Frauenberg Chapel (Bad Waldsee)
The Frauenbergkapelle is a chapel in Bad Waldsee in the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia .
description
The Frauenberg chapel is located on Frauenbergstrasse, which joins the L 275 and later the B 30 to Gaisbeuren and Ravensburg . It was built in 1471 and donated by the Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee aristocracy as the Church of Our Lady on the Mountain . Shortly after the start of construction, the Augustinian canons of the local monastery demanded that construction be stopped, which then happened. However, the citizens of the city decided to complete the construction with their own funds. The geostete beaver tail covered chapel on the west side of an attached Messner house and a roof turret , where a is the bell from the year 1471 is.
Due to the concerns of the Augustinian canons, the original chapel was not equipped with a baptismal font . The other sacraments could only be administered with the consent of the Augustinians. After completion, the benefices also fell to the Canons' Monastery and eventually it became a branch chapel of the monastery. Opposite the chapel is the chaplain’s house, built in 1617. It was renewed in 1979.
On July 19, 1788, Emperor Joseph II ordered the dissolution of the monastery. In 1790 the emperor ordered the chapel to be closed.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1624, shown in the building bills at a cost of 275 guilders , comes from Hans Zürn the Elder from Waldsee and his sons Martin and Michael. The main character is a crescent moon Madonna , standing on a globe and a crescent moon with baby Jesus, who holds a globe in his hands. The assigned bishop figures are Konrad , the then diocese saint, and Nicholas . In the essay there is a saint Sebastian , reminiscent of a previous brotherhood of Sebastian. Other figures on the high altar are the Apostle James the Elder and the Archangel Michael . Jakobus, because the Jakobsweg - today signposted as Upper Swabian Jakobsweg - leads through Waldsee and there was a Jakobus Brotherhood in the past .
Processions in honor of Our Lady took place here as early as the 15th century. During the Thirty Years War , the reputation of the Madonna grew after some miracles were told to protect the chapel and the place.
In the left side altar there is a representation of St. Nicholas. The duplication results from the fact that this was the altar from the chapel of the Franciscan monastery. Below you can see St. Anna, surrounded by sibyls .
The figure on the right side altar was a Saint Catherine, who was reworked into a Gute Beth, the beatified citizen of Bad Waldsee Elisabeth Achler (1386–1420).
The frescoes come from the Unterschwarzach painter Eustachius Gabriel . In the nave there is a picture of Mary in heaven and, as side frescoes, four Marian feasts for each of the four seasons. The folk altar , ambo and chairs were made by the Ludwigsburg sculptor Michaela Fischer.
The organ comes from the Upper Austrian master organ builder Hieronymus Spiegel , who spent the last years of his life in Waldsee.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Frauenbergkapelle at www.bad-waldsee.de, accessed on September 19, 2017
- ^ Hermann Dettmer: On foot, on horseback -: Pilgrimages in the Ravensburg district. Exhibition in Weingarten Monastery, rooms of the Catholic Academy, September 23 - November 4, 1990. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, 1990, p. 154
- ^ Marc R. Forster: Catholic Revival in the Age of the Baroque. Religious Identity in Southwest Germany, 1550–1750. Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 91
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 55.6 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 55.5 ″ E