Frauenberg Chapel (Eichstätt)
The Frauenberg chapel is located on the 500 meter high Frauenberg above Eichstätt .
The forerunner of the chapel is the statue of the Madonna erected in 1720 by Prince-Bishop Johann Anton I. Knebel von Katzenelnbogen . On October 28, 1723, the statue was given a name and initially only protected from the weather by a wooden roof and board walls. Today's chapel was built under Prince-Bishop Johann Anton II von Freyberg in the period 1738/1739 and consecrated in 1751 .
history
At the old age of 74, the gout-suffering Prince-Bishop Johann Anton I. Knebel von Katzenelnbogen from Eichstätt had a statue of the Madonna erected to the east of his residential palace, the Willibaldsburg , as an admirer of Mary . This was soon accepted and venerated by the population.
Legend
Legend has it that the statue was carved from an old, completely dried-out log. This was probably a long time at the entrance to the joiner's workshop at Willibaldsburg when it suddenly sprouted a branch with fresh leaves.
builder
The builder of the chapel is not documented. Based on the assignment of the architectural style, it can probably be assigned to the Eichstätter court building director Gabriel de Gabrieli . Today's sacristan's house, which borders the chapel to the east, was built as a hermitage at the expense of the hermit Paul Jakob Kastner († 1767). A stone tablet on the north side of the building reminds of this.
description
The building consists of a small longitudinally rectangular central room with rounded corners and a double dome. To the east is a side room with an organ gallery built later. Two arched windows on the north and south sides provide the interior with daylight. From the main room vault the view opens through a rectangular opening onto a mirror vault. According to the baroque type, an indirect lighting effect is used here with the help of two oval windows. The interior is strict and straightforward, only the altar niche and the lower dome are decorated with stucco work by Franz Xaver Horneis .
Inscriptions
On the east side of the lower dome there are two coats of arms and name inscriptions of the prince-bishops Johann Anton I. Knebel von Katzenelnbogen and Johann Anton II. Von Freyberg symbolically as the founder and builder of the chapel. Under the coats of arms you can see chronograms that refer to the creation in the period from 1720 to 1739 with the help of Roman numerals:
q V as str VI t h VC sa C ras pr IMI sap I ent I a se D es - e XIMI a C aeptas a VXI t p I etate se CV n DV s
"Which sacred seat the wisdom of the first has established here - the second has increased what has been started with an extraordinarily pious disposition"
Informative
The location of the chapel allows a good view over Eichstätt, the Altmühltal and the Rebdorf monastery .
Way of St. James
The Frauenberg chapel and a stele are part of the new Way of St. James from Eichstätt to Kaisheim / Donauwörth.
Web links
- Way of St. James (PDF; 126 kB)
- Diocese of Eichstätt
- Photos of the chapel furnishings, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database .
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- Frauenberg Chapel. Archived from the original on July 29, 2007 ; accessed on March 22, 2015 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '9.9 " N , 11 ° 10' 44.2" E