St. Peter's Chapel (Poll)

The St. Peter Chapel

Drawing of the chapel with floor plan

The St. Petrus Chapel is located in Poll , a district of the Nörvenich municipality in the Düren district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The chapel stands in chains under the patronage of St. Peter . It was entered on March 21, 1985 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Nörvenich under No. 65.

Building

In the nave of today's chapel , before the plaster layer was applied in 1985, a lot of Roman building materials and a. find the fragment of a holy stone and Romanesque components. During the work carried out in 1985, the archaeologists of the Bonner Landesmuseum discovered that the first chapel at the current location was a Romanesque building from the 12th century, a 7 m long building with a rectangular choir. Romanesque components came to light during the insulation of the masonry in the foundation . The original building must have been expanded twice, with a Gothic choir extension and an extension of the nave, which has been restored several times. In 1909 the small church on the south side received a sacristy extension . Today's chapel is largely a single-nave quarry stone building from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century, of about 20 × 5 m in plan.

The supplied gable roof has a roof ridge also supplied . There are no windows on the north side of the nave. During the work in 1985, a small hatch was found here directly under the eaves and opened again. In earlier times it probably served to hold a lantern, which shone far into the country from the slightly elevated chapel and was intended to serve as an orientation aid for hikers in the dark.

In 1985 a completely preserved Gothic tracery window was uncovered under thick layers of plaster on the three-sided choir . The southern longitudinal wall has three rectangular windows in the house border, which are slightly rounded at the top. Such a window can also be found on the south side of the choir square. The remaining apse windows have pointed arches with simple tracery .

After removing a beamed ceiling, a Cologne ceiling was put in again in the nave . The choir square has a cross vault, the apse a three-part vault, the ribs of which end in the masonry without services or consoles.

Furnishing

The small wooden baroque altar was freed from a thick layer of paint during the renovation work, the original version from the 17th century was exposed and restored.

Between two winding wooden columns with carved capitals stood the tabernacle in a shell niche , where a cross now stands . Putti heads are placed above the shell and below the pillars . The most beautiful pieces of equipment in the chapel are the 78 cm high wooden statuettes on the side volutes of the altar, depicting St. Peter and St. Representing Paul . The in 17./18. Figures that were created in the 19th century and were previously painted gray and white were restored and colored in 1981.

The restorers found remains of a Gothic wall painting on the right-hand side , probably a depiction of a saint that can no longer be identified. On the opposite wall was a well-preserved depiction of St. Apollonia emerged.

The construction and restoration work carried out in nine months in 1985 cost around DM 150,000, of which around 170 residents alone raised DM 40,000.

On the epistle side of the altar is the statue of the chapel patron, St. Peter.

The St. Petrus Chapel belongs to the parish of Hochkirchen .

Other Petruskapellen in Germany

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Published in: Edmund Renard (the Younger); Paul Hartmann; "The art monuments of the Rhine Province / on behalf of the Provincial Association", The art monuments of the Düren district: with 19 panels and 227 illustrations in the text. Edited by Paul Clemen Vol. 9.1. Düsseldorf Verlag Schwann, 191
2. ↑ Bonner Geschichtsblätter 1986, ISSN  0068-0052 , page 477
3. ↑ Published in: Edmund Renard (the Younger); Paul Hartmann; "The art monuments of the Rhine Province / on behalf of the Provincial Association", The art monuments of the Düren district: with 19 panels and 227 illustrations in the text. Edited by Paul Clemen Vol. 9.1. Düsseldorf Verlag Schwann, 1910.

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 56 ″  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 9 ″  E