Marienkapelle (Monheim am Rhein)
The Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother , mostly simply called Marienkapelle , is a late Gothic pilgrimage chapel in Monheim am Rhein ( Mettmann district ) in North Rhine-Westphalia . Today it belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of Monheim.
history
In 1418 the construction of a wooden chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows directly on the Monheimer Rhine dike can be proven. At this point was the landing stage of a Rhine ferry (first mentioned in 1374). In this way, believers could also reach the chapel with the miraculous image from the left bank of the Rhine and from Cologne . In 1514, today's late Gothic chapel was consecrated, and in 1553 Hermann von Weinsberg reported that at the time of the plague many people from Cologne came to it and asked for help there.
Architecture and equipment
The chapel is a single-nave, cross-vaulted brick building with a three-sided choir closure , buttresses with two steps and a six-sided slate roof turret . It has a small late Gothic Vespers from the beginning of the 16th century in a carved altarpiece from around 1700.
Concert series
Under the patronage of Ulla Hahn and Klaus von Dohnanyi , the Marienkapelle eV organizes a concert in the Marienkapelle on the first Sunday of each month at 4 p.m. Oliver Drechsel is the artistic director .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia , first volume: Rhineland, Darmstadt 1967.
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 55.8 " N , 6 ° 53 ′ 3" E