St. Mary's Name (Cologne)

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Exterior view from the west to the entrance area

St. Mariä Namen is a Catholic parish church in the Cologne district of Esch , which was built between 1967 and 1968 according to plans by the architect Hans Schilling and consecrated in September 1968 . The church is named after the feast day of the Virgin Mary and has been a listed building since 1982.

prehistory

With the expansion of the village of Esch in the 1960s, the existing Romanesque Martinus Church was no longer spatially sufficient for the growing community, so that in 1966 the architect Schilling was commissioned to plan a new building with a sacristy and the rectory on a separate piece of land. After the groundbreaking on April 9, 1967, the foundation stone was laid on June 4 of that year and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on September 11.

Interior view towards the choir

Equipped with the essential liturgical objects, the church was consecrated on September 21, 1968. The landscape architect Gottfried Kühn designed the outdoor area in 1970, and in the following years the furnishings were supplemented by windows (1969 to 1971) and a new organ (1973). Furthermore, some of the furnishings from the old church were added. In 1990 a tower cross was installed.

Shortly after completion, construction defects emerged that had to be rectified over the years. The windows also suffered massive damage from vandalism four years after completion, so protective grilles were installed.

On January 18, 1982, St. Mary's Name was added to the list of monuments of the city of Cologne under the number 923 .

Building description

View from the southeast of the arched altar conche and baptistery

The church is slightly elevated on a green plot together with other parish buildings. Two high-rise buildings are attached to an unevenly polygonal floor plan with a parabolic cone - similar to an apse -: a taller pentagonal bell tower and a cylindrical stair tower that only barely protrudes over the eaves of the flat-roofed brick building. The trapezoidal entrance wing is just as single-story as the surrounding buildings. Another single-storey bulge forms the low baptistery to the side of the choir , which encompasses the main room on a circular floor plan.

The walls of the interior are also made entirely of exposed brick. The floor descends slightly towards the floor-to-ceiling parabolic choir niche and the raised altar area. On the left an organ and choir gallery is stretched into the space of the community. Below that, to the left of the choir, the path leads to the baptistery. The ground floor of the pentagonal tower houses the sacrament chapel with the tabernacle to the right of the choir . Architecturally, the liturgical elements baptism, altar and tabernacle stand as spatial elements on a line running transversely to the spatial axis. Confessionals and Marienkapelle are on the side walls opposite in further semicircular wall niches. The room is illuminated via horizontal and vertical ribbon windows.

Furnishing

Baroque statue of the Madonna

The baroque, former high altar painting, which depicts the local church patron Martin von Tours , comes from the old Martinus Church . The painting was found around 1980 "in a desolate state" in the attic of the former rectory and restored. In addition to the saint on the edge of the picture, it also shows a representation of the Escher church during the Baroque period. A baroque, colored aggregate Madonna statue was formerly defunct in a niche of a syringe cottage (corner Auweiler street / Fronhofstraße) housed.

Another piece of equipment from the old church is the neo-Gothic font.

In 1969, Walter Prinz created the altar, ambo , tabernacle stele and sedile for the church, and in 1990 the crowning of the tower. Wilhelm Strauss designed the windows in an abstract composition.

The organ , whose prospectus was designed by the architect Schilling himself, was built in 1973 by the Hillebrand Orgelbau brothers . It was renovated and revised by Orgelbau Schulte in 2014/2015 .

The three-part chiming of the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from 1969 has the impact sounds are ges 1 -as one -ces 1 .

literature

  • Heinz Firmenich: The churches of St. Martinus and St. Mariä Namen in Cologne-Esch (=  Rheinische Kunststätten . Nr. 253 ). Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-88094-348-6 , p. 14-22 .

Web links

Commons : St. Mariä Namen (Köln-Esch)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Johannes Ralf Beines: Catholic parish church St. Mariae names (= Esch, old buildings, part 12) . In: Esch current . No. 128 . Cologne March 2009, p. 11–23 ( esch-aktuell.de [PDF]).
  2. ^ Oswald Schumacher: 40 years of St. Mary's Church. Why was our current parish church dedicated to the Mother of God? In: Parish of St. Martinus, Cologne-Esch (ed.): Kreuz-Köln-Nord, parish letter . No. 19 . Cologne December 2008, p. 44–46 ( kreuz-koeln-nord.de [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Search in the list of monuments. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Heinz Firmenich: The churches of St. Martinus and St. Mariä Namen in Cologne-Esch (=  Rheinische Kunststätten . No. 253 ). Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-88094-348-6 , p. 14-22 .
  5. ↑ Monika Schmelzer: Name of Saint Mary . In: Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne (Ed.): Churches in Cologne. The churches of the Catholic and Protestant communities in Cologne. Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3 , p. 115 .
  6. ↑ Helmut Fußbroich, Dierk Holthausen: Architectural Guide Cologne: Sacred Buildings after 1900 . 1st edition. Bachem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1683-X , p. 230-231 .
  7. ↑ Cologne-Esch, Catholic Church of St. Mary's Names. In: glasmalerei-ev.net. Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20 Jahrhundert eV, July 8, 2008, accessed on April 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Oliver: Schulte's organ blog. In: Schulte's organ blog. Retrieved on May 12, 2020 (German).
  9. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells of Catholic churches in Cologne . Cologne 1985, p. 367 ( archive.org [PDF]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 11.9 ″  E