Hubertus Chapel (Ebersberger Forest)

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The Hubertus Chapel

The Hubertus Chapel in the center of the Ebersberger Forest is a path chapel on the state road 2080 between Ebersberg and Schwaberwege , at the confluence of the Scheibenweg . It is owned by the Free State of Bavaria . Apparently the chapel is haunted.

history

In the past, the salt road from Bad Reichenhall led past the chapel in the direction of Munich . The salt was transported as discs, which gave the path its name, the disc path. It is not known when a chapel first stood on this site. The oldest document of its existence is a map from 1783. The current building was built in 1859 “through pious contributions and the efforts of the forest warden Kühner”. A stone slab on the chapel used to refer to Kühner as the builder.

Architecture and furnishings

The three original wooden panels with depictions of Jesus crowned with thorns, Saint Hubert and the Mother of God with child are no longer preserved. The altar is made of red marble and is covered with a cloth with embroidery showing a deer and the inscription "Saint Hubertus protects hunters game & forest". On the altar are flower vases and a framed red and white picture of Saint Hubert. Above it hangs a simple, isosceles cross with a rock crystal in the center. It was made by the Ebersberg art blacksmith Bergmeister, who also made two bronze candlesticks that sometimes stand on the altar. To the left and right of it hang a crucifix and next to it a lily cross is painted on the wall on both sides of the chapel . The Holy Spirit is depicted as a dove on the ceiling. A crucifix leans against the right window.

  • Sanctuary

  • A grid separates the sanctuary from the outside world.

  • The sanctuary

  • Crucifix on the right window

  • Left wall cross

  • Right wall cross

  • Ceiling painting

The sanctuary is separated from the open front room by a locked, wrought-iron grille. Three gothic shaped pointed arches provide access to it from three sides. The width of the plastered chapel is three meters, the length five meters. The red pointed roof with shingles has a small turret on the ridge at the rear end. Above the arch at the front there is a sundial, a painted cross in a cross-shaped niche and above it an " Eye of God ".

In winter, a board wall protects the chapel from the traffic rushing past and the splashing, salty water. Nevertheless, regular renovations are necessary to maintain the chapel, as the vibrations put a strain on the building.

  • Exterior view

  • Right rear view

  • Back of the chapel

  • Sundial, cross niche and eye of God

  • The chapel on the state road

The white woman

There are different versions of an urban legend circulating about the “ White Woman from Ebersberger Forst” , according to which a woman was hit by a car near the chapel. The person who caused the accident fled, leaving the dying woman on the street. In another version, the woman's two children also died in the accident. Since then, the white woman has been reported to hitchhike to drivers. If you don't stop, she'll appear in the car and try to grab the steering wheel. There are also reports of ghost lights .

There is no record of an accident as described in The Genesis of the White Woman. Accidents on the state road near the chapel increased until the 1980s. In 1985 a car rammed the chapel and knocked over the right entrance pillar. After that, the course of the road was relocated a bit and the curve was defused, which reduced the number of accidents on the road.

A television team from Japan reported on the white woman in the Ebersberger Forest. In YouTube films on the subject post-processing by computer can not be excluded.

The legend about the white woman at the Hubertuskapelle is the basis of the horror film series Ebersberg , which consists of two seasons of four episodes each.

See also

Web links

Commons : Hubertuskapelle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Ebersberger Forst Baudenkmäler , accessed on September 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Bastian Hosan: Spuk am Gotteshaus , September 13, 2014, p. R8, Süddeutsche Zeitung , accessed on September 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Mystisch.net: The Ebersberger Forest, the Chapel and the White Woman , May 31, 2011 , accessed on September 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ Website for the web series "Ebersberg"

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 36.8 ″  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 39.2 ″  E