Chapel Horst

The Horst Chapel is located in the Giesenkirchen- Leppershütte district in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Horst 20.

It was built in the 1930s and registered under No. H 101 on June 2, 1987 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The chapel is located north of the access road to the outer bailey of the Haus Horst moated castle .

architecture

It is a free-standing chapel made of exposed brick under a gable roof . A pressed square roof turret with a very flat roof and a filigree cross crown the building. The corners of the building are accentuated by a corner block made of brick fields, which merge into a brick step arch on both gable sides .

The front side shows a pointed arch portal with a renewed decorative grille, which takes on the arch shape through its design. Are three lancet windows in common by running on the two long sides sill and window frame of slanted bricks. Inside is a contemporary altar .

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]).

• 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 ′ 6.4 "  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 4.6"  E