St. Georg (Cologne-Weiß)

The parish of St. Georg was founded in 1923 and initially worshipped in the St. George's Chapel, documented since the Middle Ages and enlarged from the 1920s into an emergency church. First plans for a new building on the present site date back to 1927. After the chapel was destroyed to its foundations in the Second World War, it was decided to restore it in its historic form and to build a new church alongside. Joseph Bernard, who had worked before the war with church architect Dominikus Böhm, took on the design in 1953/1954. The foundation stone laid in 1953 was created by Willy Meller, and the church was consecrated on 5 December 1954. In 2007 a parish merger cost the church its status as a parish church; that role passed to St. Joseph in Rodenkirchen.

The shell-limestone altar table, whose feet are read as starfish, was made by Hein Gernot; the tabernacle was executed under Elmar Hillebrand's direction by the Weiß artist couple Tong. The dominant altar cross on the east wall bears a corpus made around 1500 that originally hung in a church in Esenhausen and stands here on permanent loan. In 2010 Clemens Hillebrand painted symbolic medallions along the nave, expanded in 2024 with a symbol for Mary Magdalene. The abstract windows in the altar wall and baptistery are by Paul Weigmann, while those in the weekday chapel, depicting three angels, are by Lucyna Mentis. Historic pieces include a 17th-century Flemish oil painting and a Madonna and Child from the mid-14th century that came from the old George's Chapel. The organ, built in 1955 by Romanus Seifert, was renovated and enlarged by Willi Peter in 1988; the six-bell peal was cast in 1959 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock.