St. Bernhard Chapel (Mönchengladbach)
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The St. Bernard Chapel is a monument registered chapel in the district Merreter of Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ). It was built at the end of the 19th century and was entered on June 2, 1987 under no. M 023 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The chapel is at a fork in the road in the Merreter settlement on the street of the same name and is number 36.
architecture
The small, almost east- facing brick chapel with a three-sided end of the choir stands at the junction of a farm road . It has a brick covering with slate ridges (Strackorte). The choir polygon is covered with old German slate roofing, on the gable there are slate-clad windboards . The slate-covered roof turret is crowned by a cross and holds a small bell .
The entrance is a slightly arched, renewed wooden door in the west gable with a niche above to accommodate a sculpture of St. Bernhard . The gable is decorated with Dutch triangles , the end of the gable is formed by bricks that are walled up at an angle . There is an arched window on each of the eaves , the window frames have been renewed without bars. A plastered plinth surrounds the building. Inside, a wooden shallow barrel has been preserved as a ceiling . A wooden crucifix with a painted body from around 1700 adorns the altar .
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
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- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
- Chapels Mönchengladbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 30.7 ″ N , 6 ° 20 ′ 8.6 ″ E