St. Maternus (Koblenz)
The St. Maternus Chapel is a Catholic chapel in Koblenz . The chapel in the Bubenheim district was completed in 1909 and is a branch of St. Mauritius . She bears the patronage of St. Maternus .
history
The first chapel in Bubenheim was donated by the noble widow Glismuot in 1052 and was located in the north of the village. At first it was consecrated to St. Andrew, later this chapel received the St. Maternus Patronage. It was renewed in 1764.
Today's chapel in its current location was rebuilt in 1908–1909 according to plans by the Koblenz architects Huch & Grefges . The choir windows were destroyed in the Second World War . The interior was renovated in 1972–1973 and 2010–2011, the last exterior renovation was carried out in 1999–2000.
Construction and equipment
Outside
The St. Maternus Chapel is a plastered hall building facing southeast in the style of reform architecture . It consists of a nave , a transept and a polygonal choir . The tower stands in the right corner of the choir. Some of the elements used in the construction, such as pointed arched windows, the entrance porch with column portal , inclined buttresses on the facade, the gable roof or the steep roof of the tower, come from the neo-Gothic style .
Inside
The interior has a ridge vault , designed as a star vault above the crossing and fore choir yoke and as a pointed barrel vault in the side aisles . The high altar (1765) with a baroque top comes from the previous chapel. The hexagonal celebration altar was made from parts of the former choir screen in neo-Gothic style with tracery carving .
In the four two-lane windows in the nave and in the two four-lane windows on the transept fronts, there are figural glass paintings donated by the citizens of Bubenheim. On the north wall of the transept hangs a panel painting by the Koblenz painter Johann Baptist Bachta , created around 1850 , which shows Saint Maternus in the landscape with the previous chapel in the background.
Bells
In the tower hang three steel bells (g / b / c), which were created by the Bochumer Verein in 1952 , and a bronze bell from the Maria Laach Abbey (2009).
Monument protection
The St. Maternus Chapel is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Bubenheim on St.-Maternus-Straße .
See also
literature
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): City of Koblenz. Districts. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 3.3.) Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 48 ″ N , 7 ° 32 ′ 55.5 ″ E