St. Valentin (Krautscheid)

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St. Valentine
View into the choir room

St. Valentin is a Roman Catholic branch church in the local community of Krautscheid in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The choir tower church, which is essentially medieval, is not dated with certainty. The Dehio manual speaks of a Romanesque building, while the art historian Ernst Wackenroder because of the late Gothic ribbed vault in the choir of a building in the Gothic talks. However, this could be a late medieval reconstruction.

The existence of a chapel, still under a Marian patronage , was mentioned in a document in Krautscheid (called Kruisseit ) as early as 1231. A chapel building in Krautscheid was listed in a visitation protocol in 1570. In the course of the 18th century the church was renewed and the nave was possibly redesigned.

With St. Lucia in Hölzchen and To the Holy Three Virgins in Lauperath there are two almost identical medieval choir tower churches in immediately neighboring villages.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland . edited by Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz and Ekkart Klinge, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , p. 515.
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Prüm district . Düsseldorf 1927, p. 175.

Web links

Commons : St. Valentin (Krautscheid)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 49.7 ″  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 45.5 ″  E