Martin's Chapel (Selhof)

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Martin's Chapel (2010)

The Martinskapelle in Selhof , a district of the city of Bad Honnef in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district , was built in its current form around 1800. It is located at the plaza-like confluence of Kapellenstrasse and Selhofer Strasse (address: Kapellenstrasse 10) and is a landmark of Selhof. The chapel stands as a monument under monument protection .

history

A first oratory in Selhof was built by noble landlords as a separate church - probably after the town was founded in the 11th century . Because of a Gothic forked cross from the second half of the 14th century with relics from the Holy Land of the 15th century, which was presumably made in a Cologne workshop , the church was named "Kreuzhaus". One dedicated to St. The chapel consecrated to Martin von Tours can be traced back to Selhof since 1450/51, when a fair connected to a fair on St. Martin's Day is mentioned for the first time . She fell victim to the Truchsessischen (1583–88) or the Thirty Years War (1618–1648). According to a description by Pastor Trips in Honnef, around 1680 there was only the station of an annual procession on May 3rd with the Gothic forked cross on the site of the former Martin's chapel. It was rebuilt under the same patronage from 1710, probably as a half-timbered building . In 1735 the chapel was expanded to include a donated Selhofer miners from the Rheinbreitbach copper mine “St. Josephsberg ”financed a stone extension with a roof turret . From 1762 to 1773 it was expanded again, with a brick choir replacing the wooden part, and it was re-consecrated on St. Martin's Day in 1774. The Trappists from the neighboring Speckerhof of the Düsselthal Abbey celebrated a holy mass in the chapel every week.

The Martinskapelle was destroyed by the Selhofer village fire on May 8, 1784. The subsequent reconstruction was only carried out on a resolution of the community in 1799 until 1801. On August 24, 1801, a resident donated 26 Reichstaler so that every year a high mass could be held in the chapel on Martin's Day . Repairs to the structure are known from the years 1837 and 1849. In 1895 a local chapel building association was founded . In 1901 the roof turret was removed and a bell tower was built in front of the chapel. In 1932/33, in the course of the spin-off of Selhof as a separate parish from the parish of St. Johann Baptist Honnef, a new church was built as the parish church of St. Martin, into which the Gothic fork cross, which was last housed in a niche in the bell tower, was transferred. In 1970 the chapel was completely restored for the last time, removing the bell tower and replacing the church with a roof turret. The chapel was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bad Honnef on December 19, 1991.

architecture

The Martinskapelle is a simple, slate-covered plastered building with a three-sided choir closure , which has a six-sided closed roof turret with a large cross near the gable. The portal on the gable side is arched and shows in the keystone the year 1735 as well as the guild mark of the miners as the founder of the chapel extension at the time; Above is the representation of St. Martin with a baroque shell. Adjacent to the entrance are two stone windows with inscriptions that contain the family names of other donors of the chapel; Two further arched windows on the long side are also set in a house. The interior of the chapel is barrel vaulted ; on the right side wall there is a baroque statue of St. Barbara as the patron saint of miners.

At the back of the chapel, since its restoration in autumn 1984, at the former location of the Gothic forked cross , which is now in the Selhofer parish church, there is a cross , which, due to its original location, is on the corner of the main street and a lane leading from it over the Ohbach to the Rheinbreitbacher Weg (a present part of Kirchstrasse) so-called "Jaaßkrüz" or "Jassekreuz". It is cut from a flat stone tablet of gray slate and bears a bas-relief of the crucified Christ. The cross is a listed building as its own monument.

  • Keystone of the portal

  • Window with the names of the donors

  • "Jaaßkrüz" on the back

literature

  • J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 252-254 . (Reprint 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef)

Web links

Commons : Martinskapelle  - Collection of pictures
  • Peter Gabriel Busch: The Martinskapelle in Selhof . In: Horizont: Journal for the Catholic Church Community Association Bad Honnef , issue 21 / September 2010 , p. 7.
  • Martinskapelle , town information center Bad Honnef

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 152
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Martinskapelle , City Information Bad Honnef
  3. ↑ a b c d e History of the Chapel ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Pfarrverband Bad Honnef
  4. ↑ a b c d Peter Gabriel Busch: The Martinskapelle in Selhof . In: Horizont: Journal for the Bad Honnef Catholic Church Community Association
  5. ^ A b c Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition. Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 .
  6. ↑ a b c d Adolf Nekum : St. Martinskapelle ( information board at the chapel , Wikimedia Commons )
  7. ^ A b Adolf Nekum: A thousand years of Selhof, 100 years of the citizens' association. Chronicle of a village and its civic association. Bad Honnef-Selhof Citizens' Association 1988, p. 55.
  8. ↑ William Roelver: roadside crosses in Selhof . In: Horizont: Church newspaper for the parish association Honnef-Tal , issue No. 12 / February 2007 , pp. 12–15 (here: 14/15).
  9. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Honnef , number A 275

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 20.3 "  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 9.6"  E