St. Pankratius (Koblenz)
The parish church of St. Pankratius is a Catholic church in Koblenz . The parish church in the Niederberg district was built around 1740, incorporating parts of a previous church built in the 11th century, rebuilt in 1806 after the effects of the war and expanded in 1959. It bears the patronage of St. Pancras .
history
A first church in Niederberg was mentioned in an undated document from Archbishop of Trier Egilbert von Ortenburg (1040–1101), in which he gave it to the St. Eucharius Abbey in Trier . In the years 1217/18 it was incorporated into the St. Matthias Abbey (formerly St. Eucharius) . In the late 14th century, the parish in the Engers land chapter included Niederberg, Mülheim im Tal (now Ehrenbreitstein ), Urbar and Simmern . With the construction of the Holy Cross Church , Ehrenbreitstein became independent in 1711, Simmern left in 1826 and Urbar in 1944.
After the church was in poor condition, the new construction of the church began around 1740. During the siege of Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in 1795 by the French Revolutionary Army, the place and the church were affected. The heavily damaged structure was rebuilt in 1802–1806 according to plans by the Nassau building director Seitz. The parsonage to the east was built in 1861 according to plans by the Koblenz architect Hermann Nebel .
After the war damage from 1946–1947, which arose in the Second World War , was repaired, the church was expanded in 1959 according to plans by the architect Gottfried Böhm from Cologne . A sacristy and the north aisle were added. Inside, the church was last renovated in 1980. A new altar was inaugurated on October 5, 1982. In 2004, a prayer and meditation room was set up on the ground floor of the tower. The relics of Saints Sergius and Engelinda were placed in this “Sergius Room” .
Construction and equipment
Outside
The parish church of St. Pankratius is a hall building with a retracted rectangular choir and a Romanesque former choir tower in the east from the time the first church was built. During the reconstruction in 1806, the new three-axis nave was built with large arched windows. The structure with pilaster strips is preserved on the north wall . During the expansion in 1959, the ship was extended by another axis in the west. A lower aisle was added below the windows on the north side. At the same time, a terrace was created around the church.
The five-story east tower has a cornice on each floor . In the bell room on the upper floor there are two bi-ori windows installed on each side , which were probably replaced during the reconstruction in 1806.
Inside
Inside, the nave and choir are flat-roofed. 1959 two superimposed were at the new western inner wall galleries of concrete installed. The ground floor in the tower has a groin vault , which was probably formerly the choir of the medieval church. Here is a neo-Gothic reliquary , created in 1872 by the Koblenz carpenter Ernest, for the heads of St. Sergius and Engelinda. The relics were taken over from the demolished abbey church in Beselich in 1806 .
The high altar dates from the late 17th century and was sold here in 1842 from the abandoned parish church of St. Servatius in Güls . The baroque high altar with two smooth and one coiled column and a pilaster on each side is painted in white and gold. In a central niche he has a fully plastic statue of the Mother of God with the child and in the excerpt an oval picture of St. Laurentius above the Niederberger Church, created in 1847 by Johann Jakob Verflassen. The marble altar table dates from 1966.
The pulpit in the south-west corner of the nave was taken over from the Koblenz Franciscan Church in the middle of the 17th century . The polygonal pulpit with figures of the four evangelists between small spiral columns has polished gold-plated ornamentation in the auricle style and a blue marbled body .
In addition, in the church at the west end of the nave there is a grave slab made of gray marble for the electoral councilor Johann Andreas Pauli († 1730) and a war memorial made of light sandstone in the form of a neo-baroque epitaph with a relief of St. George on horseback, holding a dragon kills.
High altar
pulpit
War memorial
Grave slab
Bells
In the tower houses four bells of bronze . Specifically, these are the Marienglocke (b) created by the Christian Claren foundry from Sieglar in 1872 and three other bells (es-ges-as), created in 1954 by the Albert Junker bell foundry from Brilon .
Parish community
St. Pankratius is part of the " Parish Community Koblenz right side of the Rhine" founded in October 2005, which also includes the Assumption of Mary on the Asterstein , St. Nicholas in Arenberg , St. Peter and Paul in Pfaffendorf , the Holy Cross Church in Ehrenbreitstein , St. Maximin in Horchheim , St. Aldegundis in Arzheim and St. Martin on Pfaffendorfer Höhe .
Monument protection
The parish church of St. Pankratius is a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Niederberg on Arenberger Strasse .
Since 2002 the parish church of St. Pankratius has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley .
See also
literature
- Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The mundane monuments and the suburbs. (= The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate Volume 1). Munich / Berlin 1954.
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): City of Koblenz. City districts (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Vol. 3, 3). Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish community Koblenz right side of the Rhine in: Diocese of Trier
- ↑ 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 ′ 15.4 " N , 7 ° 37 ′ 43" E