Magnificent sapling
The Herriger tree is under monument protection standing, two lime trees flanked great shrine of the 18th century on the outskirts of Erftstadt - Lechenich .
location
The location of the small building called "Herriger Bömsche" in colloquial language is on Landstrasse 263, which leads through the open fields from Lechenich to Herrig . It is an eye-catcher that can be seen from afar.
history
First mention
A linden tree on what was then Herriger Weg was given as a marking point in early documents. As early as 1547, in a lease between the St. Aposteln Abbey in Cologne and the tenant of the Zehnthof in Lechenich, when describing 20 acres of arable land, the addition was made that the land was in one piece near the Lindchen on Herriger Weg. Such designations, such as a distinctive group of trees or other features of the landscape, were common and often supplemented the respective description of a meadow or field in documents as location information.
Usage and entertainment
At the edge of this "church land" was probably from a private collection under the linden tree in gratitude for a good harvest or in memory of an accident a place of prayer on which to unknown time a shrine (also Heiligenhäuschen ) was established, probably from a modest Half-timbered . Traditionally, annual processions were held there and a short sermon was delivered by the pastor, which he concluded with a blessing for the believing participants. In 1724, the then city of Lechenich had the old and dilapidated Heiligenhäuschen renovated at their own expense, but after a few decades the building made of clay and wood, which had been exposed to the weather, was again in need of repair. When no one from the community felt responsible for the reconstruction, in 1791 the then electoral head waiter Josef Borlatti and his wife had a new, permanent stone built in place of the crumbling house for 100 Reichstaler from their own funds, with a "beautiful carved crucifix " was provided.
description
Today's building is a semicircular, arched wayside shrine made of brick , which was covered with whitewashed plaster. The vault surrounds an altar niche that is open to the south and begins about half a meter above the ground above a masonry base made of bricks. The side of the niche is bordered by wall cheeks, which are designed like pilasters and are structured as profiled cornices above suggested fighters . At the top they become a round arch that is adorned by a keystone, which is also only hinted at . A small cross made of red sandstone decorates the interior. During a restoration, which possibly also served to support the building that appears to be on the left, a small brick wall was placed in front of the base of the saint's house, which supports the altar plate on a console, and the base of the cross, which extends much deeper than today's street, was exposed.
literature
- Frank Kretzschmar: Churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district. Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1944-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ HAStK inventory of St. Aposteln document no. 3/513
- ^ Landesarchiv NRW Rheinland inventory of Engelthal Monastery (Bonn) files 17 A
- ↑ Archive Schloss Gracht files 53
- ↑ Historical archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne , Deanery Bergheim, Lechenich No. 11
- ↑ In part after Frank Kretzschmar, churches and places of worship in the Rhein-Erft district, page 80
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 2.4 ″ N , 6 ° 45 ′ 1.8 ″ E