Gügel

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, Gügel from the Giechburg seen from
Gügel in June 2007

Gügel is a pilgrimage church and a district of the city of Scheßlitz in the Bamberg district .

history

On the Gügel, a castle Gügel with a chapel in honor of St. Pankratius was first mentioned in a document in 1274 . One of the previous buildings was a castle that dates back to the Andechs-Meranians and has been removed. The Bamberg prince-bishop Lamprecht von Brunn acquired the mountain in 1390 from the Counts of Truhendingen . While the castle fell into disrepair, the chapel was restored several times. In 1430 it was destroyed by the Hussites . The Bamberg prince-bishop Anton von Rotenhan had a larger chapel built further north. It was destroyed a second time in the Peasants' War in 1525.

After the resolutions of the Council of Trent , the restoration of sacred architecture was seen as necessary to implement the Counter-Reformation . In 1610, the Bamberg prince-bishop Johann Gottfried I von Aschhausen ordered the church to be rebuilt, presumably including the old foundations. He commissioned the Graubünden builders Lazaro Agostino and Giovanni Bonalino to carry out the construction project .

description

The pilgrimage church stands on a rock. An annex with the sacristy is located on a ledge . Partly inserted into the west wall, a tower rises. To the west there is a terrace, to which a staircase leads.

In the basement of the choir there is a chapel, from which one can reach the nave via a spiral staircase through a corridor carved into the rock.

The high altar from 1630/32 shows a view of the pilgrimage church with the silhouette of Bamberg in the background. The pulpit comes from Bamberg Cathedral , from which it was removed during the purification in the 19th century.

The Franconian Marienweg runs past the pilgrimage church .

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Commons : Gügel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 7.5 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 40.9 ″  E