St. Pankratius (Odenthal)

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St. Pankratius from the west
View from the northeast

St. Pankratius is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Romanesque architectural style in Odenthal , a municipality in the west of the Rheinisch-Bergischen-Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and equipment

The church was built in the 11th century in the form of a single nave. The gentlemen at Strauweiler Castle had the right of collation . Towards the end of the 12th century, the church was expanded into a flat - roofed three - aisled Romanesque pillar basilica with a four-storey west tower. In 1893/94 the Romanesque choir with its semicircular apse was laid down and a neo-Romanesque extension of two nave bays , transept and choir with semicircular apse was built in its place .

The church has the oldest bell still in use in the Rhineland . The ensemble with the rectory in the historic town center is striking. If you enter the church through the west portal, adorned with a coat of arms relief and the Mother of God with child, a simple church interior with pillars and round arches opens up.

The font from the 12th century is an octagonal granite kettle that rests on pillars. The modern, abstract stained glass windows in the choir , based on designs by Paul Schneider (Brühl), reinforce the meditative character of the church interior. The organ with 23 registers was built in 1977 by Gebr. Oberlinger, Windesheim .

Pictures of the interior of the church

  • Interior with a view of the choir

  • Interior with a view of the organ

  • Organ (1977)

  • Baptismal font (12th century)

  • Choir window after designs by Paul Schneider (1968)

literature

  • David Bosbach: Altenberg. The cathedral and the valley of the Dhünn . Gaasterland-Verlag, 2nd updated edition, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-935873-04-8 .
  • David Bosbach, Randolf Link, Torsten Ehrhardt: Beautiful Altenberg. 750 years of monastery landscape in the valley of the Dünn . Gaasterland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-935873-40-6 .
  • Church leader St. Pankratius Odenthal . Ed. by the Catholic parish of St. Pankratius, Odenthal 2010.

Web links

Commons : St. Pankratius (Odenthal)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia , Volume 1: Rhineland. Darmstadt 1967, p. 525.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 2 ″  E