St. Bartholomew (Meckel)
St. Bartholomäus is the Roman Catholic parish church of Meckel in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .
The building is dedicated to St. Bartholomäus and entered as an architectural monument in the list of cultural monuments in Meckel .
location
The church building is located in the center of Meckel on an elevated position on the corner of Kirchstrasse / Hauptstrasse (K 22) and is surrounded by greenery.
history
A church in Meckel was first mentioned in writing around the year 800 in a deed of donation to the imperial abbey of Echternach . This church was replaced by today's old parish church in the 12th and 15th centuries. Presumably even then, Meckel was already an independent parish .
At the end of the 19th century the old church became too small for the increased population and it was decided to build a new building elsewhere. The new parish church was built between 1896 and 1898 according to plans by the diocesan master builder Reinhold Wirtz in Trier . Reinhold Wirtz died shortly after the parish church was completed. The Mecklenburg parish church is the last church building that Wirtz was able to implement. The old parish church has been used as a cemetery chapel since the new parish church was built.
Building description
St. Bartholomäus is a single-nave, four-bay hall church in neo-Gothic style with a four-story bell tower in front of it on a square floor plan and a single-bay choir closed on three sides . The building was built from limestone blocks . The interior is vaulted with ribbed vaults and the windows have two-lane tracery .
Furnishing
In the interior, all of the neo-Gothic furnishings from the time it was built have been preserved. Of particular note are the high altar , which was designed as a winged altar , and the wooden pulpit . A late Gothic sacrament niche was taken over from the old parish church .
Furthermore, the church has an ornamental painting, also preserved from the time it was built. It was whitewashed in the meantime, but was completely exposed again in 1985 and 1986 and partially supplemented.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on St. Bartholomew in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on January 26, 2018.
- ^ Entry on St. Bartholomew in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on January 26, 2018.
- ^ Entry on St. Bartholomew in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on January 26, 2018.
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 18.7 ″ N , 6 ° 31 ′ 1.5 ″ E