Marienkapelle (Rhöndorf)

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Rhöndorfer Marienkapelle (2006)

The Catholic Marienkapelle in Rhöndorf , a district of the town of Bad Honnef in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district , is a baroque quarry stone building from 1714. It is located in the middle of Rhöndorfer Straße (house number 37a). The chapel stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

Choir of the Marienkapelle Rhöndorf with the Drachenfels castle ruins

The chapel has a previous building, the time of which is presumed to have been built before this year, given a bell dated to 1624. This sanctuary was destroyed in 1689 by the troops of the French King Louis XIV . The new Rhöndorfer Chapel was built elsewhere from 1714, the property of which was donated by Count Wilhelm Franz Johann Bertram von Nesselrode - then provost in Oberpleis . Some of the citizens of Rhöndorf participated in the construction of the building, partly financially. The solemn inauguration of the chapel, which was named Mariae Visitation , took place on June 8, 1716. In 1778 a baroque cross was built on the east side . With the construction of the new parish church of St. Mary's Visitation from 1903 to 1905, the chapel lost its importance. In June 1930, a memorial for those who died in the First World War was created on the south side of the chapel . In 1935 the building was extensively renovated. Occasional services have been held there again since 1982.

On the outside of the chapel there was the grave slab of Heinrich von Drachenfels († 1530), the last burgrave of Drachenfels , from 1835 until it was moved to the tower side of the parish church in 1903. Since the expansion of Rhöndorfer Strasse in 1907, the chapel has stood in the middle of the roadway and thus forms a traffic island .

The chapel was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bad Honnef on April 16, 1992.

architecture

Interior of the chapel

The chapel is a simple, three-sided, plastered quarry stone building on which a roof turret crowned by a wrought-iron cross - with a depiction of a fountain symbolizing the family name Pütz the creator - is placed. Outside there is also a donor coat of arms of the Counts of Nesselrode as well as a tower clock from 1761. The chapel of the chapel has a rib vault, the nave is covered by a flat barrel. The baroque altar, which dates from the time it was made, houses the portrait of Mary . A marriage coat of arms is dedicated to the Bergisch Elector Johann Wilhelm and his second wife .

In front of the chapel of the chapel, a memorial stone commemorates the fallen of the First and, since the spring of 1954, a bronze plaque commemorating the 35 fallen from Rhöndorf in World War II .

literature

Web links

Commons : Lady Chapel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 162
  2. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 114 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  3. ↑ a b Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Rhöndorf (ed.); August Haag: Pictures from the past of Honnef and Rhöndorf .
  4. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Time leaps: Bad Honnef . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-560-6 , p. 68 .
  5. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition. Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 47 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 46.2 ″  E