Anastasia Chapel (Benediktbeuern)
The Anastasia Chapel is the baroque chapel of the Benediktbeuern monastery in Benediktbeuern, built in honor of the martyr Anastasia . The chapel is located in the northeast of the former monastery church of St. Benedict. It was built from 1751 to 1753 to contain the relics of Anastasia .
history
The renaissance chapel
The first Anastasia Chapel in Benediktbeuern was built in 1606 by Abbot Johann Halbherr to meet the increasing frequency of pilgrimages to the relics of St. Anastasia to offer space. This renaissance chapel had three altars. The main altar painting came from Elias Greuter from Weilheim . In addition to the relics, numerous donated treasures were also kept in a cupboard in this chapel. In 1675 a silver traffic light and an eternal light were added, donated by Johann Ignaz Mandl.
The Kochelsee miracle
The origin of the present chapel lies in the so-called “Kochelsee miracle”: In 1704, during the War of the Spanish Succession, the monastery and the surrounding villages were saved from the approaching enemy troops by a prayer addressed to Anastasia. In the hard winter of the war, the Austrian and Tyrolean troops were about to cross the frozen waters of Kochelsee , Loisach and the surrounding moorland in order to attack the monastery. On January 28, the eve of the feast day of St. Anastasia, the monks prayed and that same afternoon a strong foehn wind broke in and thawed the bog and ice within a few hours, so that the troops had to break off their attack. Abbot Leonhard Hohenauer had the new chapel built out of gratitude.
present
The chapel was restored by Alban and Antonie Wolf between 1964 and 1968. After severe damage from moisture and ice, the chapel was emergency renovated and is not fully accessible today.
Building description and equipment
The design of the bright chapel came from Johann Michael Fischer , the interior decoration of stucco marble pilasters and cornices with magnificent rocailles came from Johann Michael Feuchtmayer . The main altar with columns, putti and the two assistant figures of St. Margaretha and St. Gorgonius come from Feuchtmayer and his colleague Aegid Verhelst .
The ceiling fresco with the Trinity, Mary, martyr's palm and angel choirs comes from the fresco artist Johann Jakob Zeiller from Reutte in Tyrol .
The two asymmetrical side altars with numerous putti and especially the elegantly smiling angel figures are by Ignaz Günther .
The three altar leaves were painted by Jakob Amigoni . On the main altar sheet, Anastasia is depicted as an intercessor against head and nervous diseases. The picture of the right side altar ("Guardian Angel Altar") was then exchanged in 1804 for a guardian angel picture by Martin Knoller .
In the center of the chapel is the main shell of St. Anastasia, which was originally kept in S. Maria in Organo near Verona and came to Benediktbeuern in 1053. The silver bust was made for her in 1725 in Munich.
literature
- Leo Weber: Parish Church of St. Benedikt and Anastasia Chapel in Benediktbeuern . Kunstverlag Peda , Passau 2000. (PEDA art guide No. 490/2000.) ISBN 978-3-89643-148-6
Web links
- Information from the parish community Benediktbeuern about St. Anastasia
- the Anastasia Chapel. In: arch INFORM .
- Photos of the furnishings in the Anastasia Chapel, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database .
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef Hemmerle : The Benedictine Abbey Benediktbeuern. Germania Sacra NF 28. De Gruyter, p. 43
Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 28.3 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 58.1" E