Stimson Memorial Chapel

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Stimson Memorial Chapel
Foundation stone and plaque

The Stimson Memorial Chapel ("Stimson Memorial Chapel") is a Protestant church in Plittersdorf , a part of the Bonn district of Bad Godesberg . It is used by the American Protestant Church . The chapel is located on the south-eastern edge of the HICOG settlement Plittersdorf at the end of Kennedyallee on the Rhine side (house number 150). It stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

In February 1951, the construction of the HICOG settlement for the American members of the Allied High Commission began in Plittersdorf . This settlement also had its own house of worship for use by all religious communities . It was built in the style of American colonial architecture, such as the HICOG housing estate, based on a design by the Frankfurt architects Otto Apel , Rudolf Letocha, William Rohrer and Martin Herdt, and based on a decision by US High Commissioner John Jay McCloy after Henry L. Stimson , who in 1950 late former US Secretary of War and Foreign Affairs. The consecration of the chapel took place on July 18, the 1,952th The organ was built in 1952 by the Bonn company Johannes Klais . In 1956 the chapel received the official status of the chapel of the United States Embassy in the Federal Republic.

On June 20, 1999, shortly before the embassy moved to Berlin, the chapel was donated to the city of Bonn. US President Bill Clinton presented Mayor Bärbel Dieckmann with the keys in Bonn on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Cologne . The following year, a memorial plaque designed by Sigrid Wenzel was placed next to the entrance to commemorate this event. The city has given the chapel to the English-speaking American Protestant Church for use. The church was registered as part of the HICOG settlement in the list of monuments of the city of Bonn on August 14, 2000.

organ

In 1952 the church received an organ built by Johannes Klais Orgelbau, Bonn (Opus 1038) with electric action, free-standing console and 20 stops.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Quintadena 16 ′
diapason 8th'
Darling Dumped 8th'
Octav 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Schwegel 2 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Mixture VI
II Swell C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Scharff IV-V
Schalmey 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Subtle bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Covered 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Fagotto 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, a free pedal combination, tutti, individual storage (Quintadena 16 ′, tongues), general crescendo, rocker panel, trigger.

literature

  • Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg district. Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 173-174.

Web links

Commons : Stimson Memorial Chapel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 30, number A 3620 (Kennedyallee 150)
  2. ^ Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955. , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , p. 115.
  3. ^ Andreas Denk , Ingeborg Flagge : Architekturführer Bonn . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01150-5 , p. 112.
  4. ↑ a b Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis
  5. ^ APC Bonn - History of Stimson Memorial Chapel

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 8.8 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 41.7"  E