Crypt chapel of the Barons of Gemmingen (Treschklingen)
The crypt chapel of the Barons of Gemmingen in Treschklingen , a current district of Bad Rappenau in the district of Heilbronn in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built near the cemetery in 1839. It serves as a private chapel and burial place for the Treschklingen family branch, which has been Catholic again since 1764.
history
The chapel was built by the Catholic Sigmund Johann Nepomuk von Gemmingen (1777–1843) as a family crypt and private chapel. The need for a Catholic chapel resulted from the fact that Treschklingen had been purely Protestant since the 16th century, while the Treschklingen line of the Barons of Gemmingen with Sigmund Johann Nepomuk's father Sigmund von Gemmingen had become Catholic again in 1764. The building regulations stipulated that the chapel could only be used by the baronial family and that the building was not linked to any parish law . The foundation stone was laid on July 6, 1839, the construction was carried out by the foreman of the Rappenauer Saline , H. Fritsch, and the master mason Franz Eck. The towerless, classicist building was inaugurated on September 10, 1839. The client's wife, Charlotte von Gemmingen, was the first to be buried in the 51 coffin under the building in 1842.
The altarpiece in the chapel was made by the Munich painter Zink and was acquired in 1869 by Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1819–1883). The six arched side windows of the chapel are decorated with 20 alliance coats of arms and five individual coats of arms of the barons of Gemmingen.
In the 1950s, the chapel received a loan bell from the park chapel in Preichau ( Przychowa in Lower Silesia ). The bronze bell, cast in 1553, had a diameter of 34 cm and a weight of 23 kg. In the absence of a tower or a belfry, the bell was hung outdoors between two trees and rang with a pole on the occasion of the 14-day Catholic church services. Later the bell was hardly used any more. In 1983 the city of Hilden, which had taken on a sponsorship through the Lower Silesian district of Wohlau, asked for the bell to be provided. The request was granted, the bell has been in the cemetery in Hilden ever since.
Another crypt chapel of the Treschklingen line had Adolph von Gemmingen (1822–1902) built in Fränkisch-Crumbach : the Sarolta chapel as a mausoleum for his wife Sarolta, who died in 1892.
Buried people
By 1991 a total of 18 people were buried in the crypt.
- Sigmund Johann Nepomuk von Gemmingen (1777–1843) and his wife Charlotte von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1785–1842)
- Ernst Ludwig von Gemmingen (* / † 1850), son of Adolph von Gemmingen (1822–1902)
- Caroline von Gemmingen (1848–1855), daughter of Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1819–1883)
- Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1819–1883) and his wife Emilie von Handel (1815–1869)
- Antonia von Gemmingen (1836–1892), daughter of Franz Karl von Gemmingen (1806–1867)
- Gustav Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1849–1897) and his wife Viktoria von Wiser (1854–1914)
- Luise von Gemmingen (1846–1919), daughter of Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1819–1883)
- Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen (1920–1922), son of Adolph Anton von Gemmingen (1886–1963)
- Sigmund Otto von Gemmingen (1851–1928), son of Gustav von Gemmingen (1813–1894)
- Franz Maria Hans Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1905–1945), son of Gustav Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1871–1943)
- Sarolta von Gemmingen (1882–1950), daughter of Gustav Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1849–1897)
- Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1907–1952), son of Gustav Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1871–1943)
- Eleonore Charlotte von Gemmingen (1884–1956), daughter of Gustav Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1849–1897)
- Franziska von Gemmingen (1904–1961), daughter of Gustav Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1871–1943)
- Maria von Gemmingen (1893–1964), daughter of Gustav Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1849–1897)
Since 1943 a memorial plaque has also been commemorating Robert von Gemmingen (Father Augustinus OSB), son of Gustav Sigmund Reinhard von Gemmingen (1871–1943), who was missing in World War II.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jung 2010, pp. 70/71.
literature
- Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 , Elztal 1991, pp. 145–147.
- Anne and Helmut Schüßler: Treschklingen - From the knightly Kraichgaudorf to the district of Bad Rappenau. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2004, ISBN 3-936866-02-3
- Norbert Jung: Immaculata - A contribution to the history of bells in Bad Rappenau , in connection with the Bad Rappenau town archive, ed. by Norbert Jung, Heilbronn 2010, pp. 64–71.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '24.5 " N , 9 ° 3' 28" E