Fraukirch
Fraukirch is a small place of pilgrimage in the Pellenz , belonging to the local community of Thür , which consists only of a homestead and a small, formerly three-aisled church, which was built in the Rhenish transition style.
history
After the regional Genovevasage , Count Palatine Siegfried, who is said to have resided in Mayen in the 8th century, built the church in thanks for the salvation of his wife Genoveva through the Mother of God Mary. The altarpiece from 1667, made of colored tuff , shows the story of the legend in a splendid, three-dimensional representation ( cartilage style ) in the form of a picture story. A grave slab with a life-size representation of a knight and his wife stands upright in the back corner of the building.
Also in the church are the supplemented original parts of the so-called Golokreuzes, a religious processional popularly known as a ladle , which was on the road from Thür to Kruft (today B 256 ) on the hill between the door and the junction until it was destroyed in 1977 (by antique thieves ) after Mendig stood. Even if it is sometimes referred to as a wayside shrine, it was originally used to store the pyxis that were brought to the Fraukirch during processions and found their place in the otherwise empty niche. The piece, donated in 1472 by a certain Clais Beligen, has an early German translation of the Latin Salve Regina on the shaft and base .
Today there is a copy at the original location. It was the place where, according to local legend, the knight Golo was quartered for defamation of his mistress Genoveva. However, this story can be traced for the first time in the 19th century and therefore more likely an invention of Romanticism , and the name "Golokreuz" only appeared at this point in time.
Regional court days for the surrounding Pellenz communities were held in Fraukirch from the Middle Ages to the 18th century . The Fraukirch was also a much-visited place of pilgrimage.
The church was first mentioned in a document in the 13th century. It was the Bishop of Trier's own church until 1764 and then passed to the Maria Laach Abbey . In 1804 the farmer Johann Wilhelm Nell von Thür acquired the property from the secularized monastery property. Since then, the estate has been privately owned by the Sesterhenn family, the descendants of Nell. The Fraukirch has belonged to the parish of St. Johannes Thür since it was donated in 1906.
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Location in the middle of fields and meadows
Exterior view
inside view
Altar (detail)
Knight's Tomb and Golo Cross
Fraukircher Hof
Marterl above Fraukirch
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Fraukirch is like an island in the middle of fertile farmland, accessed on August 7, 2015
- ↑ Kurt Müller-Veltin: Middle Rhine stone crosses from Basaltlave, Neuss 1980, pp. 52–65.
- ↑ Sühnekreuz.de . Retrieved March 1, 2018.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ' N , 7 ° 18' E