Blasius Chapel (Dornburg)

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The Blasius Chapel

The Blasiuskapelle is a chapel on the Blasiusberg (outdated also called Clesberg or Blesberg) near the towns of Frickhofen, Dorndorf and Wilsenroth, three of the five districts of the municipality of Dornburg in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Central Hesse .

It is possible that there was a pagan cult site in front of the chapel . A rock found on the elevation was interpreted as a sacrificial stone in the 19th century, on which a channel and several round depressions were carved.

history

The first wooden chapel at this point existed from 630 at the latest and was dedicated to St. Michael . Presumably it was the center of a large parish that was significantly reduced in size at the end of the 9th century by the establishment of the St. Severus Abbey in Gemünden.

By the beginning of the 10th century at the latest, a parish with the Michaelskapelle as the center was established, the cemetery of which was on the mountain. A stone church was built around 1150. Their collators were initially the Counts of Nassau , until Count Heinrich the Rich donated the church to the Teutonic Order in 1231 . The Teutonic Order remained patron saints until the Reformation . Then Prince Moritz Heinrich von Nassau-Hadamar sold the mountain, including the church and all accessories, for 105 Reichstaler on June 21, 1657 to the municipality of Frickhofen.

The church on the Blasiusberg was for a long time the parish church for the surrounding villages of Frickhofen , Dorndorf , Langendernbach , Dorchheim , Mühlbach, Waldmannshausen and since 1667 also for Wilsenroth, before the parish rights were transferred to the then newly built and larger Martinskirche in Frickhofen in 1746. As a result of its reduced importance, the church building fell into disrepair, so that the ducal Nassau government wanted to order the demolition in 1816, but the then Frickhofen pastor and later Bishop of Limburg , Johann Wilhelm Bausch , was able to prevent the demolition.

In 2008 the chapel was vandalized several times by rioters.

Building description

Bottom station of the Way of the Cross to the Blasiusberg

After a fire, a renovation was carried out in 1869, which was modeled on a Romanesque pillar basilica and gave the church its present form. The tower was shortened and transformed into a choir room . This makes it the only remaining larger building structure from the Middle Ages. Blind arches and some smaller parts of the cross vault also come from the original building. In addition, the central nave was extended to the side facing away from the tower and two side aisles were added. The furnishings include a high altar from around 1650, a damaged Romanesque baptismal font and a Baroque St. Mary's altar from the early 18th century. A grave slab of the von Waldmannshausen family from 1526 is placed on the choir wall . Several figures on the interior consoles from the 1950s are in the style of Ernst Barlach .

A way of the cross to the Blasius Chapel with 14 stations in the surrounding forest area was laid out shortly before 1900. From 1953 to 1955, an outdoor altar for open-air services with a memorial to the fallen was built on the plateau.

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Individual evidence

  1. Sebastian Wieschowski: The Eye of God. How a priest monitors his altar with a computer and catches two teenage church molesters . In: DIE ZEIT, No. 24, June 4, 2009

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 41.5 ″  E