Trinitatiskirche (Cologne)

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Trinity Church in Cologne

The Trinitatiskirche is the oldest newly built Protestant church in Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine . It is located in the southern old town on Filzengraben, near the Heumarkt . Due to the depopulation of the inner city, regular church services are no longer held in it, but central events of the Evangelical Church Association for the Cologne region , services on special occasions, concerts and art exhibitions. The Trinity Church serves as a place of worship for the evangelical deaf community . The cultural partner is the WDR radio choir .

history

View through the nave to the organ

After the French occupation of Cologne in 1794 , Protestant Christians were also allowed to practice their religion freely. The former monastery church of the Antonite Order was made available as a church building .

After Cologne became Prussian in 1815 , the number of Protestant residents of the city increased. The Antoniterkirche soon became too small despite its capacity for around 800 visitors. Therefore, in 1850, with the support of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , The Protestant community of Cologne acquired a plot of land for the construction of a second church at Filzengraben on the site of the former St. Lucia monastery . The king already indicated the tendency of the building in advance: In a city like Cologne with its many outstanding Romanesque and Gothic church buildings, a Protestant church building style must be clearly different from these. Therefore, only the style of an early church basilica would come into question. None of the drafts from the architectural competition that was initially held met with general approval. Therefore, the Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler, commissioned by the king to examine the designs, presented his own design in 1855. Stüler had already built churches in the desired style in and around Berlin. The Trinity Church also corresponds to Stüler's classicistic sense of style. It is a basilica with galleries in the side aisles. Because the church was integrated into the front of the house, she built chairs up in order to get more light into the room through the windows. In front of the street-side entrance, a portico extending over the entire front was set according to northern Italian models . The around 41 meter high tower, built on a square floor plan, was placed in the background of the property next to the choir area. Due to its darker brickwork compared to the light tuff facade , it also sets itself apart from the church building and is based even more clearly on the architectural style of the northern Italian basilicas with their campaniles .

Construction began with the laying of the foundation stone on October 28, 1857, and on June 3, 1860, the church with around 1,000 seats was consecrated. In the following decades, the equipment was completed, among other things in 1861 with a five-part bell by the foundry Christian Claren from Sieglar and a three-manual Ibach organ. The church was renovated for the first time in 1899. In 1943, an air raid almost completely destroyed the church. Reconstruction lasted from 1952 to 1965. The Trinity Church has been a listed building since 1982.

View through the main nave

The church is well known in the Cologne art scene. The church interior and its galleries are regularly used for exhibitions and presentations of modern art as well as for artistic installations. After the installation of the new organ in 2009/2010, however, the focus is on musical events. In 2011, for example, the Cologne Opera was a guest at the Trinitatiskirche with a production.

Furnishing

The walls with their figural decorations, the marble baptismal font and three of the five bells have been preserved from the time the church was built . The altar, pulpit and cross are the work of Cologne artist Kurt-Wolf von Borries from 1962. Von Borries also designed the coffered ceiling . In the same year Wolfhard Röhrig created the artistic glazing.

organ

Klais organ from 1987

Since the church is only a few hundred meters away from the Antoniterkirche, in which there is a large organ , no instrument corresponding to the size of the room was acquired after the reconstruction. But there was the opportunity of the Bonn organbuilder the Klais in 1987 for the now entwidmete Aachen Trinity Church to acquire built organ. The removal, conversion and installation by the Klais company took about half a year. The instrument has three manuals and a pedal with 44 sounding stops and 3000 pipes. The purchase and installation cost around half a million euros, which were raised through donations and sponsors. The organ was put into service on January 24, 2010 in a church service and with the world premiere on the occasion of a composition Trinity - Triple Variations (Image) by the Cologne composer Michael Ostrzyga by Johannes Geffert . The disposition is:

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Quintadena 8th'
4th Præstant 4 ′
5. recorder 4 ′
6th Principal 2 ′
7th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Scharff IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
11. Bourdon 16 ′
12. Principal 8th'
13. Open flute 8th'
14th Funnel-shaped 8th'
15th Octave 4 ′
16. Reed flute 4 ′
17th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Super octave 2 ′
19th Cornet V 8th'
20th Mixture V 2 ′
21st Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
22nd Wooden principal 8th'
23. Suavial 8th'
24. Vox cœlestis 8th'
25th Principal 4 ′
26th Flûte octaviante 4 ′
27. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
28. Forest flute 2 ′
29 third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
30th Sifflet 1'
31. Plein jeu V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Basson 16 ′
33. Trompette harmonique 8th'
34. Hautbois 8th'
35. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
36. Principal 16 ′
37. Sub bass 16 ′
38. Octave 8th'
39. Pointed flute 8th'
40. Tenor octave 4 ′
41. Pipe whistle 2 ′
42. Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
43. trombone 16 ′
44. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

Bells of the Trinity Church

The three preserved bells from 1861 were supplemented by two bells from the Rincker bell and art foundry in Sinn in 1962 , which shows that the two modern bells do not adapt adequately to the thinner sound of the old bells. Despite the bell 2, which is too low in the strike tone, the disposition results in the opening notes of the song Wachet, the voice calls us .

At 12 o'clock, bell 5 rings for noon . On Saturday evening at 6:55 p.m. all bells will ring in the Sunday.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Casting year
 		 Foundry, casting location
 		 Ø
(mm)		 Weight
(kg)		 Nominal
( HT - 1 / 16 )		 inscription
 
1 - 1861 Christian Claren, Sieglar 1600 2300 h 0 +1 "O country country country hear the word of the Lord!"
2 - 1280 1190 dis 1 -3 "O country country country hear the word of the Lord!"
3 - 1070 700 f sharp 1 +6 "O country country country hear the word of the Lord!"
4th Baptismal bell 1962 Bell and art foundry Rincker, Sinn 1010 613 gis 1 +4.5 "Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit"
5 Prayer bell 850 377 h 1 +8 "Pray without ceasing"

Pastor

Ludwig Schneller was one of the pastors at the Trinity Church .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anselm Weyer: Inauguration of the organ with world premiere in the Trinity Church . www.kirche-koeln.de. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
  2. ^ Orgelbau Klais, Bonn: Disposition of the organ for the Trinity Church in Cologne . Orgelbau-klais.com. Retrieved July 13, 2019.

literature

  • Rolf Domning for the Evangelical Church Association Cologne and Region (Ed.): Toccata: 150 Years Evangelical Trinity Church in Cologne; Inauguration of the Klais organ op. 1643. CMZ, Rheinbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-87062-110-0 .
  • Helmut Fußbroich: The Trinity Church in Cologne. Neuss 1986 (= Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 309) ISBN 3-88094-503-9 .

Web links

Commons : Trinitatiskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 38 ″  E