Ahekapelle

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Ahekapelle
Ahekapelle

Ahekapelle

Data
place Engelgau , North Rhine-Westphalia
Construction year around 1330
Coordinates 50 ° 29 '7.7 "  N , 6 ° 39' 36.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '7.7 "  N , 6 ° 39' 36.6"  E

The Chapel of St. Servatius , popularly known as Ahekapelle , is dedicated to St. Servatius , Bishop of Maastricht in the 4th century. It has a long tradition as a pilgrimage chapel and is located in the Geneva Bach Valley near Nettersheim- Engelgau in the Eifel . The name of the chapel comes from the brook Ahe . Today this is called the Geneva stream (Eifel dialect: "The Jinft"). Parishly, the Ahekapelle belongs to the parish of St. Peter Zingsheim -Engelgau, today in the community of the parishes of St. Hermann-Josef Steinfeld ( Diocese of Aachen ), and is administered by the chapel community of Engelgau.

The Ahekapelle is a protected architectural monument .
The Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela in Spain leads from Bad Münstereifel past the Ahekapelle.

history

The chapel is the only building in the submerged town of Ahe that still exists today .

History of the chapel

There is no documentary evidence of the time the chapel was built. It is believed that it was built over a Roman building. The plain looking nave comes from the 11th / 12th. Century, the late Gothic choir from the second half of the 15th century.

The chapel is not oriented strictly to the east. The choir has a three-sided end, late Gothic pointed arched windows and six buttresses on the outside . The lower nave , which is slightly shifted in plan, has a clear width of 4 m, a clear length of 9.25 m and has four arched windows .
In 1988 the diocese of Aachen arranged for the renovation of the Ahekapelle with funds from the monument subsidy. In 2010/2011 an interior renovation was carried out mainly in the own contribution and responsibility of the church council of the chapel community.

History of the place

The secluded Ahekapelle probably stands on the remains of a Roman villa rustica . Already in the middle of the 19th century the Mechernich mining official CA Eick reported in his work on the Eifel aqueduct of a Roman settlement at the place where the Ahekapelle is today, of Roman "rubble" in the adjacent fields and of Roman grave inscriptions. A Roman tombstone was found here in 1866. This was presumably set by a councilor from Cologne in Rome for his late wife at the beginning of the 3rd century AD . Her name was Capitonia Vera. A walled-in sandstone with a funerary inscription published by CA Eick in 1857 was also on the south side of the chapel next to its entrance.
A hamlet from around 1500 is occupied with three farms that are subject to interest from the Steinfeld Abbey and one farm that is taxable to the Count of Blankenheim with fish ponds, a ban mill and two other dwellings. An existing mill around 1510 was demolished around 1790. An annual cattle market was held at the Ahekapelle in the 17th century, probably as a fair around May 13th (feast day of St. Servatius).
Already at the time of the Zingsheim pastor Matthias Pfleumer (1700–1710) the place Ahe with the Ahe chapel belonged to the parish Zingsheim. In the baptismal registers of the Zingsheim parish, families with the place of residence Ahe are mentioned even after 1700 . The houses must have been abandoned in the 18th century, only the Ahekapelle with its pilgrimage tradition has survived to this day. In the tranchot map from the beginning of the 19th century, next to the St. Servatius chapel, only a “burned down mill” (“Mulin Brulé”) is shown.
As part of the 2005 World Youth Day in Cologne from August 11th to 15th, an open-air church called “la chapelle” was built behind the Ahekapelle in the forest. This was done in collaboration with 23 French and 11 young people from Zingsheim, Engelgau, Buir , and Frohngau .

Pilgrimage

In 1680 the pilgrimage of the community Blankenheimerdorf to the Ahekapelle is documented. Following the old pilgrimage tradition, the Servatius Festival is still celebrated every year. On the Sunday before May 13th, the feast of Ice Saint Servatius, a procession with the Servatius relic moves from the Engelgau church of St. Luzia to the Ahekapelle at 10:00 a.m. Then a festive service is celebrated in honor of the saint.

Furnishing

inner space
Pieta from the 15th century
Pieta

The equipment of the chapel includes the following items:

  • A bell from 1410, cast by Johann von Karsogino. The bell could not be repaired and is now next to the altar. As a sonorous replacement were purchased:
  • The two bells in the choir roof, cast in the Maria Laach Abbey , consecrated on October 3, 2012 as part of a Eucharistic celebration.
  • The wooden high altar with a 17th century painting depicting the martyrdom of a Roman soldier and a figure on the altar, probably of St. Florians, in Roman general clothing (stolen 1966 and 1974).
  • A representation of St. Servatius on the antependium, surrounded by a wreath of roses (18th century)
  • A wooden statue of St. Servatius from the 15th century. It was restored in spring 2020 by Rudolf Ranzinger from Kumreuth and got the original color back.
  • A pieta, also from the 15th century, and restored by Ranzinger in Kumreuth. Both figures from the late Middle Ages are only placed in the chapel for church services. At other times, photos of the works of art in original size can be admired in the Ahekapelle.
  • The bronze way of the cross comes from the old church in Engelgau.

Legends about the Ahekapelle

Statue of St. Nicholas with paw crosses
Nicholas with Templar crosses

Regional legends tell of a treasure that is said to be hidden in the “walls” around the Ahe Chapel, of three juffern , of a ghost song and of temple masters . The chapel bells are said to have started ringing themselves when the juffern came within sight. Every now and then choral singing came from the chapel, although no one was in it. The chapel is said to have been one of their places of worship until the Knights Templar was destroyed in the 14th century.

literature

  • CA Eick : The Roman aqueduct from the Eifel to Cologne . With regard to the Roman settlements, fortifications and military roads that were initially located. Max Cohen & Son, Bonn 1867, p. 20-23 .
  • Joseph Hagen: Römerstraßen der Rheinprovinz (=  explanations on the historical atlas of the Rhine province . Volume 8 ). 2nd Edition. Kurt Schroeder Verlag, Bonn 1931, p. 166 f .
  • Heinz Günter Horn : Agrippastraße Cologne-Trier . Section Nettersheim. Of serpentines, temples and guard stations. 1st edition. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-7616-2365-7 , p. 42 f .
  • Walter Janssen : Studies on the desert issue in the Franconian old settlements between the Rhine, Moselle and the north edge of the Eifel . Part II: Catalog. Ed .: Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland (=  supplements to the Bonn yearbooks . Volume 35 , part II). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-7927-0207-X , p. 60 .
  • Sophie Lange (Ed.): It's haunted here . Legends and old village stories from the eleven places in the municipality of Nettersheim. 1st edition. Self-published, Nettersheim 2000, p. 48 f .
  • Hans Peter Schiffer: The Urft Valley in the Eifel . Landscape, nature, history. 2nd Edition. LandpresseRegio, Weilerswist 2006, ISBN 3-935221-61-4 , p. 23 f .
  • Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the parish of Nettersheim . History - construction - equipment. Kall 2004, p. 173 ff .
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 11, section II). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932, p. 470 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the parish of Nettersheim . 2004, p. 173 .
  2. ^ Josef Hagen: Roman roads of the Rhine province . Eighth volume of the explanation of the historical atlas of the Rhine province. 1931, p. 167 .
  3. ↑ Monument No. 35 in the list of monuments of the Nettersheim community
  4. ↑ Stefan Hansen in Die Ahekapelle needs your support , information flyer Förderverein Ahekapelle und Kirche Engelgau eV , 53947 Nettersheim-Engelgau
  5. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim . 2004, p. 174 f .
  6. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim . 2004, p. 175 .
  7. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: The Urft valley in the Eifel . Landscape, nature, history. 2006, p. 24 .
  8. ^ Heinz Günter Horn: Agrippastraße Cologne-Trier . Section Nettersheim. Of serpentines, temples and guard stations. 2011, p. 42 .
  9. ^ CA Eick: The Roman aqueduct from the Eifel to Cologne. With regard to the Roman settlements, fortifications and military roads that were initially located. 1867, p. 20th ff .
  10. ↑ a b Hans Peter Schiffer: The Urft valley in the Eifel. Landscape, nature, history. 2006, p. 23 .
  11. ^ Heinz Günter Horn: Agrippastraße Cologne-Trier. Section Nettersheim. Of serpentines, temples and guard stations. 2011, p. 42 f .
  12. ↑ GU Knackstedt: Neanderthals, Römer, Franconia . Settlement history of the district of Euskirchen based on archaeological finds. 1991, p. 67 .
  13. ^ A. Eick : New inscriptions from Floisdorf and Zingsheim . In: Yearbooks of the Society of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland . Book XXV. Bonn 1857, p. 34 f .
  14. ^ Nikolaus Reinartz : Matthias Pfleumer in Zingsheim, in a reformist Eifel pastor (1700–1712) . 1952, p. 9 .
  15. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes ) (accessed on February 18, 2012)
  16. ^ Walter Janssen: Studies on the desert question in the Franconian old settlements between the Rhine, Moselle and Eifelnordrand . Part II: Catalog. 1975, p. 60 .
  17. ↑ LVR Office for Ground Monument Preservation: St. Servatius pilgrimage chapel near Engelgau. In: KuLaDig. Landschaftsverband Rheinland, 2015, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  18. ^ A b Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim . 2004, p. 177 .
  19. ↑ Michael Nielen: New bells for the Ahekapelle. Wochenspiegel, September 26, 2012, accessed on May 17, 2020 (German).
  20. ^ A b Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim . 2004, p. 175 .
  21. ^ Wochenspiegel (Ed.): Return of Servatius . No. 19 . Weiss Verlag, Monschau May 6, 2020, p. 8 .
  22. ↑ Sophie Lange (Ed.): It's haunted here . Legends and old village stories from the eleven places in the municipality of Nettersheim. 2000, p. 48 f .
  23. ↑ a b Sophie Lange (Ed.): Haunted here . Legends and old village stories from the eleven places in the municipality of Nettersheim. 2000, p. 48 .

Web links

Commons : Ahekapelle  - collection of images