St. Hippolytus (Heroes)

St. Hippolytus

The Catholic parish church of St. Hippolytus is a listed church building in Helden , a district of the city of Attendorn , in the Olpe district , in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The founding of the church by Archbishop Anno II of Cologne (1010-1075) emerges from a document from Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden from 1253 .

The building is a three-bay , single-nave, Romanesque vaulted structure. It was built from rubble stone. The one-bay choir with a semicircular apse is raised. It was equipped with groin vaults . The two-bay side choirs with apses look like fragments of side aisles from the outside . A sacristy was added later on the south side . The originally flat roofed church was vaulted through a renovation in the 13th century . The massive tower in the west of the church is not structured.

crypt

There is a crypt under the choir . This is a cross-vaulted room, the vault is supported by two square pillars. The crypt is semicircular to the east, it has two barrel-vaulted entrances. In this 1935 a Romanesque vault painting and a Sepulkrumnische with further paintings were exposed. They are among the oldest Romanesque paintings in Westphalia.

Furnishing

• Pulpit from the second half of the 17th century by Johann Sasse
• Twelve hand-carved apostle figures from the beginning of the 16th century
• Gothic lecture cross from the middle of the 14th century (located in the sacristy)
• Late Romanesque female seated figure, the interpretation of which is unclear.

graveyard

The church is surrounded by a cemetery. According to old tradition, the graves are kept uniform in order to provide a visible sign of the statement in death, all people are equal .

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Web links

• Report and photo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1268, I. 2. Gräfl. Plettenberg Archive Heeren, archive part Bamenohl, Dr. Diestelkamp 1.1. and deposit by Helmut Lehnen in the Olpe district archive : MCCLX octavo, in crastino ciroum - cisionis domini. In cimiterio Medebicke (Medebach) - Thietmar von Waldeck enfeoffs the knight Herbord, Vogt (advocatus) von Helden and his wife Bertha with the right of patronage over the church in Helden along with the other goods that Herbord already owns from him and his ancestors various witnesses (many people listed individually in Diestelkamp); 2 appendix Seal: 1. Thietmars v. Waldeck on green-black silk threads, only fragment, 2nd of the city of Medebach, on white silk threads (ab). Interestingly, there is a note "Medebach in the cemetery". Did the negotiations take place there?
2. ↑ Achim Walder: Sights in the southern Sauerland between Biggesee and Rothaargebirge , Walder Verlag, Kreuztal 2004, pp. 12-14 in the Google book search
3. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westfalen, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969, pages 210 and 211

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '58 "  N , 7 ° 57' 8.9"  E