St. Emmeram Chapel (Oberföhring)

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St. Emmeram's hermitage and chapel, detail from an engraving from 1805
Klause and chapel St. Emmeram, painting by Anton Höchl from 1852 after the copper engraving

The St. Emmeram Chapel was a church building dedicated to St. Emmeram of Regensburg . It was in Oberföhring , which is now a district of Munich , in the Bogenhausen district . The body of St. Emmeram is said to have been deposited in the chapel when it was transported from Aschheim to Regensburg before it was loaded onto a raft.

history

A chapel near Oberföhring in 884 is mentioned in a document. In old documents it is often called “St. Haymran "or" Haimeran "called.

1663 was a chapel at the Hermitage for hermits who until secularisation was the 1,803th The hermitage was attached to a school for the children of the area. The chapel developed into an important place of pilgrimage .

In 1739 the old chapel was replaced by a new building, which was consecrated in 1742. The furnishings came from the brothers Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin Asam .

During the secularization of 1803 the Hermitage was dissolved and the chapel closed. The school continued, albeit in secular administration. The chapel was demolished in 1820, and a new school near St. Lorenz was built from the stones obtained.

In 1866, the owners built a smaller chapel, the St. Emmeram Memorial Chapel, to replace the demolished chapel near the St. Emmeramsmühle .

literature

  • Fritz Lutz: St. Emmeram near Munich-Oberföhring, a former pilgrimage and school ceremony . Munich undated

Web links

Commons : Chapel St. Emmeram (Oberföhring)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 38 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 38 ″  E