Wolkenburg (Cologne)

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A historic building in Cologne's Altstadt-Süd district is known as the Wolkenburg . The name goes back to the founding history of the Cäcilia Wolkenburg theater play group of the Cologne Men's Singing Association in 1842. This received the remainder of the former monastery on Mauritiussteinweg in Cologne city center as a new seat after the original Wolkenburg An der Wollküche house was destroyed in the war and then had to give way to the city of Cologne's traffic planning . The baroque buildings were built on the site of a medieval monastery of the Benedictine nuns of Rolandswerth (today Nonnenwerth ) and were built in 1734. Today the building monument Haus Wolkenburg is an event center next to the seat of the Cologne Men's Singing Association (KMGV).

Origin of name

The name of the choral society has its origin in Hof Wolkenburg, which was first mentioned in 1244 in the Cologne shrine books of the parish of St. Peter . The property was on the corner of the former street "An der Wollküche" 1 to 3, as well as the street Cäcilienkloster, which is still there today, and was then rebuilt in 1456. Around 1500 this yard belonged to the silk maker Fygen Lutzenkirchen .

The location on St. Cäcilien , as well as the name of the Wolkenburg courtyard, which was rebuilt or restored by the architect Heinrich Nagelschmidt in 1873 , gave the founders of the choral society an opportunity to call themselves “Cäcilia Wolkenburg”. According to the research of the historian Hans Vogts, the old Hof Wolkenburg had been the home of the Cologne men's choir since 1860, which later moved to the remaining building of the former monastery on Mauritiussteinweg. The building of the old Wolkenburg at the Cäcilienkloster was demolished in 1911/12.

Further development

After the secularization of 1802, the building came into private and then municipal ownership. It was taken over by the Alexian brothers in 1829 before moving to Lindenthal in 1900. In the years that followed, it housed an arts and crafts school and the Rheinische Musikschule. Damaged on May 31, 1942, the Cologne men's choir took over the building and restored it until 1960; The final restoration followed in 1987. On July 1, 1980, the Wolkenburg was added to the Cologne List of Monuments.

literature

  • Wolfgang Peters: The foundation of the Benedictine convent St. Mauritius. In: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association. 54: 135-166 (1983).
  • Sybille Fraquelli: In the shadow of the cathedral. Neo-Gothic architecture in Cologne from 1815 to 1914. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna, 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20162-3 .
  • Ulrich S. Soénius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .
  • Hans Vogts: The Cologne house until the middle of the 19th century. 2 volumes, Verlag Gesellschaft für Buchdruckerei, Neuss 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Peters, Ulrich Krings, S. XIVI
  2. ^ A b Hans Vogts: The Cologne house until the middle of the 19th century. Volume II, p. 807.
  3. ^ Pen- and-ink drawing around 1840 , accessed on June 26, 2012
  4. ^ Margret Wensky: Fygen Lutzenkirchen (around 1450 - after 1515), silk entrepreneur. Rhenish History Portal, September 30, 2010, accessed on February 6, 2015 .
  5. ^ Ulrich Soenius: Kölner Personen-Lexikon. P. 387.
  6. ↑ List of monuments in Cologne, # 94, see also list of monuments in Cologne's Altstadt-Süd district

Web links

Commons : Wolkenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '58.3 "  N , 6 ° 56" 42.1 "  E