St. Lüfthildis (Kesseling-Staffel)
The Catholic chapel St. Lüfthildis in Staffel , a district of the local community Kesseling in the district of Ahrweiler ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), was built in 1794. It is located at the through-road at Kapellenstrasse and at the corner of Hauptstrasse and is a protected cultural monument .
history
The chapel is a single-nave , unplastered quarry stone building with an irregular, four-sided choir closure . It is 14.10 m long and 5.10 m wide. The narrower east side is not parallel to the transverse axis of the chapel. There are two window openings on each of the eaves and one on the north and south sides of the choir, each with simple leaded glass windows.
The edging of the west portal made of basalt with profiled fighters is marked on the keystone with the year 1794. The window reveals are made of quarry stone and on the slate roof there is a square roof turret with two openings on each side in the east of the nave . The pointed helmet is crowned by a roof pommel with a weather vane .
A basalt cross with the year 1645 is walled in on the south-eastern outer wall of the choir.
Furnishing
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The 2.35 m high altar (17th century) made of tuff stone has a relief depiction of St. Lüfthildis , the patroness of the chapel. The saint holds a model of a church in her right hand and a spindle in her left . To the left of this stands Mary as Queen of Heaven and to the right St. Elisabeth of Thuringia . Above this central representation there is a relief depicting the birth of Christ and the Saints Hubertus (right) and Stephanus (left).
literature
- Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): The art monuments of the Rhine province . The art monuments of the Ahrweiler district. 17th volume, 1st department, published by L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1938, pp. 648f.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 58 ″ N , 7 ° 3 ′ 14 ″ E