To St. Joseph (Dorthausen)
The chapel of St. Joseph is located in the Rheindahlen -Dorthausen district in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Dorthausen 35. It belongs to the parish of St. Helena Rheindahlen.
The chapel was built in 1900. It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach on June 2, 1987 under No. D 007 .
architecture
The chapel is made entirely of brick over a rectangular floor plan and has a slate-covered gable roof. The building is largely unadorned.
A graceful ridge turret sits on the roof with a bell house, a crowned wrought-iron cross and a weathercock. Two pointed arch windows open on the long sides. The facade also shows neo-Gothic forms in the pointed arch portal . The gable triangle is given an ornamental frame by staggered bricks. In the central niche of the gable is a figure of a saint. The facade is flanked by two brick turrets.
See also
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
swell
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 59.4 " N , 6 ° 22 ′ 43.5" E