nellessen : On the history of the parish church St. Johann Baptist . In: Ders .: The Honnef bell cast from 1694 and other records of the town's history (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV: Studies on the local history of the town of Bad Honnef am Rhein , volume 5). Bad Honnef 1982, pp. 19-34. [not yet evaluated for this article]
Hubert Wüsten: The Catholic community of Honnef over the past hundred years . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 151–165.
Josef Josten: Art-historical notes of a lover of the Honnef parish church . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 176–179.
Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the Siegkreis . Printed by and published by L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1907, pp. 84–90. (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5, Section 4, pp. 784-790) (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-590-32120-2 ) ( Internet Archive )