St. Johannes Nepomuk (Nativity)

View of the choir and tower

St. Johannes Nepomuk in Kripp , a district of Remagen in the Ahrweiler district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), is a Roman Catholic parish church that was built between 1900 and 1903. The church is a protected cultural monument .

history

The chapel from 1769 had become too small and a new building was therefore built according to plans by the architect Caspar Clemens Pickel . Pickel also built the new part of St. Peter and Paul in Remagen and St. Remigius in Unkelbach .

Kripp only became an independent parish in 1918 and until then belonged to the parish of Remagen.

architecture

The building, built in the neo-Gothic style, was made of Kripper bricks , because brick production was the main line of business in Kripp at that time. The church is 28.75 m long and 17.77 m wide. As there is no vestibule, one immediately enters the church interior, which is flooded with light with its high windows. Two middle pillars divide the space into two vessels , which allows a good view for all believers.

The original leaded glass windows were broken in a bombing raid during World War II . In 1959, the current windows were created in the Binsfeld glass painting based on designs by the artist Jakob Schwarzkopf . The windows in the nave depict the sacraments : Baptism , Eucharist , Confirmation , Marriage, Ordination and the Sacrament of Death.

Furnishing

The baroque pulpit and statue of St. Johannes Nepomuk , the patron saint of the church. The altars were carved by a nativity carpenter according to Pickel’s designs.

The Black Madonna made of clay is the work of the sculptor Adolf Wamper from Essen. The war memorial , a plaque in memory of those who fell in World War I , was made by Ewald Mataré . In the 1990s, the people's altar and the ambo were created by the sculptor Hans Rams from Niederbreitbach .

Web links

Commons : St. Johannes Nepomuk  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 50 ° 33'35.3 "  N , 7 ° 16'13.1"  E.