Negro churches

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Negro churches , some sources also Negere , Negroes and Negerkercken , is a deserted village . The place was in the valley of the negroes , about 4.5 km south of Siedlinghausen , a district of Winterberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) southwest of Siedlinghausen Castle . The location is marked with a wooden cross and a memorial stone. The northern part of the hamlet is in the Neger- und Birautal nature reserve .

The parish of Negerkirchen included the submerged villages of Renninghausen, Remlinghausen, Rollinghausen and Welfferinghausen. The church in Negere is documented from the year 1300 . The former parish fell desolate in the 15th century. The place belonged to the dean's office Wormbach . A church ruin Negerkirch is recorded on a map from 1577 . It was south-east and north-west of the highway, a little above the sheep bridge . The former floor plan of the church can no longer be recognized from the condition of the remaining ruins. The chief forester Padberg from Astenberg had an archaeological excavation carried out in 1852 ; walls up to three meters high must have stood at this time.

Johann Suibert Seibertz describes the findings at that time in the sheets for the closer customer of Westphalia 1866, pages 97 to 104: The Negro Church and the associated brands. The church in the nave was 40 feet long and 24 feet wide. The choir, rounded to the east, is 24 feet long, making a total of 24 feet. The tower on the west side of the church is 12 feet in length and width. The nave had three misshapen, thick, tapered pillars 6 feet wide, studded inwardly with strips, to support the vault. In the 5 1/2 foot wide spaces between the pillars, there were very small windows 8 feet from the ground. The pillars on which the vaults rested were nine feet high up to the capitals. The bricked altar foot stood with its back only 3 feet from the eastern choir. The main door was on the north side. Apparently there was also an entrance in the tower. The wall thickness of the choir was two and a half feet, that of the nave incomparably stronger. The sandstone door frames were extremely hard. One of these stones is walled up in the new Negro church in Brunskappel to incorporate the year.

A floor plan made according to this description results in an unusual shape. The narrow vaulted fields between the very wide belt arches could only have been barrel vaults , into which the narrow shield arches of the longitudinal walls cut with shield caps. In 1984 new excavations took place.

literature

  • Paul Michels, Nikolaus Rodenkirchen, Franz Herberhold: Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Brilon district , Volume 45 (Ed .: Wilhelm Rave, State Conservator), Aschendorfsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster, 1952
  • Rudolf Bergmann: The desolation of the high and east Sauerland. Published by Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015, ISBN 978-3-8053-4934-5

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Paul Michels, Nikolaus Rodenkirchen, Franz Herberhold, architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, district Brilon , volume 45, 1952, Aschendorfsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Münster, ed .: Wilhelm Rave. Page 408
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  4. ^ Friedrich Albert Groeteken : Pastor Johann Heinrich Montanus. Mannheim 1949, p. 22.
  5. ^ Rudolf Bergmann: The desertions of the high and east Sauerland. Ed. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2015. ISBN 978-3-8053-4934-5 , pp. 432-439.

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 58 ″  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  E