St. Servatius Chapel (Bad Honnef)

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The St. Servatius Chapel is located about 7 km from the city center of Bad Honnef in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district on a forest clearing on the Schmelztalstraße ( L 144 ) leading to the Aegidienberg district of Himberg near the Logebach . It stands as a monument under monument protection . The Servatiushof belongs to the chapel .

history

According to legend, the St. Servatius Chapel was built by the Lords of Löwenburg because a noblewoman got lost in the forest and found her way home in a wonderful way. However, the fact that the chapel is not mentioned in the old Löwenburg official accounts speaks against this. The patronage of the chapel, however, undoubtedly suggests a great age. A first documentary mention of the chapel can be found in an inquiry book from 1582, in which the so-called Servatiushof belonging to the chapel was reported that its lease income was intended for the maintenance of the chapel. Around 1700, the then Honnef pastor Franz Xaver Trips reported that the Honnef and Aegidienbergers in a procession twice a year on May 13th ( Servatius Festival / "Hagelfeier") and on the anniversary of the consecration on the 1st Sunday after Aegidius (September 1st) would move to St. Servatius Chapel. In 1751 the chapel had completely collapsed and a new building had started, which was completed in 1755 (the year is above the window next to the main entrance).

At the beginning of the 19th century the buildings were auctioned and so the chapel building came into the possession of the parish of Honnef. The Servatiushof, in which eight people lived in a residential building in 1843, was acquired by the civil parish of Honnef in 1858. The chapel was badly damaged in the Second World War . In 1950 the volunteer fire brigade in Honnef renovated the chapel on their own. In 1951, for the re-inauguration of the chapel, Bishop Lemmens from Roermond presented a Servatius relic for the chapel, which the city of Maastricht had given him. This is kept in the Honnef parish church of St. Johann Baptist . In 1980 extensive renovation work was carried out on the chapel. The Servatiushof is now the official residence of the city forester. The chapel was entered in the monuments list of the city of Bad Honnef on December 23, 1991.

According to old tradition, every year in May and September, believers from Honnef (via Servatiusweg ) and Aegidienberg march in procession to the St. Servatius Chapel.

description

The chapel is a single-nave, yellowish plastered quarry stone building with a narrower choir, in the clear 14.60 m long and 5.90 m wide. The choir of the chapel, especially the triumphal arch , probably still belongs to the late Romanesque period. The rest of the choir and the major parts of the nave walls are late Gothic from the 15th to 16th centuries. The nave has undivided pointed arch windows , the choir closed on three sides has small arched windows. A roof hewn to the west stretches over both components with a roof turret, a wrought-iron cross and a spire .

The ceiling painting (mirror) in the nave shows the Lamb of God in the style of the 19th century. During the renovation in 1980, the chapel was given a neo-Gothic altar. The baroque sculpture of St. Servatius in the wall niche to the right of the modern reliquary has been preserved from the old furnishings . A high quality oil painting in the left aisle, the "Mocking Christ", the work of a Flemish master, was transferred from the St. Servatius Chapel to the Honnef parish church of St. Johann Baptist after the last renovation. In front of the chapel, the city forester has collected boundary stones from the city forest (the Logebach flowing past is an old boundary brook) and set up a medieval stone cross that used to stand on one of the narrow paths to the chapel.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Servatius (Bad Honnef)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 154
  2. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 86 ( digitized version ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 25.2 ″  E