St. Lukas and St. Arnold (Körrig)

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The Catholic Chapel of St. Lukas and St. Arnold is the village church of Körrig , a district of the Merzkirchen municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Trier-Saarburg .

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The building faces east and lies in a churchyard, the wall of which also encloses the cemetery to the south. Whether there was a chapel in the place before 1200 has not yet been proven, although the place was already mentioned as a corniche in 633. The street name Alter Kirchenweg suggests that there was once a church in the village to which this path led.

Analogous to the building history, three style epochs can be recognized on the chapel: Romanesque (tower), Gothic (nave, tower cover, tower window in the north) and Baroque (inner wall reinforcements, pointed arches, ox-eye).

The tower of the chapel dates from around 1200. The tower with a square floor plan is followed by the Gothic church interior to the north and west, the tower is integrated into the southeast corner of the nave, so to speak. It contains the sacristy on the ground floor with a ceiling that was later inserted. Daylight falls into the sacristy through a Gothic arched window in the east wall of the tower. The tower is covered by an initially gently rising helmet, which then turns into a high eight-sided peak. The bell chamber contains small arched windows as sound openings in all four directions.

The nave is drawn in on the north side, thereby forming the choir, in the north wall of which an ox-eye was built. In the east wall of the choir there is a Gothic pointed arch window, which is now walled up. The ship was probably built in 1691. Today's high altar was still a side altar in 1952. It stands on a red sandstone cafeteria , which rests on a brick strip . The altarpiece has two columns with a two-tier candlestick bench, the upper part of which is decorated with a leaf and flower relief. Two columns with Corinthian capitals stand on pedestals with winged angel heads and carved lamp arms. In the altar niche is a crucifix (19th century) in front of a painting by the Trier painter Theodor Sternberg , created in 1909, depicting the city of Jerusalem. The extract from the altar contains a cartouche from 1736 with a Latin inscription, which testifies to the dean Hilarius Hoffman as the founder or builder of the altar. Above it is a canopy-like porch with the god's eye and winged angel heads. On the right wall of the choir room, the wooden sculptures of the two patrons Lukas and Arnold are mounted on small wooden pedestals on the wall, and in front of the passage from the nave to the choir is the 91 cm high statue of St. Anthony with a child on the left Arm carries. A picture of the Madonna hangs near this sculpture .

The nave is illuminated by two high ( round and pointed arch - three-pass ) windows in the north wall and two windows in the south wall. According to dendrochronological findings, the nave is from 1509. It was built under Archbishop and Elector Jacob II of Baden , but was first mentioned in 1559. This is also the year of the consecration of a block altar built in 1509. In the west wall there is an originally preserved pointed arch window. All windows were renewed in 2004 by a specialist company from Trier.

The chapel has two entrances: one in the west gable (lintel from 1505, walls from 1860, threshold from 1505, renewed in 1963) and one in the north wall of the tower.

Bell jar

Körriger bells were mentioned for the first time in 1739, although the bell cage could be dendrochronologically determined to be 1694. In 1816/17 the church received two bells from the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg: 70 kg with a 52 cm diameter (f sharp), 30 kg with a 45 cm diameter (g sharp). One of the bells was cast by Mabilon in 1828. In 1867 the 100 kg Donatus bell with the tone f sharp was delivered by Mabilon, it had already jumped 10 days after its inauguration. In 1923 the church received another Donatus bell (perhaps a casting), bronze, 60 cm diameter, followed in 1928 by the Lucas and Arnold bell, bronze, 50 cm diameter. The two bells from 1923 and 1928 had to be handed in during World War II. The two bronze bells (also from Mabilon) have been ringing since 1961, the cross bells : diameter 54 cm, 95 kg, tone f sharp and the Lukas bell : diameter 46 cm, 55 kg, tone a.

The church is located on the Way of St. James , Trier - Perl section.

  • altar

  • God's eye
    over the altar

  • St. Anthony

  • St. Luke (left),
    St. Arnold (right)

  • Icon of Mary with the Christ Child "Perpetual Help"

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Commons : St. Luke and St. Arnold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 48 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 4 ″  E