St. Pankratius (Ossum)
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St. Pankratius is a Romanesque Roman Catholic chapel in Ossum-Bösinghoven , a district of the city of Meerbusch in the Rhine district of Neuss .
history
The chapel was built in the 12th century as a separate church of a court of the Counts of Kleve , the so-called Grevenhof . Documentation is first found in 1186, Roman hand millstones, which were walled up as spoil in the old choir of the chapel, and Carolingian finds in the area, however, indicate a much older age of settlement in the area around the courtyard. In 1388/92 the court fell to the Cologne electors and later became known as Herbertzhof after a tenant family from the 17th and 18th centuries. Century. Unlike other independent churches in the region, St. Pankratius never developed into an independent parish church, but remained a branch of St. Stephanus zu Lank . As their patron, the Kaiserswerth monastery was tithe lord in Ossum.
In 1868 the Romanesque choir was so dilapidated that it had to be closed and replaced by a new neo-Romanesque polygonal choir. The increase in the local population made it necessary to expand the chapel after 1900, which was carried out to the west in 1911 while maintaining the Romanesque nave. The provincial curator Paul Clemen asserted that the new building had to be visibly different from the Romanesque building stock with its two large panels with round arch friezes.
The chapel from the west
View into the nave
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literature
- Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Vol. 3, 4). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1896, p. 145 .
- Karl Emsbach, Max Tauch : Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Neuss district (= series of publications of the Neuss district. 13, ZDB -ID 1357699-9 ). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1986.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 23.7 " N , 6 ° 38 ′ 44.2" E