St. Abrunculus (Vicious)
St. Abrunculus is a church in the Neweler district of Beßlich. As one of several small Romanesque churches in the southern Eifel , the former parish church has a high architectural historical value as evidence of a Romanesque country church.
location
The Romanesque choir tower church , consecrated to the bishop and saint Abrunculus , stands on the elevated northern outskirts of Beßlich with a tower facing the village. The structure erected in the 12th century has been preserved almost unchanged.
history
Abrunculus was bishop of Trier after 511 and until 525/526. He must have belonged to the clergy who Theuderich I brought in to refresh the outdated Trier church from the Auvergne. In connection with the church of St. Viktor near Trier, which was destroyed in 1433, obsolete appears as the property of the Trier monastery St. Martin . Beßlich gained importance when it became the parish seat in 1339 for pastoral reasons. The rare patronage of St. Trier's bishop's abrunculus indicates earlier connections between the old parish church of St. Viktor and the monastery of St. Symphorian . Archbishop Eberhard (1047-1066), along with other Trier bishops, had the remains of St. Abrunculus transferred from St. Symphorian to St. Paulin .
Construction work was carried out on the Romanesque church from the 12th century in 1539 and renovation in 1688 without changing the structure. In 1818 the portal on the south side of the nave was moved to its current location and in 1976 it was protected with an anteroom. In the same year the sacristy on the choir tower was demolished.
building
In the partially plastered quarry stone building, spoils of a Roman tomb are walled in, including a corner piece with tendrils. The two-storey bell tower has a twin acoustic window with a round arch frame. The nave adjoins the tower in the north. Late Gothic tracery windows are on the east side of the tower (behind the altar when viewed from the inside) and on the south side of the nave. There is a walled-up Romanesque slit window on the north wall. The choir and nave were originally flat-roofed. The choir was probably vaulted in 1688. Today the interior of the ship has a beamed ceiling that has been adapted to the original structure.
Furnishing
The late Gothic altar console is remarkable . The octagonal font is a two-part Gothic sandstone block. A column representation is carved out at its foot. Based on the building permit from 1339, it can be dated to this year or shortly thereafter.
Surroundings
In the churchyard that surrounds the church, three sandstone grave crosses depicting the wounds of Christ and a skull and the stairs leading up from the village are worth mentioning. Northeast of the church is a listed Streckhof in the core from the 19th century.
See also
Romanesque country churches in the South Eifel:
- Assumption of Mary (Girsterklause)
- Old Catholic parish church St. Bartholomäus (Meckel)
- Alt St. Hubertus (Wolsfeld)
- St. Agatha (Menningen)
- St. New Year's Eve (Minden (Sauer))
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Rhineland-Palatinate - Cultural Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate Vol. 12.2, Ed. E. Wegner - Wernsche Verlagsgesellschaft - Worms, 1994
- Entry on Sankt Abrunculus in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on May 17, 2019.
- Parish Community Welschbillig, Beßlich. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 6.6 " N , 6 ° 36 ′ 4.1" E