St. Mary's Assumption (Gladbach)
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The Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Assumption is in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) in the Gladbach district , Kirchplatz 14.
The church was built in the 13th century. Since February 5, 1992 it has been recorded under No. K 055 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach . It is part of the ecumenical project Citykirche .
architecture
The main parish church is located on the plateau-like, flattened abbey mountain in the core of the old town.
The three-aisle, late Gothic Basilica six nave yokes and ribbed arches on round pillars 5/8 chorus circuit, flat closed side choruses and a supervisor, about square plan constructed four-storey tower under octagonal broken spire between two neogothic polygonal side bands.
On the ground floor a main portal added around 1890 . The four-storey west tower is divided horizontally by cornices dividing storeys and vertically by ogival three-lane blind windows and sound hatches. The tracery on the west side is newly installed. Between each of the side chapels there is a round stair tower, the roof of which reaches just below the bell floor. The top and side aisle facades are structured by stepped buttresses and lancet arched windows with three-lane tracery division.
At the level of the sills runs a cornice cranked around the buttresses. The choir windows are divided about 1/3 to 2/3, below their sills up to the surrounding strong cornice a three-lane tracery is built in. The central nave has a steep gable roof with a hip over the choir and a total of seven dormers . The side aisles show flatter monopitch roofs instead of the formerly steeper side aisle roofs , which concealed the lower part of the cliff windows - now visible in brick . (The former upper cladding windows were originally opened further downwards and were illuminated via light shafts in the aisle roofs covered with skylights ! (See below )).
The tower side chapels have polygonal spiers. To the south of the choir, as an extension of the south aisle, there is a sacristy extension with a hipped roof built on an approximately square floor plan , which has been developed from the pent roof of the aisle. All roofs are covered with slate in an old German covering. The following building inscriptions date the building:
1. Foundation stone below the center window of the choir, writing in raised Gothic minuscules :
“In the years ons her mcccclxix op s (an) c (t). lare (n) cius aue (n) t an ge + laughed "
The “e” from “laughed” stands outside the recessed text field, “laughs” is written in small, recessed minuscules on the lower edge strip. The translation is: In the year of our Lord 1469 laid out on St. Laurentius evening.
2. Lettering from Gothic minuscule on the southeastern pillars of the sacristy:
"Mcccccxxxiii"
The year is: 1533
Inside, the vault of the tower basement has been replaced by a flat ceiling . The old, with corner consoles of the former ribbed vault were preserved. Pointed arched passage with a profiled reveal between the tower and central nave, above a new organ gallery made of reinforced concrete. The top arcade is supported by stilted pointed arches on sturdy round pillars. Half-columns with octagonal bases and round, grooved capitals with polygonal cover plates correspond to them at the approach of the choir . Half-columns on round consoles that cut into the capital cover plates structure the walls of the tall nave (upper cladding). Profiled ribs grow out of their round capitals, which support the profiled cross rib vault of the central nave. The lower parts of the upper cladding windows are designed as panels (sv).
The side aisles have strong straps between the cross-vaulted yokes , which grow out of the outer pillar templates without spiers or capitals, but begin above the arcade piers to the central nave on the capital cover plates. The vault ribs themselves flank the wide wall templates, resting on capitals.
Wall pillars and services share three-sided bases. The 5/8 end of the choir shows the tracery that is already familiar from the outside. In the south-east corner of the church, a dragon is depicted on a service capital of the side aisle, who embodies darkness, envy and malice and thus reminds us of the presence of the devil in the church. On the opposite northeast side, the capital shows an eagle (or a dove?). Since the Middle Ages, the eagle as the king of birds has also increasingly been understood as a symbol of Christ (Ascension of Christ, symbol of the Evangelist John) and opposes the doings of evil - in the form of the dragon.
In front of the pillars of the central nave, below the organ gallery, there are two baroque holy water basins made of red marble on a baluster shaft with an Attic base, dating from 1696. On the edge of the pool is the inscription in recessed capitals:
HOC MONVMENTVM PRO DECORE DOMVS DEI POSVIT F: AMBROSIVE MANTEN SACEL (lanus) 1696
The inscription on the northern basin is partially destroyed. (Ambrosius Manten, born 1659, was a Benedictine monk in Gladbach from 1681, pastor from 1717 and died in 1718.)
literature
- Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
swell
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 36.9 " N , 6 ° 25 ′ 55.3" E