Seppeler Chapel
| Seppeler Chapel | |
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 Seppeler Chapel, northeast view |
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Verl , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Construction year | 1745 |
| height | 6 m |
| Floor space | 16.1 m² |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 51 '40.7 " N , 8 ° 29' 11.2" E |
The Seppeler Chapel is a baroque field chapel in the East Westphalian town of Verl . It has been entered in the city's list of monuments since 2005 as architectural monument number 71 . The adjacent high cross is registered under number 21.
location
The Seppeler Chapel is located in the Bornholte district of Verler, not far from the city limits towards Rietberg . The name of the chapel refers to a nearby farm to which it was never associated.
Furnishing
The building, erected on a rectangular ground plan, consists of white plastered quarry stone masonry with a semicircular apse facing southeast . The saddle roof of the chapel and the hipped roof of the apse are covered with slate . With a floor plan of 4.30 × 3.75 meters and thick masonry, the chapel is only shallow.
The entrance on the north-west side consists of a round arched portal with a single-winged door, bordered with profiled sandstone blocks, the current version of which probably dates from the 1930s, and the associated grating from the 1960s. The current gable was also added later; it was created around 1900 by adding a brick wall to the building. In the gable triangle and on both side walls there are ox eyes framed with sandstone . The glazing of these openings is of modern origin.
Inside the chapel, on the rear wall of the apse, there is a masonry altar with a cover plate also made of sandstone, as well as an approximately 90 centimeter high oak Pietà sculpture made in the second half of the 17th century , the creator of which is unknown. A niche to the right of the altar to accommodate liturgical equipment has meanwhile been closed. The floor consists of irregularly broken Weser sandstone panels, while the ceiling is closed by a simple groin vault .
Directly next to the chapel is a high cross built in 1918, whose square base, cross and body are made of artificial stone in the three-nail type . There is an inscription on the base of the donor family. The Hochkreuz was entered in the list of monuments as the chapel building as early as 1987.
history
The oldest known written evidence of the building dates from 1661. The chapel was founded by Bartholomäus Seppeler, who came from the courtyard east of the chapel and was provost at the Paderborn district church from 1724 to 1747 . The chapel was also completed in 1745 during this period of office. During the time of the County of Rietberg, the Seppeler Chapel was the destination of the annual procession of believers from Verl and neighboring Neuenkirchen on the Wednesday before Ascension Day , later the procession only moved from the direction of Verl to the field church. This custom was not abandoned until around 1970.
In 1900 the then Bornholte community acquired the property with the chapel. It is still owned by the city of Verl, making it the only historical cultural monument owned by the city. After the Seppeler Chapel was entered in the list of monuments of the former municipality of Verl in 2005 , a thorough restoration took place in 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument index card for the Seppeler Chapel and the Hochkreuz
- ↑ Flyer "The Seppeler Chapel", published by the city of Verl (PDF; 170 kB)