Kalvarienberg (Berchtesgaden)

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The Kalvarienberg was created in 1760 on the Kälberstein (then called: Georgenberg or Görgenberg ) in Berchtesgaden ( Bavaria ). It has four stations in the form of a chapel as well as a larger main chapel with the crucifixion scene on the brine pipeline path and belongs to Berchtesgaden's Roman Catholic parish of St. Andreas within the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

Buildings and history

Prince Provost Michael Balthasar von Christalnigg furnished the Berchtesgadener Kalvarienberg with four side chapels and a main chapel a few months before his death in 1760, after having had the Fürstenstein Castle built at his own expense just two years earlier, halfway up the Kälberstein in 1758 .

The stations of the Kalvarienberg were built on the wayside as brick chapel houses with cornices and pilasters , each of which is roofed with a short knuckle helmet . The open sides of the four side chapels were built as curved niches , which are protected with artistically forged foliage and grids decorated with rocailles . Topographically and thematically, the main or crucifixion chapel forms the climax or conclusion of the Kalvarienberg ensemble .

  • Main and a side chapel (restoration, 2012)

  • Main chapel after restoration (2017)

  • Station at the fork in the Soleleitungsweg – Fürstensteinweg

  • Two stations, brine pipeline route

The niches contain almost life-size, colored wooden sculptures depicting Jesus Christ 's stations of suffering : prayer on the Mount of Olives , flagellation , crowning of thorns and carrying the cross . In the main or crucifixion chapel you can see Jesus Christ on the cross with Mary , John and Mary Magdalene . To the side of it, the crosses of the thieves frame the scene. The front of the rocky plinth for the main scene allows a view into the grave niche of Jesus Christ thanks to a segmental arch opening.

  • Group of figures flagellation of Jesus

  • Figure group Jesus with a crown of thorns

On the initiative of Anna Wurm, the widow of the first “private” owner of the Hofbrauhaus Berchtesgaden , a foundation for the preservation of the Calvary was established in 1841. Most recently, between 2011 and 2012, all wooden figures and, last but not least, the main chapel, which was badly damaged by environmental influences, were restored.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Helm , Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973, p. 99.
  2. ↑ a b First summer seat for the prince provost, then teacher's home , short report from March 10, 2020 in Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , online at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
  3. ↑ Manfred Feulner : Berchtesgaden - history of the country and its inhabitants. P. 182
  4. ↑ a b c d Martina Outside Meier: Kalvarienberg von St. Andreas, Berchtesgaden , online at erzbistum-muenchen.de
  5. ↑ Der Kalvarienberg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On the Berchtesgadener Kalvarienberg , with pictures of the main chapel before the renovation from 2011, online at stiftskirche-berchtesgaden.de

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 53.5 ″  N , 12 ° 59 ′ 55.2 ″  E