St. Josef Chapel (Schönanger)
The St. Josef Chapel is a village church in the Schönanger district of Neuschönau . It is the oldest sacred building in the community and is a listed building.
history
The first documentary mention of Schönanger comes from a deed of foundation in which Landgrave Johann von Leuchtenberg bequeathed the St. Oswald Monastery to the friars of St. Paul on August 5, 1396 . The monastery received six forest villages, including Schönanger.
In 1847 the villagers built a chapel, which was consecrated to the patron saint Joseph of Nazareth on November 16, 1847 by the provost Florian Scharrer from St. Oswald . In 1947 the chapel was renovated. Stefan Weißzer, a refugee from Belarus, painted the apse with a motif of the Holy Family, “Mary floating out of the clouds”.
From 1968 to 1973 the chapel was completely renovated. The decisive factor was the damage to the roof structure, caused by a branch of the 160-year-old linden tree growing into it, which stands at the entrance to the chapel. The historical half-hip was replaced by a gable roof. The church received a new, stone-carved altar, the floor was covered with tiles and the exterior plaster was completely renewed. Then, in the course of the general "church and chapel moderation", statues were removed from the church and the painting was painted over.
The renovation of the village and the completion of the Schönanger land consolidation as well as structural damage gave the impetus to fundamentally renovate the chapel. In 1992 it was decided not to demolish the church building, but to renovate it fundamentally. The roof structure was renewed, the hipped roof restored and re-covered with copper . The bell cage was renewed and provided with an electric bell, the foundation walls renovated and insulated. In 1994 the interior plaster was renewed as well as repair work on the exterior plaster. Due to the damage caused by the plastering, the repainting of the altar painting and the modernization in the 1970s, there was nothing in the chapel that was worth preserving or renovating. The local artist Herbert Muckenschnabl took over the overall design. The renovation of the chapel and the existing former altar stone were the reason to erect a memorial stone for the fallen and deceased of the village community.
On August 28, 2014 on the feast day of St. Augustine, a wayside cross next to the village chapel was blessed by HH Dean emeritus, BGR Pastor Heinrich Erhart.
On October 24, 2014, the founding meeting of a chapel association took place (Kapellenverein Sankt Josef Schönanger eV).
Window pictures
The window pictures show Josef's dream , looking for a hostel , get up, take the child and his mother and the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple .
Altarpiece
The altarpiece shows Joseph the carpenter (closed) and rest on the flight into Egypt (altar open). In October 2016 the restoration of the winged altar in the village chapel was started by the artist Herbert Muckenschnabl and for the 170th anniversary of the consecration of the village chapel, the new altarpiece was blessed on May 21, 2017 by HH Dean Msgr. Steinbeisser from Grafenau.
Bell jar
The bell was still not on or on the chapel, as there is the following entry in the parish chronicle about the removal of church bells for war purposes:
“At noon on January 7, 1942, the village bell in Schönanger on the roof of the Hermann Ranzinger estate was removed and taken away. In 1951, Pastor Fritz Hannes in Schönanger consecrated the new bell, which now had its place in the bell tower of the chapel. "
literature
- Heidi Schopf, Josef Wolf: band leader , excerpts from the chronicle of Sepp Brandl
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, file number: D-2-72-146-3
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '9.6 " N , 13 ° 27" 28.7 " E