Holy Cross Chapel (Horní Blatná)
The Holy Cross Chapel, or Kreuzkapelle, also known as the cemetery chapel (Czech Kaple sv. Kříže ) in Horní Blatná (German mining town Platten ) in the Czech Republic was built in 1744 and is a protected architectural monument .
history
The pastor and pastor Johann Christian Müller († 1737) donated a sum of 1863 florins to the building of a chapel near the church of Platten. Construction was completed in 1744. Since its inception, the chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross and the local parish church of St. Laurentius have been under the imperial patronage of the mountain town .
The customs collector and imperial councilor Johann Franz von Heßler made 1739 together with his wife Maria Barbara Heßler geb. Putz a foundation of 6000 florins for the employment of their own chaplain. However, this was also necessary because up until now the pastor had to provide not only plates but also the Bärringen branch . As a result, the parishioners from Platten had to go to church services in Bärringen every third Sunday.
In 1745 Heßler presented his donated chaplain Johann Paul Neisberger as a beneficiary at the Kreuzkapelle, whose patronage he had. He also separated from the pastor's jurisdiction. The consistory confirmed this foundation , but with the condition that after Hessler's death the pastor would be reinstated in his old rights. From 1751 the chaplain lived in his own beneficiary house bought by the community . Maria Barbara Heßler found his final resting place in the chapel in 1747 and Johann Franz von Heßler in 1770. In 1789, her daughter and heiress Anna Regina von Heßler handed over the right of patronage to Emperor Joseph II in writing.
Due to the advanced age of the pastor Joseph Barthele at that time, the city and the magistrate again demanded the employment of an assistant priest, which was necessary for the local pastoral care. Emperor Joseph II approved this request. It remained unclear who had the jurisdiction of the Benificiate. The former patroness announced that she had formally given the right of presentation to the emperor and was therefore no longer authorized to decide. The magistrate proposed the previous chaplain of Gottesgab Leopold Schindler. Since the old pastor no longer climbed the pulpit, the chaplain read Holy Mass every working day in the Kreuzkapelle and on Sundays in the parish church.
On October 5, 1789, the high regional office in Prague ordered that from now on the cross chapel should only serve as a coemeterial church for funerals. At the request of the magistrate, the commissioner Ritter von Braunsdorf was sent to Platten to check the necessity of the parament at the chapel, which was under the imperial patronage anyway. The application was finally approved, as the necessary chapel parament could be expected of the parish church.
At the end of the 18th century, the first deaf-mute teacher in Bohemia, Karl Berger, worked as the Kreuzkaplan, and from 1802 until his death in 1825 the local city child, Father Johann Adalbert Hahn , called the Faust of the Ore Mountains. In addition to his duties as a beneficiary, Hahn also worked as a catechist for the parish .
The interior was partially destroyed in the second half of the 20th century. The chapel has been in the state register of cultural monuments since 1958 . Between 2000 and 2002 the dilapidated building was renovated. In 2014, a plaque in honor of Father Hahn in Czech and German was placed on the outer wall of the chapel.
architecture
The baroque chapel has a single nave with bevelled corners. In the west there is a prismatic tower with an attached sign . The interior has a flat ceiling . The presbytery is closed by a segmental arch . The corners are divided by pilasters with capitals.
Furnishing
The once rich interior was largely from the time it was built and was largely lost due to vandalism in the second half of the 20th century. The main altar with a wooden canopy was decorated with a crucifixion statue and a background on draped curtains. The two side altars of the Holy Trinity and the Fourteen Holy Helpers with a cartouche showing the Heßler coat of arms date from after 1700.
In the niches of the nave the wooden baroque statues of St. Joseph St. Anna, St. Life-size Barbara and the Archangel Michael from the end of the 18th century. The statues are now in the parish church of St. Laurentius. In the choir there were two patronage benches to the south for Heßler and to the north for plaster from around 1720, which were decorated with cut acanthus and ribbons. There used to be a white organ from the 18th century on the choir.
On the occasion of the charity foundation, the Heßler family commissioned two portraits from the painter Elias Dollhopf in 1740 and 1745 . On one picture, Maria Barbara Heßler is holding a document with the words " Rda ac Praecellenti Dno P. Joanne Paulo Neisbergerger I praesentato Peneficiato ad S. Crucum Platnensis Ao 1745 God gave ".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer: The Kingdom of Bohemia: represented statistically and topographically. Elbogner Kreis . Ehrlich, 1847 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
- ↑ Kronika farnosti | Porta fontium. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Lorenz Haug: Detailed news about 20 of the most excellent deaf-mute and blind institutions in Germany (etc.) . Kollmann, 1845 ( google.de [accessed March 15, 2020]).
- ↑ Contributions to Sudeten German Folklore . 1908 ( google.de [accessed on March 15, 2020]).
- ↑ chapter sv. Kříže - Památkový catalog. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Jaroslav Vyčichlo: Horní Blatná - kaple sv. Kříže | Památky a příroda Karlovarska. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Portréty rodiny Hesslerů z Horní Blatné - Uo 908, Uo 909 | Karlovy Vary Museum. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 18.9 ″ N , 12 ° 46 ′ 6.8 ″ E