Old Church (Wollersheim)
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The old church is a listed building in Nideggen - Wollersheim in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and description
According to legend, around 700 the monastery was donated by St. Plectrudis to the St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne , which owned a courtyard near the church in 1184 , to which it was incorporated . Since 1977 the building has served as a cemetery chapel.
The two-aisled late Gothic hall has a choir consisting of a yoke with a 5/8 end , a sacristy attached to the north and a five-storey Romanesque west tower. After the new parish church was built in Wollersheim at the beginning of the 20th century, the unused old church fell into disrepair. As part of a comprehensive restoration from 1970-77, static protection took place, the eastern half-timbered gable was exposed and leaded glass windows by Herb Schiffer were installed.
From a single-nave early Romanesque building, the tower in front, which probably belongs to the late 11th century, has been preserved, whose quarry stone masonry is interspersed with remains of Roman bricks. On the outside it is not structured except for a flat blind structure on the third floor and two sound windows each on the bell floor, which are designed as twin arcades in the west and east . Inside, the ground floor is flat and open to the ship in two round arches . On the upper floor there is a chapel with a bench in front of the apse niche . The cross-rib vaulted choir and the sacristy on its north side are from a three-aisled building from the 15th century. In the choir there are remains of a tendril painting dated 1517 and a bricked altar table with edge columns, which dates back to the 11th / 12th centuries. Century. From the nave , after the side aisles were demolished (18th century and 1913), only the central nave, which was converted into a two-aisled hall around 1500, has been preserved; the late Gothic sandstone portal of the former aisle is built into its south wall . Inside there is a ribbed vault on octagonal central pillars without capitals , the ribs are set off on the tower wall on a console , above the apex of the triumphal arch on a half-figure bearing a coat of arms.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag 2005, p. 1189.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 16.4 " N , 6 ° 34 ′ 0.61" E
