St. Mary's Birth (Monschau)
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The parish church of St. Mary's Birth in Monschau in North Rhine-Westphalia was built between 1649 and 1650 by the Premonstratensian Fathers of the former Reichenstein Monastery as the first parish church in the community. It was an unadorned hall building made of rough stone masonry.
In the 17th and 18th centuries the church also benefited from Monschau's economic prosperity thanks to the cloth industry. She acquired furnishings from various churches such as the Reichenstein Monastery and the Trappist Monastery of Mariawald . The silver-gilt shrine with the relic of St. Liberatus , the city patron , was made by Anton Reuter in 1769. The church is considered the most beautiful building of the peasant baroque in the northern Eifel.
From 1969 to 1978 it was completely restored and in 1998 the choir received a new celebration altar and an ambo made of black marble .
Interior with baroque furnishings
Part of the Way of the Cross, left side, entrance area
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Churches in Monschau. ( Memento from June 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Presumably a so-called catacomb saint , see Klaus Graf : Stadtpatrone in smaller German cities. Lecture at the “City and Saints” conference of the Office for Rhenish Regional Studies in Cologne-Deutz on September 22, 2003
- ↑ Bronze plate on the church
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 12 " N , 6 ° 14 ′ 27.4" E
Evangelical town church Monschau | Joseph's Chapel (pipes) | Widdau Chapel | Lourdes Chapel (Monschau) | Chapel of Our Lady (Konzen) | Pankratius Chapel (Konzen) | Quirinus Chapel (Konzen) | St. Bartholomew (Mützenich) | St. Cornelius (pipes) | St. Josef (Imgenbroich) | St. Lambertus (Kalterherberg) | St. Mary's Conception (Monschau) | St. Mary's Birth (Monschau) | St. Michael (Höfen) | St. Peter (Konzen)