St. Theodore
The Church of St. Theodor is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne-Vingst . It is the parish church of the parish of St. Theodor and Elisabeth in the deanery of Cologne-Deutz ( Archdiocese of Cologne ).
history
The first church in Vingst was St. Martin. It had 150 seats and around 350 standing places and was consecrated on November 12, 1905. As this church was too small for the community, the foundation stone for a larger church was laid in 1937. After the consecration in 1938, the congregation moved to the new, nearby church building, and St. Martin's baptismal font was installed in the new church. The church was renamed St. Theodor at the suggestion of pastor Theodor Baaken, who had provided 10,000 Reichsmarks for the construction of the church .
During the Second World War , the church was first hit by an attack on the night of June 16-17, 1943; further attacks in July and November 1944 led to its complete destruction. Until 1949 an emergency church was used as a makeshift and a new church was built from poor material.
In an earthquake on April 13, 1992, the now dilapidated church was so badly damaged that it had to be demolished except for the tower, which rests on its own foundations. As a result, the community announced an anonymous architectural competition for the new building, from which the architect Paul Böhm emerged as the winner. According to Böhm's plans, a modern round building made of ocher-colored concrete was built and the old, darker church tower was integrated into the new building.
Archbishop Joachim Cardinal Meisner consecrated the church on March 16, 2002 .
Architectural program
When the church was rebuilt in 1992, Pastor Franz Meurer attached great importance to the fact that it had a basement floor that could be used for social purposes, in which there was a clothing store, a kitchen, rooms for food distribution, a community workshop and a garage. This programmatically expresses the basic dimensions of church activity: worship, service to people, preaching and community. “The basis of everything is mercy . [...] The Diakonie cellar is also the foundation for the entire church building. ”A café and a long gallery for art exhibitions are attached to the actual round church space above, tangentially and open to the church space :“ Secular and sacred space stand together in dialogue, are not mixed up, but related to one another and belong together. [...] By turning to the other, community and equality already arose. They find their special expression in the church service. ”A spiral path on the outside of the church building on which the stations of the cross (design: Matthias Heiermann) are arranged, the walkable roof, which provides a view of the city: a“ view who, on the one hand, does not lose sight of the memory of the Way of the Cross and, on the other hand, of the people in the neighborhood ”; Franz Meurer recognizes in this "the fourth dimension of church action [...]: to bear witness to others of what carries one".
organ
The organ was built in 2001/02 by the organ builder Siegfried Schulte (Kürten), reusing the material from the previous organ . The instrument has 25 registers (approx. 1,700 pipes ) on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Web links
- Description of St. Theodor on koelnarchitektur.de ( Memento from May 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- 100 years of the Catholic Church in Cologne-Vingst - History of St. Theodor (PDF) ( Memento from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- The parish church of St. Theodor in Cologne-Vingst (PDF; 2.1 MB)
- Internet presence of the Catholic parish of Höhenberg and Vingst
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Meurer, Peter Otten: If not here, where else? Church completely different. Gütersloh 2011, pp. 87–90.
- ↑ More information about the organ (PDF) ( Memento from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 6 ″ N , 7 ° 1 ′ 21 ″ E