St. Cosmas and Damian (Bödefeld)

St. Cosmas and Damian

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian is a listed church building in Bödefeld , a district of the town of Schmallenberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

A church was mentioned as part of the Grafschaft monastery at the end of the 11th century . The first church was built in 1723 as a single-nave, five-high building with a 3/8 end. The sacristy on the northeast side was hexagonal. In the side aisles and in the main aisle of the three-aisled west building there were round-arched niches with figures. The walls of the ship were divided by buttresses.

Only the three-part west building from 1723 and the central tower from 1750 have survived from the 18th century church. A new Baroque central building was built from 1910 to 1911 according to plans by Joseph Buschkremer. The side buildings are covered with mansard roofs. The facade is structured by serrations. There are semicircular wall niches in the arched side rooms. The design in the form of an octagon comes from Joseph Buchkremer from Aachen. Dome rib vaults rest on wall brackets and beams, which are supported by round pillars.

Furnishing

• The high altar and pulpit from 1724 come from the workshop of Peter Sasse . They are adorned with winding columns and figures.
• The side altars were built in 1751.
• Communion bench from 1757 with additions from 1911
• Various sculptures were carved from 1751 to 1754.
• The Vespers picture was created in 1732
• Three bronze bells with the tones g ′, b ′ and c ″
• Risen Christ from 1732

Trivia

The "Black Hand" is shown in a niche in the tower. She is the mummified right hand of a girl found during construction work on the church in 1722. There are several legends about the “Black Hand” .

Historical views

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  West view before 1908

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  South view before 1908

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  Interior view before 1908

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1969
• Albert Ludorff , The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 25: Meschede district. 1908
• Georg Dehio, edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X , page 967.
2. ↑ Albert Ludorff, The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 25: Meschede district. 1908, page 37.
3. ^ Dehio, Georg , edited by Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia I Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag , 2005 ISBN 3-422-03093-X .
4. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, p. 64
5. ↑ The black hand . heimatverein-boedefeld.de. Retrieved July 3, 2011.

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 37"  E