Marienkapelle (Adenau)
The Catholic Marienkapelle in Adenau , a town in the Ahrweiler district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), was built between 1893 and 1895. It is located at Hauptstrasse 20.
history
The chapel , which is now a listed building , was built according to the plans of the Düsseldorf architect Caspar Clemens Pickel . It is one of the few completely preserved examples of neo-Gothic church architecture. Pickel created his only completed central building here and he succeeded in creating a total work of art , as he was able to determine the planning and implementation of the building as well as the design of the entire equipment . The architect had designed the portals, pews and the pulpit of the parish church of St. Johannes in Adenau between 1890 and 1893 and was commissioned to build the Marienkapelle because of his good contacts with the parish.
The previous building, the chapel dedicated to the painful mother Mary, consecrated in 1753, protruded into the main street, which was expanded from 1860 to 1862, and had become too small as a pilgrimage site for Mary . After the purchase of a neighboring property and the approval of the building plans, the foundation stone was laid on August 1, 1893 . After various delays which was on April 5, 1895 Benedizierung the bells from the bell foundry Andreas Hamm in Frankenthal , which were cast from drawings by pimples, undertaken. The chapel was consecrated on May 20, 1895 and was given the task of a branch church .
Building description
Outside
The free-standing chapel, at its center 14.40 meters wide and 21.10 meters long, forms a star-vaulted isosceles hexagon , which is bordered by trapezoidal radial chapels. On the portal side there is a small vestibule with an organ stage above , which is flanked by two towers. The roof turret sits in the center and , with its height of 31 m, draws the eye from afar. The three-part tracery windows are separated from the tower flanks by towering buttresses . The individual parts of space are pyramidal roofs and the central hexagon of the chapel center is powered by a gabled roof completed. The finial above the gable , the tracery windows, capitals and the keystones were made by the Düsseldorf master stonemason Theodor Haake.
Inside
The bright and even lighting of the chapel is achieved through the tracery windows above the basement, made possible by the stilts of the vaulted caps and the slender services . The original leaded glass windows , made by the Royal Saxon Court glass painting workshop Hertel & Lersch in Düsseldorf, were destroyed by aerial bombs on New Year's Eve 1945. The choir window depicting the Coronation of Mary was made in 1951 by the Maier company in Bad Neuenahr. The floor tiles, also designed by Pickel, were supplied by the Sinziger Mosaikplatten- & Thonwaaren-Fabrik . The altar was made from Bamberg sandstone and the 12 consecration crosses were made according to Pickel’s designs .
The wall painting was only applied in 1899 by Fritz Hoegen. The base zone is covered by painted tapestries, the central area is dominated by the pomegranate pattern and the monogram of Mary in the choir. The vaulted fields have tendrils that end in Marian flowers of rose, iris and white lily. Of the original furnishings, only the communion bench, which was broken off after 1945, is missing . In 1987 an exterior renovation was carried out and only lighting was installed inside.
literature
- Hans-Josef Rollmann: The old chapel to the painful mother Maria in the Pickelsgasse in Adenau . In: Heimatfestschrift Stadt Adenau, 17th year 1986, pp. 46–51.
- Christiane Vieten: The Marienkapelle in Adenau . Published by the Adenau Association for Home Care and the City of Adenau, Adenau 1990.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 55 ′ 33 ″ E