Schleiden Castle Church

Schleiden Castle Hill

Central nave, choir and apse

The Schleiden Castle Church ( Catholic parish church "St. Philip and James ") is a three-aisled church from the early 16th century in the town of Schleiden , which today is one of the most important late Gothic hall churches in the northern Eifel .

history

In the immediate vicinity of Schleiden Castle , a chapel was built in the early 13th century by the noble lords of the castle and consecrated in 1230. In 1340 the Lords of Schleiden, the Counts of Luxembourg , had their family chapel replaced by a Gothic church; the choir from this period has been preserved to this day.

In the early 16th century, the noble family von Manderscheid commissioned the Kyllburg church builder Johann Vianden to build a three-aisled church on the same site. In the period from 1516 to 1525, the late Gothic hall construction was built in its current form , with the architectural use of net and star vaults . The family crypt of the builders "those of Manderscheid" is in front of the choir and was closed with a stone slab.

Furnishing

On the front sides of the two side aisles there are lead glass windows from around 1533 with the Christian motifs "Adoration of the Magi" and "Lamentation of Christ" as well as portraits by the window donors Count Dietrich IV. Von Manderscheid-Schleiden, his wife Margaretha von Sombreff and the Abbot of Prüm and Stablo-Malmedy , Wilhelm von Manderscheid-Kail , at the prayer podium.

The church furnishings also include a statue of the "Madonna on the Crescent Moon" from the early 16th century, a marble sarcophagus of Sibylla von Hohenzollern , who died in 1621 as the first wife of the lord of the castle, Count Ernst von der Marck . Two panel paintings by Master von Orsoy from around 1500, " Ecce Homo " and "Last Supper" and an epitaph by Dietrich IV from 1590 are also among the historical sights of the church furnishings.

Koenig organ

The Schleiden Castle Church has an organ with a largely original work by the organ builder Christian Ludwig König from 1770. The housing of the musical instrument was designed in the Rococo style. The instrument has 30 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

I backwork C – c ³
1.	Hollfeif	8th'
2.	Flaut traver (D)	8th'
3.	Praestant	4 ′
4th	Dull dous	4 ′
5.	Super octave	2 ′
6th	Quint	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
7th	Carillon III (D)
8th.	Mixture III
9.	Hautbois (D)	8th'
10.	Vox humana 8 ′
	Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – d ³
11.	Bourdon	16 ′
12.	Praestant	8th'
13.	Hollpfeif	8th'
14th	Gemshorn	8th'
15th	Octav	4 ′
16.	Slack	4 ′
17th	Quint	3 ′
18th	Super octave	2 ′
19th	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
20th	Mixture V
21st	Cornet IV (D)
22nd	Trumpet (B + D)	8th'
23.	Clarin (B)	4 ′

Pedal C – f ¹
24.	Violon	16 ′
25th	Sub bass	16 ′
26th	Octav	8th'
27.	Covered bass	8th'
28.	Choral bass	4 ′
29	Bombbeard	16 ′
30th	Trumpet	8th'

Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P

Church as a bat quarter and FFH area

The attic of the church was designated as an FFH area of the castle church in Schleiden with a size of 0.08 ha . In the attic of the church there is a nursery room for the great mouse- eared bat (Myotis myotis).