List of cultural monuments in Alken (Lower Moselle)
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 |
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Thurant Castle Monument Zone | east of the village location |
around 1200 | Felsgratburg, the core around 1200, rising masonry probably after 1248; Overall system | more pictures |
Individual monuments
designation | location | Construction year | description | image |
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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) | more pictures | |
Archway of the fortifications | Bachstrasse, at No. 10 location |
first half of the 14th century | pointed archway of the fortification | more pictures |
Wayside cross | Bachstrasse, corner of Moselstrasse Lage |
1743 | Wayside cross, marked 1743 | |
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 . | |
Inn | Moselstrasse 15 location |
19th century | Quarry stone building, 19th century | |
Corner tower of the fortifications | Moselstrasse, at No. 15 location |
first half of the 14th century | southwest corner tower of the fortifications; Round tower | more pictures |
Residential building | Oberstrasse 7 location |
1764 | Half-timbered house, partly massive, marked 1764 | more pictures |
Residential building | Oberstrasse 9 location |
17th or 18th century | Half-timbered house, partly solid, plastered, 17th or 18th century | |
Old village school | Oberstrasse 10 location |
19th century | Half-timbered house, partly solid, plastered, 19th century | |
Residential building | Oberstrasse 15 location |
18th century | Half-timbered house, partly massive, 18th century | more pictures |
Residential building | Oberstrasse 16 location |
16th or 17th century | Half-timbered house, partly massive, 16th (?) Or 17th century | |
Maltese House | Oberstrasse 25 location |
15th or 16th century | Half-timbered house, partly massive, 15th or 16th century | more pictures |
Fallerport | Oberstrasse, at No. 39 location |
first half of the 14th century | Gate tower of the fortification; angular shell tower with inner half-timbered wall | more pictures |
Catholic Parish Church of St. Michael | Oberstrasse 55 location |
1846-48 | neo-Gothic hall church, slate stone, 1846–48 | more pictures |
chapel | Oberstraße, corner of Auenstraße Lage |
16th Century | Chapel of Our Lady, probably from the 16th century | |
Cemetery cross | Schulstrasse, in the cemetery location |
1827 | Cemetery cross, marked 1827 | |
Old Michaelskirche | Von-Wiltberg-Strasse location |
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 |
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Press house | Von-Wiltberg-Strasse location |
19th century | Half-timbered house, partly massive, hipped roof, 19th century | |
Residential building | Von-Wiltberg-Straße 10 location |
18th century | Half-timbered house, partly massive, 18th century | |
Castle house of the Lords of Wildberg | Von-Wiltberg-Straße 18–28 location |
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 |
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Way of the Cross and Chapel | northeast of the place; In the Bleidenberg location |
1662 | Way of the Cross with seven footfalls, wayside shrine, marked 1662; Chapel, 19th century | |
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
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments: District Mayen-Koblenz (PDF; 5.8 MB). Mainz 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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