Kreuzkirche (ev.)

The Kreuzkirche is an evangelical church in Bonn. It is the church of the cross church community since 1871, and also the Protestant city church of Bonn. With a seating capacity of 1,200 seats, it is the largest Protestant church in the Rhineland and the largest church in Bonn. [2] [3] The Kreuzkirche is listed as an architectural monument. [4]After the Rhineland had become Prussian in 1815, the "Evangelical Church of all Evangelical Lutheran and Protestant Reformed citizens" was founded in 1816. In 1817 King Frederick William III. the community the castle chapel for the worship service. In the following years evangelical life developed in Bonn, u. a. with the opening of a Protestant school, the founding of the Rheinische Provinzialausschuss for the Inner Mission in Bonn and the establishment of the Friedrich Wilhelm Foundation.On December 15, 1866, the foundation stone for the church on Kaiserplatz was laid, which was created according to plans of Bonn's former university master builder August Dieckhoff. On 18 December 1871, the church was inaugurated. In 1928, the church received the first large organ. In 1935, the church was renovated, the neo-Gothic ornamentation was largely removed.After the Kreuzkirche was destroyed in bombing raids in 1944, an emergency church was initially set up. In 1947 she received the name Kreuzkirche. In the years 1951 to 1954, the church was rebuilt and inaugurated according to plans by the Trier architect Heinrich Otto Vogel. With the design of the interior vault as folding on slender concrete pillars, he refers to the neo-Gothic ribbed vault of the pre-war period and anticipates forms that he used in the design of the nave vault in the Martinskirche (Kassel), his main work, a short time later. In 1963, the church received her new bells. In 1967, the crypt was transformed into a worship room. [7](Https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzkirche_(Bonn))

De Kreuzkirche werd pas in de 19e eeuw gebouwd, nadat het Rijnland in 1815 Pruisisch was geworden. De toren is 2 meter hoger dan de kathedraalbasiliek.
Met een capaciteit van 1200 zitplaatsen is het de grootste evangelische kerk in het Rijnland en de grootste kerk in Bonn. De inhuldiging vond plaats op 18 december 1871.

De Kreuzkirche is de grootste protestantse kerk in het Rijnland. Na de oorlog werd het herbouwd met Britse donaties