Frauenberg Chapel (Weltenburg)
The Frauenbergkapelle , a baroque church from 1713/14, is located above the Benedictine abbey Weltenburg in the area of the Lower Bavarian town of Kelheim .
history
The first chapel on the Frauenberg was built around 700, shortly after the Weltenburg monastery was founded, on the foundations of a Roman temple. Today's baroque building was built in 1713 and 1714 by the Kelheim master builder Caspar Öttl on a medieval substructure. The facilities in the rococo style created by the sculptor Franz Anton New from Prüfening to 1755th
description
The chapel comprises a two-bay nave and a single-bay, wicker-arch closed choir , which is slightly drawn in and oriented to the east. On the north side there is a flank tower with a hood and a lantern, which is hardly higher than the saddle-roofed nave . The latter was placed on a medieval substructure so that the actual church interior is one storey high above the ground.
Inside is rich Rococo furnishings by Franz Anton Neu. The chancel, flanked by two pilasters , contains the two-column high altar . This shows a late Gothic miraculous image of the Mother of God with the baby Jesus , which is flanked by figures of the holy bishops Rupert and Wolfgang . The Holy Trinity is shown in the extract . The choir fresco shows Mary as the rising dawn . Another ceiling fresco is located in the flat dome of the nave . It shows the "Bavarian Apostle" Rupert with Duke Theodo II (?), Who both worked when the Frauenberg Chapel was being built. The beautiful rococo pulpit shows the typical rocaille ornament on the body , and on the underside of the sound cover a dove of the Holy Spirit is depicted in relief in a halo . Also noteworthy are two wooden panel pictures from around 1580, which depict Christ Salvator and the Mother of God.
Organ positive
In the church there was a cabinet positive with four registers . According to the inscription, the instrument was built in 1790 by the instrument and organ maker Andreas Fux from "Grossbryfling" Großprüfening . The instrument was restored and modified by Hermann Kloss in 1968 . It is now in the Weltenburg monastery church . The original disposition was:
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Frauenberg Chapel . Online at kloster-weltenburg.de. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
- ↑ Hermann Fischer : Historical Positive in Bavaria Acta Organologica, Vol. 35, Merseburger, Kassel 2017, ISBN 978-3-87537-343-1 , p. 140.
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 52.6 ″ N , 11 ° 49 ′ 10.6 ″ E