St. Vincentius (Asperden)

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Parish Church of St. Vincentius

The St. The Catholic parish church St. Vincentius , consecrated to Vincent of Valencia , is a listed church building in Asperden , a district of Goch in the Kleve district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

There is evidence of a church in Asperden since 1255. The successor church, built in the 15th century, was destroyed and was completely demolished after the current church was built. She was across the street. The hexagonal, neo-Romanesque central building with a semicircular choir and a western tower in front was built in 1891 by Carl Rüdell and Richard Odenthal and rebuilt in a simplified manner after severe war damage.

Furnishing

  • A stone relief from around 1520/30 was taken from the former Cistercian monastery Graefenthal . It was new in later times passed .
  • A crucifixion relief is located in a niche with a renaissance frame closed with a segmental arch . It shows the mourners and a procession of Cistercian nuns. Above right is the impotence of Mary and above that the sacrifice of Isaac, as a prefiguration of the crucifixion.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Vincentius (Asperden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (arr.): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X . Page 32

Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 35.6 "  N , 6 ° 6 ′ 53.6"  E