Klusenplatz
The Klusen Place (also Kapellenplatz or short Kluse) located north of the A 30 at the Drievordener road at Quendorf in the joint community Schüttorf in Lower Saxony .
The complex is said to be the St. Antonius Chapel, which is recorded on the Bentheim map of the Brussels Atlas from 1573 by Christian Sgrothen . The Klusenplatz is an approximately oval plateau with a maximum diameter of about 100 meters, which is enclosed by two concentric trenches and a very low wall in between. The trench-wall-trench construction shows interruptions in the west, south and east.
An excavation carried out in 1981 exposed the quarry stone foundation of a rectangular (7 × 6.5 m) church building in the center of the complex. In the area of the building, from the rest of the interior and from the trenches, fragments of tiles, remains of roof tiles, iron parts, nails, shards, which, as far as they can be dated, belong to the period from the end of the 14th century to the 16th century, were found.
Located outside the settlement, the complex could have served as a plague chapel and been available to lepers and lepers.
Today there is a stone cross on Klusenplatz, which has been moved here from another location. According to various traditions, it is said to have been set for the fallen of the Thirty Years War or for a monk killed by pagans .
literature
- W. Müller & EH Baumann: Cross stones and stone crosses in Lower Saxony, Bremen and Hamburg. Hameln 1988, p. 71. Unpublished documents from the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation. Lower Saxony monument index.
- D. Zylmann: For the inventory of archaeological monuments in the county of Bentheim. Yearbook of the Heimatverein des Grafschaft Bentheim 1983, p. 168f.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 44.5 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 30.4 ″ E