List of cultural monuments in Alken (Lower Moselle)

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In the list of cultural monuments in Alken , all cultural monuments of the Rhineland-Palatinate local community of Alken are listed. The basis is the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate (as of September 25, 2017).

Monument zones

designation location Construction year description image
Thurant Castle Monument Zone east of the village
location
around 1200 Felsgratburg, the core around 1200, rising masonry probably after 1248; Overall system Thurant Castle Monument Zonemore pictures

Individual monuments

designation location Construction year description image
Site fortification first half of the 14th century the fortification, begun in the first half of the 14th century, encompasses the whole place up to the connection to the external facilities of the castle; Preserved from the fortification: so-called Fallerport, gate tower with renewed half-timbered installation (at Oberstraße 39, see there), the southwest corner tower (at Moselstraße 15, see there) and an archway (at Bachstraße 10, see there) Site fortificationmore pictures
Archway of the fortifications Bachstrasse, at No. 10
location
first half of the 14th century pointed archway of the fortification Archway of the fortificationsmore pictures
Wayside cross Bachstrasse, corner of Moselstrasse
Lage
1743 Wayside cross, marked 1743 Wayside cross
Laacher Hof Moselstrasse 8
location
18th century Hipped roof building, 18th century. The Laacher Hof was Kurkölner Vogtei and tithe court of the Alken office . Laacher Hof
Inn Moselstrasse 15
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19th century Quarry stone building, 19th century Inn
Corner tower of the fortifications Moselstrasse, at No. 15
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first half of the 14th century southwest corner tower of the fortifications; Round tower Corner tower of the fortificationsmore pictures
Residential building Oberstrasse 7
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1764 Half-timbered house, partly massive, marked 1764 Residential buildingmore pictures
Residential building Oberstrasse 9
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17th or 18th century Half-timbered house, partly solid, plastered, 17th or 18th century Residential building
Old village school Oberstrasse 10
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19th century Half-timbered house, partly solid, plastered, 19th century Old village school
Residential building Oberstrasse 15
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18th century Half-timbered house, partly massive, 18th century Residential buildingmore pictures
Residential building Oberstrasse 16
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16th or 17th century Half-timbered house, partly massive, 16th (?) Or 17th century Residential building
Maltese House Oberstrasse 25
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15th or 16th century Half-timbered house, partly massive, 15th or 16th century Maltese Housemore pictures
Fallerport Oberstrasse, at No. 39
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first half of the 14th century Gate tower of the fortification; angular shell tower with inner half-timbered wall Fallerportmore pictures
Catholic Parish Church of St. Michael Oberstrasse 55
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1846-48 neo-Gothic hall church, slate stone, 1846–48 Catholic Parish Church of St. Michaelmore pictures
chapel Oberstraße, corner of Auenstraße
Lage
16th Century Chapel of Our Lady, probably from the 16th century
Cemetery cross Schulstrasse, in the cemetery
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1827 Cemetery cross, marked 1827
Old Michaelskirche Von-Wiltberg-Strasse
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13th Century West tower from the 13th century, hall building, Romanesque core, sacristy marked 1547; outside: Vesper picture, 1686; Christ at Rest, 1595;
four tombstones, 16th to 18th centuries; eleven grave crosses, 17th to 19th centuries; 35 grave crosses in the cemetery; Overall system
Old Michaelskirchemore pictures
Press house Von-Wiltberg-Strasse
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19th century Half-timbered house, partly massive, hipped roof, 19th century Press house
Residential building Von-Wiltberg-Straße 10
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18th century Half-timbered house, partly massive, 18th century Residential building
Castle house of the Lords of Wildberg Von-Wiltberg-Straße 18–28
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1676 Plastered building with baroque portal, marked 1676, two corner towers, probably before the 17th century, half-timbered heightening of one tower in the 19th century, cellar entrance marked 1696;
No. 18 three-storey quarry stone building with a stair tower, marked 1616; No. 24 new building; Overall system
Castle house of the Lords of Wildberg
Way of the Cross and Chapel northeast of the place; In the Bleidenberg
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1662 Way of the Cross with seven footfalls, wayside shrine, marked 1662; Chapel, 19th century Way of the Cross and Chapel
sculpture north of the place; Alkener Lay 18th century Nepomuk sculpture, 18th century, was set up on the Alkener Ley, which was formerly known as the "Loreley of the Moselle"

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Josef Schnee: Witnesses to ancient history in Alken; in: Heimat-Jahrbuch Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz, 1990, p. 54.

Web links

Commons : Cultural Monuments in Alken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files