Jesus on the Wies (Rimbach)

The field chapel Jesus on the Wies

The field chapel Jesus auf der Wies is a small church located between Rimbach and Obervolkach , two districts of the town of Volkach in the Lower Franconian district of Kitzingen . Today it is mainly maintained by the people of Obervolkach.

location

The chapel is located on a level on a dirt road, between fields and meadows in the Rimbach district of Krönleinsbrunn, which today belongs to Volkach. In the south of the little church there is a forest through which the county road KT 36 runs, while in the north the Rimbach flows past, a source brook of the Volkach . For most of its existence the chapel was looked after by the parish of Obervolkach, from whose church St. Nikolaus it is about 1.5 kilometers away.

history

The chapel

An old pilgrimage route to the pilgrimage church Maria im Sand in Dettelbach originally led past the place where the chapel is today. In the Middle Ages there was a wayside shrine at this location which, in addition to depicting the Pietà, also gathered reliefs of Saints Kilian and Paul. Only after the Thirty Years' War , in the second half of the 17th century, was the pilgrimage station decorated with a statue of a scourged Savior, around which a first chapel was soon built.

The newly added veneration of Jesus was established by the Franciscans , who had been given the supervision of the Dettelbach pilgrimage in the 16th century. The religious song "Jesus on the Wies" was already written in the 19th century, which is today associated with the Steingadener Wieskirche , but its place of origin in the pilgrimage of the Obervolkacher to Dettelbach at the chapel of the same name.

In 1872 a Frankenwinheimer , whose village also stopped at the church, bequeathed 200 guilders to the mayor of Obervolkach. The money should flow into the expansion of the pilgrimage chapel. The order was given to the Obervolkacher Jakob Sitzmann, the first plan dates back to October 1873. The chapel was completed by 1874, and in 1907 it was decorated with an image of the Three Kings.

The parish of Obervolkach undertook a renovation in 1950. The chapel received a Madonna figure, which is now kept in the rectory of the district. A figure of Joseph stands today in the parish church of St. Nicholas . The Scourged Savior, on the other hand, can be found today in the Michael's Chapel . In 2006 the dilapidated chapel was renovated by volunteers from Obervolkach; The inauguration was celebrated on October 14, 2007. The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments classifies the chapel as an architectural monument under the number D-6-75-174-294.

Architecture and equipment

The church presents itself as a rectangular building that ends with a polygonal choir . A hipped roof crowns the chapel. The building is not face to face , but is oriented to the south. There is a rectangular entrance on the north side; this side is also the only one that is not made of rubble masonry . The pages are divided by a rectangular window. Inside there are niches for the original image of Jesus and the figures of saints.

The original equipment of the chapel is now mainly distributed among the church buildings in Obervolkach. Today there are modern statues of Jesus and saints inside. Only the shrine relief of the Pietà, which is embedded in the outer wall of the choir, still comes from the furnishings of the early modern period . An inscription framed by stucco on the south side of the choir reads: "O man, stand still and see whether a pain is like mine".

literature

• Ute Feuerbach: Jesus on the meadow. A chapel on the pilgrimage route to Dettelbach . In: Ute Feuerbach (ed.): Our Main Loop. 2008-2017 . Volkach 2018. pp. 1–5.

Web links

Commons : Jesus on the Wies (Rimbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ute Feuerbach: Jesus on the meadow . P. 2
2. ↑ Geodata: Monument number D-6-75-174-294 , accessed on June 20, 2014.
3. ↑ Ute Feuerbach: Jesus on the meadow . P. 4

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 2 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 44 ″  E