Rodentelgen chapel
The Rodentelgen chapel is in Bruchhausen (City of Arnsberg ). The current construction goes back in part to the 15th century .
history
According to an unbelievable legendary tradition, the original building dates back to the time of the 5th Crusade around 1228/29. The first written mention, however, comes from the year 1424. After that, a canon of the St. Patroklistift in Soest, with the consent of his brothers, sold an estate in Bruchhausen to the pastor of Hüsten and a chapel of Rodentelgen. Others believe that the building was only built around 1450 as an atonement for acts of the Soester in the Duchy of Westphalia during the Soester feud .
This first building was almost completely destroyed by a flood of the Ruhr in 1464. Then the chapel was rebuilt. The lower parts of the gable end of the tower, as well as the door and the first window on the north side, have probably been preserved from the original building. These parts are solidly masonry and consist of smaller Ruhr stones.
The half-timbered construction of the rebuilt building extended to about the middle of the current building. Since the new building, part of the income has flowed to the pastor of Hüsten. He had to pay a chaplain who read mass twice a week and prayed for the benefactors of the chapel. The rest of the income was used to maintain the building and the liturgical equipment. The patron saint of the chapel was St. Magdalena. St. Luzia as well as the Mother of God ("Our Lady of Rodentelgen").
The choir was renewed in solid stone around 1630. This served as a sacristy until a small extension was built in 1897 . In 1659 the building was expanded considerably. The extension adjoining the old building in the west was also built in half-timbered houses. This part has a steeper and higher gable roof.
The reason for the expansion was that the chapel was an important place of pilgrimage, especially in times of epidemics and drought. On the Sunday after the feast of St. Magdalena, a procession moved from Hüsten to the Rodentelgen Chapel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Mary Magdalene's invocation to rain and St. Lucia to avert the dysentery was known. With the rise of pilgrimages to Menden (Sauerland) and Werl , the chapel lost its importance as a place of pilgrimage in the early modern times .
In the time of the pastor Franz Lohne in Hüsten in the first half of the 19th century, the regular services were discontinued. As a result, it deteriorated more and more. In 1837 a collection was made to ensure that it could be preserved as a building.
In 1897 the chapel with the northern extension of the new sacristy was remodeled in a neo-Gothic style. The background to this last expansion was that as a result of the industrial development through the branch of the Hüsten trade union, the population increased and a separate clergyman was employed. Until the new Magdalenenkirche was built in 1925, the chapel actually served as a parish church. After that, the chapel was initially no longer used for worship services. It was partly used as a kind of community hall, in which for example cinema or theater performances took place. It was also used as a youth home. Around 1968/70 it was leased to the Protestant community as a place of worship. The chapel, once again threatened with decay, was renovated for the first time. It later returned to the possession of the Catholic community and served temporarily as a place of worship in 2003/04 during the renovation of the parish church. Then the chapel was empty again. Thanks to the commitment of a support association founded in 2009 and the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the Rodentelgen Chapel was repaired between 2016 and 2018 and reopened in May 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Julia Greipl: Pilgrims, musicians and children welcome. Reopened: The Rodentelgen pilgrimage chapel in Bruchhausen . In: Monumente , Vol. 28 (2018), No. 4, pp. 28–23, here p. 28.
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. 176f.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 26.6 ″ N , 8 ° 1 ′ 20.2 ″ E