Wetschewell Chapel

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The Wetschewell chapel is located in the Odenkirchen -Wetschewell district of Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), between Wetschewell 251 and 253.

The building was constructed from 1956 to 1960. It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach under no .

location

The chapel is located on the south side of Wetschewell Street between houses 251 and 253 on the border between Odenkirchen and Wickrath .

history

Already before the year 1450 there was one of the holy "Wetselsgewelde" at this point. Sophia and her daughters Fides, Spes and Caritas consecrated predecessor chapel. On December 17, 1491, Pope Innocent VIII entrusted the care of the Lords of the Cross on the Antoniushügel in Wickrath. Destroyed in 1585, rebuilt soon after and expanded in 1665, it fell into disrepair after the Wickrath Kreuzherrenkloster was abolished in 1802, so that it was finally demolished in 1825.

architecture

The chapel stands over a rectangular floor plan and under a gently sloping hipped roof covered with green-sand tar paper . The south-facing chapel can be reached via nine broad steps, and ten broad steps on the road. Its roof, which is extended far forward and supported by the continuous west wall and a round pillar, forms a protected shelter ( vestibule ) in front of the entrance to the chapel.

The west wall, which has a small round window with a star-shaped grille, continues as a stepped parapet wall on the steps to the sidewalk . The roof turret on the west side, crowned by a cross on a globe, accommodates a small bell in a dome, only indicated by a few tubular struts . It is said to have come from the first chapel and after the previous building was torn down, it was returned to Wetschewell via the church in Wickrathhahn and the Wickrath hospital. The floor under the canopy is covered with old, hand-hewn basalt lava slabs - a second use from the old Laurentius Church - in which two old millstones, each 140 cm in diameter, are embedded. They come from the Güdderather mill .

The chapel is connected to the covered vestibule by a round-arched wooden door, the door leaf of which is broken through by three narrow horizontal strips with lead-framed artificial glazing. In the east and west walls of the chapel there is a wide, arched window with a steel frame glazed with clear structured glass. Under the window in the east wall there is also an arched entrance to the basement, which is illuminated on the south wall through three narrow arched windows with grating.

In the exterior view, the chapel is characterized by a pronounced material differentiation: the structure of the chapel is faced in reddish brick , the protruding west wall with broken gray, green and z. T. red natural stone slabs of the Schevenhüttener slate variety (origin: Stolberg- Schevenhütte / Aachen) from the Vennsattels veneered. The round column is also covered with narrow strips of this natural stone. To the left of the entrance to the chapel there is an inscription plaque made of bluestone with the text:

“This chapel was built from / donations from the Honschaft Wetschewell and the / entire parish of St. Laurentius Odenkir- / chen in the years 1956–1960 to commemorate the victims of both world wars. / The / dead to honor / the / living to admonition. "

The interior of the chapel is simply designed with a yellow facing on the inner walls and textured glass in the window openings. The cafeteria of the altar, which is made of black clinker bricks, consists of a sheet of Schevenhüttener slate. The glass artist Marianne Strunk-Hilgers designed the artificial glazing in the door and the symbol of Mary inside to the right of the entrance door. The underside of the roof is covered with wooden strips.

The altarpiece - originally from the main altar of the old St. Laurentius Church - shows the depiction of a descent from the cross in a copy after Peter Paul Rubens . It hangs over the altar of the chapel. In its front is a mosaic from the high altar of the Laurentiuskirche, which was broken off in 1942. It shows Melchizedech .

The eight baroque wooden benches in the chapel until about June 2005 also came from the previous building of today's parish church . One of the benches bore the year 1782, and the names of old Odenkirchen families were inset on the shelves for the hymn books. At the decision of the church council, the benches were replaced with modern chairs and smashed because of alleged woodworm infestation on the forecourt.

The property is worth protecting as a monument for local history and folklore reasons.

Web links

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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pb.moenchengladbach.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 55.4 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 35.8"  E