Sepulchral Chapel of St. Benedict

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St. Benedict Chapel

The grave chapel of St. Benediktus is a mausoleum for the deceased members of the Boeselager house in the Arnsberg district of Vosswinkel . It is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Arnsberg .

history

In 1920 the family had Boeselager permanent residents of Castle Heessen to lock Höllinghofen laid. "In order to know the remains of the next of kin in the immediate vicinity, Baron von Boeselager had a simple but atmospheric family mausoleum built in peaceful silence in the middle of the nearby beech forest in 1923," reports the local history researcher Bernhard Bahnschulte .

The foundation stone was laid on August 8, 1922, the chapel was made on October 11, 1923 by Bishop Caspar Klein , later the first Archbishop of Paderborn. As early as October 12, 1923, the remains of Barons Maximilian and Max von Boeselager and Baroness Clementine von Boeselager von Heessen were transferred to the crypt of the new burial chapel.

Baroness Csilla von Boeselager , founder of the Hungarian Maltese Service, who died in 1994, rests in the chapel .

description

The easted chapel is located in the extensive rhododendron park of Höllinghofen Castle. It is consecrated to Abbot Benedict of Nursia . The cubic stone building has a closed vestibule, the polygonal choir forms a neo-Romanesque shape. In front of the entrance under the column portal with cube capitals there is an open staircase . The patron stands in a niche above the portal.

According to the building description of May 29, 1922, “the planned building is to stand in a clearing in the middle of a beech forest near Schloss Höllinghofen and is listed in Romanesque style . […] The building contains 18 burial chambers, which are covered with marble slabs, and coffins are also freely placed in the crypt. The interior architecture looks simple, in keeping with the character of the building. "

literature

  • Uwe Haltaufderheide: The architectural monuments of the city of Arnsberg. Collection period 1980–1990 . City of Arnsberg, Arnsberg 1990, ISBN 3-928394-01-0 , p. 293-297 .
  • Vosswinkel reviews. No. 14, 12/2012, pp. 15 + 16, magazine of the Vosswinkel Village History Working Group

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Arnsberg no.3, directory no.224
  2. ↑ Discover home. with Bernhard Bahnschulte, Heimatbund Neheim-Hüsten eV p. 170.
  3. ↑ from the construction file “St. Benedictus Chapel ”in the archive of Höllinghofen Castle

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 21.6 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 30.1 ″  E