Rochus Chapel (Hohenecken)
 Rochus Chapel |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| place | Kaiserslautern, Germany |
| Patronage | Rochus of Montpellier |
| Building history | |
| construction time | 1747-1748 |
| Building description | |
| Architectural style | Late baroque |
| Furnishing style | Late rococo |
| Construction type | plastered hall with three-sided choir |
| 49 ° 24 '45.9 " N , 7 ° 41' 59.4" E | |
The Rochuskapelle is a Roman Catholic church in the Hohenecken district of the city of Kaiserslautern . It has been a listed building as an individual monument since 1983 and is dedicated to St. Consecrated Rochus de Montpellier .
history
Catholic services were held in the palace chapel until 1665, then in the "Lower Church". This was built in 1565 for the Reformed Christians. In 1688 this was probably destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession . In 1747/48 the Rochus Chapel was built in the same place. In 1877 it became a parish church with the establishment of the parish of St. Rochus. In the meantime, Hohenecken had grown rapidly due to industrialization and the chapel quickly became too small. In 1896/97, for example, today's parish church of St. Rochus was built in the neo-Gothic style according to the plans of the architect Ludwig Becker . As a result, the chapel experienced a very eventful history: It was used by the Cecilia Society, later it was empty for many years. Between 1970 and 1985 measures to maintain the building fabric were repeatedly taken. Restoration work was also carried out in the early 1990s.
architecture
The plastered hall building with a three-sided choir faces east. The sandstone structure is typical of the rural late baroque style . The corners are highlighted by pilasters and pilaster strips . On the western side of the gable sits a round-arched portal with a double-leaf door leaf, an eye of God with flanking angels can be seen in the keystone , above an oculus , a round-arched window and finally an octagonal gable rider with a pointed helmet . There are two arched windows on each of the longitudinal axes, smaller on the north side than on the south side. There is a small oculus at the front of the choir.
Furnishing
The interior of the church is sparsely furnished. On the west side of the portal, a gallery with a curved balustrade was built on round wooden pillars. A flat ceiling over a cove covers the room. The altar with tabernacle in the late Rococo style was built around 1770. The font stands on a sandstone base and was created in the 18th century.
environment
A sandstone cross with a metal body stands in the entrance of the church garden with its original fence. The body is more recent, the cross dates from the middle of the 18th century. There are also several older tombstones from the cemetery that was formerly located here in the church garden.
literature
- Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ), Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 379
- Mara Oexner (arrangement): City of Kaiserslautern . (= Volume 14, Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate ), State Office for Monument Preservation, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1996, pp. 158-160
Web links
- Rochus Chapel , churches in and around Kaiserslautern
Individual evidence
- ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments. Independent city of Kaiserslautern , Directorate General for Cultural Heritage, May 4, 2016, p. 18 (PDF)