St. Johann Baptist (Antweiler)

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St. Johann Baptist
View to the tower

St. Johann Baptist is a Roman Catholic parish church in Antweiler , a district of Mechernich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the Veytal Catholic pastoral care area.

history

Archbishop Heribert of Cologne gave the Deutz Abbey a farm in Antweiler in 1003 , which he had received from Count Baldricus and his wife Atela. In 1019, the church in Antweiler was mentioned in a renewal deed next to the farm, which is mentioned as a gift from the same donor to the abbey. 1253 the church by Archbishop was Konrad von Hochstaden the pin Dietkirchen incorporated already the patronage owned and was well off in Antweiler already 1158th

From the original Romanesque church only the completely undivided two-storey west tower from the 13th century has been preserved. The old church was replaced in 1852 by a single-nave quarry stone building in Romanesque forms based on plans by the cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner . In 1894 the tower was raised by a neo-Romanesque bell storey, and in 1925 two flank turrets followed. In 1963/64 the church was expanded by adding a transept.

literature

  • Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the district of Euskirchen. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1900, pp. 12-13.

Web links

Commons : St. Johann Baptist (Antweiler)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. St. Johann Baptist

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 14.4 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 51.3"  E