St. John the Baptist (Vohren)
The Catholic Chapel of St. John the Baptist is a listed church building in Vohren , a peasantry belonging to the city of Warendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The building, popularly known as the Affhüppenkapelle , is located near Bundesstraße 64 near Warendorf. A chapel on the Affhüppen estate is mentioned as early as 1695. In 1710 a baroque chapel in honor of the Blessed Mother and St. Anthony of Padua inaugurated.
The widow of Meiers Johann Heinrich Affhüppe, Maria Katharina geb. Schulze ter Oeverst, from 1854 to 1856, a few years before her death (1857), built the current large neo-Gothic chapel with a slim west tower a little to the east according to plans by the master builder Emil von Manger at great expense. The cruciform brick hall with a small tower is based on the forms of the early Gothic . The furnishings are uniformly neo-Gothic and come from the time it was built. As a result of later agreements between the founder's son-in-law, mill owner Anton Scheffer-Boichorst zu Warendorf, and the bishop, the chapel and the foundations associated with it fell to the episcopal see.
The church has not been used for church services since the late 1950s. A demolition was prevented. It serves the diocese of Münster as a storage location for sacred equipment and furniture. The interior of the church has been locked since then. The Episcopal See, which was the owner for about 100 years, donated the chapel to the parish of St. Laurentius on January 10, 1967.
See also
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 565 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 49.3 ″ N , 8 ° 1 ′ 7 ″ E