St. Ursula (Kalscheuren)

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Exterior view
Campanile
Altar (2006)

The former parish church of Sankt Ursula is a listed building in Hürth - Kalscheuren in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Archdiocese of Cologne , which was profaned in June 2006 and sold to a building contractor. The Carrée Campanile residential area was built around St. Ursula ; the church building itself was sold to the Jablonka Gallery in autumn 2010 , which uses it as an exhibition space. In agreement with the architect, the building will now be called Böhm Chapel .

Emergence

In 1952 Franz Groner was entrusted with the pastoral management of Kalscheuren. In the same year he bought a piece of land from the Kölner-Holzbau-Werke in order to build a community center there.

Short description of the building

Exterior view

In the years 1954–1956, the Cologne architect and Pritzker Prize winner Gottfried Böhm created the central building church with six cones under a dome roof supported by slender pillars , based on drafts by his father, Dominikus Böhm . The conches are connected by high windows with reticulated structures. The windows symbolize the human fishing net .

Campanile

A slender campanile rises up next to the church . He carried five bells in the striking sequence h 1 –d 2 –e 2 –g 2 –a 2 ; they were cast in 1958 by Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon. On May 25, 2006 at 7:40 p.m., all bells rang for the last time. The bells were then sold to the Catholic parish of St. Marien in Elmshorn . It has been ringing there since Easter 2009. The Jablonka Gallery has commissioned a new six-part carillon from the Austrian bell foundry Grassmayr . This was inaugurated in November 2010.

Original interior

Inside the church, the sacraments of baptism , confession , marriage , anointing of the sick , priestly ordination and the Eucharist ( altar ) were symbolically represented in the conches . In the middle of the room , a dove was floating above the foundation stone, a millstone from the region, representing Confirmation , as a symbol for the Holy Spirit with the Eternal Light .

The dove, the baptismal font , the sculpture "Christ on the Mount of Olives" on the container for the sick oils and the bronze communion bench with the representation of the Twelve Apostles are from Elmar Hillebrand . The altar table, St. Mary's altar, baptismal font , confessional and the stele for storing the holy oils are made from Italian marble in a uniform style according to plans by Gottfried Böhm . The statue of the Virgin Mary by an unknown artist dates from 1725. The modern Way of the Cross was created by Egino Weinert . The life-size pair of angels wearing a silver monstrance with a cross relic was designed by the sculptor Witte in 1960.

meaning

Architects and builders anticipated the results of the Second Vatican Council for this round church . According to the former Cologne city curator and professor of art history at the University of Bonn , Hiltrud Kier , its ecclesiastical significance can be compared with the Romanesque Cologne church of St. Maria im Kapitol .

The building was placed under monument protection in March 1993 due to its "artistic, architectural-historical and urban development accents" with its external appearance as well as its interior . It is assigned a special architectural and historical significance for the entire Rhineland .

Profanation and conversion

Rafael Jablonka (left) with Franz Gertsch in the Böhm Chapel

In 2002 was parish St. Ursula with the parishes of St. Severin and St. Joseph to the new parish "The Holy Severin, Joseph and Ursula" summarized. The parish church was profaned on June 29, 2006, its 50th consecration day , as a result of the “Future Today” savings concept of the Archdiocese of Cologne and then sold to the Bernd Reiter Group .

On March 14, 2006, the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection declared the church "Monument of the Month". The architectural historian Helmut Fußbroich described the church on this occasion as one of the “most beautiful churches that were built after 1945, not only in Kalscheuren or Cologne , but in all of Germany”.

Shortly before the profanation, the “Church and Monument Protection Association St. Ursula Kalscheuren” was founded, which wanted to preserve the church for liturgical purposes, but this did not succeed. After the farewell service on May 25, 2006 with around 350 visitors, the church was profaned on June 29, 2006 by the deputy vicar general Hans-Josef Radermacher .

Altar and baptismal font, like other objects, were removed from the former church and brought to St. Severin .

Previous construction

In 1925 the Kendenich parish acquired an emergency school, which was built in 1920. In the same year it was converted into a church by the 'Sankt-Ursula-Kirchbauverein' and consecrated on September 13, 1925 by the dean Lippolt in the name of Saint Ursula. In 1943 the church had to be restored due to a short circuit and subsequent fire damage.


Böhm Chapel - use as a gallery

The current owners, Rafael and Teresa Jablonka, attach importance to the fact that the building is no longer a church, so there will be no occasional devotions - as originally requested. All ritual objects were removed, the altar platform and the gallery were also dismantled. New bells were hung in the tower again. The immediate surroundings of the building were redesigned symmetrically.

Numerous guests attended the opening of the Böhm Chapel in November 2010, including Gottfried Böhm. In the gardens redesigned by Piet Blanckaert , the six-part carillon from the Austrian bell foundry Grassmayr in the Campanile was inaugurated with a piece from the “Metamorphoses” by the American composer Philip Glass . About two exhibitions per year are planned. The first with pictures by Terry Winters opened in November 2010. Solo exhibitions with Sherrie Levine Eric Fischl , Philip Taaffe , David LaChapelle , Norbert Tadeusz , Matt Mullican Ulrich Rückriem , Franz Gertsch , William Tucker and Michael Heizer followed .

See also

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Hanna Dölle: Post-war churches as galleries for contemporary art? - St. Agnes becomes the König Galerie, St. Ursula the Böhm Chapel . In: INSITU 2018/1. ISSN 1866-959X, pp. 153-170.
  • Manfred Faust: City of Hürth . Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (ed.), 3rd completely revised edition 1993 = Rheinische Kunststätten 36. ISBN 3-88094-726-0 . (1st edition: 1968, 2nd edition: 1981).
  • Albert Gerhards: St. Ursula in Hürth Kalscheuren - parish church profanation conversion, facts and questions , documentation with the help of Julia Niemann, LIT Verlag , Münster 2009 ISBN 978-3-8258-1911-8 Google Books, excerpt online

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Five new bells for St. Marien will ring on the weekend in the Hamburger Abendblatt
  2. ↑ Something holy dies here - the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” for the last Sunday service in St. Ursula
  3. ↑ The bells have fallen silent - the "Kölnische Rundschau" reports on the profanation ceremony
  4. ↑ Birgit Lehmann: Church becomes art space , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Rhein-Erft, October 28, 2010, p. 36
  5. ↑ FAZ of December 24, 2010, page 42: Five pictures and no alleluia
  6. ^ The Böhm Chapel in Hürth ( Memento from August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in Scala WDR5
  7. ^ Matt Mullican: Böhm Chapel April 19 - September 15, 2013 artnet .
  8. ↑ Beyond everyone Michael Heizer in Cologne monopol-magazin.de

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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 38.4 "  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 23.6"  E