Brunnhaus Chapel

Brunnhaus Chapel
Main well with chapel
Data
place	Bad Reichenhall
builder	Designed by Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller
Construction year	1838-1849
height	472 m
Floor space	245 m²
Coordinates	47 ° 43 '15.7 "  N , 12 ° 52' 39"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '15.7 "  N , 12 ° 52' 39"  E

The Brunnhaus Chapel (also: Salzbrunn- or Salinenkapelle ) in Bad Reichenhall is part of the old salt works and is under monument protection , the entire complex of the old salt works with chapel is under ensemble protection .

Church patron is St. Rupert , who, according to legend, is the rediscoverer of the city's brine springs. Patron saint is St. Sebastian , patron saint of fountains.

location

The chapel is located on the upper floor of the main well of the old salt works in Bad Reichenhall .

history

After plans of Duke George the Rich , almost all boiling brought the city into his possession, let Albrecht IV. The investments of the Saline fundamentally improve and Erasmus Grasser a wolgezürte build chapel with three altars. The chapel was built at right angles to the fountain house and had a wooden roof turret for two bells. In 1520 the sons of Albrecht, Wilhelm IV. And Ludwig X. founded an eternal daily mass and endowed it with 64 florins annually from the salt income. In the National Museum in Munich there is still a winged altar from this period, which most likely comes from Gordian Guckh from Laufen .

Elector Maximilian I had extensive renovations and extensions made between 1616 and 1621, during which the chapel was partially demolished. In 1822 a new high altar was built with a picture of Johann Anton Huber , which - like the old chapel and all the salt works - was destroyed in the town fire in 1834 .

With the reconstruction of the new, now old salt works , a new salt works chapel was also built. According to King Ludwig I's will , the saltworks should become a monumental and representative facility, designed by Friedrich von Schenk and Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller and built from 1838. Ohlmüller was probably primarily responsible for the design of the Brunnhaus chapel and the artistic design of the buildings. He did not live to see the completion, he died in April 1839.

In 1849 the chapel was blessed by the Salinenkaplan and consecrated including the high altar on September 6, 1851 by Archbishop Carl August Graf von Reisach .

construction

Roof of the Brunnhaus Chapel

The chapel crowns - slightly set back - the main fountain. This red brick building with Nagelfluh structures shows both neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic forms. The fountain house has four large gate openings on each side and four coupled windows above. The side wings are exaggerated by the gate building from Nagelfluh in the middle, which is very similar to the portal of the church in St. Zeno . An outside staircase leads to a stepped portal, above which there is a coupled window, which with a round arch opening and blind arcades allows the architectural forms to flow out in the gable. The dominating feature is the rosette in the central building of the chapel, which is framed by the wing approaches of the aisles . At the front of the building there is a dome window, a clock and blind arcades. The individual components - green on the roofs, red on the bricks and white on the decorative shapes - are color-coordinated. The chapel is located on the second floor of the main fountain house, an opposing staircase leads up in the central building.

top, roof

The colored glazed tiles of the roof are particularly eye-catching in the morning or evening sun and clearly set the chapel apart from the neighboring buildings.

inner space

The interior is designed as a three-aisled hall with two yokes , which are separated by pilasters with half-column templates . The organ gallery is located in the western yoke, to which spiral stairs lead in the flight of the aisles. There are additional galleries above the aisles. This creates a vestibule under the organ loft, which is separated from the main nave by a grid. A semicircular apse closes the main nave, the side aisles are just closing. The Untersberg marble used for the floor comes from the marble quarries in Grödig , which were then privately owned by King Ludwig .

Furnishing

inner space

In the stairwell there is a baroque way of the cross from the chapel in Achthal . The interior shows painted keystones as well as ornamental paintings with cross symbols and flower tendrils, in the central nave white-blue diamonds and a salt barrel, in the vaults of the side aisles guild emblems. The painting was created by Joseph Schwarzmann , and Moritz von Schwind is mentioned in the literature, but has not yet been proven. The three windows in the apse come from the royal court painting in Munich . Moritz von Schwind is said to have designed these windows. In the middle they show Christ as risen with the flag of victory, on the honor side on the right the church patron Rupert of Salzburg with a salt barrel, on the left St. Virgil . The altar with candlestick bench, top in the central niche for the rotating tabernacle and six candlesticks is made of white marble and dates from 1904. In the side aisles there is Mary with the child on the left and St. Joseph on the right . Twelve apostle candlesticks are attached to the walls, twelve guild poles as well as two lanterns and two angel poles from different style periods are attached to the benches . They were used or worn by the guilds of the Pfannhauser, Holzscheiber, Cooper and Pusher on church occasions. This includes the guild cross from 1780 with the initials of the Zechmeister and the guild sign from 1850. The organ from March from Munich from 1904 surrounds the large wheel window with its prospectus . The original two bells were cast by Anton Oberascher from Bad Reichenhall in 1841.

Todays use

The Brunnhaus Chapel is usually locked, but a look inside is possible during the opening times of the main fountain. Regular services are not held there, but the chapel is used several times a year for church celebrations.

Web links

Commons : Brunnhauskapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

• Johannes Lang : History of Bad Reichenhall , Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-759-7 ; 2009, pp. 564-567
• Walter Brugger: The churches of the parish St. Nikolaus (Bad Reichenhall) , Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Regensburg, 2nd edition 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Brugger: The churches of the parish of St. Nikolaus (Bad Reichenhall)
2. ^ Wilhelm Lossen: History and description [...] of the Reichenhaller Saline . 1968