Crypt chapel of Counts Tauffkirchen-Kleeberg
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The crypt chapel of Counts Tauffkirchen-Kleeberg is located in Trostling, a district of the market in Ruhstorf an der Rott in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau . Under the chapel is the former family crypt of the line of the Counts of Tauffkirchen and their descendants, who live at Schloss Kleeberg .
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The monumental, but heavily dilapidated brick building in neo -Gothic style is located on the road from Ruhstorf to Kleeberg in the area of Trostling in a wooded area on a gently rising hill above the Kleeberger Bach.
The historicist chapel at 336 m above sea level was built by Leopold Ernst Count von Tauffkirchen-Kleeberg (1781–1860), who had it built as a family crypt around the middle of the 19th century. In addition to his wife Sophie Marie Wilhelmine, born in 1854, Countess zu Ortenburg , her son Maximilian, who died at the age of 17, was also buried here. The branch of this family living at Schloss Kleeberg died out in 1871 with Max Joseph Count von Tauffkirchen in the male line, whereupon his widow Marie Therese, born in 1838, née. Countess Meraviglia-Crivelli, married Aloysius "Louis" Freiherrn Weiß von Starkenfels (1847–1895) in 1877 . He lived on the nearby, formerly Countess Joner'schen, rule Tettenweis including the castle and was an important heraldist and genealogist who, together with Johann Kirnbauer von Erzstätt, wrote the Siebmacher - book of arms about the nobility in Upper Austria . From his marriage to Marie Therese, b. Countess Meraviglia-Crivelli, the two children who were probably the last to be buried in the crypt chapel in 1879 and 1880 were born. Baron Weiß von Starkenfels sold the former Tauffkirchen property and Kleeberg Castle in 1881 to the Barons von Moreau, who still own it today.
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Exterior design
The complex is an almost square building with a gable roof and a rectangular altar niche placed in front of it on the northeast side. The only access is in the southwest and is provided with a triangular projecting roof supported by two Gothic pointed arches made of limestone. Above the entrance there is a Gothic rose window (only remains have been preserved) and several wall openings in rosette form . Support pillars integrated into the walls at the corners of the building. Although the roof was repaired a few years ago, the crypt chapel is generally in a poor state of construction.
Interior design
The rectangular interior is kept very simple. In the middle of the room a staircase, which is now laid with rubble, leads to the crypt in the basement of the crypt chapel, which is intended to accommodate the coffins. Only fragments of the crypt slab with metal lifting rings are visible, as of the former altar, nothing of the benches and other furnishings has survived.
On the north-west wall is the Solnhofen limestone epitaph of Count Leopold Ernst von Tauffkirchen-Kleeberg and his family; Opposite this on the south-east wall is the epitaph made of the same material for two children who died prematurely from the family of Freiherrn Weiß von Starkenfels. There are numerous graffiti on the walls and on the epitaphs , which reinforce the neglected impression of the complex.
Monuments
The inscription on the epitaph of Count Leopold Ernst von Tauffkirchen-Kleeberg and his family on the north-western inner wall of the chapel reads “ In this crypt / rest // Leopold Ernst / Count von Tauffkirchen Kleeberg / born on August 21, 1781 / died on 12. March 1860 // his wife / Wilhelmine / born. Countess zu Ortenburg / born on November 16, 1784 / married on June 21, 1802 / died on January 31, 1854 // both son / Maximilian / born. 1803 died 1820 ".
The partially black traced inscription on the epitaph for the two children from the baronial Weiss von Starkenfels family, who died early, on the south-eastern inner wall of the chapel reads “ In this crypt / rest // Ottilia / born on April 3, 1879 / died on May 5 1879 // Desiderius / born on June 25th, 1860 / died on August 25th, 1880 // the sad parent / Aloysiu [s] Freyh [err Weiß von S] tarkenfels / Theresia, geb. [Countess Mer] aviglia-Crivelli / d [...] [entr] issen ”. Several damages to the stone slab make the inscription difficult to read.
Vernacular
The hidden location of the decaying crypt chapel in a dense forest and lack of knowledge about the ownership of the castle Kleeberg led to the plant to the object of stories of people's mouth was. The staircase leading to the crypt in the basement of the mausoleum was reinterpreted as access to a secret passage, and the two children from the Weiß von Starkenfels family buried there were also included in the legend. It is said: “In the 19th century, princes built this crypt. There is a secret passage in the crypt that you could go down at that time. The princes built the secret passage to protect themselves from attacks. This secret passage was a few kilometers long and led to the Siebenschläferkirche . Prince children once wanted to play in this corridor. When they got roughly in the middle, the tunnel began to collapse. They wanted to run away, but were buried alive by stones. Since then it has been said that you can still hear the screams of the children when you walk along above the tunnel. The secret passage may no longer be entered because there is still a risk of collapse and because it has also collapsed. "
Web links
- View inside the crypt chapel , accessed on May 7, 2017.
- Portrait of Count Leopold Ernst von Tauffkirchen-Kleeberg (1781–1860).
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Seibold: Alois Freiherr Weiß von Starkenfels and his family book. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 152, Linz 2007, pp. 303–305 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , accessed May 7, 2017).
- ↑ For the history of the Count's family Meraviglia-Crivelli see Franz Gall : Österreichische Wappenkunde. Handbook of coat of arms science. 2nd edition, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-205-05352-4 , pp. 335–336.
- ↑ Searching for traces in Lower Bavaria - Forgotten Places ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed May 7, 2017.
Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 38.4 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 17 ″ E