Thomaskirche (Cologne)

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The Thomaskirche is a Protestant church of the Evangelical Community of Cologne in Cologne's Agnesveedel , on the northern periphery of the city center. Today the Thomaskirche and the Christ Church (Cologne) form a common district of the Evangelical Community of Cologne.

history

As early as the 1950s, the Evangelical Congregation in Cologne started thinking about setting up a community center for the northernmost parish. In 1963, the Evangelical Congregation in Cologne, led by Pastor Udo Lüthje, decided to found a "Community Center Lentstraße", which was designed by the architects Dr. Leonhard Schulze & Dr. Wilhelm Hesse with community rooms and the parish sister and sexton apartment was opened on November 29, 1968. The name proposals "August-Hermann-Franke-Haus", "Dr.-Martin-Luther-King-Haus", "Anne-Frank-Haus" and "Paul-Schneider-Haus", put forward in the same year, did not find a majority. The proposal made by the district presbytery "Thomashaus" in 1975 was accepted on June 23, 1976. In a second construction phase, a church hall was added to the parish hall, which was inaugurated on May 10, 1987, without the name being changed immediately. Over time, the name "Thomaskirche" has officially established itself.

architecture

The church room of the Thomaskirche consists of an octagon with a ceiling pyramid above it. The church was built in skeleton construction. The architect of the church is Ludwig Groth .

organ

When the parish hall was inaugurated in 1968, there was only a small positive organ with a manual and four stops. In December 1977 the Evangelical Community of Cologne decided to build a church organ, which should be built in such a way that it could also be moved to the planned church. In 1979 the organ building company Willi Peter was commissioned. The organ was inaugurated on July 19, 1981. It was a mechanical two-manual slide organ with ten registers on a 4-foot basis. The last time it was played at a church service on March 8, 1987. Then it was dismantled and rebuilt on the gallery in the new church room.

It was replaced in October 2007 by Wilhelm Rühle's organ, which was transferred here from the Kreuzkirche in Cologne . This instrument has 15 stops on 2 manuals and pedal, it is made after Saxon models and especially those by Gottfried Silbermann .

I main work
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Pointed flute 4 ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th Mixture III 1'
II Hinterwerk
7th Covered 8th'
8th. Reed flute 4 ′
9. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. octave 2 ′
11. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
12. Sif flute 1'
pedal
13. Sub-bass 16 ′
14th Principal bass 8th'
15th trombone 16 ′

literature

  • Günther A. Menne, Christoph Nötzel (Hrsg.): Evangelical churches in Cologne and the surrounding area. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2007. ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 .
  • Evangelical Congregation Cologne (ed.): Thomashaus. A gift for parishioners and friends of the house on the occasion of the inauguration of the church. Self-published in Cologne 1987.
  • Evangelical Congregation Cologne, district Thomaskirche and Christ Church (ed.): Thomaskirche 50 plus. Evangelical life in the Agnesviertel. A photo book by Eusebius Wirdeier , Cologne 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description on the website of Orgelbau Rühle, accessed on October 11, 2011.
  2. ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Evangelical Church Association Cologne and Region, accessed on October 11, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-koeln.de

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 24 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 48 ″  E