Pilgrim Chapel of St. Bartholomew (Sevinghausen)
The pilgrim chapel of St. Bartholomew is a chapel in the Sevinghausen district of Wattenscheid in Bochum .
history
The chapel belonged to a pilgrims' house and "hospital" that was founded around 1364. In 1371, Count Engelbert IV von der Mark exempted the hostel from all taxes and granted it the right of inheritance. Located on Wattenscheider Hellweg, the pilgrims who wandered over the Hellweg and the Jakobsweg to the tomb of St. James (one of the twelve disciples of Jesus ) in Santiago de Compostela in Spain could spend the night here .
The chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1395. In local historiography it is reported that the chapel was donated by the lord of the castle and knight Dietrich von der Leyten from the nearby Leithe Castle (later: Gut Leithe), who gave the area and income from his property. He had sworn to donate a chapel for the St. Jacob pilgrims when his son, seriously wounded in battle in a distant land, would recover.
The hostel and the chapel were destroyed in the Thirty Years War .
In 1661 the chapel was rebuilt by the "gallows pastor" Gerhard Veynhofen. The chapel today consists of a simple barrel vault made of Ruhr sandstone and brick .
Although the chapel was already included in the monuments list of the provincial curator, it was supposed to be demolished in 1912. The responsible church council only agreed to preserve the historical building after widespread resistance from the local population. In his resolution of March 13, 1913, it was finally stated that “in the interests of preserving monuments in the industrial area (...) the old Bartholomäus Chapel in Sevinghausen will be preserved” .
In 1972 (one year before the oil crisis ) the chapel was renovated again and has served as a driver's chapel ever since . With the inclusion of the Hellweg in the network of the European Way of St. James in 2010, it is also gaining importance again as a pilgrimage chapel. It is located near the Helfs Hof local history museum .
The parish of St. Gertrud von Brabant in Wattenscheid still celebrates the patronage festival in the chapel every year on August 24th, Bartholomew's Day .
literature
- Dieter Steinhoff: Unknown Westphalia. Discovery trips on the Westphalian borders . 6th edition, Aschendorff, Münster 1980, pp. 150-151. ISBN 3402065010
- Franz-Werner Bröker: 600 years of the Bartholomäus chapel . In: Der Wattenscheider No. 2/1995 ( pdf )
- Rüdiger Jordan: Of capitals, pulpits and baptismal fonts. An exciting guide to 67 churches and monasteries in the Ruhr Valley. Essen, March 2006, ISBN 3-89861-436-0 , pp. 110-111
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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '23 " N , 7 ° 7' 53" E