Cemetery (Fahr)

The crucifixion group in front of the chapel

The cemetery in Fahr am Main is centrally located on blossom road in the middle of the village. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation classifies the cemetery ensemble as a monument under the number D-6-75-174-228. Next to the cemetery chapel is a medieval crucifixion group .

graveyard

The area of ​​the cemetery is walled. There is a statue of a saint in a corner niche. The baroque portal is crowned by a figure of Christ in another niche.

The cemetery chapel in the middle of the cemetery was laid out before 1706. A curved hipped roof crowns the building. The portal is straightforward. You can only see protruding elements in the facade . Inside there is an altar with an altarpiece depicting St. Sebastian. It is surrounded by twisted columns entwined with vines.

See also : Fahr cemetery chapel

Crucifixion group

In front of the chapel there is a group of figures with the dead Christ and Mary as well as the mourning evangelist Johannes . They were created around 1430, making them one of the oldest groups in the area. The figures are similar to the Crucifixion relief in Wuerzburg Marienkapelle and the Virgin in the Iphöfer Vitus Church . They can therefore be assigned to the workshop that the Beautiful Mother of God created in Iphofen.

The figure of John the Evangelist

Originally the three figures were probably leaning against a wall in the old cemetery around the church. The back of John's head was embossed . In 1984 the doctor Oskar Stadler had the group of figures restored. It was probably treated improperly and covered with an orange-beige sludge. In 2009 the crucifixion group was whitewashed again, probably with emulsion paint . Today, many details can no longer be seen, also because stone substitute material was applied to the back .

Three canopies protect the almost life-size statues. The statues that would otherwise stand alone are only connected by these rain roofs. Mary on the right side of the cross stands upright, her head covered with a veil . She grabs the veil with her right hand and pulls it in front of her upper body. Her face is framed with thick sections of hair, it has hardly been modeled. Mary's left hand is on her hip.

John looks to Christ on the cross. He wears a floor-length robe with long sleeves. His right shoulder is slightly raised and his right hand is grasping a book. He has clenched his left hand into a fist and presses it against his neck and ear. This mourning motif is also used in a simultaneous depiction in the church in Rimpar . The face is framed by a curly mane, which, however, leaves the ears free.

In the middle, the cross towers over the other two figures. Jesus is depicted as a three-nail type. His head with a clearly visible crown of thorns has sunk to the front right. His fingers are strongly curved, the hands are nailed to the crossbar at head height. Long strands of hair fall left and right around the crown of thorns. The mustache extends over the corners of the mouth, and a pointed goatee can be seen below the mouth.

Christ was worked with half-closed eyes, his torso is almost rectangular. The stab wound can be seen above the costal arch. From here three blood vessels run to the loincloth . The shawl itself goes up to just above the knee of the crucified Christ, it was worked with an unusual knot that shows hardly any parallels. The feet are twisted slightly inwards while the legs are parallel.

literature

• Hans Bauer: District of Kitzingen. An art and culture guide . Market wide 1993.
• Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia . Munich, Berlin 1999.
• Gisela Kohrmann: From beautiful style to a new realism. Unknown sculptures in Franconia 1400–1450 (= Studia Jagellonica Lipsiensia Bd. 7) . Ostfildern 2014.

Web links

Commons : Friedhof (Fahr)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Geodata: Monument number D-6-75-174-228 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 30, 2013. 
2. ^ Bauer, Hans: District of Kitzingen . P. 22.
3. ↑ Kohrmann, Gisela: From beautiful style to a new realism . P. 121.
4. ↑ Kohrmann, Gisela: From beautiful style to a new realism . P. 123.
5. ↑ Kohrmann, Gisela: From beautiful style to a new realism . P. 123.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '36.2 "  N , 10 ° 10' 3.9"  E