St. Antonius Abbas (Herkenrath)

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St. Antonius Abbas from the southeast

St. Anthony Abbas is under monument protection standing Roman Catholic parish church in Herkenrath , a district of Bergisch Gladbach . It is in the center of the Fronhof district . The Romanesque church is adjoined by a modern church from the 1960s.

history

Floor plan before the first expansion
View into the Romanesque nave

In 1144 the property of Siegburg Abbey in Herkenrath is documented. The Romanesque components of the church, the four-storey tower and the basilical two-bay nave date from this time. In 1224 the patronage of the church was transferred to the Order of St. John by the knight Theodoricus de Dorendorp . Later the church was subordinate to the Kommende in Herrenstrunden until it was abolished in 1806. Around 1300 the parish church was named in Liber valoris . Under the Romanesque basilica, the foundation walls of a hall church from around 1000 can be proven archaeologically, which probably belonged to the Herkenrath Fronhof Graf Gottfried from Lotharingia.

In 1892 the choir and the two side apses of the basilica were abandoned in favor of a larger neo-Romanesque transept and choir. This expansion had to give way to a simple, larger new building in 1962-64 in order to accommodate the population growth.

Furnishing

  • The flat, round baptismal font from the 12th century is made of Namur bluestone and decorated with reliefs of mythical creatures and birds drinking from a vase. The central support and the four pillars were renewed.
  • The standing figure of St. Catherine was carved from walnut around 1390; the composure is lost.
  • The wooden half-figure group represents the Holy Family, it was made in the 18th century.
  • The standing figure of the Mother of God and the Vespers picture were probably formed from terracotta and fired in a Cologne workshop at the beginning of the 19th century . The works in the style of the time around 1700 are colored. The Vesper picture is labeled 181 IB.
  • In the abandoned cemetery there is a saint's house, in which there is a carved and colored crucifixion group from 1723.

Church use

The independent parish of St. Antonius became on July 1, 2011 with the parishes of St. Severin in Sand, St. Joseph in Heidkamp and St. Johann Baptist in Herrenstrunden to become the parish of St. Joseph and St. Antonius with headquarters in St. Joseph in Heidkamp merged. The parish belongs to the District Deanery Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

monument

The church was entered under no. 17 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .

literature

  • Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the Rhine province , Volume 5, Section II: The art monuments of the Mülheim am Rhein district . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1901.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland, arr. and exp. Edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich 2005.
  • H. Jakob Schmitz: The millennial Herkenrath , Heider-Verlag Bergisch Gladbach 1950

Web links

Commons : St. Antonius Abbas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Document on the reorganization of the parishes of St. Antonius Abbas ... ( Memento from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 472 kB), in: Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne, 2011, No. 10, p. 229.

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 19.3 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 8.1"  E