Margarethenklus

The Magareth chapel, then still Wittekind chapel in 1919

The Magareth Chapel 2012

The Margarethenklus (also Margaretenklus ) is a chapel in honor of St. Margaret of Antioch on the Wittekindsberg in Barkhausen , a district of the East Westphalian city ​​of Porta Westfalica . Because of its proximity to Wittekindsburg , it is also known as the Wittekindskapelle .

history

The exact construction of Klus is unknown, their first recorded mention dates back to 1224. Maybe it belonged to a company founded in the 9th century by the hermit Thetwif and from Minden Bishop Milo in 992 renewed Benedictine monastery that already by 1000 by Minden relocated has been.

architecture

Floor plan of the Magareth Chapel

The chapel is a two-bay , rectangular hall building in the Romanesque style . In the yokes, dome-like groin vaults are drawn in between round shield arches . A transverse belt bow was added later. The windows are one-piece and round-arched . There is an entrance on the north side. The Klus is covered by a gable roof.

literature

• Georg Dehio (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, II. Westphalia, Munich 2011, p. 883.
• Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 11: The architectural and art monuments of the Minden district. Münster iW 1902, p. 10.

Web links

Commons : Margarethenklus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Society for the Promotion of Archeology in Ostwestfalen eV with texts by Heinrich Rüthing

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dehio, p. 34.
2. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Cultural Atlas of Westphalia
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ludorff, p. 10.

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 '53 "  N , 8 ° 52' 53.3"  E