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Forschungen zu Haus Horst in Gelsenkirchen
Kirche und Kirchhof
The second volume in the five-volume series on this unusual site focuses on the churchyard and the castle chapel, for which neither pictorial nor cartographic sources have survived. However, based on the results of the excavations, it has been possible to reconstruct its development from a wooden church in the 12th century to its demolition in 1753/1754. According to this findings, it stood in the middle of the outer bailey as a free-standing solitary building – a type of building that is just as rare in Westphalia as the patronage of St Hippolytus. A catalogue of all medieval castle churches, castle chapels and palace chapels in Westphalia provides material for a direct comparison.
The 460 individuals from more than 18 generations buried in the cemetery around the castle chapel were analysed from an anthropological perspective. The investigations, which are by no means commonplace in terms of their scope and completeness, conclude the volume.
