Buchholz Provost Office
The Buchholz Propstei was founded at the beginning of the 12th century as a branch of the Benedictine Abbey of Gladbach . It is located in the municipality of Burgbrohl in the Ahrweiler district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). The former monastery buildings are now used as a farm. The only partially preserved church of St. Servatius is one of the earliest vaulted basilicas in the Rhineland and is a protected cultural monument .
history
1135 was the provost Buchholz first documentary mentioned. It was founded as a branch of the Benedictine Abbey of Gladbach, today Mönchengladbach , and was primarily intended to supply it with wine that the monastery needed as mass wine . On the slopes of the Gleestal valley , Gladbach Abbey owned vineyards on which wine was grown until the 18th century. In the course of history there were frequent disputes with the bailiffs of the Gladbach mother abbey, who sat at Brohl Castle and squeezed out the provost's office. In order to ensure the survival of the remote provost house, the mother monastery gave her fishing rights, forests and mills according to a document from 1262 . It only kept the vineyards in its possession.
During the Thirty Years War , the provost's office was looted by Lorraine troops in 1644 and the impoverished monastery was no longer able to maintain the mighty, oversized church building. In 1683 the western nave was demolished and closed with a baroque facade . In 1802, when the provost's office belonged to the French department of Rhin-et-Moselle during the coalition wars , it was abolished. The buildings were sold and used as a farm by the new owners. The church served as a barn and its main apse was demolished. In 1951 a lightning strike destroyed the roof and a fire caused further damage to the remains of the church. Restoration work was carried out from 1972 to 1990.
architecture
The church was built as a three-aisled basilica with one bay in the central nave and two bays in the side aisles. It had a transept , on the east side of which there was a semicircular apse in the north and south . Around 1200, the church was expanded to the east by a semicircular main apse with blind arches and a dwarf gallery , which was flanked by two high towers. The side aisles were demolished again and the transept arms were shortened in the Romanesque building era.
Inside, the crossing with its groin vault of the original building from around 1135, the eastern nave yoke and the southern apse of the transept are still preserved. In the eastern yoke of the nave, blind triforias with columns , capitals and round arches have been preserved on both sides . A frieze of leafy tendrils runs underneath, originally painted with white, pink and red paint. He is attributed to the workshop of the Laacher Samson master .
See also
literature
- Walter Pippke, Ida Leinberger: The Eifel. Dumont, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7701-3926-7 , pp. 176-178.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '54.7 " N , 7 ° 15' 21.6" E