St. Jakobus (Koblenz)
| St. Jakobus (Koblenz) | |
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 The south wing of the former Leyenschen Hof with the St. Jakobus Chapel (right) |
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| place | Koblenz , Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Construction year | 1355 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 21 '43 " N , 7 ° 36' 8.7" E |
St. Jakobus is a chapel belonging to the old Catholic community in Koblenz . The Gothic church, built in 1355, was originally a cemetery chapel of the Teutonic Order . It is located opposite the Kastorkirche and is attached to the south wing of the former Leyenschen Hof, which today houses the State Office for Roads and Transport in Rhineland-Palatinate. The patron saint of the chapel and congregation is James the Elder . The Koblenz congregation belongs to the Old Catholic Church in Germany .
history
The originally free-standing chapel was built in 1355 as a gift from the widow Patza in the cemetery of the neighboring Teutonic Order . Later, the cemetery chapel was added to the south wing of the von der Leyen family's town courtyard, which had been in existence since the 16th century . The Leyensche Hof was expanded into the 19th century, during which the chapel was also greatly changed. The courtyard consisted of a four-wing building complex that was grouped around an inner courtyard. The western entrance to the chapel was closed in 1589 and relocated to the courtyard side. In 1725, the Trier court architect Johannes Seiz redesigned the courtyard.
During the air raids on Koblenz in World War II, the Leyenschen Hof was destroyed except for the south wing. The former city courtyard was modernized in 1967 on the same floor plan. The preserved south wing including the chapel, the west entrance of which has been reopened since 1968, was repaired and made available to the old Catholic community as a replacement for their own St. Boniface Church, which was destroyed in the war. The last restoration was carried out in 1990 by the Koblenz-Süd state building authority.
After the former Evangelical Community Center on the Asterstein was taken over by the old Catholic community, it has been used as St. James' Church since December 1, 2013 . However, the community is striving to continue to use the old chapel in the old town for their services and cultural events.
construction
The single-nave, late Gothic chapel with ribbed vaults is a plastered building with house integration , which adjoins the south wing of the former Leyenschen Hof to the east. The three bay deep chapel closes in the east with a 5/8 choir . The lack of outer buttresses is remarkable, but there is a wall pillar system in the lower area of the interior. In the upper wall area there are two-part ogival tracery windows .
The south wing of the former Leyenschen Hof is a three-storey, also plastered baroque building with house integration. The ground floor has three pillar arcades with strong basalt walls and a passage to the inner courtyard. The upper floor has five drilled double windows and characteristic oval windows above. Above the eaves , the south wing and chapel are equipped with a stone balustrade and a hipped roof .
Door handle
James statue
Monument protection
The St. Jakobus Chapel is a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz's old town on Am Alten Hospital .
The St. Jakobus Chapel has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .
See also
- List of sacred buildings in Koblenz
- List of churches in the Catholic Diocese of Old Catholics in Germany
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
- Fritz Michel: The art monuments of the city of Koblenz . The mundane monuments and the suburbs. In: The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate . tape 1 . Munich, Berlin 1954.
- Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate Volume 3.2. City of Koblenz. City center , edited by Herbert Dellwing and Reinhard Kallenbach , Speyer 2004, p. 70f. and p. 154f. ISBN 3-88462-198-X
Web links
- Website of the old Catholic community in Koblenz
- St. James Chapel in: regionalgeschichte.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Jakobus Church ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in: Catholic parish of the old Catholics St. Jakobus Koblenz
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013