St. Margareta (Graurheindorf)

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View from the southeast of the church building. On the left the original entrance gate to the monastery grounds, on the right the first arch of the arcade can be seen.

The parish church of St. Margaret (also: St. Margaretha or Margarethenkirche ) in Bonn district Graurheindorf is created in in two phases (from 1780-1875) church building. The church at Margarethenplatz 4–6 and used by the Catholic parish of St. Thomas More belongs to the Archdiocese of Cologne . Together with the rectory and an archway from 1614 as well as an attached war memorial in an arcade from 1924, it was placed under monument protection.

history

Probably around 1149 one was in today Graurheindorf monastery by the Archbishop of Cologne, Arnold I. founded. A document from 1237/1238 identifies the nuns of the Graurheindorf monastery as Cistercian , the monastery was probably under the supervision of the Heisterbach Abbey at the time . The name Graurheindorf refers to the color of the habit of the Cistercian women. 1802, the monastery was in the context of the War of the Second Coalition following secularization abolished by the French administration.

Even before the monastery was founded, there was a church in "Rindorp", as noted in a document from 1131. A document dated December 18, 1242 confirms the patronage rights of the Cistercian monastery over the parish church there by the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden . This church was a Romanesque village church in the style of the time; it consisted of a simple nave and a tower in the southeast.

Today's parish church is in the former monastery area. The eastern wing of the Cistercian monastery, built in 1780, was converted into a four-bay nave of the new parish church after the old parish church was closed in 1806 . The original gate entrance to the monastery, which is crowned by three pine cones, has been preserved and is now leaning against the nave. In order to meet the wish of the community for a more stately appearance, this church was extended by an additional yoke with a transept in the nave and a representative tower system until 1875 based on a design by the Cologne builder Vinzenz Statz .

Presumably because at the time of the construction of the new church in Graurheindorf a small peasant structure prevailed, a patron saint of the peasants, Margaret of Antioch , was chosen as church patroness .

Architecture and equipment

The neo-Gothic basilica consists of a nave plastered white on the outside (part of the former monastery) and a brown brick tower with the also brown end of the nave. By removing an intermediate ceiling that was currently used as a monastery, space was created for three church naves with an illuminated window arcade and the small choir apse . To the north of the apse is a two-storey part of the building, which originally also belonged to the complex of the Cistercian monastery and which today contains the sacristy , the parish office and an official apartment of the pastor. The apse therefore remained windowless.

The arcades , which connect to the tower porch to the south-east, rest on pillars and belt arches ; vaults protrude from the walls above the pillars.

The interior of the church dates largely from the 20th century. The carved, neo-Gothic wooden furnishings include three altarpieces , the pulpit , several standing figures and the pews. The main altar shows St. Margaret and St. Joseph , the two side altars bear images of Our Lady and St. Bernard of Clairvaux . Silver-colored celebration elements come from the Polders goldsmith's workshop in Kevelaer from the 1970s . A figure of James could be an indication that Graurheindorf was a place of pilgrimage ( James as a pilgrim ). The figure was of a Klever carved sculptor mid-19th century from linden wood.

The baptismal font from the 18th century, which comes from the previous church and is crowned by a rock crystal, is shaped like a cup. The window cycle from 1972 on the subject of the Sermon on the Mount was created by Paul Weigmann from Leverkusen . The organ was built by the Bonn organ builder Klais in 1984.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 40, number A 3556
  2. ^ Rüdiger Schneider: Graurheindorf - figure of James and crossing the Rhine. Retrieved August 9, 2017 (private website).
  3. ↑ St. Margareta - Church history overview , website of the Catholic parish of St. Thomas More .
  4. ↑ a b c Karl-Josef Schäfer: A Way of St. James from Neuss via Cologne to Koblenz-Stolzenfels: The pilgrim guide for the Rhine Camino. Part 1, ISBN 978-3-83706-0-102 , Books on Demand , 2009, pp. 70 ff.
  5. ^ Rüdiger Schneider: Bonn Camino! ISBN 978-3-84233-4-199 , Books on Demand, 2010, p. 50 .

literature

  • 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. 86-89. [not yet evaluated for this article]

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 53.2 "  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 36.4"  E