Termeline Chapel Ollesheim

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Termeline Chapel Ollesheim

The Termeline Chapel is a church building between Eschweiler via Feld and Nörvenich in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The chapel is located on Gut Ollesheim , a hamlet that used to have three farms. Today the estate and the Engelshof are still part of it, each with ancillary buildings and workers' houses. The Termeline Chapel is located directly on Landesstrasse 263, next to it the rectory .

history

The present chapel was built in 1880 after the old parish church was demolished in 1857 due to its dilapidation. Together with the neighboring Oberbolheim , Ollesheim formed a parish that was mentioned in the Liber valoris around 1300 . It was donated to the Antoniterkloster in Cologne in 1441 . Until the abolition of the monastery by the French in 1808, St. Termelines and St. Antonius in Oberbolheim were incorporated into the Antoniterkonvent.

According to local tradition, proselytizing the surrounding area started from here. The Irish Scottish monk Termelines or Timerlin worked in Ollesheim. He is said to have been buried in the abandoned church. Until the end of the 18th century, the grave was the destination of pious pilgrims who fetched water and earth here. Both water and healing earth were used against consumption and diarrhea .

Even before Duke Gerhard von Jülich gave the parish to Ollesheim, the Antonites had large holdings of farms, lands and tithe in the area for a long time. In Ollesheim they owned the small Tönneshauf , the small Antoniterhof. Every year, 136 Malter grains of various types, two mutton and two calves and four gold guilders were leased from here to the Cologne monastery. In 1802 the Antonite branch in Cologne was closed and the property was sold by the domain administration.

A statue discovered in 1956 as “the earliest surviving Cologne sculpture” has gone to the Cologne Museum Schnütgen as the Ollesheim Madonna from the 13th century . It has stood in Ollesheim for centuries.

The Ollesheim estate was sold in 1887 by the heirs of the owner Winand Heuser to the director of the then Düren sugar factory , Leopold Peill. The descendants still manage the estate today . When it was sold at the time, the chapel and the small cemetery remained in the possession of the Heuser community of heirs.

The church was entered on April 22, 1985 in the list of monuments of the municipality of Nörvenich under No. 26.

  • The Ollesheim Madonna

  • Medusa head at the chapel

  • Gravestone at the chapel

literature

Web links

Commons : Termelineskapelle Ollesheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 39.3 ″  E