Johanneskapelle (Staufen)

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Johanneskapelle near Staufen
Interior view towards the altar

The St. Johannes Chapel is a small church on the Dürenbuck mountain above the town of Staufen im Breisgau . A way of the cross leads from the village up to the chapel.

history

The chapel was built in 1685 by the hermit Johannes Willi after his old hermitage was destroyed at the Gotthardhof north of Staufen with the support of the citizens of Staufen and was consecrated to John the Baptist . The hermit was buried in front of the chapel's altar after his death in 1701. The Way of the Cross was established in 1739. As a result of the reforms of Emperor Joseph II , the hermitage was closed in 1783. A thorough renovation took place in 1965. The Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation named the chapel Monument of the Month for November 2004 . After the restoration and restoration work organized by the “Arbeitskreis Staufener Stadtbild eV” and financed by donations, the chapel was reopened in 2005. In a burglary in 2006, the altarpiece, wooden sculptures and two votive pictures were stolen, and it was not until 2009 that the chapel was opened to the public again.

description

High altar
Saint Joseph

A brother house, which is now used as a residential building, is attached to the chapel at a right angle. The hall has a cross-rib vaulted ceiling. Adjacent to it is a choir, which is also vaulted with cross ribs and closed off by a wrought iron grille. The high altar, which was donated to the St. Sebastian Chapel in the cemetery by a Staufen citizen in 1730 and which was moved to the Johannes Chapel at the end of the 19th century, shows, after the theft in 2006, on loan from the Archdiocese, a somewhat clumsily painted, Baroque Mother of God, above the head of John the Baptist. To the right of this is a statue of St. Joseph from the mid-18th century, which is attributed to Johann Baptist Sellinger . The Way of the Cross consists partly of small chapels (stations I - IV), partly of wayside shrines (stations V - XI). A cross in front of the 18th century chapel serves as station XII. Station XIII is a panel with the Lamentation in the chapel, which also dates from the 18th century. Station XIV was built as a small chapel extension with a holy grave .

literature

  • Johannes Helm: The existing, disappeared and abandoned churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland and in the bordering areas of the former Upper Austrian Breisgau and the Hochstift Basel office of Schliengen: attempt to take stock of the history of architecture and art. 2nd edition 1989. Design by Aug. Schmidt, Müllheim / Baden. ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 352-353.
  • Franz Xaver Kraus (Ed.): S. Johanniseinsiedelei. In: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Freiburg district, JCB Mohr publishing house, Tübingen and Leipzig 1904, pp. 470–471.
  • Lauble, Andreas; Technau, Constantine; Bühler, Helmut: The St. Johannes chapel in Staufen: on the history of the chapel in the Markgräflerland. - 2006, 1. - pp. 34-39.
  • Jörg Martin: The St. Johannes Chapel in Staufen , “Staufen Cityscape” working group. V., no year (2018)
  • Dagmar Zimdars: Handbook of German Art Monuments (= Dehio Handbook ), Baden-Württemberg II, the administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 682.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helm 1989.
  2. ↑ a b c d leo bw Discover regional studies online - Baden-Württemberg State Archives
  3. ↑ a b Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg on October 29, 2004 .
  4. ^ Badische Zeitung of July 16, 2009 .
  5. ^ Hermann Brommer: Johann Baptist Sellinger. A Baroque sculptor from Breisgau (1714–1779). Works and importance in art history. In: Schau-ins-Land 81, 1963, pp. 89–90.

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 35.7 "  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 22.8"  E