Herdt Chapel

The chapel

The Herdt Chapel is located in the Herdt district of the Rheindahlen-Land district of Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Herdt 39.

The building was built in the 18th century. It was entered under No. H 033 on June 2, 1987 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

The chapel is on the edge of a small wood in Herdt. The half-timbered chapel with plastered and painted white brick infills stands over a slightly protruding base. The half-timbering is characterized by lying compartments and thin wood (economy framework), the three-sided choir closure has no recognizable half-timbering any more.

Access is from the street side through a central axially arranged wooden door, above which a figure of Christ dating to the 19th century stands in a niche in the gable field . Access is flanked by two stone tablets with the names of the two world wars, fallen from the Honnschaft . The far projecting gable roof covered with Rhineland tiles is hipped on three sides at the choir. It has a small roof turret with a cross.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

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• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 37.5 ″  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 40.4 ″  E