Former St. Barbara Hospital Church (Attendorn)

Hospital Church of St. Barbara

The former St. Barbara Hospital Church is a listed church building in Attendorn , a town in the Olpe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The hospital church , which was probably originally built as a Gothic Marienkapelle, was built between 1306 and 1317 as part of the hospital complex of that time. It originally belonged to a hospital outside the city walls. The respective priest read mass in this chapel and buried the dead in the associated cemetery. The building was rebuilt and expanded several times between 1697 and 1726, and the exterior has not been changed since the Baroque period . It is under the patronage of St. Barbara . In 1813 the church was used as a horse stable by migrating Russians. The elongated hall with pointed arch windows closes on three sides , the sacristy is on the east side. A ridge turret was placed on the roof . During the Second World War it was badly damaged by artillery fire, so that it was threatened with demolition in the 1950s. The building was completely restored by 1962 and consecrated by the Paderborn auxiliary bishop Nordhues . The original function was lost when the cemetery was leveled and the hospital was rebuilt elsewhere.

Furnishing

• The high altar with a marbled frame was built in the second half of the 18th century.
• The cup-shaped baptismal font is from around 1680.
• The wall paneling and other wood paneling were installed around 1800.
• The twelve statues of the apostles are labeled 1697–1699.
• A baroque organ prospectus was made in 1721 by Johann Heinrich Kleine.
• A cross altar
• A Pietà from 1686 from the Sasse workshop was made as a personal donation by Johann Sasse .
• A Christ at rest from the second half of the 18th century
• An organ from the Collegium Bernardinum

literature

• Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 39.

Web links

• History, accessed on 09-02.2012 (PDF; 232 kB)
• History, accessed February 8th. 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: history ) (PDF; 232 kB)
2. ↑ Ursula Quednau (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume II: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , p. 39.

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 25.7 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 20.4 ″  E