St. Antonius Hermit (Heggen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Antonius Einsiedler is a listed church building in Heggen , a part of Finnentrop in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It stands on the property at Pfarrer-Schmalohr-Straße 1, its patronage refers to Antonius the Great , who is also called Antonius the Hermit .
History and architecture
Old chapel
A chapel in Heggen in honor of the holy confessor Antonius was first mentioned in a letter of indulgence from Pope Johannes XXII. from the year 1329. It was presumably an own church of the estate of the knight family Haygen . The Romanesque building was a two-bay hall church with a horseshoe-shaped apse and a west tower .
New building
During the renovation in 1900/1901, this medieval chapel was integrated across the facade to the south. The north-facing, cross-shaped, neo-Romanesque building was extended and rebuilt by the contractor Anton Sunder-Plassmann from Förde (today Grevenbrück ) according to plans by the architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp . The extensions are aisle-like , the apses semicircular. The plastered quarry stone building is structured by buttresses and different window shapes. The west tower was later increased. Groin vaults were drawn into the younger main room . In the chapel, late Gothic ridge vaults rest on round pillars. The foundation stone for the renovation was laid in June 1900, and consecration took place a year later by Bishop Wilhelm Schneider .
Furnishing
The majority of the furnishings and the painting of the church date from the beginning of the 20th century. The organ gallery was built over the old chapel. The wooden figure of St. Agatha from the middle of the 18th century is worth mentioning.
View of the old chapel and the organ stage
View of the altar
literature
- Ursula Quednau (Red.): Dehio manual of German art monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia II, Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , S. #.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 57 ′ 7 ″ E