Alt St. Hubertus (Wolsfeld)

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Old parish church Wolsfeld

Alt St. Hubertus is the former parish church of the Wolsfeld community in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

According to a legend, St. Hubertus is said to have been converted in the Wolsfeld area. This resulted in a lively pilgrimage to the St. Hubertus Chapel in Wolsfeld. A first building was probably built in the 12th century. Around 1500 the chapel was expanded due to the pilgrimage. On the occasion of the visitation in 1570 the chapel was a branch of Alsdorf and had four altars and four chalices. Between 1612 and 1620, the barons of Enschringen expanded the building. One year the mass was read by the pastor zu Alsdorf, the next year by the pastor zu Dockendorf . In 1656 a Hubertus brotherhood was founded in Wolsfeld . In 1768 Victoria Freiin von Pallandt born Countess of Saintignon a mass. In 1803 Wolsfeld was elevated to a parish church. In 1926 the new Hubertus Church was consecrated in Wolsfeld .

construction

The first floor of the tower, a former choir tower , served the original, late Romanesque chapel room as a choir. Around 1500 the old room was torn down and replaced by a two-aisled hall room with three bays, the tower was raised and the Romanesque twin windows reused. The newly created ship received a rectangular choir. In the 18th century the church received a small vestibule and a sacristy .

Furnishing

Altar from 1620

The Hubertus Altar, created in 1620 by the Trier sculptor Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann, is the most important part of the furnishings. The richly ornamented retable is painted in color. The central relief shows the conversion of St. Hubert , for whom a painting by Jacopo Strada served as a model. On the reredos is a sculpture of Hubert as Bishop of Liège. In the two niches next to the relief are St. Sebastian on the left and St. Roch on the right.

On the Romanesque triumphal arch there are seven coats of arms of local noble families, in the middle the alliance coat of arms Pallandt. To the right of the alliance, the coat of arms of the Barons von Enschringen. Above the coat of arms there is a fresco with two depictions from the life of St. Hubertus.

Two early modern bells have survived, one from 1509 and the other from 1618.

On the east side of the tower, a lamp for the dead from around 1600 is embedded in the wall. Grave slabs of the von Saintignon family have been preserved in the old cemetery: Count Clemens Wenzeslaus von Saintignon and Anna Maria Countess von Villers, Clémentine Countess von Saintignon († 1909) and Carl Graf von Saintignon.

See also

Romanesque country churches in the South Eifel:

literature

  • Bernd Altmann, Hans Caspary: Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 9.2: Bitburg-Prüm district. City of Bitburg, Verbandsgemeinden Bitburg-Land and Irrel. Werner, Worms 1997.
  • Joachim Glatz: Wolsfeld near Bitburg. Rheinische Kunststätten (issue 286), Cologne 1983.
  • Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier , Trier 1887.
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Bitburg district. Düsseldorf 1927, pp. 306-310.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b de Lorenzi 1887, p. 161.
  2. ↑ Wackenroder 1927, p. 307.
  3. ^ The alliance erased. Albert Franz von Pallandt had been Lord of Wolsfeld since 1688.
  4. ↑ Inscription: I AM OF THE HOLY FRUNT SANT HUPRICH CLOCK, I DRIVE BOIS WEDDER, WILHELM VON ROID GAUS ME IN IAR MCCCCCIX.
  5. ↑ Inscription: SENT JOSEPH, JOHANNES AND KATTRINA ARE MY, IN GODES EIR I LUDEN, CLAUS VAN WITLICH GUS ME MDCXVIII.

Web links

Commons : Alt St. Hubertus  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 18 "  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 52.2"  E