Margaret Chapel (Grottenherten)
The Catholic Margaret Chapel is a listed church building on Kapellenweg in Grottenherten , a district of Bedburg in the Rhein-Erft district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
The chapel was first mentioned in 1470 in a catalogus omnium beneficiorum , an overview of all the benefits of the deanery was drawn up.
The essentially Romanesque hall building from 11/12. Century emerged from a court chapel belonging to the lordly court . In the higher, five-sided choir from the 15th century, a retracted net vault , which rests on small consoles, was built. The choir is divided by two pointed arch windows with two-lane tracery and four inclined buttresses . The hall was rebuilt in the 18th century and with a roof turret crowned, it was a pointed arch vault confiscated. With this restoration, the building was re-plastered inside and out and colored in focus . The lead glass window with a representation of the Margaret legend was made according to designs by HL Gottfried. A wrought-iron weather vane sits on the helmet of the roof ridge . She represents St. Margaretha depicts piercing a dragon with the flag of the cross. Her dress is marked with the year 1412. The last renovation work was carried out in 1978, and the last damage from the Second World War was also removed.
Furnishing
Chapel bell
The chapel bell has a diameter of 61 cm, it weighs 122 kg and is tuned to tone e. It bears the inscription: .. I want S. Margaretha. I call the living I illuminate the dots I drive the thunderstorm away Joseph Schieffer Scheppen Caspar Brewer Head. Below on the edge of the hill is an acanthus frieze : Bartholomäus Gunder GOS MICH ANNO 1761
Other equipment
In the second half of the 19th century, the older furnishings were replaced by a neo-Gothic one with a three-part wooden altarpiece , several wooden figures and pews.
literature
- Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X
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Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 47.9 " N , 6 ° 29 ′ 19.6" E