Ursuline Church of St. Corpus Christi

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Ursuline Church of St. Corpus Christi in Cologne (2006 after the neighboring buildings to the east were demolished)

The Ursuline Church of St. Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi Church ) in Cologne is the baroque former monastery church of the Ursuline Order and the school church of the neighboring Ursuline School .

history

The origins of this church go back to 1639, when the Ursulines in Cologne founded their first branch in Germany. The monastery served as a boarding school and school for young girls.

Matteo Alberti was selected as the architect in 1706 , and the foundation stone was laid three years later, on April 30, 1709. It took another three years to complete. On October 16, 1712, the then Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne, Johann Werner von Veyder, consecrated the church and its altars.

In planning and designing the church, Matteo Alberti was inspired by Saalkirchen in his Venetian homeland. The church is considered the most important architectural achievement in Cologne in the 18th century, which was built in the Venetian style.

The barrel vaulted hall building has a tower-flanked south facade and a semicircular north apse . The main facade is structured by an ionic order of pilasters with a crowned segmental arch gable. Two angel figures venerate the Eucharist (reference to the name of the church). The interior features Ionic pilasters on high plinths and a cornice on a high architrave .

During the Second World War , both the church and the other buildings belonging to the order were badly damaged, including by bombs. The roof and the vault as well as the interior of the church were completely destroyed. Of the once rich baroque and historical furnishings, only the stucco relief on the triumphal arch remained largely undamaged. So that the church could be re-covered as quickly as possible and the damage repaired inside, the students organized several bazaars. The reconstruction lasted until 1963.

After the Archdiocese of Cologne took over the church from the Ursulines, it was renovated again in several stages between 1997 and 2007. In 2003 the Ursuline Church received the baroque high altar, created in 1703, of the old town parish of St. Kolumba, which was destroyed in the war .

  • Ursuline Church

  • portal

  • Interior with the St. Kolumba Altar

  • pulpit

organ

Ahrend organ from 2002

Since the installation of the organ by Jürgen Ahrend in 2002, the Ursuline Church is also used by the neighboring Cologne Music Academy as a training and concert space. Built in the style of the north German baroque organ, the instrument has 19 registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – e 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Viola di Gamba (from c) 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Nasat 3 ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture III
II Breastwork C – e 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Wooden principal 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Sesquialtera II
Dulcian 8th'
Pedal C – e 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Trombone bass 16 ′
Trumpet bass 8th'

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhardus Winheim: Sacrarium Agrippinae. Hoc est Designatio Ecclesiarum Coloniensium Praecipuarum Reliquiarum. Quorundam itidem Antiquitatum memorabilium, hinc inde partim ex pervestustis Monumentis, partim relatione Virorum fide dignissimorum in gratiam tam Ubio Germanorum, quam pietatis Causa ad Urbem Convolantium . Steinhaus, Cologne 1736, p. 315.
  2. ↑ Festschrift of the Ursuline School, Cologne 2014, p. 299 ff.
  3. ↑ Festschrift of the Ursuline School, Cologne 2014, pp. 173f. and p. 196.
  4. ↑ Festschrift of the Ursulinenschule, Cologne 2014, p. 304 f.
  5. ^ Organ of the Ursuline Church in Cologne , accessed on July 8, 2019.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 47 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 37"  E