Barbara Chapel (Langensteinbach)

The ruins of the St. Barbara Chapel

The St. Barbara Chapel is a chapel ruin on a hill south of the Karlsbad district of Langensteinbach in the Karlsruhe district in the immediate vicinity of the Langensteinbach castle ruins .

The Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation named the chapel Monument of the Month for April 2014 .

history

A plaque describing the history of the chapel

The Barbara Chapel was built around 1330 by monks from the Herrenalb monastery. In the middle of the 15th century, the chapel was a place of pilgrimage because there was an image of St. Barbara there, which was supposed to work miracles. With the Reformation in 1556, pilgrimages slowly lost their importance, only to come to an end quickly between 1590 and 1610. The chapel fell into disrepair until it was rebuilt in the 17th century.

In the Palatinate War of Succession , the roof was damaged and the roof structure rotten. Even before the renovation work was completed, there was further significant damage during the War of the Spanish Succession in 1707 and it was repaired in 1724. The building was abandoned around 1730 and then served as a quarry and material depot. In 1796, during the First Coalition War, Napoleon's troops removed the last lead sheets from the tower roof and cast bullets from them . In 1797 the tower of the chapel was renewed and in 1903 the whole building. The tower has been accessible again since 1966 and has served as an observation tower ever since . In 2009 the chapel was renovated.

In a fenced-in area around the chapel, regional markets took place several times a year from the pilgrimage until 1816.

At the ruins, services are occasionally held in the open air.

Legend

There are numerous legends about the Barbara Chapel. For example, there should be an underground passage that stretches to Ettlingen .

literature

• Horst Sommer: St. Barbara Chapel Langensteinbach, history and stories . Carlsbad 1997.

Web links

Commons : Barbarakapelle (Langensteinbach)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Detailed description on bauforschung-bw.de
• Legends of the Barbarakirche near Langensteinbach at Wikisource
• Article St. Barbara-Kapelle in Stadtwiki Karlsruhe with further pictures
• St. Barbara Chapel in Karlsbad-Langensteinbach: A place full of history . In: Mitteilungsblatt: Municipality of Karlsbad , August 18, 2009 Municipality of Karlsbad , accessed on June 15, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Kapelle, observation tower in Langensteinbach on the private website frs-sport.beepworld.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 22 "  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 47.9"  E