St. Johann and Cordula
St. Johann and St. Cordula was a commander of the Order of St. John in Cologne . A first chapel of the knightly order was built in 1239. In 1263 the Coming was able to significantly enlarge its possessions and, with the increased income, also expand the settlement significantly. Bones were found in the vineyard to the west and were awarded to the Cologne saint Cordula by Albertus Magnus in 1278 . She had the legend of the holy Ursula in Cologne the martyrdom suffered. The Church of St. Ursula is very close. The relics were kept and venerated in the chapel, which was newly built in 1331 . After a fire, the church was rebuilt again and larger until 1388, but was redesigned again from 1422 to 27 and again after 1571 (plan by Arnold Mercator 1571).
Building description
A gothic two - aisled three-bay nave and (especially for the convent members) a three- bay long choir are united under a uniform, steep gable roof. A north aisle is covered with four tent roofs, between which the buttresses of the upper cladding wall are leaning. In the choir area, these are significantly higher up over the eaves . At first the roof was crowned at both ends with a Johanniterkreuz and in the middle with a high Gothic roof turret, which in Finkenbaum's time was replaced by a roof turret with an onion-shaped roof and a Johanniterkreuz . Bells were probably hung in the open lantern under the hood . At this time, a hexagonal stair tower is also in front of the western front.
In front of the Wall of the Coming there is a Passion Cross with the instruments of torture .
End and aftermath
After the secularization of the orders and monasteries by Napoléon , the public worship service in St. Jacorden was discontinued in 1798, the coming of the church was canceled in 1802 and the church was demolished in 1807. Some of the relics came to the Church of St. Remigius in Koenigswinter, to which the Johanniter had connections through a property there. The nearby Johannisstrasse and the Johannishaus are reminiscent of the Johanniter . In 1846 the newly laid out Jakordenstrasse , which branches off from Domstrasse north of today's main train station, was named after the church. "Jakorden" is the typical Cologne abbreviation for Johannes / Jan and Cordula. The nearby Cordulastraße is also named after the saint.
literature
- Sang-Joon Ahn: The Cologne Johanniter Kommende Sankt Johann and Cordula in the late Middle Ages, history, property, economy, administration and social structure , SH-Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3894981693
- Günther Binding : Cologne and Lower Rhine views in the Finckenbaum sketchbook 1660-1665 . Greven, Cologne, 1980. ISBN 3-7743-0183-2 (p. 136)
Web links
- Digitized archive holdings on St. Johann and Cordula in the digital historical archive in Cologne
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 43.7 " N , 6 ° 57 ′ 37.7" E