St. Joseph (Scheuren)

St. Joseph in Scheuren

The Catholic Chapel of St. Joseph in Scheuren , a district of the town of Unkel in the Neuwied district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), was built around 1500. The St. Chapel consecrated to Joseph is a protected cultural monument .

history

The chapel, first mentioned in 1552, was built around 1500 and fell victim to the Truchsessian War in 1583 . From 1680 to 1683 the chapel was rebuilt in the old town center under the vicar Gottfried Eschenbrender , a relative of the Cologne cathedral capitular Andreas Eschenbrender .

architecture

The choir with a 3/8 end was retained during the reconstruction. The originally flat-roofed nave was given a rib vault in 1910 . On the gable roof , a sitting baroque ridge turret with sound arcades . The structure has double buttresses all around .

Furnishing

The chapel has a massive baroque altar from the end of the 17th century. It was created by the sculptor Peter Sasse from Attendorn . Johann Franz Neffgen donated the altar, its coat of arms is flanked by two angels that Chancellor Adenauer donated to the chapel. The altar shows the incarnation of Christ. The marriage of Mary to Joseph is depicted in the upper altarpiece. Next to it are St. Rochus and St. Sebastian ( plague saints , they remember the death of the plague in the Rhineland around 1666). The lower altarpiece shows - according to the patronage - the Visitation of Mary . To the side of it are St. Joachim and St. Anna . They are integrated into the theological narrative with the tendrils. The central highlight is the tabernacle with a baroque tower.

On the left side of the wall is a representation of St. Joseph, which still comes from one of the ceiling brackets of the previous building.

The Madonna figure comes from the Church of St. Pantaleon in Unkel.

In 1986 an organ (series positive with six registers) was purchased from the workshop of the Kevelaer organ builder Romanus Seifert . It comes from the former St. Anno monastery in Bad Honnef .

In the holy year 1950 the chapel received two bronze bells from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen . You are the St. Consecrated to Joseph and the Blessed Mother . They sound with a² and h².

literature

Hermann-Joseph Löhr: A piece of heaven made of stone - Volume III . Asbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813291-3-1 , pp. 107-110.
Heinrich Neu, Hans Weigert: The art monuments of the district Neuwied ( The art monuments of the Rhine province , Volume 16, Section II). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1940, pp. 389-392.

Web links

Commons : St. Joseph - collection of images, videos and audio files

50.605554 7.222563Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 21 ″ E

Individual evidence

^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Neuwied district. Mainz 2019, p. 66 (PDF; 6.4 MB).
^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 548 .
↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 505 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

[1] General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Neuwied district. Mainz 2019, p. 66 (PDF; 6.4 MB).

[2] Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 548 .

[3] Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 505 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).