Rosary Church (Bad Neuenahr)
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The Rosary Church is a Catholic parish church in Bad Neuenahr . It belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Marien and Willibrord (Rosary Parish ) and was consecrated in 1904.
location
The Rosary Church is located on Telegrafenstraße in Bad Neuenahr, in the vicinity of the main office of the Volksbank RheinAhrEifel , located on the main street .
history
The Rosary Church was built from 1899 to 1901 according to plans by the master builder August Menken and consecrated in 1904, but not fully completed until 1907.
In 2009 the interior was completely renovated with donations.
architecture
The Rosary Church was built in the neo-Romanesque style . From the outside, the 60 meter high church tower on the east side of the nave characterizes the image of the building. A tympanum built in 1955 by Ernst Matschulla , which shows the coronation of Mary by the Trinity , blends harmoniously into the church.
In the basement of the tower there is a low vestibule that opens to the nave through an arch below the organ gallery. The baptistery has been installed in the vestibule since 2009 . The central nave lies between the vestibule and the crossing . The smooth wall walls are interrupted there by window openings cut out with sharp edges.
The orderly principle of the church system can be seen in the alternation of the arcade supports: the side aisles are alternately separated from the central nave by corner pillars and round pillars on the capitals in the north and south ( Rhenish pillar change ). A star vault adorns the hanging dome of the square crossing, which is bordered by pilasters with capitals.
Further transepts protrude beyond the aisle walls. Buttresses secure the transepts at the corners, bearing the weight of the vault and roof. In the gable , the houses are adorned with a stepped round arch frieze , while the front walls of the transept were each decorated with an abstraction of a flower shape, a rose window made of composite images of the Lenten .
The ambulatory is separated from the high choir by round pillars with pronounced capitals . The five choir chapels have unframed and linked arched windows. The choir flank towers rise on a square floor plan.
Menken designed the church with symbolic structures, i.e. columns, apses , arches, towers and vaults, alluding to the Heavenly Jerusalem .
Furnishing
In the baptistery in the porch under the organ since 1912 one of sandstone crafted font with from brass hammered copper basin and cover the four Evangelist symbols shows. In 1912 the church was also enriched with two travertine reliefs with scenes from the Sermon on the Mount and the representation of the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple according to Luke ( Lk 2,41-52 EU ), as well as the pulpit made of sandstone and with marble columns and wooden sound cover with saints -Ghost dove and wrought iron superstructure.
In 1928 the high altar made of marble , which until then stood in the parish church of St. Georg in Cologne , was installed in the Rosary Church. More than four and a half decades later, in 1974, the celebration altar was made from Italian marble. In 2010 a new ambo was inaugurated.
In 1910 a family donated the altar of the Sorrowful Mother of God, which today stands on the west wall of the right transept.
The first chapel in the chapel wreath is the Lady Chapel, in which a wooden figure was placed after the interior renovation in 2009, a Madonna from the 17th century. The figure of the Mother of God with child comes from the former Joseph Chapel in Bad Neuenahr. That is what the crucifixion group stands for . The second chapel contains the Johannes altar from 1912. The third chapel now houses the former high altar. It serves as a framework for the “ Entombment of Christ ” during Holy Week . The fourth chapel is used as a confessional chapel . The fifth chapel was set up in 2009 as a peace chapel, in which the small wooden crosses with the names of the fallen parishioners stand. Originally they were placed in the entrance hall.
The church was painted by Carl Kögl , who from 1910 to 1911 created a cycle about the rosary above the high altar. The story is depicted according to the Gospel of Luke : beginning on the left high wall surface with the Annunciation scene, the second picture shows the Visitation of Mary , the encounter between Mary and her relative Elizabeth . The third picture shows the birth of Christ, the penultimate Mary Candlemas .
The two high wall fields in the left arm of the transept decorate Kögl's frescoes . The Assumption of the Virgin Mary can be seen on the north wall and the Rosary Queen to the right . In a similar way the artist designed the two monumental frescoes in the right transept arm, which show the naval battle of Lepanto and the coronation of Mary .
An organ built by Klais in 1940 stands on the gallery above the main portal. It has 36 sounding registers with three manuals , Rückpositiv , main and swell and pedal .
The peal of the parish church, consisting of four bells , was cast from steel by the Bochum Association in 1951 . The following table lists the bells according to their size:
| Bell jar | Weight (in tons) |
volume |
|---|---|---|
| Christ the King bell | 5.9 | g sharp |
| Our Lady Bell | 3.8 | H |
| Willibrordus Bell | 1.7 | cis |
| Michael's Bell | 1.1 | e |
literature
- Hans-Berthold Busse: The Rosary Church Bad Neuenahr . Plachner, Bad Neuenahr 1990.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Main page of the Catholic parish of St. Marien and Willibrord. rosenkranz-badneuenahr.de, accessed on May 1, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Rosary Church. eifel.de, accessed on May 1, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Rosenkranzkirche. rosenkranz-badneuenahr.de, accessed on May 1, 2014 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 34.7 " N , 7 ° 8 ′ 11.7" E