Palace Chapel (Düsseldorf)

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The castle chapel after an engraving by Frans Hogenberg

The palace chapel in Düsseldorf was a sacred building in the Düsseldorf residence built by Alessandro Pasqualini under Wilhelm V after the city fire in 1547 in 1549 . After Wilhelm the Rich had hired Gerhard Veltius (1529–1593) as court preacher in 1558, no more Catholic masses were read in the Düsseldorf palace chapel. From 1609 to 1628, the lead coffin with the body of Johann Wilhelm von Jülich-Kleve-Berg was laid out in the castle chapel . In 1768 the castle chapel was partially destroyed by fire. The Düsseldorf Palace Chapel no longer exists today.

Art historical importance

The palace chapel with its altar wall and paneling with blind arcades , Doric and Ionic pilasters , Corinthian half- columns and cranked cornice was considered the work of the Renaissance master builder Alessandro Pasqualini from Bologna :

“After the city fire of 1547 […] by Alessandro Pasqualini. Castle chapel (formerly Evangelical Lutheran) in the 0 wing: hall with a small apse, more prominent on the exterior (due to the wall thickness). Windows stabbed and rounded. Exterior structure richly structured in forms of the Roman High Renaissance: basement with Doric rustic pilasters, upper floor Ionic pilasters. Above the apse top with Konrinthian half-columns and a flat triangular gable "

reception

On the occasion of the wedding with Jakobe von Baden-Baden , Frans Hogenberg created an engraving in 1585 that shows the palace chapel with the bridal couple.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bergischer Geschichtsverein: Bergische Geschichte . Remscheid-Lennep 1958, p. 117
  2. ^ Hermann Hipp: Studies on the "post-Gothic" of the 16th and 17th centuries in Germany, Bohemia, Austria and Switzerland: Appendix . Tübingen, 1979, p. 1457

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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 16 ″  E