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Nachtcafé Gubbio

Overnight project for the homeless

In collaboration with the Gubbio Homeless Chaplaincy

You may also notice the many homeless people in our streets. In Cologne, there are only limited overnight accommodations for homeless people. We are therefore supporting Gemeinsam Gubbio at the Nachcafé in the current winter semester. A warm invitation to all: anyone and everyone can join in! 

Interested parties can now contact Annekatrin Schumacher to get an idea of the task for themselves based on experiences and impressions from the past years. 

Participation in the night café can be recognised for the church practice field within the framework of the study certificate. 

The entry is possible at any time within the winter season from November to March. We are looking forward to your support !

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Welcome to the KHG

The KHG is a place of encounter for all those who study and work at Cologne's universities - regardless of their field of study, type of university or denomination.

With our offer we would like to complement and enrich the time you have available besides studying, learning and working and at the same time create space for the realisation of your own projects, ideas, plans and intentions. Because the KHG lives from the Togetherness of peoplewho shape it.

Get to know each other, discuss, exchange: This is what the KHG wants to support. In the educational program we invite experts to talk with us about current topics; in the spiritual program we exchange views on questions of Christian faith. But also among ourselves we often stay together until late to talk about God and the world. Conviviality is very important to us: Whether we cook together, go to the museum, do sports, travel together or celebrate - we want to make it possible for students from a wide range of disciplines to meet and get to know each other. Our rooms are available to you for this purpose: as a venue for events, but also as a quiet place to write homework, to chat and snack, to work and craft, to make music and meditate.

Of course, we invite you to join in the celebration and participation at our God:Time every Thursday at 6pm. If you want to try out innovative liturgy formats, this is the place to be.

Another big area is our counselling: On the one hand, we advise you on all problems and questions that arise around your studies and university and try to find solutions together. On the other hand, we also have time for you if you simply need someone to talk to in order to get clarity in a life situation that is important to you. Just talk to us or write to us!

Last but not least, we are also there for concerns when it comes to church scholarships and sponsorship for students from all over the world.

Theatre Workshop

Do you fancy some stage air, a break from the stress of university and nice people? Then come along and get to know the world of the stage with theatre teacher Maria Mock.

How does it feel to be someone completely different? And how does acting work in general?
Together we slip into new roles, improvise and invent small scenes. All this without long text swotting.

Try it out from the 29. September – 01. October 2022

THU/FR/SAT each from 10am to 3pm30

Workshop für Student:innen in den Räumlichkeiten der KHG – Berrenrather Strasse 127 – 50937 Köln

The workshop is free of charge for you and has a maximum of 12 participants.

If you have any questions about the content, please contact Maria Mock.
Registration to Nicole Ringhut.

The Theatre Club is supported by StaVV
(Studierendenvertretung der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät)

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Sport & Spirit – Badminton

Sport as a mirror of our society?! Well, it all depends on who is looking in! Do you want a sports programme that is geared towards you and your community? Do you want to meet new people in Cologne in a casual atmosphere ?

Then we cordially invite you to our sports programme, always on Tuesdays between 6.30 pm and 10 pm in the KHG sports hall, directly opposite the KHG Centre.

Here, students organise themselves which sports to focus on. You have access to a state-of-the-art and well-equipped sports hall. Badminton is currently offered in several groups.

Off we go!

Give it a go, close your laptop for 2 hours and join us for some sport!

Kontakt: Fiona Krämer
WhatsApp unter 01577-2727 914

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Alexander Technique

Body awareness in action

By intelligently refraining from exertion, you can enjoy your very own strength, uprightness and mobility: the Alexander Technique is a body-awareness method in which you refine your body awareness and learn how to release a healthy and free coordination of your movement and action with simple self-instructions. Constant companions such as back and neck pain often turn out to be consequences of unfavourable habits in dealing with oneself, which can be discarded.

The course introduces the basics of the Alexander Technique, which are directly tested in everyday activities. Depending on the interest of the participants, they can also be applied in sports, making music, dealing with disabilities or the consequences of injuries, stress, etc.

Please bring comfortable everyday clothes and thick socks.

Mittwochs 18.30 – 20.00 Uhr

Location: Meditation room KHG, Berrenrather Str. 127, 50937 Cologne

The number of participants is limited. Registration is possible via the university sports department at the following Link.

This course starts on October 16, 2024 in the meditation room of the KHG.

Contact

  • Ada v. Lüninck 

    Social Counselling and spiritual accompaniment

    T: +49 162 1025 498
    E: lueninck@khgkoeln.de

    Office hours: Mon, Tue + Wed in the afternoon
    Languages: German, English, French

CRUX Kirche

Der Schiefe Turm von Köln

Seitdem der Kirchturm der Kirche CRUX-Kirche St. Johann Baptist im September 2004 durch den U-Bahnbau kippte, war er bekannt als der „Schiefe Turm von Köln“. Das Kippen des Kirchturms war die Initialzündung für das Jugendpastorale Zentrum, weil es den Weg frei machte zur Renovierung der Kirche und der Realisierung eines Zentrums der Jugend und jungen Erwachsenen in Köln.

Das CRUX Café lädt (als ‚Place to be‘) zum Verweilen und Quatschen ein; egal ob über Gott, die Welt oder dein Leben. Hier triffst du auf junge Menschen – Schüler und Studenten. Gönn dir deine Zeit, die du brauchst und wie du sie brauchst. Wir sind für dich da.

Church opening hours

Di – So: 9.00 – 18.00 Uhr 

KHG Kirche

Kirche Hl. Johannes XXIII.
A walk-in concrete free sculpture.

The church of the Catholic University Community in Berrenrather Straße, Cologne-Sülz, cannot be identified as such at first glance - no bell tower identifies it as a sacred building. It was built at the same time and in the same style as the surrounding buildings, concrete style of the late sixties, in which the new buildings of Cologne University were also erected nearby. The concrete, however, is used in a different way, as it were as a design material.

Even though the church is built in the same style, it becomes a sign of "otherness": "Construction as a sign of otherness in relation to the everyday processes of life is at the same time a sign of the purposelessness of pure play. This thought alarms the arts and makes them gain in rigour and unambiguity to the extreme, precisely in their translation into the sign. But "place of otherness" does not denote an arbitrary act of man, such as a building reserved from everyday life, intended only for prayers and spiritual concerts. Place of otherness means a place where the celebration of the mysteries, the mission of Jesus, is carried out, through the fulfilment of which only the church is constituted in all changes of circumstances." (Wilhelm Nyssen, Die Kirche der Hochschulgemeinde in Köln, Schriftenreihe des Zentrums patristitischer Spiritualität Koinonia ed. by W. Nyssen, Cologne 1983)

In 1964, the sculptor Josef Rikus was commissioned to build a church for the KHG, he did the design of the exterior and interior architecture, created sedilia, tabernacle stele, ambo and altar from heavy wooden blocks. The concept of the church is a tree that has its roots in the cave of the crypt, the lower church, the trunk - a wooden structure - is the shelter for the Blessed Sacrament, the branches unfold in a daring concrete construction in the interior and continue as the roof. Where the concrete pillars stretch up from the crypt into the upper room, at the breakthrough from the floor, transparent rough glass blocks suggest water and offer a view into the cave of origin. The connection from the lower to the upper room is provided by the four pillars, which act as a trunk supporting the heavy yet delicate concrete structure of the church.

The walls are pure concrete - pierced by red, blue and white and transparent glass windows that open up the view outside to the dormitory. Especially in the crypt, the place of art, these walls are of an almost oppressive bleakness - coldness and emptiness spread when the place is not being "used" liturgically. The altar of red sandstone and a square of four shaped concrete columns of the tree root emphasise the simplicity of the space. On the one hand, it wants to be filled and on the other, it keeps reaching out to the original emptiness. This room is more than an interior space enclosed by walls. It is an image of the original mystery of human existence, of the root of humanity, of the depth that is initially without support.

The floor in the crypt is made of the same material as the floor outside, red bricks. This means: the world outside is no different from the world inside, but it is nevertheless confronted with another dimension of world that does not deny the real one, but transcends it.

But it is not the space alone that creates this, it cannot be defined without its content and that is the liturgy. Our church services take place in different formats throughout the week (see events for exact times).

Church opening hours

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Führungen auf Nachfrage. Anfragen für Fototermine, Filmaufnahmen und ähnliches richten Sie bitte an Pfr. Matthäus Hilus bzw. Nicole Ringhut. Für kommerzielle Aufnahmen zur Produktbewerbung u.ä. steht die Kirche leider nicht zur Verfügung.

Eucharist

Heilige Messe CRUX Kirche

The Eucharist: Our source for everyday life and living

This is what we would like to celebrate together with you. Tuesday noon and Wednesday evening in a more compact and quiet form, a pause in everyday life with the possibility to gather together and exchange afterwards. On Tuesday at noon, we invite you to join us for lunch in our cafeteria before returning to the university campus.

On Sunday evening we will celebrate the highlight of our week: the City Youth Mass, the Sunday Mass for students and young people in Cologne. With good, innovative music, with hopefully even better impulses, and above all with Jesus Christ for a powerful start into the coming week. Afterwards, we cordially invite you to the CRUX Café for snacks and cool drinks.

During Advent, we celebrate an early mass at 7am15 as Rorate Mass together with the Mentorat, followed by breakfast together.

We warmly welcome you to both locations - KHG Church and CRUX Church - and look forward to celebrating with you!

  • Tuesday 12pm15 "Die Genussvolle" Midday Mass in the KHG Church followed by lunch
  • Wednesday 6pm "Die Knackige" Workday Mass in the CRUX Church
  • Donnerstag 7.15 Uhr „Der gute Start“ (Rorate Messe)
    Frühmesse in der Adventszeit 5.+12.+19. Dezember in der KHG Kirche
  • Sunday 6pm "Die Feierliche" City Youth Mass in the CRUX Church, Taizé prayer every 1st Sunday of the month

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Donation to Ukrainian hospitals

We are very happy to support the project "Ukrainian Hospitals in Need" under the leadership of Julia Kahbyuk and Anastasiia Alokhina.

The important supplies of medicines and medical supplies have safely reached their destination in Ukraine and can now be used on the spot.