Chapel (Altenkunstadt)

chapel community Altenkunstadt Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 9 ″ N , 11 ° 13 ′ 21 ″ E
Height :	298 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	15 (1970)
Postal code :	96264
Area code :	09572
	Rectory

Chapel is part of the Upper Franconian community of Altenkunstadt in the Lichtenfels district .

geography

The wasteland is about a kilometer southwest of Altenkunstadt in the valley floor between Külmitz and Kordigast south of the Kapellenbach , a tributary of the Weismain . The chapel is the location of the village church in Pfaffendorf, about 600 meters away . State road 2203 from Lichtenfels to Altenkunstadt leads past Kapelle .

history

The church of St. Georg , also St. Laurentius , dates from the 18th century and was the successor to the abandoned pilgrimage church , which was first mentioned in 1471 as a fief of the Langheim monastery "to the Holy Sepulcher Pfaffendorf". 1706 awarded Pope Clement XI. an indulgence for the construction of a new church in Pfaffendorf .

According to the municipal edict of 1818, the village of Kapelle, which had five residents, was merged into one municipality together with Pfaffendorf and Giechkröttendorf and the deserted areas of Berghaus , Bernreuth and Oberloch. In 1854, the town was named the Chapel of St. Laurentius in the parish's real estate tax register. In 1862, the rural community of Pfaffendorf was incorporated into the newly created Bavarian district office of Lichtenfels , district court of Weismain . In 1871, Kapelle had eleven residents, all of whom were Catholic, and six buildings. The wasteland belonged to the Catholic parish in Altenkunstadt, 2.5 kilometers away, and was the seat of the Pfaffendorfer Catholic School. The schoolhouse was built next to the church in 1879. The chapel belonged to the rural community of Pfaffendorf , which in 1900 comprised seven places with a total area of 644.14 hectares, 238 inhabitants, all of whom were Catholic, and 44 residential buildings. Eight people lived in a chapel in two residential buildings. The settlement was assigned to the Protestant parish Strössendorf , four kilometers away . In 1925 three people lived in a residential building in the village. In 1950 the wasteland had six residents and one residential building; in 1961 it was uninhabited. In 1970 Kapelle had 15 residents.

In the course of municipal reform , Pfaffendorf and its chapel were incorporated into Altenkunstadt on January 1, 1972. In 2016, the chapel consisted of the St. Georg branch church, the former parish house and the former schoolhouse.

Attractions

Catholic branch church St. Georg

In 1718 the abbot of Langheim Monastery Gallus Knauer had the Catholic branch church of St. Georg built as a pilgrimage church. The baroque church is a plastered saddle roof building with a wood-covered nave and a retracted choir . There is a slated dome above the choir.