St. Brictius (Merkenich)

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The Romanesque tower free next to the modern church
Interior

St. Brictius is the Roman Catholic parish church of Cologne-Merkenich in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The oldest mention of Merkenich comes from 1241, but the church was first mentioned in documents in 1285. In Liber valoris she was not disclosed. The landlord in Merkenich was the Cologne Kunibertsstift . The monastery was entitled to collation rights until secularization .

The tower from the 12th century has been preserved from the Romanesque church to this day. The church was a single-nave building with a semicircular apse , to which a south aisle was added at the beginning of the 19th century. Except for the tower, this building was abandoned in 1886 and replaced by a new neo-Romanesque building. This in turn had to give way to a large modern church in 1963, which has two semicircular high apses on the choir and entrance sides. The nave has a large, folded gable roof . The baptismal font is embedded in a Romanesque capital and the sermon pulpit from around 1630 comes from the old St. Lupus Church in Cologne , which also belonged to the Kunibertsstift.

literature

  • Manfred Becker-Huberti u. a .: Cologne Churches , Cologne 2004.
  • Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the Rhine province , Vol. 4: District of Cologne, Düsseldorf 1897.

Web links

Commons : St. Brictius (Köln-Merkenich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 35.2 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 34.5 ″  E