Clement Chapel (Eisenach)
The Clement Chapel is a small chapel in Eisenach . The monument probably dates from the 13th century.
history
The chapel consecrated to Saint Clement was first mentioned in a document in 1295 in connection with a house for lepers originally located here . It is believed that when Landgrave Hermann I founded the St. Catherine's Monastery in 1214, the lepers were banished from the hospital there in front of the Nikolaitor , where the leper house and chapel were built.
The chapel was used for church services until the 17th century. The building was badly damaged when French troops passed through in 1813. It has been used as a wood store and goat shed for over 40 years. In 1866, when the chapel belonged to the Sankt-Annen-Hospital and its foundation, it was restored under Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach . From 1906, however, the chapel was left to decay again until it was renewed in 1929 by the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Eisenach. In 2003 and 2004 the chapel was extensively renovated by the Sankt-Annen-Stiftung.
building
The walls, the windows on the north and east sides as well as some details date from the construction of the chapel in the 13th century. The building consists of two areas inside: the main room (ship) is only 5.92 meters long and 4.47 meters wide; the adjoining choir is 5.5 meters long and 2.80 meters wide. Today's access is from the north, at the beginning of Langensalzaer Straße. The chapel has several pointed arched, but rather narrow windows that are filled with colored glass panes. A bell tower is placed in the middle of the tiled roof. Inside the chapel you can still see some Romanesque building remains from the time it was built.
When the French withdrew through Eisenach in 1813, it suffered considerable damage, and it is thanks to the management of the St. Anne's Hospital and Privy Councilor Thon, the “Commisair of the Poor,” that the chapel was repaired for worship. In this context, the outer walls were also supported by four buttresses, an extension on the north side was removed and a wooden flat ceiling was installed inside .
A cadastral plan from 1840 shows the chapel surrounded by a hospital building - the "Manners' House" and other outbuildings in the middle of a meadow and garden area, the former cemetery of the hospital.
As a result of the city expansion, combined with railroad and road alignment, from 1904 the Clemensstrasse and Langensalzaer Strasse were planned directly next to the church, which led to structural damage to the masonry of the chapel on several occasions. In 1965 the building was re-covered, plastered and renovated.
The last extensive renovation of the chapel was carried out on behalf of the "Sankt-Annen-Stiftung Eisenach" in the years 2003 to 2004. Cracks in the walls and infestation with the real dry rot made the renovation and stabilization of the building necessary. During the renovation, an open-pored renovation plaster was applied which, due to its diffusion properties, can let the moisture out of the masonry. The plastering had become necessary in order to maintain the stability of the structure, and additional threaded rods were inserted into the masonry to stabilize it. To drain the foundations, which are up to 90 centimeters thick , drainage stones and knots were placed around the structure so that moisture can rise and drain away . Despite constant vibrations from road traffic on Bundesstraße 19 , which passes the building, no more static cracks have appeared in the building since the measure, even if the plaster applied in 2003 showed the first cracks at the beginning of 2014.
See also
literature
- Helmut Scherf: Buildings and art monuments in the city and district of Eisenach - Part II - City of Eisenach (Eisenach writings on local history, volume 15) Eisenach 1981, pp. 33–36.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plaster for the best protection . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , accessed on March 17, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 36.8 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 10 ″ E