Haiger Chapel (Koenigheim)
The Roman Catholic Haiger Chapel (also called Bonifatius Chapel ) in Königheim in the Main-Tauber district was built in 1740.
history
The Haiger Chapel was built in 1740 in front of the lower gate, where the “Die Haiger” area joins. It was named after this win. The childless Valentin Faulhaber, a tanner and later also a councilor, founded and built it in 1740, and gradually furnished it. The Königheim pastor Severus already wrote in his chronicle that a very large and old cross was hung over the altar, and that the mother of the Mainz official (the clergyman Johann Adam Faulhaber) showed great devotion to this Chapel of the Holy Cross. The founder Valentin Faulhaber was the stepbrother to this official in Mainz and to the dean Johann Michael Faulhaber in Hundheim. In Mainz, without the knowledge of Pastor Serverus, they obtained permission to consecrate the chapel in 1747. It took place on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on September 14, 1747, by the aforementioned Dean Faulhaber from Hundheim. Pastor Serverus, on the other hand, wanted to reserve all the money for the construction of the new church and to have the service in the parish church taken care of. But Valentin Faulhaber had a wooden tower with a bell put on in 1748, the bell was made in honor of St. Boniface consecrated by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Daniel von Gebsattel, probably in Würzburg.
Valentin Faulhaber also procured various painted and gilded sculptures, apparently the still existing ones made of clay, and bequeathed 7 guilders for holding masses in the chapel on the holidays of Lent. In 1806, however, the celebration of these masses was moved to the parish church. The spirit of the Enlightenment wanted to eliminate all superfluous chapels, because rabble could slip away there and any preference for a special place of worship was suspected as superstition. Cemetery chapels were tolerated, but the order of 1825 ordered the Haiger chapel to be demolished. In January 1826, Vogt Weirich asked to keep this chapel open for worshipers. This request to the Baden Ministry of the Interior was in vain. As early as 1808 the civil authorities had thought that the chapel was in such a miserable condition that he had moved the masses celebrated there during Lent to the parish churches; there was no fund for the chapel, so it would collapse one day. “Mr Oberschultheiß has just informed me that he has received instructions to tear down the chapel. I asked him to stop for eight days, because I also hoped that the police station (in Aschaffenburg) would be locked in. "
It was quiet again, but on April 13, 1826 the district office decreed that the bailiff had to demolish the chapel with a penalty of 2 Reichstalers. The vicariate in Bruchsal ordered the pastor to exsecrate the chapel, i.e. to remove the altar stone with the relics and other consecrated objects. The district office decreed: "The chapel is to be laid by Fronden and the wood to be auctioned, within 8 a completion report was expected". On the other hand, the carpenters and bricklayers declared with their signature, "that although one wanted to obey everyone under the orders of the authorities, one would not be used to this damage alone." On October 8, 1826, carpenters were ordered from Tauberbischofsheim to tear down the chapel. The residents did not let them into the village. The Vogt was therefore instructed to report the people within 3 days who insulted the Bischofsheim builders with threats and insults. Since they will arrive there again in the near future, the bailiff has to see to it that they give them a helping hand and that all disorder and insubordination are avoided; at the same time the messenger and police guard are transported there. Anyone who resists should be arrested.
When they started to demolish the chapel at the choir, the excitement of the population increased to anger. The choir was really broken off. In this extreme need, Rentmeister Faulhaber bought the remainder. He received it with the promise to build himself an apartment. In order to comply with the regulations, as the three windows can still be seen today, he set up a few rooms under the roof, but did not use them. Permission to worship was only given again in 1845. In Königheim it came back to life in the Haiger Chapel in 1831. An inscription stone on the west side of the chapel reads:
“In honor of the crucified Jesus, his loving mother and all saints, Joseph Anton Faulhaber and his housewife Anna Maria had this chapel rebuilt. Anno 1831. "
In the meantime, in 1907, the Haiger Chapel was registered in the land register as the property of the Catholic parish; a small renovation in 1875 was followed by a larger one in 1938. The State Monuments Office has also been involved since 1984/85. The interior has been thoroughly renovated.
Furnishing
The equipment is remarkable. There were six figures fired from clay, painted red and gold. Under the old wooden cross, later under the painted cross, stood Mary and John. A seated Mother of Sorrows without the body of Jesus in her lap is now in the parish church in the rear niche of the left side aisle. In 1833 14 stations of the Cross and a picture of the Mount of Olives were added to the chapel as a large, colorful reverse glass painting. The painter is noted on the picture of the Mount of Olives: “Virtus Weber pinxit zu Dittwar 1833”. On the station pictures it is written in the first letters and on 4 pictures the couple who also had the chapel renewed: “Jos. Anton Faulhaber, Anna Maria Faulhaber his wife ”. Only 10 station pictures and the Mount of Olives border have been preserved. You are currently in the rectory. They will no longer be hung in the chapel because of the risk of theft. Rosina Fahrmeier is named as the founder of the Mount of Olives; she was the wife of Joh. Nepomuk Fahrmayer.
- Views of the Haiger Chapel
Side entrance
altar
Statue in front of the chapel
Bells
The Haigerkapelle has two bells that were cast in 1642 in the early Baroque period at the time of the Thirty Years' War by the bell caster Paul Arnold von Fulda. The bell has space for an inscription: "SANNA HEIS ICH". The first word is the bell name OSANNA, that O has fallen off the casting on the mold, in its place there is a space. (Inscriptions No. 498) The biblical passage "Hosanna in the height" was suitable for the high hanging bells, at the same time it was suitable for a bell of transformation, since the Hosanna cheer is repeated twice in the Sanctus of the Mass. According to a legend, it was cast from copper ports, kettles, brass candlesticks and cupping heads. The bells came from the chapel in Hof Weikerstetten to the Haigerkapelle in Königheim in 1952, but the chapel received a bell as early as 1748, which was torn down in 1825.
literature
- Leopold Rothermel: Königheim and Dienstadt branch. Its history and church buildings. Würzburg: Rita-Verlag 1938.
Web links
- Sights on the website koenigheim.de
Individual evidence
Parish churches of the pastoral care unit Königheim: St. Martin (Königheim) with the St. Kilian (Brehmen) branch | St. Kilian (Pülfringen) | St. Peter and Paul (Gissigheim)
Other churches and chapels: Friedhofskapelle (Königheim) | Gartelkapelle (Königheim) | Haiger Chapel (Königheim) | Josefskapelle (Königheim) | Way of the Cross (Königheim) | Way of the Cross (Pülfringen) | Chapel (Hof Birkenfeld) | Chapel (Weikerstetten) | Laurentius Chapel (Esselbrunn Court) | Mariengrotte (Pülfringen) | Guardian Angel Chapel (Gissigheim) | Atonement Chapel St. Bernhard (Pülfringen) | Wegkapelle (Pülfringen)
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '13.2 " N , 9 ° 36' 0.6" E