St. Joseph (Cologne-Rodenkirchen)

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Exterior view from the southeast
Exterior view from the northwest

St. Joseph is a Catholic church in Cologne district of Rodenkirchen , which was completed 1956th It is the last project carried out by the architect Dominikus Böhm , who died during the construction, so that his son Gottfried Böhm completed the construction. The building has been a listed building since 2001.

Prehistory and construction

The parish of St. Maternus had built the neo-Gothic Maternus Church in the north of Rodenkirchen in the 1860s , among other things because it was expected to expand northwards towards Cologne. However, the still independent community (only incorporated into Cologne's district in 1975) developed more towards the south, initially with the so-called Auenviertel, and after the Second World War with additional residential areas and a strong increase in population. In 1951, the parish therefore decided to build a new church further south. The donation of an 8,000 square meter property made generous planning easier.

The contract for the planning of the church and other community buildings was awarded to Dominikus Böhm in 1955; the plans date from 1954. After the laying of the foundation stone in 1955, however, Böhm died in August that year, and his son Gottfried brought the project to a conclusion "in the spirit of his father". In 1956 the parish church was consecrated and a new parish was founded.

Some of the furnishings were added over the next few years - for example, the first organ was consecrated in 1961 and the choir windows in 1963.

The architect Rolf Link, who had already been involved in the design planning as an employee in the Böhm office in 1955, carried out a renovation from 1991–1992. The interior and the large forecourt were redesigned and a new organ was installed, and an additional ceiling was installed over it.

On August 15, 2001 St. Joseph was added to the list of monuments of the city of Cologne under the number 8556 .

Building description

The structure of the nave, made of red brick in warm tones, rises on an almost square base. Two identical, massive towers (area 9 × 10 meters) with flat tent roofs emerge halfway out of this building - unusually, the towers are not parallel, but are arranged along a central axis at the entrance and altar area.

The wall surfaces on the towers and nave are largely closed; a grid of square wall openings only opens up on all sides of the tower at a height of over 14 meters. The main body between the tower blocks ends with a wide saddle roof, in whose four (partial) gable surfaces - in the segment arc along the slope - four narrow ribbon windows each structured by strong concrete pillars illuminate the interior.

In the interior, the two towers appear very differently according to their very different liturgical-functional locations in the room: the entrance tower houses the organ gallery in its opening to the church, so that a low vestibule emerges below. This also offers space for the baptismal font. On the opposite side of the altar there is a completely different picture: the tower is open at the top and illuminates the area of ​​the altar through its upper openings. In this tower, the wall openings are provided with small square windows, each showing a symbolic head image of a saint.

In contrast to the outside, the interior is lightly plastered and closes with a likewise white, suspended ceiling shell that hugs the upper curve of the gable window. Only the two tower pillars that stand freely inside remain in brick look. The windowless inner walls are slightly arched through the use of a double shell, which gives the room atmosphere a certain “breathing” lightness - in contrast to the very solid, angular outer impression.

In a transition to the rectory in the front southeast corner, a Marienkapelle with low ceiling height was installed, in which a Pietá is set up in a small windowed church.

Furnishing

Tabernacle and altar cross
Madonna and Child

Hubert Berke designed the large gable window bands on the altar side as an abstract composition of eight Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount ( Mt 5 : 3–10  EU ), taking liberties in the order of the individual chapters. The rounded window in the Marienkapelle, in which the copy of a Riemenschneider Madonna stands or stood, also comes from him .

The altar design comes from Gottfried Böhm, the altar cross from Walter Prinz (1972). For the tabernacle, which was designed by Theo Heiermann , a niche is reserved on the left tower column at the altar.

The organ, which was newly installed in 1991, has a colored main work and a Rückpositiv that has significantly changed the space above the gallery. The organ itself has three manuals and 35 registers and is the work of the Oberlinger organ building company , the prospectus by Rolf Link & Sons .

The four-part ringing of the bell maker Franz Otto from 1958 has the chimes es – ges 1 –as 1 –b 1 .

Web links

Commons : St. Joseph (Köln-Rodenkirchen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b St. Joseph (parish church). In: rheinbogen-kirche.de. Parish of St. Joseph and Remigius Cologne-Rodenkirchen / Sürth / Weiß, accessed on April 9, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Fritz Hilgers: The three Catholic churches in Cologne-Rodenkirchen . Ed .: Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (=  Rheinische Kunststätten . Nr. 404 ). 1st edition. Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-88094-760-0 , p. 13-19 .
  3. ↑ August Hoff, Herbert Muck, Raimund Thoma: Dominikus Böhm . Schnell & Steiner, 1962, OCLC 973465858 , p. 478-479 .
  4. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Voigt, Ingeborg Flagge (Ed.): Dominikus Böhm: 1880–1955 . Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-8030-0646-5 , p. 170-171 .
  5. ↑ Search in the list of monuments. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Cologne-Rodenkirchen, Catholic Church of St. Joseph. In: glasmalerei-ev.net. Research Center for Glass Painting of the 20th Century, July 8, 2008, accessed on April 10, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Helmut Fußbroich, Dierk Holthausen: Architectural Guide Cologne: Sacred Buildings after 1900 . 1st edition. Bachem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1683-X , p. 131-133 .
  8. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells of Catholic churches in Cologne . Cologne 1985, p. 675 ( archive.org [PDF]).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Apparently the Madonna is now in the choir to the left of the altar.

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '10.9 "  N , 7 ° 0' 7.3"  E