St. Margareta (Adendorf)

St. Margareta

View of the choir

The Catholic Church of St. Margareta is a church building in Adendorf , a district of the municipality of Wachtberg in the Rhein-Sieg district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is a listed building as a monument .

History and architecture

Originally, the archbishop of Trier was entitled to patronage rights ; later it was exercised by the respective owner of the castle.

The single-nave, groin vaulted quarry stone building was erected in 1515 with a choir closed on three sides . The church was completely renovated from 1770 to 1780, the east tower was added. The building was extended to the west by two bays around 1900 . From 1961 to 1962 it was restored. The altars date from the 18th century. The church has a rich late baroque interior.

Worth seeing is a statue of the Madonna , the Queen of Heaven with a crown and scepter , made of limewood from the former chapel in Klein Villip . It stands in the left side altar . In the right side altar is a statue of the patron saint with the chained, defeated dragon. It dates from the 16th century. To the right of the choir is the box of the von der Leyen lords of the time.

Until December 31, 2009, the church was the Catholic parish church of the parish of St. Margareta in the deanery Meckenheim-Rheinbach in the Archdiocese of Cologne . Since 2010 it has been a branch church of the parish of St. Marien Wachtberg . St. Marien Wachtberg has been a parish of the Rhein-Sieg district dean's office since 2017 .

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , Rhineland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967
• Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 536-539. [not yet evaluated for this article]

Web links

Commons : St. Margareta (Adendorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Catholic parish of St. Marien, Wachtberg
• Story and photo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the municipality of Wachtberg , number A 144
2. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke: Rheinland . In: Handbook of the German Art Monuments North Rhine-Westphalia . First volume Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1967, p. 36 and 37 .
3. ↑ History and reference to the Madonna
4. ^ Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Item 1, January 1, 2010, No. 37

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '51.2 "  N , 7 ° 3' 45.4"  E