St. Gangolf (Geisa) cemetery chapel
The St. Gangolf chapel is in the cemetery in Geisa , a country town in the south of the Wartburg district in the Thuringian Rhön in the Ulstertal .
description
Originally the cemetery was on the site of today's church square. It was moved to Gangolfiberg to build the Catholic parish church. The St. Gangolf cemetery chapel has been documented since 1461. Remodeling work took place in 1564 and 1624.
The plastered hall church with corner stones has a massive buttress on the south wall . On the gable roof rises a ridge turret with a shingled , pointed tent roof . The windows with pointed and curtain arches are late Gothic . In the middle of the north side of the outer wall is a polygonal balcony-like pulpit from 1564, which is decorated with a frieze and corner pillars. It is no longer accessible from the inside. A sound cover protects the pulpit from the effects of the weather . There are also gravestones from the 16th to 18th centuries on the north wall . Century with depictions of crucifixions . In the east are tombstones of the last bailiff von Rockenstuhl and his wife from 1703. The flat-roofed interior has a gallery in the west . There is a crucifixion group on the modern altar . The altarpiece has reliefs from a carved altar that was made around 1520. They show the holy Boniface , Nikolaus , Blasius , Barbara , Katharina and two monks. Remains of figural wall paintings from the 1st half of the 15th century can be seen in the walls of the eastern windows . They show Barbara and Katharina surrounded by tendrils . In the upper part you can see the supplemented Annunciation , as well as the depictions of Bonifatius and Simplicius from 1605, which were heavily revised in 1965.
The cemetery wall has a sandstone relief from 1570 and the coat of arms of Prince Abbot Balthasar von Dernbach . On the inside there are bricked up tombstones, the oldest is from 1411. In the cemetery there is a cast iron relief of the Fourteen Holy Helpers on pillars from the 19th century.
literature
- Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Thuringia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 54.3 ″ E