Prince Erich Chapel
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The Fürst-Erich-Kapelle is a chapel near Marstetten in the municipality of Aitrach in the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia . It is intended to commemorate the accidental death of Erich von Waldburg-Zeil , then head of the Waldburg-Zeil family , on May 24, 1953 , and is owned by the Princely House.
description
The plain and simple chapel is located in the Marstetten district , west of the Leutkirch – Memmingen railway line and the L 260 to Mooshausen , approx. 300 m north of the Marstetten castle ruins , at the end of the wooden sticks in a mixed forest area .
The blueprint for the building was drawn up shortly after Prince Erich von Waldburg-Zeil's fatal accident in 1953 by Karl Duke Gero von Urach . In the same year the chapel was completed and was inaugurated on October 30, 1953 by the Ottobeurer Abbot Vitalis Maier . It is geosted with a round, not drawn in choir . The cantilevered gable roof of the chapel is covered with wooden shingles and has a roof turret with an onion hood , in which there is a bell. It stands on a foundation with a surrounding drainage . You enter the chapel through an open wrought iron grille with a door. There are four knee benches in the chapel and a cafeteria on the western wall , above which is a fresco by an unknown fresco artist. The initials " IHS ", the abbreviation of the name of Jesus in Greek letters, are attached to the cafeteria .
fresco
The fresco above the cafeteria shows a group of Mounts of Olives. Jesus prays on the night before his crucifixion together with his disciples Simon Peter , John and James in the garden of Gethsemane . In the background of the fresco you can see a large city with partially destroyed buildings. The three disciples are shown sleeping. At the bottom of the fresco it says: “One watches” and underneath it “Father, not mine, but yours be done” ( Lk 22:42). Jesus kneels in the midst of his sleeping disciples. His hands are raised. A person in a blue robe rises above the city with pointing gestures, in front of whose chest a golden goblet hovers. To the right of Jesus, between a mosque and a temple on one side and a church on the other, a head with two horns with a pentagram between them appears . In front of the city gates lie the insignia of the emperor and pope with scepter and crown, key and tiara .
The chapel belongs to the ensemble of four chapels in the municipality of Aitrach.
Plaque
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A memorial plaque is attached to the eastern outer end of the face on which it says:
SIRDH
ILLUSTRISSIMUS PRINCEPS
ERICUS DE WALDBURG AD ZEIL ET TRAUCHBURG
natus die XXI Augusti aD MDCCCIC
obiit the XXIV Maii aD MCMLIII
HOC LOCO MORTIFERO ADFECTUS VULNERE.IN
CUIUS MEMORIAM III OMATIFUSIC GLORIFICETUR
IN
The chapel is the station of the annual community pilgrimage of the Rot-Iller pastoral care unit to Maria Steinbach .
literature
- Manfred Thierer / Ursula Rückgauer: Places of silence: The chapels in the Ravensburg district . Ed .: District Office Ravensburg. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-547-9 , p. 196-197 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ Written statement by the Fürstlich Waldburg-Zeil'sches Gesamtarchiv to user: Memmingen on request from him.
- ↑ SIRDH The most serene Prince Erich von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg, born on August 21, 1899, died on May 24, 1953, was injured at this place with a fatal wound. In his memory and so that God may be glorified in all things, <this chapel> was built in 1953.
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '59.6 " N , 10 ° 4' 39.3" E