Epiphany Chapel (Memmingen)

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The Epiphany Chapel

The Dreikönigskapelle is a secular chapel in Memmingen in Upper Swabia .

location

The corner house is at the intersection of Kalchstrasse / An der Kappel in the ensemble-protected area of ​​the Stauferstadt with the address Kalchstrasse 29. To the west of it is the Gasthaus zum Schwanen , across the street from Kalchstrasse is the Gasthaus zum Weisse Ross .

history

The chapel was founded in 1399. In the same year, the rich, childless Memmingen citizen Nikolaus Tagbrecht donated an apartment for four or more poor people near the chapel. In 1405 the chapel was incorporated into the Lauben parish church by Bishop Eberhard von Augsburg . The chapel was renewed in 1484. Until the Reformation in Memmingen , she had her own chaplain . During the War of the Palatinate Succession , ten companies of English troops were camped in and around Memmingen, most of which consisted of French Huguenots. For this reason, a service in French was held in the chapel for some time. The clock that used to be on the turret was brought into the Kalchtor in 1812 and installed there. After secularization , the chapel was sold in October 1812 to the landlord of the Weißes Ross inn opposite , who set up a horse stable there. In 1837 the house was converted into a brewery. After that the building was used as a residential building. The three-story gabled house has four upper floor windows. On the second floor, the remainder of the former turret is a three-sided bay window on a pyramid bracket. On the lower part of this console facing Kalchstrasse, you can read the modern number 1484, which is based on an old model. The ground floor is currently being used for retail and the upper floors are used as residential and office space.

The altar, which used to be in the chapel, is now in the Strigel Museum in the former Antonite monastery .

Dreikönigskapellenstiftung

The seal from 1450

The Dreikönigskapellenstiftung emerged from Nikolaus Tagbrecht's foundation during his lifetime. It consisted of two lakeside houses and a barn and court yard . In addition, the founder bought 21 Jauchert farmland and the entire village of Lauben near Memmingen. The income from this was to flow to the foundation, which initially provided apartments for four poor middle-class families and built a chapel. It was also planned to use the income to pay a chaplain who would read the eternal mass for Klaus Tagbrecht and take care of the spiritual support for the residents of the lake houses. After the founder's death, his cousin and main heir, Hans Tagbrecht, was to act as the caretaker and organizer of the foundation. He was assisted by four city councilors as a control body, to whom Hans Tagbrecht had to submit an annual report. When Hans Tagbrecht dies, the chairmanship of the foundation should preferably go to one of his descendants. During his lifetime, the founder placed the foundation de facto under the sovereignty of the city council, under which it is still located today. The chairman of the foundation is the mayor , the college of four consists of the foundation committee of the city council.

In 2008 the foundation had a budget of 708,700 euros in the administrative budget and 236,190 euros in the property budget , in 2010 683,200 euros in the administrative budget and 182,500 euros in the property budget.

seal

The seal of the Dreikönigskapelle contains the shield and coat of arms of Nikolaus Tagbrecht, the founder of the chapel. The shield shows a six-pointed star above a six-mountain. The seal inscription reads: SIGILLUM CAPELLAE SANCT TRIUM REGUM.

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Bavarian art monuments. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 25 .
  • Joachim Berger: Spital and Seelhaus. Origin and change of charitable foundations for the salvation of the soul using the example of the Dreikönigskapelle and Vöhlins Klösterle in the imperial city of Memmingen . In: Uli Braun , Heimatpflege Memmingen eV (Hrsg.): Memminger Geschichtsblätter . Yearbook 1993/1996. Historical Association, 1998, ISSN  0539-2896 , p. 61-125 .

Web links

Commons : Dreikönigskapelle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Döderlein (Ed.): Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826-1892. Published by B. Hartnig, Memmingen 1894, p. 10.
  2. ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria - Swabia. Series I, Issue 4. Peter Blickle, Memmingen, p. 219.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Döderlein (Ed.): Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826-1892. Published by B. Hartnig, Memmingen 1894, p. 202.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Döderlein (Ed.): Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826-1892. Published by B. Hartnig, Memmingen 1894, p. 138.
  5. ↑ Friedrich Döderlein (Ed.): Memminger Chronik des Friedrich Clauss, covering the years 1826-1892. Published by B. Hartnig, Memmingen 1894, p. 135.
  6. ^ Heimatpflege Memmingen eV (Ed.): Memminger Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook 1993/1996. Memminger Zeitung-Verlagsdruckerei GmbH, Memmingen 1998, ISSN  0539-2896 , p. 68.
  7. ^ Heimatpflege Memmingen eV (Ed.): Memminger Geschichtsblätter. Yearbook 1993/1996. Memminger Zeitung-Verlagsdruckerei GmbH, Memmingen 1998, ISSN  0539-2896 , pp. 72 to 73.
  8. ↑ Budget statutes for the foundations administered by the city of Memmingen for the budget year 2008. (PDF; 72 kB) Retrieved on April 8, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Budget statutes for the foundations administered by the city of Memmingen for the financial year 2010. (PDF; 35 kB) Accessed on April 8, 2012 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 3.2 ″  E