St. Marien (Cologne-Weiden)

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Exterior view

St. Marien is a Catholic parish church in the Cologne district of Weiden , which was built in 1927 according to plans by the architects Alois Böll and Otto Neuhaus and used from 1927. The church has been a listed building since 1983 and its exterior is considered an almost unchanged example of the architecture of Rhenish Expressionism of the 1920s .

history

Weiden belonged to the independent mayor's office of Lövenich in the Cologne district well into the 20th century . The Catholics in Weiden also belonged to the Lövenich parish, but in 1903 they founded their own church building association .

The church, built in 1927 by the architects Böll und Neuhaus, was designed more as an emergency church due to the economic situation . It was used for church services from October 2, 1927. From 1930 to 1963 St. Marien was the rectorate parish until it was legally elevated to a parish.

After the Second World War, damage to the building was repaired in 1947; a comprehensive renovation then took place in the wake of the Second Vatican Council .

On March 9, 1983 St. Marien was added to the list of monuments of the city of Cologne under the number 1336 .

Building description

Madonna figure above the entrance portal

It is a small, originally free-standing hall building with a small but distinctive roof turret, the entrance side of which is in line with neighboring residential buildings. On the one hand committed to the tradition of simple village churches, on the other hand it is a well-preserved example of the architecture of the Rhenish Expressionism of the 1920s .

In addition to the roof turret, the two-storey portal frame installed in the entrance area is the most striking element. It protrudes a little over the eaves of the simple hipped roof, which extends over the vestibule and hall and is provided with horizontal strips of brick on the upper floor, in the middle of which stands a figure of the Madonna in a triangular frame. To the right and left of the portal, two round windows, one above the other, each with a striking brick surround, open up . The original red wooden door has been preserved.

On the opposite side of the building, there is a narrow choir extension with its own - lower - hipped roof.

The white plastered interior is “committed to a traditionalism of neo-baroque style”. Behind the low entrance room under the organ gallery opens the five- bay church hall, which is structured by cantilevered pillars . From the central barrel vault , the walls open to the side windows through stitch caps .

A few steps form the transition from the church hall to the raised and recessed choir, the opening of which is framed in dark and which is illuminated through two round windows on the side. On the two walls to the right and left in front of the choir, the locations of the pre-conciliar side altars with their structures can still be seen , where the tabernacle and figure of the Virgin have now been attached.

Furnishing

The interior design was adapted to the requirements of the Second Vatican Council in 1966, but individual elements were reused: parts of the former high altar were reused for the tabakacle, the old cross of the high altar is also the current altar cross. The latter was created by the sculptor Eduard Schmitz in 1927. The actual altar table is from the post-war period and was made by Sepp Hürten .

Easter candlesticks and the Eternal Light from also date from the original construction time, as well as the statue of a seated Madonna from 1926 by Franz Albermann .

All windows are by the expressionist artist Fritz Schaefler from 1927 and have largely been preserved in the original; some of them were renewed with cathedral glass in 1948 . The four round windows in the portal wall show portraits of saints, while the side windows illustrate sentences of the Our Father . The motifs of the choir windows are a pelican who nourishes his young with his blood (as a symbol of Christ) as well as the symbols of the Eucharist - a chalice with a host, ears of wheat and grapes as symbols for bread and wine.

A two-part bell from the Mabilon bell foundry from 1927 was destroyed by the effects of the war and renewed in 1956 by the same foundry. The strikes are d 2 -f 2 .

literature

  • Festschrift - 75 years of the Catholic parish of St. Marien in Cologne-Weiden . Cologne 2002.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Mary. In: sankt-marien-koeln.de. Catholic parish St. Marien / Köln-Weiden, accessed on April 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Search in the list of monuments. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Helmut Fußbroich, Dierk Holthausen: Architectural Guide Cologne: Sacred Buildings after 1900 . 1st edition. Bachem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1683-X , p. 54-55 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Monika Schmelzer: Sankt Marien . 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. 119 .
  5. ↑ Cologne-Weiden, Catholic Church of St. Marien. In: glasmalerei-ev.net. Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20 Jahrhundert eV, July 8, 2008, accessed on April 18, 2020 .
  6. ^ Gerhard Hoffs: Bells of Catholic churches in Cologne . Cologne 1985, p. 747-749 ( archive.org [PDF]).

annotation

  1. ↑ In Fußbroich, the indication of the strike notes differs from those in the bell book: c sharp 1 and e 1

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 22.7 "  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 1.6"  E