St. Maria (Aengenesch)

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The Catholic pilgrimage chapel St. Maria is a listed church building in Aengenesch , part of the Kapellen district of the city of Geldern in the Kleve district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

History and architecture

The pilgrimage chapel was built around 1430 as a single-nave, cross-rib vaulted brick building with three bays and a choir with a 3/8 end. The building was extended by a yoke to the west in 1720 and given a baroque facade. A renovation was carried out from 1931 to 1932. The chapel was renovated from 1981 to 1983. A sacristy was added to the north . The previous sacristy in the south was set up as a mountain chapel .

Furnishing

  • Three of the five windows in the polygon choir show scenes from the childhood of Christ. They were designed by F. Stummel in 1886.
  • The neo-Gothic altarpiece from 1885 was supplemented with older parts.
  • In conversation narrow a figure standing Madonna from around 1470 to 1480, it is attributed to Arnt Beedesnider. The frame is from the Neo-Gothic period.
  • A Vesper picture from the 16th century; the frame is lost, the picture has been stained dark.
  • The miraculous image , the Sorrowful Mother , is in the side chapel.

Legend

Around 1430 a picture of the Madonna was found in an ash tree. The residents built a pilgrimage chapel at the site, which was consecrated in 1431 by Cologne's auxiliary bishop Konrad von Arnsberg. After that, the chapel developed into a regional pilgrimage site.

literature

  • Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (arr.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, North Rhine-Westphalia I, Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , S. #.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magnus Backes (Berab.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1966, p. 73.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '57.4 "  N , 6 ° 22' 50.2"  E