St. Marien (Bonn)
St. Marien is the Catholic parish church in the inner northern part of Bonn . It is on the corner of Adolfstrasse and Oppenhoffstrasse not far from the town hall . The church is including the rectory as a monument under monument protection .
Building
The design for St. Marien came from Joseph Prill, who was a full-time religion teacher at the high school in Bonn. The plans envisaged a large neo-Gothic basilica with a five-sided choir, two side aisles and a 77 meter high church tower. The length of the church is 80 meters, the width 20 meters. The foundation stone was laid on August 14, 1887, on September 11, 1892, the church could be designated, and on November 7, Archbishop Antonius Cardinal Fischer undertook the solemn consecration of St. Mary's Church. The Church was given the title of Immaculate Conception of Mary and All Saints .
St. Marien has retained the neo-Gothic style to this day and is considered one of the most stylish churches in Bonn. In addition to the high altar and the two side altars from around 1891 to 1893, the church also has the old pulpit (now installed in the rear area of the church), the communion bench , the baptismal font, the Pietà and the Stations of the Cross from the time the church was built. Six windows with figurative representations and two with graphic patterns were made by the Cologne-Lindenthal glass painting company Schneider and Schmolz . In the early 1990s, the church was painted as the architect had intended.
Bells
The Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen repeatedly cast bronze bells for St. Mary's Church in Bonn in 1897, 1927, 1951 and 1957. Up until the Second World War , the tower housed a four-part bell from 1897 and 1927 in the striking notes c 1 , es 1 , f 1 and g 1 . The Glockengießerei Otto in Hemelingen bei Bremen was charged with the casting of a new five-part peal, the impact sounds b 0 , of the 1 , it 1 , f 1 and ges 1 should have. For financial reasons, only the three smaller bells were cast.
The full bells (bells 3 to 1) sound a quarter of an hour before Sunday mass for around 10 minutes. The clock strikes every half and full hour via the big bell (only 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.). The Angelus to 7, 12 and 19 o'clock is divided into the central bell (3 times 3 strokes; Angelus ) and the small bell (Nachläuten). In addition to a relief of the respective saint, all bells bear unusual inscriptions for the time.
In 1957, the same foundry fitted the roof turret with a small bell that could be purchased thanks to a donation. As an altar sacrament bell, it is rung briefly both for the Credo and during the change in Holy Mass.
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No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
tower |
inscription |
| 1 | Augustine | 1951 | Karl (III) Otto | 1307 | 1432 | it 1 +6 | West tower | OUR HEART IS REST UNTIL IT REST IN YOU. - ST. AUGUSTINE |
| 2 | Heinrich | 1165 | 1050 | f 1 +6 | West tower | I CHOOSE CHRIST FOR INHERITANCE. - ST. HEINRICH | ||
| 3 | Bernhard | 1090 | 820 | ges 1 +6 | West tower | JESUS IS LIKE HONEY FOR THE MOUTH, MUSIC FOR THE EAR, JOY FOR THE HEART. - ST. BERNHARD | ||
| 4th | Altar sacrament | 1957 | 539 | 100 | ges 2 +8 | Roof turret | IN HONOR OF THE MOST HOLY ALTAR ACRAMENT + DONORED IN 1957 + |
Organs
Main organ
The main organ at St. Marien is the work of Johannes Klais Orgelbau from Bonn and was handed over to its destination on March 19, 1897. On two manuals and pedal , the organ had 26 sounding stops with pneumatic playing and stop action . In order not to impair the large west window, the organ was given a two-part, neo-Gothic housing and a free-standing console in the middle of the gallery. As early as 1908, the parish church choir had so many members that there was no longer enough space on the gallery, and because of the increasing number of malfunctions, they were not satisfied with the console. The building company therefore fundamentally rebuilt the work: the two halves of the brochure were swapped and set up at a 90-degree angle to save space along the side walls of the tower; the organ was given a new, pneumatically operated console, which was also rotated by 90 degrees and placed on the side of the gallery. The disposition was not changed. In 1960/61 the organ was rebuilt again; During this work, however, the technical and tonal conception of the instrument was significantly interfered with: the entire organ was converted to electropneumatic action, a new console was delivered, the originally romantic disposition was changed and brightened in the spirit of the neo-baroque. The previously existing expanded super coupling within the main plant was abandoned. The case, the old wind chests and about half of the old register inventory have been retained. The disposition of the instrument today is:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : three free combinations, additional free pedal combination, cuff, tutti, individual tongue storage
Choir organ
The choir organ in the second yoke of the right (south) aisle of St. Mary's was built in 1896 for the chapel of Liebieg Castle in Kobern-Gondorf and returned to the Klais workshop in the early 1990s due to the conversion of the castle chapel. It has been on permanent loan from the Klais company in St. Marien since April 2010. The organ, richly decorated in the neo-Gothic style, has five stops on a manual and pedal and is pneumatically controlled. The choir organ is the oldest fully original organ from the company's founder Johannes Klais and, in addition to its original prospect pipes (which almost everywhere fell victim to the two world wars), also has the mechanically operated bellows and step. In the event of a power failure, the organ can still be played. The disposition is:
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- Pairing : I / P
- Playing aids : Full work (Tutti)
Both organ prospects are equipped with octagonal pipe towers, which Klais only built for a short time; the two organs of St. Marien are the only ones with such towers that have stood the test of time. This and the proximity of their construction (between the two organs, Klais delivered 16 further instruments to other churches) make the historical organ ensemble a special rarity. The great acoustics at St. Marien (approx. 7 to 8 seconds reverberation time) and the high quality of the two organs make St. Marien particularly valuable for those who love organ music.
August Macke
August Macke recorded St. Mary as a background motif on a number of paintings and drawings from his nearby apartment and studio, for example St. Mary's Church in Bonn with houses and chimney (1911) or children in the garden (1913).
Parish
The parish, which in the 1950s was one of the largest in the Archdiocese of Cologne with 18,000 members , was divided into the three parishes of St. Marien, St. Franziskus and St. Helena in 1958 . Each of these three churches received about 6,000 souls. At the beginning of the 1990s these three parishes were reunited into one parish. In January 2010 the Mariengemeinde merged with its neighboring parishes Sankt Johann Baptist and Petrus (collegiate church) and Sankt Joseph to form the new parish Sankt Petrus Bonn-Mitte. Since then, the Marienkirche has acted as a branch church of this parish. The church is open every day except Monday. The Holy Mass is celebrated every Sunday at 11 am.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 44, number A 83
- ↑ Kunst-Glasmalerei Schneiders & Schmolz GmbH Koeln-Lindenthal: List of a number of already executed glass paintings together with a few illustrations . Cologne 1902, p. 6 .
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 109, 414, 509, 529, 549, 554 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 475, 490, 505, 509 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
- ↑ Gerhard Hoffs: Bell music of the Catholic churches in Bonn . Pp. 54-60; PDF file. ( Memento of the original of December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 137-140. [not yet evaluated for this article]
Web links
- Internet presence of the St. Petrus Congregation in Bonn
- Information on church music with pictures of the organs
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 17 ″ N , 7 ° 5 ′ 23 ″ E