St. Georg (Kallmuth)

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St. Georg to Kallmuth
The Romanesque tower, walled-in battlement door on the 2nd floor

The Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of St. Georg is located in Kallmuth , a district of Mechernich in the Eifel in the district of Euskirchen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

Kallmuther Pieta from 1475

St. Georg emerged from the chapel of the neighboring Kallmuth Castle . The four-story tower, which was built around 1200, dates from the time it was used as a castle chapel. In 1644 the chapel and castle were burned down by Hessian troops during the Thirty Years' War . The chapel was restored in smaller forms, the Romanesque tower could be retained.

In 1888 the old tower was incorporated into the neo-Romanesque new building of the Church of St. George, a three-aisled pillar basilica with a semicircular apse. Around 1900 the tower received a new helmet. The tower has a walled-in portal on the second floor, apparently an earlier battlement door .

St. Georg is a pilgrimage church to the painful mother and St. George and is the annual center of the St. Georgsritt horse procession .

In the church there is a wooden pieta on the side altar, 79 cm, from 1475.

literature

  • Ruth-Schmitz-Ehmke (arrangement): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 1967, p. 269.
  • Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the Mechernich deanery . History - construction - equipment. Kall 2003, p. 96-105 .
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district , Düsseldorf 1932, p. 207 f.

Web links

Commons : St. Georg (Kallmuth)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 24.8 "  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 11.6"  E