Trinity Chapel (Schleckheim)

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Trinity Chapel

The Trinity Chapel in Schleckheim , a town in the Kornelimünster / Walheim district of Aachen , is a Catholic church building. It was rebuilt in 1646 on the foundations of an older predecessor chapel and consecrated to the Holy Trinity and placed under monument protection in the 1990s . The chapel is owned by the independent chapel community Schleckheim, which is affiliated with the parish of St. Rochus in Oberforstbach and has been part of the parish association of the GdG Aachen-Kornelimünster / Roetgen since 1976.

history

Chronogram stone

Already at the beginning of the early modern period there was a smaller chapel or formerly only a wayside shrine at the crossroads of the old road connections from Kornelimünster to Lichtenbusch and from Walheim to Oberforstbach , where the inhabitants of the hamlets of Schleckheim and Nütheim, which were rural at the time , met to pray together. This building was replaced by a new chapel in 1646 with the residents' own funds. A reference to this can be found in an old death book of Kornelimünster, in which it is written:

"Anno 1646 a new chapel was bawet on the Kohheyden and that alde broke off, just as this can be seen carved into a stone."

This described stone was installed in the new building above the street-side entrance door of the chapel and bears the chronogram as an inscription

"VnVs trInVsqVe DoMInVs. IpsI LaVs VIrtVs gLorIa (translation: " The Triune Lord, same praise, strength, honor .") "

The text is identical to the inscription of a bell in the Trinity Chapel that is no longer in existence and another that rang in the church of St. Maria Sorrowful Mother in the Walheim district of Hahn until 1881 . Since the latter, according to Heinrich Böckeler's report, was cast in Franz von Trier's workshop , it cannot be ruled out that the old bell of the Schleckheim chapel also came from his workshop.

After the chapel had become too narrow over the years due to the growing settlement, it was fundamentally rebuilt in 1933/1934 and received its current cross shape with the installation of a transept . In 1972 the choir was finally redesigned according to the rules of the Second Vatican Council . In 1992/1993 the Trinity Chapel received its last major renovation to date.

Building description

View from the north

Exterior

The cross-shaped chapel building is in dry stone construction was built and at its corners with blue stones cuboid strengthened. The necessary daylight is provided by three large arched windows on each side in the area of ​​the choir and one on the sides of the transept as well as three smaller ones in the area of ​​the apse . The entrance facade is characterized by the rectangular entrance portal with a tympanum placed above the lintel , above which there is a small arched window and above the chronogram stone embedded in the masonry. The entrance door and the arched window in the front facade and the windows in the choir are framed with bluestone frames. On the gable of the front there is a small, brick-walled, square roof turret protected by slate, with sound hatches on the side and a cross with a weathercock on top to hang the bell .

Interior

After the redesign in 1993, the interior of the chapel was redistributed and equipped with a new organ on the front wall of the choir.

Altarpiece

The center is now the redesigned altar island with a to 1470/1480 in Brussels -made altarpiece that opens out to the secularization of Kornelimünster Abbey was Chapel Gangolph in the local St.. It is 192 cm high and 205 cm wide and consists of a three-part oak shrine with a raised central compartment. In the form of a triptych , three partly painted, partly carved themes from the Christmas story are depicted: in the left part the birth of Christ, in the middle the adoration of the Magi and in the right part the circumcision in the temple. The compartments are divided by elaborate carving on two flanking columns. Originally there were canopies carved over the figures, which have been preserved but no longer attached. As one of the few remaining late Gothic retables in the Rhineland, it was funded by the German Foundation for Monument Protection, thanks to donations and funds from WestLotto and the Glücksspirale for conservation and restoration with 15,000 euros. After three years of work, the completion and return of the reredos was honored with a solemn pontifical mass on April 26, 2015 .

additional

The access path in front of the church was designed as a war victims memorial, with grave plaques with the names of the victims of both world wars embedded in a half-height wall on both sides of the path.

literature

  • Marc Peez, Dagmar Preising and Michael Rief: A late Gothic carved retable from Brussels in Aachen-Schleckheim. Its rediscovery and restoration . In: Aachener Kunstblätter 66, 2018, pp. 45–56

Web links

Commons : Dreifaltigkeitskapelle (Schleckheim)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DI 32, City of Aachen, No. 177 (Helga Giersiepen), on: www.inschriften.net
  2. ↑ DI 32, City of Aachen, No. 178 † (Helga Giersiepen), on: www.inschriften.net
  3. ↑ DI 32, City of Aachen, No. 177a † (Helga Giersiepen), in: www.inschriften.net
  4. ^ Altarpiece returns to Aachen-Schleckheim , press release of the German Foundation for Monument Protection from April 23, 2015
  5. ↑ Nina Krüsmann: The retable is back home , in: Aachener Nachrichten of April 27, 2015

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 12 ″  N , 6 ° 9 ′ 19.2 ″  E