St. Jost (Langenfeld)

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Pilgrimage chapel St. Jost in Langenfeld
Detail of the baroque altar: St. Jost
View from the southeast

The St. Jost pilgrimage chapel in Langenfeld , a local parish in the Mayen-Koblenz district ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), was built around 1400. It is located in the St. Jost district in the Nitztal.

history

The St. The pilgrimage chapel, consecrated to Jodokus (short: " Jost "), is a late Gothic chapel with a baroque altar . It was built by Count Philipp von Virneburg ; a keystone in the vault of the chapel shows the Count's coat of arms . The chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1436 in a boundary description. St. Jost has been a destination for pilgrimages for centuries, however, in the course of secularization, services were suspended for some time in 1804 and the chapel was used as a barn and stable.

Construction and equipment

The chapel is a plastered quarry stone building, the oldest part of which, the Gothic choir with a five-eighth end, must have been built around 1400. In the 16th century the chapel was extended to the north by a side aisle. The nave with a slightly rounded ceiling, which connects to the choir, is a 5.80 meter wide and in the middle about 11.20 meters long trapezoid. The aisle with the entrance on the west side is 3.70 meters wide and about 10.60 meters long; it is covered with three groin vaults. A gable roof with a pointed roof turret has been drawn over both ships.

The altar was consecrated in 1655. The cafeteria has a top made of tuff with reliefs and figures. In the predella the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary is depicted, above it in the first part of the structure between two twisted columns the birth of Jesus or the Adoration of the Shepherds , to the right - so the interpretation often read - St. Jodokus in pilgrim clothes and with a book, on the left St. Quirinus . According to another source, they are St. James , patron saint of pilgrims, and St. Leonhard , patron of farmers and cattle. The area above shows the Adoration of the Magi , St. Catherine and St. Lucia or St. Barbara. The conclusion in the gable is St. George on the horse. It is believed that the altar, a work of the early Baroque, was given its current coloring in 1863. To the right of the altar is a second figure of St. Jodokus, which is probably from the 18th century.

A relic of St. Jodokus was transferred from Saint-Josse-sur-mer in France by a count of Virneburg in the 14th century. Today it is in the parish church of St. Quirinus in Langenfeld.

Web links

Commons : St. Jost  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Josef Busley and Heinrich Neu: The art monuments of the Mayen district . 1st half volume, printed and published by L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1941, reprint 1983, ISBN 3-590-32143-1 , pp. 403-405.
  2. ↑ Active in Eastern Eifel. Description of the altar in St. Jost. Retrieved March 16, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '25 "  N , 7 ° 5' 55"  E