Michaelskapelle (Koblenz)

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The Michaelskapelle in the old town of Koblenz
Ceiling painting "Fall of the Damned"

The Michaelskapelle is a former cemetery chapel in the old town of Koblenz . The chapel is located right next to the Church of Our Lady and bears the patronage of the Archangel Michael .

The Michael Chapel has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .

history

The Michaelskapelle was first mentioned in 1321 and was built in a cemetery that was south of the choir of the Liebfrauenkirche. The church, cemetery and chapel were located on a hill within the late Roman city ​​fortifications . The chapel was built on the stump of one of the Roman round towers. The Gothic apse was added around 1500 . The location of the chapel right on the edge of the hill meant that the building threatened to collapse in 1592. That is why the gable wall there was rebuilt in 1601 . The chapel hall was so dilapidated in 1660 that it had to be rebuilt.

construction

The chapel is a two-story plastered building. The low-lying basement housed the ossuary and is now used as a modern storage room. On the upper floor, which can be reached via a staircase in the northwest corner, there is a hall with a retracted Gothic 5/8 apse and a ribbed vault . The end of the choir is provided with pointed arch windows. In the lintel of the entrance door is the year 1660 and above it in a round niche the figure of the Archangel Michael, who defeated the devil . Under the figure is the coat of arms of the pastor Matthias Dormanns with the year 1752. The Roman tower stump is visible in the boiler room.

The baroque hall with a flat ceiling has two axes and is provided with arched windows. On the ceiling is a large oval painting from the second half of the 18th century depicting the Archangel Michael and the fall of the damned . In the Gothic choir, the winged angel heads have been preserved from the new baroque furnishings. In the apse there is a crucifix made of terracotta (19th century) that was hanging above on the adjacent walls.

Monument protection

The Michaelskapelle is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in the old town monument zone .

The Michael Chapel has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .

See also

literature

  • Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
    • Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
    • Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
  • Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The profane monuments and the suburbs , Munich Berlin 1954, (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Rheinland-Pfalz, first volume).
  • Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate Volume 3.2. City of Koblenz. City center , edited by Herbert Dellwing and Reinhard Kallenbach , Speyer 2004, p. 88. ISBN 3-88462-198-X

Web links

Commons : Michaelskapelle (Koblenz)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.3 MB), Koblenz 2011

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 38 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 45.5"  E