Herten Castle Chapel

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View of the Herten Castle Chapel from the southwest

The Herten Castle Chapel is a chapel in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Herten . It stands on the outer bailey area of the Herten Castle and belongs - like the entire complex - to the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association , which has been running a clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy on the castle grounds since 1985.

The chapel originally belonged not to lock Herten, but was the chapel of the castle Grimberg in Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck , where they dismantled in 1908 and from there to Herten translocated was. So while it does not count to the original substance of Hertener castle, this small church building is still together with the palace complex under monument protection .

history

Grimberg Castle Chapel

The history of the chapel goes back to the 14th century, because in 1328 its founder Wennemar von Grimberg donated memories for himself and his wife. Around 1560, the then lord of the castle, Heinrich Knipping, had the building renovated inside in the Renaissance style and equipped with a magnificent altar. He also transferred the chapel to the Protestant parish.

After a fire in the castle, the owner Johann Hermann Franz von Nesselrode had the facility completely redesigned from 1733 onwards, based on a design by Johann Conrad Schlaun . The work also included a change in the chapel and its surroundings. In addition, Johann Hermann Franz had it converted back into a Catholic house chapel in 1738 after he had a new church built for the evangelical community with the Bleckkirche outside the palace area. He had Knipping's grand altar from the 16th century brought into the new church.

The chapel during dismantling in 1908

In 1907, the Droste family zu Vischering von Nesselrode-Reichenstein sold Grimberg Castle to Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , which  wanted to build the Grimberg harbor there on the edge of the newly opened Rhine-Herne Canal . In order to save the castle chapel, which had meanwhile been very dilapidated, from final ruin, the former lords of the castle had the building demolished stone by stone in 1908 and rebuilt on the outer bailey of their Herten castle. In 1934 uninformed excavators examined the death cellar, which was still in existence at the time . They found two burial chambers and 14 burial niches of unknown dead people who were presumably clergy and family members of the lords of the castle. Their bones were buried in the Nesselrode family crypt .

Herten Castle Chapel

Large parts of the chapel were badly damaged or destroyed in the Second World War . Mining damage and neglect in the post-war period did the rest to let the castle chapel deteriorate further. Repair and restoration measures were only undertaken when the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe took over the entire palace complex in 1974 . From 1980 the chapel was open to the public again.

Used by the Greek Orthodox community of Hertens until mid-2004 , the chapel has been used for events as part of the Protestant pastoral care of the LWL Clinic since September 2004. Volunteers ensure that it is open regularly and can be used for weddings and baptisms.

description

Exterior construction

East view of the chapel

The church, which originally dates back to the Gothic style , is a brick building with a white exterior paintwork and pointed arched windows . The long sides and the choir are supported by low buttresses . The slate roof is decorated with a small ridge turret, which is closed by a cross.

The porch on the gable front of the chapel is not part of the original Gothic structure, but was only placed in front of the building during a renovation. It bears the year 1747, which presumably indicates the end of the renovation work under Schlaun. The free-standing portal on the access path to the chapel did not previously belong to the church, but was the main portal of the Grimberg Castle and a Schlaun design from 1735. It has been in its current location since the 1960s.

inner space

Layout

The castle chapel has a three-aisled hall over two bays , whose ribbed vault rests on columns and wall brackets . The choir is single yoke and has a 5/8 end . The baroque interior dates from the 18th century and is partly designed by Johann Conrad Schlaun. Choir stalls , altar and tabernacle were supplied by the well-known Münster carpenter Schild, while the altar painting is the work of the Münster painter Johann Anton Kappers . It was reworked in 1939 by the painter Wilhelm Vetter from Karlsruhe and shows Mary with the child, as well as Joseph and St. Francis . The picture is flanked by wooden figures depicting the Archangel Michael and Saint Anthony of Padua .

On the front of the aisles are the epitaphs of Bertram von Nesselrode and his wife Lucia von Hatzfeld as well as Bertram's parents Franz von Nesselrode and Anna Maria von Wylich . They come from the old Herten parish church, which was replaced by a new building from 1882 to 1885, and were created in 1680/81 by Johann Mauritz Gröninger from Baumberger sandstone . Together with the chapel, the tombs of the married couple Heinrich Knipping and Sybilla von Nesselrode moved from Grimberg to Herten Castle. They show almost fully plastic figures of the couple. He wears a pomp of armor while she is dressed in the typical fashion of her time.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schlosskapelle Herten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information flyer on the castle chapel . undated, p. 1 (PDF; 182 kB).
  2. ^ A b c Gustav Griese: Burg and Schloss Grimberg. 1960, p. 43.
  3. ↑ a b Information flyer on the castle chapel . undated, p. 2 (PDF; 182 kB).
  4. ↑ Thomas Jarck, Hartmut Wortmann, Ulrike Mummenhoff: Quality manual for hospital pastoral care. A work book. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-57010-4 , p. 131 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Information about the chapel on the castle leaseholder's website , accessed on June 8, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 '30.9 "  N , 7 ° 7' 46.3"  E