St. Antonius (Amern)
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The former Catholic parish church of St. Antonius is a listed , now profaned church building in Amern , a district of Schwalmtal in the Viersen district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).
History and architecture
The three-aisled pseudo - basilica was built in 1491 with a choir consisting of a yoke and 5/8 end. The ribbed vault rests on round pillars. According to plans by Lambert von Fisenne , the church was extended by two western bays adapted to the Gothic bays. Rectangular choirs were added to the side aisles and a sacristy was added. The exterior brickwork with tracery structures in sandstone has been largely revised.
On July 9, 2017, the church was profaned; it is being converted into a Church of the Holy Sepulcher with up to 1,700 urn spaces.
Furnishing
- A cycle of stained glass from around 1900
- The carved high altar retable was made around 1900
- The bluestone baptismal font with a brass lid was created at the beginning of the 18th century
- A wooden sculpture of St. Anthony the Hermit from the beginning of the 16th century with a neo-Gothic setting
- A St. Pancras from around 1530, also with a neo-Gothic version
- In 1959 the entrepreneur Bernhard Rösler donated Glocke III (Bernhard bell, cast by Hans Hüesker , named after Bernhard von Clairvaux )
literature
- Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler . North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , pages 87 and 88
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 14 ′ 19.2 ″ E