50°55′59″N 6°57′45″E / 50.93301°N 6.96261°E St. Maria Lyskirchen is one of twelve Romanesque churches in Cologne, Germany.
50°55′59″N 6°57′45″E / 50.93301°N 6.96261°E St. Maria Lyskirchen is one of twelve Romanesque churches in Cologne, Germany.
St. Maria Lyskirchen is the smallest of the twelve Romanesque churches in Cologne.[1] It was founded in 948, and the present building dates from 1210 to 1220, with some later additions in the Gothic style.[2] The upper parts of the west front were rebuilt in the 19th century.[3] The church is in the form of a three-aisled basilica, with a chancel flanked by two towers, only one of which was constructed to its full height, and an eastern apse.[3] The building received only minor damage during the wars.[1]
The church has a sculptured Romanesque portal,[4] and a cycle of 13th century ceiling paintings. Rediscovered in the 19th century, they are unique in Cologne and show stories from the Old and New Testaments.[2] The church contains the "Schiffermadonna" (Seaman's Madonna), a wooden statue of 1420.[5] A triptych by Joos van Cleve, with a central panel of the Lamentation, was sold in 1812; a few years later it was replaced with a copy by Benedikt Beckenkamp, which remains in the church.[6]
