St. Helena Chapel (Vilvenich)

The St. Helena Chapel 2009

The St. Helena Chapel was a Romanesque chapel in Pier - Vilvenich . It was demolished in 2010 because of the Inden open-cast lignite mine .

history

The chapel consecrated to St. Helena was first mentioned in a document in 1318. It was probably built in the 12th century as a chapel of a court belonging to the Gerresheim monastery . The monastery possessions in the Pier area are documented until the 9th century. The chapel belonged to the wall compound of the Vilvenich Zehnthof.

The chapel was a quarry stone hall with a rectangular choir and roof turret. At the beginning of the 18th century major changes were made, which led to the shape of the chapel, which was visible until it was demolished. The demolition took place on June 24, 2010 as a preparatory measure for the advancing open-cast lignite mine. The portal, the holy water font and the altar plate were salvaged for reuse. In addition, the stone blocks of the Romanesque windows and consoles of the Gothic vault were separated during the demolition. The Matronenstein von Vilvenich was broken out of one of its walls in 1995.

literature

• Georg Dehio (greeter), Claudia Euskirchen u. a. (Ed.): North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 1: Rhineland ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X (reprint of the Darmstadt edition 1967).
• Rudolf Schmidt: Vilvenich. St. Helena in ruins . In: Colonia Romanica , Vol. 24 (2009), ISSN  0930-8555 .

Web links

• Video of the demolition on wdr.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dehio, p. 538. Dürener Nachrichten Online from April 2, 2008
2. ↑ Schmidt, p. 332, Dehio, p. 538.
3. ↑ Sophie Lange, Matronenstein of the Vilvenich / Düren chapel

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 6 ° 24 ′ 48.7 ″  E