St. Dionysius (Niedersgegen)

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St. Dionysius at Niedersgegen

St. Dionysius is a Roman Catholic branch church in Niedersgegen , a district of Körperich ( Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm ) in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

St. Dionysius is a small hall building closed on three sides with two bays and a roof turret. The chapel, originally consecrated to St. Donatus, was attached to a medieval tower from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century (see Schlossgut Petry ) using the tower wall.

The tower is a five-storey, plastered quarry stone building with stone-visible corner blocks with a barrel-vaulted basement. In the course of a renovation in 1968/69, this was combined with the chapel and the entrance was moved to the street side.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland , edited by Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz and Ekkart Klinge, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Bitburg district , Düsseldorf 1927.

Web links

Commons : St. Dionysius (Niedersgegen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '24.1 "  N , 6 ° 16'26"  E