St. Jakobus Chapel (Oberwilzingen)

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The St. Jakobus Chapel in Oberwilzingen near Hayingen is a baroque , Roman Catholic chapel that is consecrated to Jakobus the Elder .

history

The octagonal lattice tower

It is not known when the first chapel was built on today's Kapellenplatz. In a document from the Zwiefalten monastery, however, it is stated that a small chapel was consecrated by the Vicar General of Konstanz on September 9, 1385 , after a collapsed chapel had been rebuilt in the same place.

On June 12, 1736, a new, much larger chapel (12.5 × 8.1 meters) at the same location was consecrated by the 97th Bishop of Konstanz - in honor of St. James, St. Blaise and St. Nicholas . Pilgrims are said to have been involved who were on their way to the tomb of St. James in Santiago de Compostela , Spain.

This chapel from 1736 was probably built by the Zwiefalten monastery and, after several renovations, is still in use today as the Oberwilzinger Jakobus chapel. Since 1811 (after the dissolution of the Zwiefalten monastery) the chapel has been owned by the Hayingen Catholic parish , which is now part of the Reutlingen-Zwiefalten deanery .

Construction

Like the 1776 from the Monastery Zwiefalten (Father Placidus Wescher) custom built Feldflur cards from Oberwilzingen show, the chapel was built in 1736 without a bell tower, but served as a roof turret with a small bell. It is not known when the current bell tower was added to the chapel roof. It can be assumed that the octagonal lattice tower was initially not plastered. A photo from around 1925 shows the tower then plastered, while the half-timbered beams have been exposed again since 1978 and convey what is special about the chapel.

The support of the chapel tower with its onion-shaped helmet made of sheet copper, with a tower cross, tower clock, four sound shutters and two bells has an interesting peculiarity. On the one hand, this roof tower rests on a shoulder of the brick chapel wall at the height of the chapel attic. On the other hand, it stands on two slim wooden pillars that extend inside the chapel from the floor, through the gallery and finally to the chapel attic. Anyone entering the chapel takes four steps between these two ornate tower support columns.

View of the gallery and the two tower support columns

Changes in recent times

View to the altar
Chapel of St. James, around 1925

The chapel was cleared out in 1962 due to its desolate condition. The extensive renovation work did not take place until 1977, whereby the natural wood came to light again after the wood coating on the chapel ceiling, benches, gallery, etc. was removed. On December 16, 1978 the chapel was consecrated again by Auxiliary Bishop Anton Herre from Rottenburg and Pastor Bühner, Hayingen.

This was preceded by the opening of the chapel altar by pastor Bühner in 1978. Among other things, he found a drinking glass in which the Latin certificate of consecration from 1736 was on parchment. The text mentions u. a. the names of all the saints involved. The certificate and information about the work in 1978 were walled back into the altar when the chapel was inaugurated.

The patronage of the Chapel of St. James is July 25th.

The chapel is a listed building .

Furnishing

The chapel in Oberwilzingen today houses the following works of art:

literature

  • State Statistical Office: Description of the Münsingen Oberamt. Stuttgart 1912, p. 693.
  • Main State Archives Stuttgart: Signature N 40 No. 24 Illus. 59, 60, 61, 62 (4 field floor maps 1776).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main State Archives Stuttgart: Signature B 551 U 904
  2. ↑ a b Chronicle of the Catholic parish of Hayingen (from 1978)

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 19.4 "  N , 9 ° 30 ′ 35.8"  E