St. Maternus (Cologne)
St. Maternus is a Catholic church in Cologne-Rodenkirchen , built between 1865 and 1867 in the neo-Gothic style .
location
The church is located between the Rhine and Hauptstrasse in the north of the Rodenkirchen district of Cologne.
history
Due to the increasing population in Rodenkirchen, the Alt St. Maternus church became too small in the course of the 19th century. The architect Vincenz Statz began in 1865 with the construction of the three-aisled hall church made of exposed red bricks, which was only completed in 1867 . During the Second World War, the church was badly damaged because of its proximity to the Rodenkirchen Rhine Bridge.
building
To the west is the portal with the church tower, the hall is oriented west-east; the choir in the east has a sacristy on each side. The architecture is clearly structured inside and outside and does not have any decorations. The three equal ships are separated by slender columns.
Right next to the church is a free-standing rectory, which was built in yellow and red bricks about 20 years after the church and was probably designed by Vincez Statz. St. Maternus is venerated in the church and the church is used as a place of pilgrimage every September .
window
Today's colored church windows were designed by Hanns Kirchner . Pictures from the Revelation of John and the bombing war are juxtaposed in the choir. Over the side entrances, some windows from the 19th century have been preserved and supplemented. The rose above the west portal was erected by Kirchner in 1962.
Furnishing
Elmar Hillebrand designed the altars . A bronze relief by Helge Kühnapfel from 1983 to 1986 surrounds the main altar . On the Maternus altar is a tabernacle by Karl Matthäus Winter from 1961 in the form of an ark. The cover of the baptismal font in the vestibule was also designed by Kühnapfel in 1979. The neo-Gothic Way of the Cross comes from the Moselle. The pews and confessionals are the originals from the 19th century; Nikolaus Steinbach created the statues of Saints Maternus , Elisabeth and Agnes around 1900 . Both the Madonna and Child from around 1470 and the Pietà come from Alt St. Maternus .
organ
The organ was built in 1869 by the organ builder Steere & Turner and originally stood in a church in Keene (New Hampshire, USA). In 2011 the instrument was restored by the organ building company Schulte (Kürten) and installed in St. Maternus. The instrument has 23 stops on two manual works and a pedal.
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bells
Four bells hang in the tower. The small bronze bell from 1927 was the only bell of the previous four-part bell that remained on the tower during the Second World War. In 1949 the Bochumer Verein supplied three below-average cast steel bells in a test rib, the so-called second strike tone rib. The bell, cast in 1927, proved to be statically problematic and was temporarily shut down. With the installation of a counter pendulum system in 2007 it could be made ringable again and since then it sounds at noon at 12:00 and in the evening at 19:00 to the angel of the Lord . Bells 4 + 3 sound for weekday masses, bells 4 + 3 + 2 for Sunday masses and on holidays the full peal starts a quarter of an hour before mass.
| No. | Surname | Casting year | Caster | Ø (mm) |
Weight (kg) |
Nominal (16th note) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christ | 1947 | Bochum Association | 1681 | 1920 | c 1 +6 | PAX HOMINIBUS |
| 2 | Mater Dolorosa | 1947 | Bochum Association | 1425 | 1310 | it 1 +2 | MATRIS 7 DOLORIS |
| 3 | Maternus | 1947 | Bochum Association | 1200 | 830 | f 1 -2 | ST. MATERNI |
| 4th | Guardian Angel | 1927 | Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon | 981 | 637 | as 1 -2 | For he commanded his angels to watch over you in all your ways. |
literature
- 1000 years of Rodenkirchen - forays through history
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on the municipality's website
- ^ Translation: Peace to the people
- ↑ Translation: [In honor of] The Mother of Seven Sorrows
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 45.2 " N , 6 ° 59 ′ 32.3" E