Ecumenical St. Hubertus Chapel

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The Ecumenical St. Hubertus Chapel (proper spelling: St. Hubertus Chapel ) in the Forst part of the Scheidegg municipality was built between 1986 and 1988. It is considered to be the oldest ecumenical church in the Allgäu .

The construction of the chapel goes back to the initiative of the Roman Catholic hunter and haulier Xaver Boll, who, as a teenager, collected milk samples for the alpine dairy in Forst, which existed until 1968, and discovered that the village of Forst, unlike the other villages in Scheidegg, did not have a chapel . He has since wanted to change that. On May 30, 1986, he founded a support association with the Protestant Leo Beuschel, also from Forst, who gave a financial contribution, and other supporters, the Ecumenical Chapel Association St. Hubertus eV Forst , which is still the owner of the chapel today. The architect Winfried Ziegler agreed to draw up the construction plans. The Ehrhard Entreß-Berkmann family donated a building site. An ecumenical sponsorship was implemented from the beginning. The foundation stone was laid as early as November 3, 1986, the Catholic festival of St. Hubertus . The construction was financed by helpers from Forst and the surrounding villages and partly implemented with manual work.

The construction project was delayed by the sudden death of the architect Ziegler at the end of 1986. On July 22nd, 1988 a bell and the tower cross were ecumenically blessed. The chapel was inaugurated on September 3, 1988 by the Protestant pastor Peter Bauer and the Catholic pastor Eduard Staudacher and is under the patronage of St. Huberti , the patron saint of hunting, as the initiators were hunters.

The chapel stands on a hill east of Forst in an approximate east-west orientation. The rectangular chapel building has a gable roof and three arched windows on each side. The entrance door on the west side is also rounded, and there is a round window in the gable above the door. On the north side, a small bell tower with an onion dome over the tower lantern is attached to the side between the middle and rear window . The bell in the tower was cast by the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck . A statue of Hubertus by a South Tyrolean sculptor and a crucifixion group by a Mittenwald artist were installed in the chapel.

Weddings , baptisms and devotions take place in the chapel . It is a stop on the Ecumenical Chapel Path around Scheidegg, which was established in 1999 and connects the Protestant Church of the Resurrection, the Catholic St. Gallus Church and 13 chapels around Scheidegg. The chapel association today has 120 members.

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  1. ↑ Allgäuer Zeitung : A boy makes his dream come true. August 12, 2008, accessed online on May 22, 2020
  2. ↑ hubertuskapelle.de , accessed on May 22, 2020 [1]
  3. ↑ jakobusweg.de: Kapellenweg Scheidegg , accessed online on May 22, 2020

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 6.3 "  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 56.8"  E