Hildegard Chapel

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Painting, probably an altarpiece from the Hildegard Chapel, which was demolished in 1804: It shows Hildegard as the donor of the church

The Hildegard Chapel was a place of pilgrimage in memory of Hildegard , the wife of the later Emperor Charlemagne , in Kempten (Allgäu) . The last chapel was built in 1670 and demolished in 1804. The chapels were always located in the monastery area of ​​the Kempten Abbey .

history

In the late Middle Ages it was alleged and proven with falsified chronicles that Hildegard was buried in Kempten or was first buried in Metz , the actual burial place, and later, according to her last will, was reburied in Kempten. The burial chapel developed into a place of pilgrimage in Kempten because miracle books have been handed down that tell of miracles that can be traced back to Hildegard.

The burial chapel , originally conceived in or on the old monastery church of St. Maria and open to the public as a place of pilgrimage , was destroyed during the Thirty Years War . During the baroque period , a new chapel was built in 1670 under Johann Serro in the eastern courtyard, the original convent courtyard of the abbot's residence . The Lady Chapel was in the western courtyard.

The construction of the chapel cost 350 guilders and was arranged by Prince Abbot Bernhard Gustav von Baden-Durlach to honor Hildegard from now on.

In 1804, after the secularization and the conversion of the residence to a castle barracks, the Hildegard Chapel was acquired for demolition. The buyer, Postmaster Kolb, had to level the chapel floor.

Grave representations

In a Kempten chronicle, the so-called Karlschronik, from around 1500, which is attributed to Johannes Birk, there are representations that deal with the grave of Hildegard in Kempten.

  • Next to Hildegard lies her son Ludwig the Pious , who, according to the chronicle, was buried next to his mother.

  • Two people are looking for the burial place of Hildegard and her son Ludwig the Pious.

  • Monks open Hildegard's grave.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 26.
  2. ↑ Birgit Kata: Jubilees to the history of the Princely Monastery of Kempten. In: Birgit Kata u. a. (Ed.): More than 1000 years: The Kempten Abbey between founding and abandonment 752 - 1802. Allgäu research on archeology and history , No. 1. Likias, Kempten 2006, ISBN 3-980-76286-6 , pp. 145f.
  3. ^ Alfred Weitnauer : Allgäuer Chronik. Dates and events. Volume 3, Verlag für Heimatpflege, 1972, p. 211.
  4. ^ Johann Baptist Haggenmüller: History of the city and the Geführsteten Grafschaft Kempten, from the earliest times to their union with the Bavarian state. Volume 2, T. Dannheimer , Kempten 1847, p. 230.
  5. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bayern III - Schwaben Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, 1989, p. 540.
  6. ↑ Bavarian State Library: Calendar, medical and astronomical / astrological texts - Johannes Birk (?): 'Stiftung des gotzhaus Kempten' ("Karlschronik") tree cultivation In: bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de, accessed on July 21, 2013.

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 46 ″  E