St. John at the Latin Gate (Sieglar)
St. Johannes in front of the Latin Gate is the Roman Catholic parish church of Sieglar , a district of Troisdorf in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The church was originally half owned by the Siegburg Abbey and half by the Cassius Stift . The oldest part of the church is the Romanesque four-story west tower from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century. In the 18th century the patronage of the house of God changed from John the Baptist to St. John in front of the Latin Gate . The nave of the church was replaced in 1822/23 by a classicist new building, to which a neo-Gothic choir was added in 1901/02 . A thorough restoration ended in 1979.
The most important feature of the church is the Romanesque baptismal font made of trachyte from the beginning of the 13th century with a hemispherical basin with a round-arched frieze and richly ornamented foliage border, supported by small corner pillars.
literature
- Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): The art monuments of the Rhine province . The art monuments of the Siegkreis, edited by Edmund Renard. V. Band, Düsseldorf 1907. pp. 246f.
- Notice board at the church
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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '56.6 " N , 7 ° 7' 46.7" E