Maria-Hilf chapel (Lohrsdorf)
The Maria-Hilf-Chapel is a listed chapel on the Landskrone elevation below Landskron Castle . The hall building , which is essentially Romanesque , was first mentioned in documents in 1212.
location
The chapel is located on a plateau on the west side of the Landskrone and can be seen from afar in the Ahr valley . It belongs to Lohrsdorf , a district and district of the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
description
The chapel is a plastered quarry stone building made of large basalt columns . The west gate from the beginning of the 13th century has a border made of Berkum trachyte with a flat gable lintel. On the east side of the chapel, behind the altar, there is a small cave room cut out of the basalt rock . A hermitage is mentioned around 1366 , the occupant of which may have lived in the grotto.
The Chapel of Heppenheim seen from
Portrait of Mary on the west facade
Interior of the chapel
history
The chapel is said to have been built by a lord of the Landskrone Castle, which was built in 1206, after his three daughters were saved from robber barons. That is why it is also called "Drei Jungfern" and also "Fünf Jungfern" after being mentioned around 1470 as "the five maiden Capell". During a visit to Landskron Castle in 1212, Emperor Otto IV issued the chapel a letter of protection which exempted it from taxes.
The chapel was under the parish of Heimersheim and is now looked after by the association of patrons of the Maria-Hilf pilgrimage chapel on the Landskrone in Heppingen eV . The association undertook a redevelopment in 2010.
literature
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Ahrweiler district. Mainz 2020, p. 20 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dieter Schewe: How Landskron Castle was built 777 years ago In: Heimatjahrbucharchiv des Kreis Ahrweiler, 1984.
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 6.4 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 16.1 ″ E