St. Aldegundis (Koblenz)
The parish church of St. Aldegundis is a Catholic church in Koblenz . The neo-Gothic hall church in the Arzheim district has undergone some renovations and additions over the centuries. It bears the patronage of St. Aldegundis .
history
The construction of a first church is assumed for the time immediately after the founding of Arzheim in 836. This wooden church was rebuilt from stone after 1000. The Romanesque tower has been preserved to this day. A church in Arzheim was mentioned in a document from the Koblenz monastery of St. Kastor around 1200, and in 1345 it was called the parish church. The monastery held the collature and part of the property until secularization .
The married couple Hermann V. von Helfenstein and Anna von Boos von Waldeck had a new church built around 1440–1446. The coats of arms of the builders are embedded in the keystones of the vault of the choir . Further work on the church was carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries, the nave was completed in 1762 .
The Aldegundiskirche was rebuilt between 1900 and 1901 according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect Josef Kleesattel . Today's three-aisled hall church was built in the neo-Gothic style between the choir and the west tower . A second extension for which the southern nave was demolished was built from reinforced concrete in 1970–1971 according to plans by the Koblenz architect Martin Ufer . Most of the furnishings created during the renovation in 1900/01 were removed from the church.
Construction and equipment
Outside
The parish church of St. Aldegundis is a neo-Gothic three-nave hall church with side choirs . During the expansion from the 1970s, an extension was added on the south side, which led to the reorientation of the room by 90 degrees and its expansion in the shape of a cross. The church building is stone-faced with buttresses on the north wall and on the two old east choirs. The south side of the new choir is exposed to concrete.
The four-storey tower with storey risers only towers over the roof of the old central nave with its pointed helmet . A sandstone figure of John the Baptist with a lamb (around 1900) is attached above the former main entrance to the tower . The neo-Gothic aisle , like the new building on the south side, has transverse roofs.
A sandstone figure of Our Lady with Child from the last third of the 17th century stands on the forecourt. The figure was originally intended by Elector Johann Hugo von Orsbeck for the west gate of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress . From 1736 on it stood in the garden of the Capuchin Monastery of Ehrenbreitstein and came to Arzheim in the 19th century.
Inside
In the cross-shaped interior, the yokes of the hall turn to the new choir and the altar island on the south side. The choir is designed as a triple-folded wall. The western bays of the two old church naves became chapels , as did the two former choir polygons . The medieval and neo-Gothic part of the church has a rib vault , the extension has a wood-clad concrete ceiling. Figurative glass windows from around 1900 have been preserved.
On the eastern wall of the choir, made of Weibern sandstone, there is a medieval figure of St. Aldegundis, who is depicted as an abbess with a shepherd's staff and a book of Gospels . Until the last renovation of the church, the figure was outside the choir. On the west wall of the north aisle there is a neo-Gothic winged altar with a figure of St. Aldegundis. It was created in 1905 (as a donation by the then pastor Nikolaus Weller the Younger) by N. Steinbach from Cologne , the reliefs with four scenes from the life of the saints by P. Born. In the middle is the fully plastic figure of the saint, a slightly stretched copy of the medieval figure.
Old choir
Room under the west tower
Baptistery with the winged altar of St. Aldegundis
Nave
Organ / bells
The organ was built in 1982 by Rudolf Oehms from Trier .
In the tower there are three bells (g / b / c) that were cast in 1952 by Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from Gescher .
Parish community
St. Aldegundis is part of the " Parish Community Koblenz right side of the Rhine" founded in October 2005, which also includes the Assumption of Mary on the Asterstein , St. Nicholas in Arenberg , St. Peter and Paul in Pfaffendorf , the Holy Cross Church in Ehrenbreitstein , St. Maximin in Horchheim , St. Pankratius in Niederberg and St. Martin on the Pfaffendorfer Höhe belong.
Monument protection
The parish church of St. Aldegundis is a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Arzheim in Blindtal 55 .
The parish church of St. Aldegundis has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .
See also
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. (Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt)
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
- Volume 2: From the French city to the present. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
- Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The mundane monuments and the suburbs. Munich / Berlin 1954. (= The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 1.)
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
- St. Aldegundis in: regionalgeschichte.net
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish community Koblenz right side of the Rhine in: Diocese of Trier
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 11.4 " N , 7 ° 37 ′ 46.4" E