Agnes Chapel (Bocholt)
The St. Agnes Chapel in Bocholt ( Borken district ) was the convent church of the Augustinians and later the Protestant parish church.
history
The beginnings of the Bocholt Sisters' Convention are in the dark. In 1447 their confessor bought them a house on Schonenberg in the north-eastern part of the city in order to provide them with safe accommodation.
The first chapel was consecrated in 1455, three years later the convent was exempt from city services and taxes, and in 1463 it adopted the Augustine Rule . At that time it had 29 members, the number rose to 46 before the Reformation. Today's late Gothic chapel, a three-bay brick vaulted hall with a 5/8 choir closure, was consecrated in 1484 with three altars.
With the Reformation , bad economic times began for the Augustinian convent, which only gradually improved from 1673 onwards. In 1803 the convent was abolished.
The chapel served as a Protestant parish church from 1819 to 1901. It was acquired by the Protestant church council on July 31, 1818 from the princes of Salm-Salm and Salm-Kyrburg , who owned the church, for 2212 Dutch guilders.
In the Second World War, the chapel burned down to the surrounding walls, with the collapse of the vaults, the rich painting, which was created between 1516 and 1523, was destroyed.
The construction was restored from 1952 to 1953.
organ
The organ of the Agneskapelle has eleven registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal . It was built in 1985 by the Oberlinger company.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
present
Today the chapel is part of an extensive old people's home complex, which is connected to the north side of the church with a glazed corridor.
literature
- Roland Pieper: Historical monasteries in Westphalia-Lippe , Münster 2003.
Individual evidence
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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 24.8 ″ N , 6 ° 37 ′ 9.5 ″ E