Way chapel Lind

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Way chapel Lind

The Lind Wegekapelle is located in the Lind part of the Boisheim district of the city of Viersen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Building

The chapel is a neo-Romanesque brick building with a cross-shaped floor plan. Two round pillars made of sandstone support the roof of the entrance portal. On the outside above the portal there is a figure of the crucified Jesus and above the portal gable there is an inscription tablet.

history

In 1911/12, a good twenty years later, a chapel was built in Lind to commemorate the cyclone of July 1, 1891 . Albert Erkens (born 1867) and Johann Kothes and Franz Neuenhofen, who were the same age, got the idea for the building from a trip. At the eight courtyards in Lind there was always a desire to build a chapel as a thank you for not having happened to the local people. A farming family made the property available. The financing was borne by the residents of the Honschaft themselves, a total of 19 families and individuals. The building contractor Wilhelm Looser built the chapel. The Klever sculptor Brüx created the altar and the Pietà. The chapel is dedicated to the " Sorrowful Mother of God ". A thank you mass is celebrated every July 1st to this day. In 1986 the chapel community was brought into being. The chapel has been registered as an architectural monument in the local monument protection list since July 1st, 1986 under registration number 111 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Sävert: Lind 01.07.1891.
  2. ^ City of Viersen: Wegekapelle monument.
  3. ↑ Manfred Baum: Prayer room in Boisheim-Lind: Thanks chapel after a violent cyclone. In: Niederrhein-Zeitung , June 15, 2012

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 16.6 ″  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 23.2 ″  E