St. Gertrud (Oedingen)

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Chapel of St. Gertrud in Oedingen

The former parish church St. Gertruds in Oedingen , a district of Remagen in the district of Ahrweiler in northern Rhineland-Palatinate , is a Catholic chapel from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century, which was the parish church of the village until the new church was built in 1909 . The chapel is at the end of Kapellenstrasse and is framed by the cemetery in the shape of a horseshoe. It is a protected cultural monument .

history

The former parish church and today's cemetery chapel , St. Gertrude of Nivelles ordained , is first mentioned in the 1412th At the turn of the 18th century Oedingen came from the parish of Remagen to the parish of Unkelbach and was finally elevated to a parish church in 1849. In the 1920s, St. Gertrudis was renovated and the western wooden vestibule was torn down. The last renovation took place around 1960, during which the frescoes in the choir were exposed.

The grave of Hermann Josef Abs and his wife Inez is in the chapel .

description

St. Gertrudis is a single-nave Romanesque building, the core of which dates back to the 13th century. The quarry stone building has a square west tower, a short nave and a choir closed on three sides. A sacristy is added to the north of the choir . At the tower, sandstone blocks corners and the bell is run by a ge wrong Erten helmet covered. The choir roof is dragged down over the sacristy and its half- gable consists of half-timbering .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Gertrud (Oedingen)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abs, Hermann J. in the Frankfurter Personenlexikon
  2. ↑ http://knerger.de/html/absunternehmer_14.html

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 22 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 26"  E