Marienkapelle (Ostbevern)
| Lady Chapel | |
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 The Lady Chapel about 2 years before the demolition |
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| Data | |
| place |
Ostbevern , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Construction year | 1910 |
| height | approx. 3 m |
| Floor space | 4 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 2 '45.8 " N , 7 ° 50' 29.2" E |
| particularities | |
| not received | |
The Marienkapelle was a neo-Gothic brick chapel in the village farmers of Ostbevern and served as a blessing station during the local hail procession . It existed from 1910 to 1994.
description
The chapel was about ten feet high and made of dark red brick . The base (approx. Four square meters) should have been almost square. The entrance facing the street showed a pointed arch reaching into the gable . When entering, an iron gate had to be passed, as a rule it was not locked. The chapel was flanked by two ash trees. On the side walls, light could enter through two windows with round arches. The building had a simple gable roof , the ridge was decorated with a forged finial , and the floor was covered with dark red tiles.
On the inside of the back wall a pike-gray altar rose on two wooden round pillars, with the inscription " Ave Maria " in between. On the altar was a crowned statue of Our Lady with a scepter in her left hand and the crowned baby Jesus on her right arm . In its left hand it held an imperial orb , its right hand raised it in a greeting of peace .
history
In the vicinity of the brick chapel two paths branched out from time immemorial. The Nachtigallenweg led as a public route from Brock to Ostbevern, the other was a private route of the Sendker farm, which was cordoned off with a barrier and opened to the general public as a driveway in dry weather. There was a crucifix there , a typical cross of the rural area with a not very plastic body , the loincloth, belted with ropes, had few folds. It bore the inscription on the longitudinal beam: "Crucified Lord Jesus, have mercy on us!"
Between 1906 and 1908 a road was built from the Kirchdorf Ostbevern to the Brock-Ostbevern train station . As a result, the private road became a public road, today's Bahnhofstrasse, which leads from Ostbevern to Brock ( L 830 ). The farmer Bernhard August Sendker decided to upgrade the blessing station with the construction of a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The cross was set up again at the so-called Loburger Pättken near the Böckenholt estate (now Heuer).
Since then, the Lady Chapel has served as a second blessing station for the hail procession on the third Sunday after Pentecost. The preparations for the decoration of the chapel for the procession took the whole neighborhood for several days. In addition to the usual decorations made of wreaths , flower litter pictures and flowers, especially peonies , shower candles were set up, which were blessed during the procession . The iron gate was wide open and the floor was covered with carpets from the apartment buildings.
During the Second World War , the Madonna was destroyed by members of the Reich Labor Service , it broke into three parts and was restored by the residents themselves.
In the 1970s, the parish gave up the chapel as a blessing station; the hail procession now passed the chapel, taking the same route. Fir trees were planted on either side of the chapel, gradually obscuring the small building so that it was easy to miss.
When the L830 was widened and straightened in 1994, the chapel had to be demolished. In contrast to the Pietà Chapel, the offer of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe to rebuild the chapel a few meters apart did not attract any interest.
Second blessing station of the hail procession
The hail procession in Ostbevern started at the parish church of St. Ambrosius from the 19th century until the 1970s at the latest , and then stopped at Brinkjans Krüüs as the first blessing station. From there they moved to the Lady Chapel, the second blessing station and Anna Chapel on the Lohkirchhof as the third station. Then it went back on the Lienener Damm. The fourth blessing was given at the statue of Saint Donatus . From there they moved back to the parish church.
photos
The still undestroyed Madonna in the 40s.
Typical festive decorations at the blessing stations of the hail procession in the 50s.
For the hail procession in the 1970s
For the hail procession in the 80s
The Lady Chapel in deep sleep
The Lady Chapel shortly before its demolition.
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Web links
literature
- Vicar Gr. Vorspohl in connection with the parish of St. Ambrosius Ostbevern (ed.): Wayside crosses and wayside shrines in the parish of St. Ambrosius Ostbevern. Krimphoff, Füchtorf 1978, ISBN 3-921787-03-9 , number 28 (authors: Josef Gr. Vorspohl, Reinhard Drees, Norbert Reher).