St. John the Baptist (Gentingen)

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St. John the Baptist
The church on the bank of the Our

St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic branch church in the local community of Gentingen in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located directly on the bank of the Our .

history

The place and church were mentioned for the first time in a letter of protection that Pope Alexander II issued in 1069 for the Echternach Abbey . The oldest surviving part of St. Johannes is the Romanesque choir tower from the 12th century . The nave was changed during a renovation in 1710. A sacristy was added to the east of the tower in the 19th century .

The nave is 5.60 m wide and 7.5 m long, the square choir in the tower basement is 3.50 m wide and 3.70 m deep. The choir is barrel vaulted and decorated inside with high round arched blind arcades.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland , edited by Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz and Ekkart Klinge, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 .
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Bitburg district , Düsseldorf 1927.

Web links

Commons : St. John the Baptist (Gentingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 57.6 "  N , 6 ° 14 ′ 9.5"  E