Cemetery chapel (Uckerath)

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The Uckerath cemetery chapel
View and floor plan of the old parish church of Uckerath

The cemetery chapel is located on the old cemetery of Uckerath , a district of the city of Hennef (Sieg) in North Rhine-Westphalia, which has been converted into a war cemetery . The core of the chapel represents the rest of the basement of the tower of the earlier Romanesque parish church of Uckerath from the 12th century .

history

The old Roman Catholic parish church of St. Johannes Baptist was first mentioned in 1131 as a property of the Cassius monastery in Bonn . The Romanesque church from the 12th century, which was preserved until the 19th century, was a three-aisled basilica with a western tower in front. The church was abandoned except for the tower in 1898 when a larger new church was built further north. The basement of the tower was made into a cemetery chapel . A semicircular apse was built into the earlier opening to the nave in the east.

In 1954, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge took over the expansion and design of the old cemetery around the church tower into a war cemetery, where 422 war dead were buried. The tower within the burial ground was a memorial and a memorial chapel was set up in its basement. After repairs began, the tower collapsed on October 5, 1968. The Cologne architect Günter Hagen built a new chapel with a representative copper-covered pyramid as a crown on the floor plan of the old tower, incorporating preserved Romanesque wall parts.

literature

  • Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the Rhine province. Volume 5: Siegkreis. Düsseldorf 1907. Printed and published by L. Schwann. Pp. 257-259.

Web links

Commons : Friedhofskapelle (Uckerath)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hennef-uckerath.de
  2. ↑ volksbund.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '38.9 "  N , 7 ° 21' 57.5"  E