Holy Cross Chapel (Pfofeld)

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Holy Cross Chapel from the northwest

The ruins of the Holy Cross Chapel are near the district road WUG 1 at the foot of a hill between the villages of Pfofeld and Dornhausen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is registered under the monument number D-5-77-159-15 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The medieval and early modern findings in the area of ​​the ruin are also entered as a ground monument (number: D-5-6930-0271).

history

The church was built in the late 13th or early 14th century by the Eichstätt diocese . According to some legends, it became a place of pilgrimage because of a healing well or a miracle of the cross that gave it its name . After the Reformation at the latest , the chapel was abandoned and destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . It is a rare evidence of sacred buildings from the late Middle Ages. The three-meter-high foundation walls of the rectangular building, remains of the recessed and rectangular choir , the west and south sides of the nave and a pointed arched portal have been preserved.

Picture gallery

  • Holy Cross Chapel

  • Holy Cross Chapel

  • The ogival portal

  • Portal from the other side

  • Inside the ruined chapel

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle (Pfofeld)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Holy Cross Chapel in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Ground monument of the Holy Cross Church
  3. ↑ The chapel ruin on pointoo.de
  4. ↑ www.kulturwanderungen.de (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  5. ↑ About the chapel on the website of the Pfofeld community
  6. ↑ www.dekanat-gunzenhausen.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 49.2 "  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 29.9"  E