Trinity Chapel (Koblenz-Süd)

The Trinity Chapel in the Laubach Valley in Koblenz

The chapel with the front garden grille and the arched portal

The Trinity Chapel is a Catholic chapel in the southern suburb of Koblenz . It was built in 1848 for spa guests of the neighboring cold water sanatorium Bad Laubach and bears the patronage of the Holy Trinity .

history

The Bad Laubach cold water sanatorium was established in the Laubach Valley in 1840–1843. In order to enable the spa guests to take part in church services, the Trinity Chapel was built near them from 1847–1848 by the Koblenz court mason Johann Adam Dienz. Pastor Philipp Krementz carried out the inauguration on May 18, 1848. The cold water sanatorium and the chapel initially had their own pastor, around 1870 they came to the parish of St. Kastor , after the construction of the parish church of St. Josefs in 1913 to the parish of the new southern suburb.

After the cold water sanatorium was dissolved in 1902, the bath and chapel fell into disrepair and had to be closed as a result. Laubacher citizens founded a building association to renovate the Trinity Chapel. The first service was held in the chapel on May 13, 1913.

The chapel burned down in 1944 during the air raids on Koblenz during World War II . The restoration lasted until 1951. An interior renovation took place in 1975.

Construction and equipment

The Trinity Chapel is set back across the street and faces west for urban planning reasons. The front garden gate from 1913 has a stone arched portal as an entrance . The hall construction made of unplastered quarry stone has a 3/8 choir closure . On the side of the portal is above the gable on the slate-roofed gable roof , an open roof skylights . The facades are structured by corner and wall pilasters, which are connected to one another by round arch friezes made of red bricks . In the apse there is an arched window and a circular window is built into each of the two long sides. In the guise of sandstone the following inscription above the portal attached: " Praised and blessed be the Most Holy Trinity. "

After the restoration in 1975, the interior is completely unadorned. In the chapel there is a carved wooden plaque with the names of 44 Laubach citizens who perished in World War II.

Monument protection

The Trinity Chapel is a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Südliche Vorstadt in Laubach 54 .

The Trinity Chapel has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .

literature

Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The profane monuments and the suburbs , Munich Berlin 1954, (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Rheinland-Pfalz, first volume).
Herbert Dellwing (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.1: City of Koblenz. Southern suburb and Oberwerth. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1986. ISBN 3-590-31033-2
Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. Verlag für Werbung Blätter GmbH, Ed .: Bernd Weber, Mülheim-Kärlich 2005 (2nd revised and expanded edition), p. 127.