St. Georg (Blens)

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The chapel

The St. Georg chapel is in Blens , a district of the town of Heimbach in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

The chapel is right next to Blens Castle . The quarry stone chapel is made of red sandstone . A gable tower with a pointed helmet was added to the west gable , including an oculus and the arched entrance, the eaves to three arched windows and 3/8 choir closure with a central arched window.

A first sacred building at this point was built in 1371. From 1806, today's chapel was built with funds from the Catholic priest Aegidius Hubert Lauterbach (* February 22, 1768, † December 23, 1851) and consecrated to Saints George and Blasius in 1807 . Born in Blens Lauterbach 1786 was the Benedictine - Abbey Brauweiler joined and had the on September 22, 1792 ordination received. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the course of secularization in 1802, he returned to his place of birth. In 1813 he was appointed pastor of Weiskirchen and then worked from 1817 to 1836 in his home parish in Berg . During this time he had a spacious vicar's house built next to the chapel in Blens, where he lived from 1836 until his death.

St. Georg chapel next to Blens Castle, aerial photo (2015)

The sacred building at Sankt-Georg-Straße 11 in Blens has been entered in the list of monuments under number 15 since October 1st, 1987 .

Bells

The chapel has a bell that is hung in the small roof turret. Their strike tone is between dis "and e". Since the bell is slightly deepened, the historical "breath" comes out. Nothing is known about the founder and the year of casting.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.heimbach-eifel.de/go/lokales-ortsteile-details/3_blens.html
  2. ↑ Death note for Aegidius Lauterbach on www.rhein-erft-geschichte.de, seen on July 27, 2016
  3. ↑ Erich Wisplinghoff: The Archdiocese of Cologne. 5: The Benedictine abbey Brauweiler (= Germania sacra. New series, volume 29). De Gruyter, Berlin 1965, p. 318 .
  4. ↑ http://www.limburg-bernd.de/Dueren/DenkHei/Nr.%2015.htm

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 33.6 "  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 59"  O ^