Aloysius Chapel (Borghorst)
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 25.3 ″ N , 7 ° 24 ′ 8.3 ″ E
The Aloysius Chapel is a listed building in the Steinfurt district of Borghorst . It is the oldest building by Borghorst that has remained unchanged and a reminiscence of the monastery . It is now in the urban area, at the time of its construction the location was a piece of forest outside of the former village.
Building history and building description
Exact construction dates of the Rococo building are missing, but there is a documentary mention in 1757. However, the year the bell was cast (1749) is probably also the year it was built. The exterior, reminiscent of a windmill, suggests that the architect may have been a Dutch mill builder, and the bell founder was also a Dutchman.
It is an octagonal central building with an outer edge length of the sides of approx. 2.60 m and approx. 22 m² floor area, not easted, but with an altar wall on the northwest side opposite the portal. It was donated from the private assets of the abbess Antonetta Isabella Josina von Nagel zu Vornholz . The exterior of the plastered building is structured by the portal, above which the chapel patron stands in a round-arched niche, and four rectangular windows with a sandstone-colored reveal.
The roof, originally covered with shingles and now with slate, is visually loosened up by four white-painted hatches. A multi-pointed gold-colored star serves as the tip.
The inner walls were decorated with Delft tiles , these are painted with fruit hangings. A surrounding bench is attached to the side walls of the octagon, in front of it a communion bench-like barrier on turned pillars, so that the altar area takes up the middle of the central building. A simple wooden retable with a discreet beige frame and a curved finish serves as the altar structure, on top of which there are figures of the twelve apostles, the Virgin Mary and St. John Nepomuk flanked by twisted columns. They are replicas, the originals are not in the Aloysius Chapel.
In the lower section there are three paintings on a metal background; in the middle the larger one depicting St. Aloysius, on the left the smaller one is St. Ignatius, and on the right, in the same proportion, St. Francis Xavier. Above the middle picture is a much smaller, fourth one. It is one of Our Lady. Various ornaments made of sequins and reliquary pillows embroidered with silver wire are grouped around these paintings . In addition, roses made of silver wire frame the paintings, the middle on three sides, the two flanking only at their corners and there are several Agnus Dei of various years (1st half of the 18th century) and sizes in the lower section of the altar wall . It is assumed that this Jesuit-influenced image program, although in line with the zeitgeist of the time, can be traced back to the influences of the Coesfeld College .
Use of the chapel
The original purpose was the private prayer of the abbess, for which she had the chapel built. At the Laurentius procession in August, which was discontinued around 1830, it was one of the four blessing stations to date , as was the Corpus Christi procession of the St. Nicomedes parish until 2002. On the feast day of St. Aloysius (June 21), a St. Mass took place, on the occasion of this celebration a figurine with a silver head and hands still in the parish treasury was brought into the chapel (see: Dressing of sculptures ). The wooden frame was completed with a black gown and a lace rochett . An inscription on one of the statues of the figurine states that the content is a relic of St. Aloysius. This Aloysius reliquary was part of a (national) exhibition in Dalheim Monastery in 2008. Occasionally, the chapel was also used as a place for palm consecration and a church service for primary school children took place in this chapel on June 21, both of which were discontinued. In 2019, the regular weekday service took place in the Aloysius Chapel on June 21.
The Aloysius Chapel is open on the Open Monument Day in September.
Web links
- View of the tiled walls at www.assets3.qypecdn.net
literature
- Borghorster Heimatbuch , related article by Hans-Jürgen Warnecke, Tecklenborg Verlag, Steinfurt.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.wn.de/Muensterland/Kreis-Steinfurt/Steinfurt/2008/09/Steinfurt-Aloysius-ist-ein-Schatz Aloysiusreliquiar
- ↑ http://www.katholisch-in-steinfurt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pfarrgemeinde-steinfurt/Borghorst/Pfarrbuero/Wocheninfo.pdf Weekly info: church service June 21. Collegiate Chapel (not Aloysius Chapel!)
- ↑ Parish news with one another 16 - 23 June 2019 (pdf) Quotation from parish news "Together": Friday, June 21 - Aloisius Gonzaga 8:00 am Eucharist in the Aloysius Chapel! (The different spelling "Aloisius Gonzaga" and "Aloysiuskapelle" was adopted)