Chapel on the Leiterich
The chapel on the Leiterich in Wollbach , a municipality in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld, is one of the architectural monuments of Wollbach and is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-73-183-19 .
history
The chapel with the original name Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle was built on the Leiterich , according to oral tradition on the site of a former plague cemetery. This had become necessary in 1625 because, partly due to the Thirty Years' War , the old cemetery around the church at that time, a predecessor of today's St. Bonifatius Church , was no longer sufficient. Oral tradition also tells of a Pesthäusla , a simple building made of wood and adobe, which was built below the plague cemetery . It is marked on the map of the first land survey and, according to tradition, was demolished between 1855 and 1860.
On June 29, 1898 Pastor Ruf successfully applied to the Wollbach municipal administration to build a chapel on the Leiterich . With the Gothic portal, the door and the two side windows, the chapel received components of the parish church built in 1602 and demolished in 1890, the direct predecessor of the St. Boniface Church ; a way of the cross with 14 stations was also built at the chapel, and linden trees were planted in the vicinity in 1901.
The chapel was donated to the parish on March 26, 1899 by Pastor Ruf and was inaugurated by Pastor Ruf in the same year.
The Way of the Cross was demolished when Mayor Oto Valentin built an extinguishing water cistern at the chapel. In March 2000 the chapel received a new roof structure, new roof tiles and new external plaster. The interior was renovated in 2008.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 43.5 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 29.7 ″ E