St. Sebastian (Kerpen)

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St. Sebastian, view from the south

St. Stephan and St. Sebastian is a Roman Catholic branch church in the Rhineland-Palatinate community of Kerpen (Eifel) . It belongs to the parish community of Üxheim, Nohn, Oberehe, Walsdorf and Niederehe of the Deanery Vulkaneifel. The one-pillar church from the 16th century is a listed monument .

history

After his marriage in 1506 with Margaretha von Sombreff, Count Dietrich IV. Von Manderscheid - Schleiden had a chapel built on the slope southeast under his Kerpen Castle, which was also to serve as the village church. The one-pillar church was the successor to another castle chapel, because there were castle chaplains in Kerpen as early as the 13th century . It was consecrated to Saints Stephen and Sebastian .

Probably still renovated in 1645 , the small sacred building was spared from destruction by the troops of Louis XIV during the War of the Palatinate Succession - in contrast to the Kerpen castle complex . Renovated and partially redesigned again in 1903 and most recently in 1975/76, three masses are celebrated there every week. The church has had the right to weekly Sunday mass since 1703.

architecture

Star vault of the choir

The former castle chapel is a Gothic building from the early 16th century. On their church forecourt there is a war memorial that commemorates the fallen Kerpeners of the two world wars. The sacred building is a one-pillar church, which means that the vault of its 10.12 meter long and 7.58 meter wide nave is supported by a single central column . The Kerpen column stands on an octagonal base , which is decorated with a holy water font and a relief figure carrying a shield . The closed choir has a clear width of 7.08 meters and is 4.30 meters deep. It is spanned by a star vault with brightly painted keystones . The middle one shows a Madonna with baby Jesus as Queen of Heaven sitting on a crescent moon. Other keystones show the coat of arms of the Counts of Manderscheid.

Furnishing

Today's furnishings are a good example of rural baroque . Examples of this are not only the three altars , but also the pews (probably from 1681) and the gilded rococo - pulpit from the year 1789th

The high altar made of wood with elaborately carved leaves and cartilage dates from 1791. Between four narrow columns with Corinthian capitals , its central niche shows an oil painting with the Holy Family , which dates from the previous altar from 1665.

The two side altars are dedicated to the two church patrons. Her oil paintings show her martyrdom and were delivered by master Osterspey from Antweiler before 1778. There are two reliquary shrines on the Sebastianus altar , but nothing more is known about them.

The little church now has two steel bells. They replaced the two previous bells, one of them from 1872, which was lost in the Second World War .

literature

  • Andreas Britz: A cardinal and his building idea. Nikolaus von Kues and the one-pillar churches in the Eifel. In: Rheinische Denkmalpflege . Vol. 53, No. 3, 2016, ISSN  0342-1805 , pp. 173-184, here pp. 179-181.
  • Peter Schug (edit.): History of the parishes of the deaneries of Adenau, Daun, Gerolstein, Hillesheim and Kelberg that belonged to the former Eifel dean of Cologne (= history of the parishes of the Diocese of Trier. Volume 5). Commission publisher of the diocese archives, Trier 1956 ( excerpts online in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .).
  • Christoph Wendt: The secret treasures of the Eifel churches. 27 voyages of discovery. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8403-3344-6 , pp. 124-131 ( excerpts from Google Books ).

Web links

Commons : St. Sebastian  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Vulkaneifel district. Mainz 2020, p. 32 (PDF; 4.6 MB).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Entry on Sankt Sebastian in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on September 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ Andreas Britz: A cardinal and his building idea. Nikolaus von Kues and the one-pillar churches in the Eifel. 2016, p. 180.
  4. ↑ a b Christoph Wendt: The secret treasures of the Eifel churches. 2013, p. 130.

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 41.7 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 54.2 ″  E