George's Chapel (Karden)
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The George Chapel in Karden was built around 1340 and belonged to the St. Castor von Karden monastery. It was part of the "Untere Klause" founded in 1318 on Moselstrasse, which was available to six women. After the secularization of the monasteries, the chapel was profaned in 1805 and, after around 50 years of misuse, it was converted into a Protestant church in 1856.
Origin of the chapel
Provost Heinrich von Pfaffendorf (1305–1334) bequeathed assets to the St. Castor monastery , which were likely to be used to finance the chapel of the Lower Klause. The structure, which is very short in relation to its height, was probably much longer at the time of its construction. During the cadastral survey in 1832 it was found that it was probably shortened to a length of about twelve meters in connection with the profanation and that the vault replaced by a flat ceiling was also broken out at the same time. After that the chapel served as a horse stable.
Protestant church
In the years 1846/47 a small evangelical congregation was formed in Karden, which held its services for a short time in a private house. After this room had been terminated, the Prussian state government offered her the Georgskapelle, which it owned at the time, on the corner of today's St.-Georgs-Strasse and Moselstrasse, for sale for 2,400 marks.
Ten years later, the house of God , built in the Gothic style , was consecrated as a Protestant church in 1857 after extensive renovations. A thorough restoration followed in 1908/1909.
The choir with a three-eighths end faces the Moselle or east. The five choir windows with four passports over two three passports each have been restored. In the bright glass of the front window from the early 1900's are left in small Tondos Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther , right John Calvin and Frederick the Wise of Saxony, a conveyor Luther represented. A small pointed arch window on the south wall is simply designed. Pointed arched niches structure the interior walls, 2.30 meters high in the nave and 1.85 meters high in the choir. The renewed cross vault should correspond to the original. A neo-Gothic west portal was walled up in 1888 and the entrance moved to the south side.
The chapel offers around 60 seats in the nave and a few more in the organ gallery .
The old ridge turret on the west end of the roof was broken off, the current one was put on in 1909. In 1956 the chapel was given a new roof structure and a new slate covering, and in 1965 the sacristy was added to the west side. The tall chimney on the south side, which can be seen in old photos, no longer exists.
The little church has been called "Georgskapelle" since 1968.
George's Chapel bell
The teacher and local researcher Oswald Hennes reports in his Karden story of a long-lasting dispute after 1863 about whether there should be a civic bell in Karden or a bell of the Catholic collegiate church of St. Castor should ring for the funeral of a Protestant. In order to end the discussion that lasted over 25 years, the evangelical community acquired its own bell on November 4, 1888.
It was cast by the Claren bell foundry in Sieglar . The bell has a diameter of 688 millimeters and weighs 170 kilograms. Its inscription reads: "Jesus Christ yesterday and today and the same also for ever".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Treis cards . Retrieved March 28, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the district of Cochem . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, ISBN 3-422-00561-7 , pp. 515-519.
- ^ A b Gerd Graf: History of the Protestant Church Cochem / Mosel 1846–1984 . Koblenz 1984.
- ↑ Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 40/41, 2nd edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1985, ISBN 3-88094-498-9 .
- ^ Oswald Hennes: Karden history 19th and 20th century. and stories of cards . Self-published, Treis-Karden 2000.
- ↑ Dieter Junker: Kardener Glocke is 125 years old . In: Rhein-Zeitung of December 8, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 53.3 " N , 7 ° 18 ′ 3.1" E