St. Michael and Brigida (Nonnenbach)

The chapel

St. Michael and Brigida is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Blankenheim district of Nonnenbach in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The chapel belongs to the parish of St. Johann Baptist , Ripsdorf .

Glance into the chapel room

The church is dedicated to St. Archangel Michael and St. Brigida of Kildare consecrated as a monument under number 116 in the list of monuments in Blankenheim (Ahr) entered.

location

The chapel is located in the northern part of the small town of Nonnenbach at the confluence between Kapellenstrasse and Lucht.

history

The chapel was built in 1851. It replaces a previous building mentioned in 1807. In 1865 the roof turret was added to plans by the Cologne diocesan master builder Vincenz Statz . Perhaps he was also responsible for the plans for the small chapel.

Building description

St. Michael and Brigida is a simple single-axis hall building with a three-sided choir closure . A square roof turret with an eight-sided bent helmet rises above the west gable. The exterior is plastered in white, as is typical of the area, while the interior is spanned by a flat ceiling.

Furnishing

In the interior there are some wooden figures of saints from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century and three colorful stained glass windows with abstract motifs from the 1980s.

St. Michael statue
St. Brigida
Holy Family
inner space

Web links

Commons : St. Michael and Brigida - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 523.
↑ Entry by Christoph Kühn on the Sankt Michael and Sankt Brigida chapel in Nonnenbach in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on September 20, 2018.

↑ Blankenheim-Nonnenbach, Catholic chapel St. Michael and Brigida. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on September 20, 2018 .

50.41489 6.63442Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '53.6 " N , 6 ° 38' 3.9" E

[Handbuch_S.523.-1] Episcopal General Vicariate (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen 3rd edition, Aachen 1994, p. 523.

[2] Entry by Christoph Kühn on the Sankt Michael and Sankt Brigida chapel in Nonnenbach in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on September 20, 2018.

[3] Blankenheim-Nonnenbach, Catholic chapel St. Michael and Brigida. In: Internet site Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV Retrieved on September 20, 2018 .