George's Church (Altenbrilon)

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Hubertus Chapel
Hubertus Chapel interior view
Hubert relic

The Georgskirche in Altenbrilon was a place of worship located in front of the gates of the city fortifications of Brilon in the desolate place Altenbrilon .

Around 1000 this church was called Georgskirche . When Altenbrilons ownership was transferred to the Archdiocese of Magdeburg in 973, the church was excluded because it belonged to the Diocese of Cologne . Charlemagne had given a missionary order, following this the Cologne clergy went to the Sauerland. They founded a wide-meshed network of ancient parishes . These so-called parent parishes followed as filigree and branched out into branch churches. The parent parish Altenbrilon goes back to the original parish Velmede . Altenbrilon took over the Apostle Andreas and then the Apostle Peter as patron saint from the parish of Velmede . Peter later became the patron saint of Brilon.

When the town of Brilon was founded around 1220, Archbishop Engelbert transferred the parish rights of the Altenbrilon church to the new town of Brilon.

Today the Hubertus chapel stands on the foundations of the old Georgskirche in the new cemetery in Brilon. The old church was mentioned around 1610 as still existing. After the Thirty Years War the church was destroyed. The Hubertus Chapel was built on the ruins of the old church. A pointed arch from the old church was inserted into the new masonry. In 1842 the following words were read in the eastern transom of the four-sided roof: “Anno 1665 in the scti Marci Ev. ad gloriam Dei et sct. Georgii M… consule Gabriele Düppen ”. After the Seven Years War the chapel fell into disrepair. The Brilon hunters, who consider themselves the successors of the Brilon knights, rebuilt the building in 1766. The altar with the depiction of St. Hubertus. The original patronage of St. Georg was gradually forgotten by the population.

literature

  • City of Brilon (Ed.): 750 years of the city of Brilon . 1970.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Brilon (ed.): 750 years city of Brilon, pp. 9, 10.
  2. ↑ City of Brilon (ed.): 750 years city of Brilon, p. 20.
  3. ↑ Christoph Becker: Historical news about the submerged villages and individual farms in the Brilon urban area. 1908, pp. 20, 24, 25.

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 2.6 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 21.1 ″  E