St. Antonius Abbot (Tungerloh)
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Antonius Abt is a listed church building in Tungerloh , a district of Gescher in the Borken district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Since 1998 the building has been designated as a motorway chapel.
History and architecture
The three- bay chapel stands in the middle of a cemetery on an Iron Age sand dune. It was originally connected to a hermitage . The Gothic vaulted hall in brick building was built in the 15th century. The choir dates from 1433, the nave was rebuilt in 1478. There is a walled- up hagioscope below the choir window . The tower was built in 1885. The interior was redesigned in 1972 and a sacristy was added.
Despite the same stone format, the different masonry associations can be recognized. The choir yoke was built as an alternating structure, the nave in a block structure. A clear construction seam appears above the buttresses between the choir and nave . The masonry is sparingly structured using blocks made of Baumberger sandstone . The window reveals are made of sandstone and brick. The base zone is closed off by a surrounding sandstone cornice at the height of the window parapet . The two-lane tracery windows are closed at the top with a three-pass . The entrance door on the south side of the central yoke has a late Gothic profiled sandstone frame with nested consoles under the lintel . This 15th century door is now called the side entrance, but it was the main portal. The eastern gable wall of the rectangular choir is dominated by a tracery window. The window was renovated in 1869 according to designs by HB Becks and partially rebuilt. Below this window is a small niche that is said to have served as a hatch for communion for the sick.
Furnishing
- Stone relief with St. Gregory's mass from the last quarter of the 15th century
- Bronze - chandeliers , designated in 1696
- Marien statue by the sculptor Bernd Meiering from 1675
- The wooden statue of St. Anthony , the patron saint of the church, which was made around 1500, is of art historical importance . The figure was restored in 1972.
- In the cemetery there is a stone crucifix from the second half of the 15th century.
- Vault paintings from the 15th century were uncovered in 1983/1984.
Bells
In the church tower there are two bells that were cast by the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in the 1950s, they ring in the tones es² and ges².
literature
- Dorothea Kluge, Wilfried Hansmann (arr.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 2, Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, p. 555.
- Josef Schältingkemper: Tungerloh our home. In: Heimatbuch Gescher, Volume 5. ( ISSN 0724-8512 ) Kortmanndruck, Coesfeld 1987.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '46.9 " N , 7 ° 3' 1.6" E