St. Emmeram Chapel (Oberföhring)
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
- Former St. Emmeram Chapel on the website of the Association for District Culture in the Munich Northeast e. V.
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 38 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 38 ″ E