Grüningen (Breisach)

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St. James Chapel
View from 1754

Grüningen is a former village in the south of what is now the area of ​​the city of Breisach am Rhein . It was about a mile west of Rimsingen .

Grüningen was first mentioned in a document in 763. At the end of the 11th century Grüningen was the seat of a Cluniac priory , which is said to have been founded in 1072 by a Hesso von Üsenberg . Ulrich von Zell (* approx. 1029; † 1093) worked there from 1078 to 1087 , who wrote down the “constitutiones Cluniacenses” (customs of the Cluny Abbey) and moved the priory to the newly founded monastery of St. Ulrich in the Black Forest . Church and village remained in the possession of the monastery.

The village was largely destroyed by a Knight of Schnewlin at the end of the 14th century . The Grüninger parish church of St. Jakobus, which was first mentioned in a document in 1273, was rebuilt. The St. James - patron saint is the oldest detectable in Breisgau . For centuries the church had been a pilgrimage station on the Way of St. James to Santiago .

In 1560 the village and church shared the fate of St. Ulrich and came to the monastery of St. Peter in the Black Forest . The village had finally disappeared by the 17th century at the latest, the church was renovated or replaced in 1627 and 1699 and from then on contained a hermit's apartment.

This was given to the hermit Anton Maier from Löffingen, who was murdered by two men in the summer of 1716. In the second part of the journeys and hikes in his home country from 1856, Josef Bader reports on an even more legible Maier memorial inscription, which had already become illegible by 1903.

The chapel has served as a cemetery chapel for the nearby town of Oberrimsingen since 1844 . The baroque interior shows carved figures of St. Ulrich and St. Benedict , they are attributed to the monastery sculptor and wood carver Matthias Faller . The last hermit died in 1862.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Julius Mayer: Awarded the brother house in Grüningen near Oberrimsingen. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive , Volume 31 , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1903
  2. ↑ a b History of the Oberrimsingen district. breisach.de, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; accessed on November 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Display board at the St. James Chapel

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '2.7 "  N , 7 ° 38" 44.9 "  E