Klause (Kornelimünster)

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Klause in Kornelimünster
Sculpture painful Maria
Bluestone relics of the pavilion

The Hermitage is a former hermitage in Kornelimünster , a district of Aachen ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ).

History and architecture

It is a single-nave chapel made of quarry stone , located in the Klauser grove , with a single-axis residential extension on the north side. The hermitage was inhabited by one hermit from 1658 to 1900 . The patronage of the chapel is Mary in the Snow . The choir is three-sided, the roof is crowned with a ridge turret. The wedge above the arched portal bears the inscription Frere Toma Larondel. Ermit Anno 1658 . A figure of Maria Immaculata stands in an arched niche above . The old Madonna picture inside the chapel is no longer there; it was replaced at the beginning of the 20th century by a sculpture donated by a former religion teacher from the teachers' college in Kornelimünster. The wayside shrine next to the chapel entrance was built later and bears the coat of arms of Rüdiger Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff-Ley, abbot of the Kornelimünster imperial abbey from 1699 to 1713 . The extension housed the originally single-axis hermit apartment. Today it is privately inhabited and, unlike the chapel, not open to the public.

In the 19th century, the hermitage was a popular destination for wealthy spa guests in Aachen, including prominent representatives of the European nobility.

Towards the valley, the bluestone- built foundation columns of a pavilion begun in 1812 for Queen Hortense of Holland, a stepdaughter and sister-in-law of Napoleon , can be seen in the forest , but which was not completed because of the end of Napoleon's rule. On the terrace on the south side of the chapel there is an obelisk made of bluestone , which was built in 1819 by the citizens of Kornelimünster for Friedrich Wilhelm III. was set up. It bears the inscription MUNIFICENTIA FRIDERICI WILHELMI III REGIS BORUSSORUM CIRCUMIACENS SILVULA ECCLESIAE CORNELIOMONASTER DONABATUR III NON FEBR: MDCCCXIX ( Due to the generosity of Friedrich Wilhelm III, the King of the Prussian woods, Friedrich Wilhelm III. day before the Nones of February 1819 (3 February 1819) given ). On the way to the hermitage there are seven foot drop stations set up in 1908 that represent the Seven Sorrows of Mary .

literature

  • Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X

Web links

Commons : Einsiedelei Kornelimünster  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ewald Haller: Search for traces in the Aachen border area. A walk through the history of Breinig via Dorff to Kornelimünster , Verlag des Eifel- und Heimatverein Breinig, Stolberg 2012
  2. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 38 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '2.5 "  N , 6 ° 10' 43.4"  E