Gottesackerkapelle to the Holy Cross

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The Gottesackerkapelle (2012)

The cemetery chapel of the Holy Cross is located in the municipality of Gutenzell-Hürbel in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia and has the address on the Kapellenberg 1, 2 .

description

The chapel is located about 1400 meters north of the Gutenzell district and can be reached via an asphalt road that  branches off from the K 7506. It was built on the site of the abandoned Gutenzell Castle in the 18th century and is surrounded by a wall. It belonged to the Gutenzell Imperial Abbey . The chapel is a simple, geosteter , beaver tail covered longitudinal building with three-eighths chancel and east side mounted skylights with bells . In 1755, the then imperial abbess Maria Franziska von Gall had the chapel painted by Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner .

Frescoes

Dieffenbrunner's frescoes deal with the following topics:

  • Cartouches: history of the origins of the “Cella Dei” (Gutenzell Reichsabbey), chapels and views of other places such as Hürbel Castle or Sommershausen Castle
  • Gallery : funeral procession and death symbols

graveyard

The cemetery surrounding the chapel belongs to the Gutenzell-Hürbel community, the chapel to the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese . However, mostly residents of the Gutenzell district are buried in the cemetery. Inside the walled area of ​​the Gottesackerkapelle are the cenotaphs for those who fell in the First and Second World Wars and an ossuary .

In the cemetery is the grave of a captain of the Middle Transport Helicopter Regiment 25 Oberschwaben , who was piloting the CH 53 , which crashed on December 21, 2002 during a patrol flight from a height of 70 meters due to a technical defect over the Afghan city of Kabul and seven other soldiers with it death tore.

literature

Gutenzeller Gottesackerkapelle to the Holy Cross in the middle of the picture, surrounded by a wall (2012)
  • Otto Beck: Art and history in the Biberach district. A travel guide to cultural sites and sights in the middle of Upper Swabia . 2nd Edition. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985, ISBN 3-7995-3707-4 , p. 94
  • The district of Biberach / arr. from the dept. of the country description of the Sigmaringen State Archives. Edited by the Landesarchivdir. Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district of Biberach; Volume: 2: B. Community descriptions Ertingen to Warthausen. - Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1990. - XVI, 1054 S.: numerous. Ill. + 6 ct. Hatchet; (ger); ISBN 3-7995-6186-2 ; P. 47

Web links

Commons : Gottesackerkapelle zum Heiligen Kreuz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg: The Gottesackerkapelle in the directory of immovable architectural and art monuments and the objects to be inspected by the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.8 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biberach.de
  2. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Ten years after the helicopter crash over Kabul: Soldiers are not forgotten from December 21, 2012, accessed on December 24, 2012.

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 37.3 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 32.7"  E