St. Johann Baptist (Dollendorf)

St. Johann Baptist in Dollendorf

St. John the Baptist is the Roman Catholic parish of Blankenheimer hamlet Doll village in the district of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist and entered under no. 75 in the list of architectural monuments in Blankenheim (Ahr) . The parish also includes the branches Ahrhütte with the branch church St. Antonius Abbot and Schloßthal with the chapel St. Antonius von Padua.

history

The church and parish in Liber valoris from around 1308 were first mentioned in a document. The first collators were the Counts of Manderscheid until 1527 and then the Counts of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck until 1802 . Between 1802 and 1825, the Dollendorf parish belonged to the Diocese of Trier , between 1825 and 1930 it belonged again to the Archdiocese of Cologne and, from 1930, to the Diocese of Aachen .

Church building

A first verifiable church was built in the 14th century. This church was St. Trinity consecrated. It is not known since when John the Baptist became the patron saint of the Church. The choir, closed on five sides, was built in the 14th or 15th century . The nave became dilapidated at the beginning of the 18th century, so that a new building was necessary. The current nave was finally built between 1732 and 1736 while retaining the bell tower and choir. In 1909 a new barrel vault was installed in the nave . The interior was renovated between 1974 and 1976, with murals from the 14th or 15th centuries being exposed in the choir.

Furnishing

In the interior, a baroque pulpit and two simple baroque side altars have been preserved. In the choir there is a neo-Gothic high altar from the period between 1900 and 1910, as well as a modern people's altar consecrated on December 22, 1979 . In addition, two stained glass windows with representations of St. Peter and St. Paulus , which were created around 1900 by the Reuter and Reichart company.

architecture

St. Johann Baptist is a single-nave hall church built in an east-west orientation . The barrel-vaulted baroque nave from the 1730s is a four-story Gothic bell tower from the 14th / 15th. Century. He has an eight-sided spire. The main portal is in the basement. Left and right of the tower are two small vestibules attached to the side entrances. In the east of the nave is the Gothic and five-sided closed choir of the 14th / 15th. Century. It is spanned by a ribbed vault. A sacristy is added to the north and east sides .

Bells

There are three bells in the medieval bell tower of St. Johann Baptist. The two oldest and at the same time largest bells are under monument protection.

No.	Surname	Diameter (mm)	Mass (kg, approx.)	Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 )	Caster	Casting year
1	-	1,173	1000	e ' −3	Claudius Lamiral, Arnsberg / Bonn	1652
2	-	1,074	700	f sharp ' −4	Claudius Lamiral, Arnsberg / Bonn	1652
3	-	970	530	g sharp ' +3	August Mark, Eifeler Bell Foundry Mark , Brockscheid	1953

Motif: Pater noster

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Dollendorf on the website of the Parish Association of Blankenheim ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ History of Dollendorf on the website of the Parish Association of Blankenheim ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Website of the Foundation Research Center for 20th Century Glass Painting
4. ↑ Norbert Jachtmann, Glocken in der Eifel region, p. 28 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 16.4 "  N , 6 ° 42 ′ 23.7"  E