St. Sebastian (Poppelsdorf)

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The Catholic Parish Church of St. Sebastian
View of the altar
St. Sebastian, exterior view

The parish church of St. Sebastian is a listed church building in Poppelsdorf , a district of the city of Bonn . The parish belongs to the Catholic parish community Bonn-Melbtal in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

History and architecture

Poppelsdorf grew at the end of the 19th century due to the influx of university employees and companies. The chapel on Poppelsdorfer Platz was no longer sufficient. The Archdiocese of Cologne decided to build a new church and began in 1888. The architect was Gerhard Franz Langenberg . A three-aisled building was created. Neo-Romanesque and Neo-Gothic building elements were mixed, as is typical of historicism . For financial reasons, it was decided to build in two phases. In 1890 the choir and central nave were completed, and by 1908 the yoke and the facade with the bell tower .

In 1909, the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen supplied four bronze bells (h 0 - d ′ - e ′ - fis ′) with a total weight of approx. 7.7 tons. The three smaller bells still hang from these bells in the tower. Their diameters are: 1430 mm, 1260 mm, 1150 mm. They weigh: 1898 kg, 1459 kg, 1027 kg.

Historical views

  • Design drawing from 1888

  • State after completion of the first construction phase in 1889

  • Photo from 1910, the chapel in the vestibule

See also

literature

  • Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
  • Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany: 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0013-9 .
  • Gregor Neumann: St. Sebastian to Bonn-Poppelsdorf. A church leader. Bonn 1982.

Web links

Commons : St. Sebastian (Bonn-Poppelsdorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish community
  2. ↑ Stefan Knopp: Sankt Sebastian in Poppelsdorf is 125 years old. In: General-Anzeiger . September 27, 2013, accessed May 2, 2020 .
  3. ^ Report on Vodafone
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular p. 517.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 , here in particular p. 481.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 18.6 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 28 ″  E