Collegiate Church (Bonn)

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Collegiate Church of St. Johann Baptist and Petrus (2010)
Collegiate Church, on the right dome of the Name of Jesus Church

The collegiate church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Bonn , which bears the name St. Johann Baptist und Petrus , locally also called Kuhle Dom , and was built from 1879 to 1886. It is located on Stiftsplatz on Kölnstrasse in the Bonn-Zentrum district and shapes the Bonn cityscape. The parish church is the oldest parish in Bonn. From the end of the 19th century, several parishes were gradually spun off from their parish. In 2010 the spin-offs were reversed, since then the parish has been called St. Petrus Bonn-Mitte and has around 9,000 members. The church building stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

Today's parish church has several predecessor structures that go back to the late Roman and early Franconian times, probably to the 6th century. Like the settlement around them, they were called "Dietkirche (n)". The remains of this early church, excavated in 1971/72 - today in the courtyard of the Graurheindorfer Strasse / Am Römerkastell / Drususstrasse residential complex - are listed as an archaeological monument . After the Bonn Minster was built , the Dietkirche lost its importance. A Benedictine convent belonging to this church is documented from 1015. In the 15th century, the convent became a women's monastery , the Dietkirchen monastery (abolished in 1802). Around 1316/17 a new church was built, which was destroyed in 1672/73 for reasons of defense. The canons, who had fled to the countryside from Bonn before the plague, were given permanent abode in the city after their return in 1680 in a house on today's Stiftsgasse, where the Overstolz farm and the St. Paul chapel were also located Pen have been transferred. Instead of this dilapidated chapel, a new church was built as a parish and collegiate church in 1729/30 at the current location of the collegiate church of St. Johann Baptist and Petrus.

Christ fountain on Stiftsplatz in front of the church

A planned expansion of this church building towards the end of the 19th century resulted in a completely new building due to its poor structural condition. From 1879 to 1886, today's parish church was built according to a design by Heinrich Wiethase . First of all, the old building, which was later abandoned, was expanded, which included a neo-Gothic and three- nave nave and two square west towers. This was followed by the construction of a transept , a choir bay and three apses in polygonal form on the site of the demolished old building . The facade, which consists of a double tower, includes a projecting portal roof, a sill , lancet windows and a gable motif .

At the end of the Second World War , the collegiate church was badly damaged on October 18, 1944 in the allied aerial warfare in the most devastating of the bombing raids on Bonn by explosive bombs and mines dropped in the area, and the chapter house burned down to the first floor. The central nave was hit by another bomb attack on January 6, 1945, and the vaults of two bays and that of the vestibule collapsed. The organ and part of the equipment were completely destroyed. The subsequent reconstruction of the roofs, masonry and buttresses took place essentially until 1964, further restorations caused by the war damage lasted until 1973.

Furnishing

The interior of the collegiate church includes the so-called Dietkirchen Madonna from 1320. It is considered the most valuable part of the church's treasure today. The sculpture of the Madonna and Child is made of walnut and oak and still shows remnants of the original version, as was characteristic of the “Cologne Masters” of that time. The main altar is a winged altar made to a design by the builder Gerhard Franz Langenberg in the workshop of the brothers JA Oor & Sons in Roermond. The St. Mary and St. Side altars consecrated to Joseph are the work of the Cologne sculptor Jäger.

The baptismal font of the former Dietkirche is dated to the year 1290. The large organ was built in 1956 by the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company and restored and expanded with the church from 1990 to 1993.

Hubert Berke created the glass window cycle in 1976.

Organs

The collegiate church has two organs . Both are from the Klais company, which is also located in Bonn on Kölnstrasse . The main organ was built in 1956. It is set up on the gallery and has 45 stops on three manuals and pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Silent 8th'
2. Quintadena 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Principal 2 ′
6th Sif flute 1 13
7th Sharp III-IV
8th. Sesquialter II
9. Krummhorn 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Gedacktpommer 16 ′
11. Principal 8th'
12. Reed flute 8th'
13. Octav 4 ′
14th Coupling flute 4 ′
15th Pointed fifth 2 23
16. Super octave 2 ′
17th mixture IV-V
18th Cornett V
19th Bombard 16 ′
20th Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
21st Wooden flute 8th'
22nd Viol 8th'
23. Vox coelestis 8th'
24. Principal 4 ′
25th Singing dumped 4 ′
26th Fifth 2 23
27. Schwegel 2 ′
28. mixture IV-V
29 Septimcymbel III
30th bassoon 16 ′
31. Trumpet 8th'
32. Clairon 4 ′
Pedal C – f 1
33. Subset (CH acoustic) 32 ′
34. Principal bass 16 ′
35. Sub bass 16 ′
36. Subtle bass 16 ′
37. Octavbass 8th'
38. Dacked bass 8th'
39. Choral bass 4 ′
40. Bass flute 4 ′
41. Night horn 2 ′
42. Back set VI
43. trombone 16 ′
44. Bass trumpet 8th'
45. Clarine 4 ′

Bells

After secularization, the Church of St. Gangolf was demolished and its bells split. A bell reached the collegiate church. It hangs in the roof turret and is rung for baptismal services. In 1888 the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock under Rudolf Edelbrock cast the first ringing of five bells with the names Maria, Joseph, Johannes Baptista, Petrus and Paulus (disposition h 0 –d 1 –e 1 –fis 1 –g 1 ) , of which the St. Peter's Bell (fis 1 ) survived the First World War . In 1925, the Bachert bell foundry from Karlsruhe added three bells h 0 –d 1 –e 1 , which were soon destroyed in the Second World War ; the old Legros bell from 1756 came back intact. In 1958, the Saarburg bell foundry Mabilon created a new five-part bell. The big bell hangs by itself in the north tower with the tower clock. This strikes the quarter hours on the third and the full hours on the big bell. The St. Peter's bell is used to ring the angel at 7, 12 and 7 p.m. In addition, the entire order of the chimes is liturgically very different. The full bells only sound during the main service on the highest festive days and on other special occasions.

No.
 
Name
(position)
Casting year
 
Foundry, casting location
 
Diameter
(mm)
Mass
(approx., Kg)
Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 Christ Rex (feast / death bell) 1958 Mabilon bell foundry, Saarburg 1,662 2,850 h 0 −1
2 Maria (Sunday bell) 1,398 1,700 d 1 −1
3 John Baptista 1,242 1,150 e 1 −1
4th Peter (angelus bell) 1,043 680 g 1 ± 0
5 Pius X. (Laudes bell) 931 480 a 1 ± 0
I. Apollonia (baptismal bell) 1756 Martin Legros , Malmedy 562 110 f 2

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 9,000 believers walk together , General-Anzeiger , January 11, 2010
  2. List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 32, number A 431
  3. ↑ The fate of the war in German architecture. Loss - damage - reconstruction. Documentation for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 1: Nord , Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-02685-9 , p. 382.
  4. Gisbert Knopp, section St. Johann Baptist and Petrus, p. 19 f.
  5. State Conservator North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Yearbook of Rheinische Denkmalpflege 39 , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-937251-23-5 , p. 221.
  6. Information and photos about the organ
  7. Building description of the collegiate church  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sankt-petrus-bonn.de  
  8. ^ German Hubert Christian Maaßen : History of the parishes of the dean's office in Bonn. Part I: City of Bonn . In: Karl Theodor Dumont (ed.): History of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Cologne . Bachem-Verlag, Cologne 1894, pp. 240–241.
  9. Gerhard Hoffs: Glockenmusik der Katholischen Kirchen Bonns , S. 31-37.


Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 59.1 ″  E