Fuchshardt Chapel (Bad Honnef)

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Fuchshardt Chapel, rear view (2015)

The Fuchshardtkapelle is a forest chapel in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was built in 1872 in honor of the Sorrowful Mother (Mater Dolorosa).

location

The Fuchshardt Chapel is just under a kilometer east of the city center at 198.4  m above sea level. NHN high hill ("Fuchshardt") on the southern edge of the Siebengebirge , which in terms of natural space can be assigned to the Honnef terrace hills as a sub-unit of the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge ( Niederwesterwald ). It is accessible via a path that branches off from the mountain road. The winning name In der Fuchshardt means "fox forest".

history

Instead of the later chapel there was initially a simple wooden cross, and from the middle of the 19th century a little holy house with a picture of the Sorrowful Mother (Mater Dolorosa) built at the instigation of the Honnef chaplain Dohmen († 1849 ). A couple of benches have been added. The holy house weathered quickly in the end and was also not able to cope with the flow of pilgrims on Sundays and weekdays.

The vow of the master locksmith Wilhelm Lemmerz led to the construction of the church around 1870 to build a chapel if his wife should recover. An association for the establishment of a prayer hall on the Fuchshardt was founded and the dean Johann Heinrich Emans († 1880), pastor of the Catholic parish, was elected as its president. Together with acquaintances, Lemmerz collected funds in the community and persuaded the owners of the forest parcels near the Heiligenhäuschen to cede the 3 ares 65 m² of land required for the construction of the chapel to the parish. After Dechant Emans had applied for the building permit , he laid the foundation stone on July 8, 1872 . The work was carried out by Lemmerz and other craftsmen, most of whom belonged to the St. Josef Building Craftsmen Association (later renamed St. Josef Master Association ), essentially on a voluntary basis and claimed costs of 700 Reichstalers . On December 15, 1872, Emans consecrated the completed chapel. On August 3, 1873, the inauguration was followed by one of Reich Baroness Augusta of Waldbott-Bassenheim born Bongart (* 1807), sister of the founder of Rommersdorfer Annakapelle Odilia Carolina of Bongart, donated and Nicholas Elscheidt created Pietà . A weekly mass was held in the chapel for the Catholic patients of the Hohenhonnef Lung Clinic, which was completed in 1892 , until it was sold to the Rhineland State Insurance Institute in 1912 and had its own house chapel. From 1901 comes an unexecuted design by the Honnef architect Ottomar Stein for a tower extension to the chapel.

Towards the end of the Second World War in March 1945, the chapel was damaged during the fighting in the Siebengebirge. In 1951, the chapel was extensively renovated by the St. Josef Masters Association, after which it was rededicated on September 16 of that year. It was also around this time that it was exposed by the felling of the surrounding trees, so that it was temporarily visible in the cityscape. In 1971 a general overhaul of the building took place, again by the craftsmen of the St. Josef-Meisterverein. A new coat of paint followed by volunteers in 2008. The local Kolping family holds a mass in the chapel twice a year .

architecture

The chapel is a four-meter-wide and nine-meter-long hall , which, as evidenced by the pointed arched windows and the tracery, is built in neo-Gothic forms. The choir is angled several times, the outer wall is structured by struts and supporting pillars. A niche in the choir contains the stone Pietà by the Cologne sculptor Nikolaus Elscheidt from 1873. The Kreuzwegtafeln inside are from 1929/30 and are the work of a Berlin sculptor.

  • Pointed arch window

  • Pietà

literature

  • J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 261/262 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
  • Hermann-Joseph Löhr (Photos: Heinz Werner Lamberz): A piece of heaven made of stone - Volume III . Verlag Media World, Asbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813291-3-1 , p. 90-92 .

Web links

Commons : Fuchshardtkapelle  - collection of pictures
  • Ulrike Ziskoven: Citizens' forest chapel . In: rheinkiesel, magazine for the Rhine and Siebengebirge , 10th year, May 2006, pp. 4–6.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information according to the digital terrain model (available in the TIM-online map service )
  2. ↑ Cläre Pelzer: Location and relief of the city of Bad Honnef on the Rhine . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago . Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 3–14 (here: p. 4).
  3. ↑ Helmut Arntz (with the assistance of Adolf Nekum ): Urkataster und Gewannen: using the example of the community of Honnef 1824/1826 (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein "Herrschaft Löwenburg" eV : studies on the local history of the city of Bad Honnef am Rhein , issue 13, Bad Honnef 2000; Society for the History of Wine eV : Writings on Wine History , ISSN  0302-0967 , No. 133, Wiesbaden 2000). P. 162.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Ulrike Ziskoven: Waldkapelle der Bürger .
  5. ↑ Hubert Wüsten: The Catholic community of Honnef in the last hundred years . In: August Haag (ed.): Bad Honnef am Rhein. Contributions to the history of our home community on the occasion of their city elevation 100 years ago. Verlag der Honnefer Volkszeitung, Bad Honnef 1962, pp. 151–165 (here: p. 157).
  6. ↑ a b J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs: The city of Honnef and its history
  7. ^ Joseph Strange : Genealogy of the lords and barons of Bongart . Commissions-Verlag der L. Schwann'schen Verlagshandlung, Cöln and Neuss 1866, p. 68. ( online )
  8. ↑ a b c Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Rhöndorf (ed.); August Haag : Pictures from the past of Honnef and Rhöndorf . Complete production JP Bachem, Cologne 1954, p. 105.
  9. ↑ Karl Günter Werber : Memories of Honnef's “Magic Mountain Epoch” 1892 - 1911 (PDF), p. 4.
  10. ↑ Jörg Schulze : Church building of the 19th century in the old Siegkreis (= Landeskonservator Rheinland, workbook 21). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0320-3 , p. 247 and Note 957. (also dissertation RWTH Aachen, 1972)
  11. ^ A mass in the middle of the forest , General-Anzeiger , May 26, 2015

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 50.6 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 25.6 ″  E