Cemetery chapel (Impfingen)

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The cemetery chapel in Impfingen

The Roman Catholic cemetery chapel in Impfingen , a district of Tauberbischofsheim in the Main-Tauber district , was built in the middle of the 19th century. It is consecrated to St. Charles Borromeo , a church reformer during the Council of Trent .

History and equipment

The chapel was built in 1851. The tabernacle altar in the center of the chapel was acquired in 1981 from the parish of Ravenstein-Ballenberg. Its reliefs show the sacrifice of Melchizedek on the left , the sacrifice of Abraham on the right . A crucifixion group can be seen on the left side wall , opposite a copy of a Madonna and Child. The Gothic original is in Brenbrunn.

At the entrance there are memorial plaques for the fallen and missing of the war of 1870/71 and the two world wars. Above the main entrance is a statue of the Apostle James, patron saint of pilgrims and patron saint of Impfingen. There are also butterfly reliefs on the entrance door and a Christopherus relief on the outer wall. The fourteen stations of the Impfinger Kreuzweg begins a little below the chapel . The Impfinger Kreuzweg is the attraction number 8 of 18 on the Impfinger wayside shrine (Kreuzweg with devotional cross).

The cemetery chapel belongs to the pastoral care unit Tauberbischofsheim, which is assigned to the deanery Tauberbischofsheim of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . The associated cemetery belongs to the city of Tauberbischofsheim. The cemetery with the cemetery chapel and crucifixion group is a listed building as a whole.

Monument protection

The chapel stands as part of the entirety of the cemetery with the cemetery chapel and Calvary under monument protection .

Web links

Commons : Friedhofskapelle (Impfingen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Melchizedech's Victims: Cemetery Chapel Impfingen , by pastoral advisor Peter Zürcher. This information sheet can be found in the Impfingen cemetery chapel.
  2. ↑ District Office Main-Tauber-Kreis: Registration form for small monuments No. 08 (Impfingen): Kreuzweg (PDF). Online at gistbb.de. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
  3. ^ Franz Kuhngamberger (author), Heimatverein Impfingen eV (publisher): wayside shrine hiking trail on the Impfingen district . Heimatverein Impfingen 1988, p. 2.
  4. ^ Deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Pastoral care units of the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim . Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ LEO-BW.de: Cemetery (High Street 15, Tauberbischofsheim) . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  6. ↑ Regional Presidium Stuttgart , Department State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg : Directory of immovable architectural and art monuments and the objects to be examined . Administrative region: Stuttgart. Rural / urban district: Main-Tauber district. Municipality: Tauberbischofsheim. As of December 17, 2018.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '52.8 "  N , 9 ° 39' 45.36"  O