Chapel on the Gänsevöhde

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Chapel on the Gänsevöhde
altar
Middle door with donor coat of arms

The Catholic Marienkapelle on the Gänsevöhde , also known as the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, is a listed church building in Werl in the Soest district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The pilgrimage to the comforter of the afflicted began in 1661. On the Gänsevöhde, the formerly public goose pasture and municipal festival meadow, the high mass of the annual large procession was celebrated for the first time in 1667. The Paderborn cathedral capitular Johann Heinrich von Gertzen, known as von Sintzig, donated a sum of 300 Reichsthalers in 1673 to build a chapel on the Gänsevöhde. The city of Werl made the building site available. The building was completed in 1680 according to a designation in the donor's coat of arms.

The plastered building was erected over a longitudinal eight-sided floor plan made of green sandstone masonry. The west portal and the windows are arched, the wooden vault was plastered. The roof turret and the roof structure were made of oak. From 1756 to 1763, the building was damaged by soldiers in the Seven Years' War , among other things it was used as a horse stable.

The Bishop of Paderborn temporarily made the chapel available to the Protestant community; the first Protestant service took place on April 8, 1828. From 1831 the monastery church was used as a Simultaneum . From 1835 the building became the property of the Catholic parish of St. Walburga, but was still mainly used for pilgrimages.

The building was completely renovated from 1880 to 1883, and lightning struck in 1880 during the planning period. The buttresses were placed in front for static security and the disturbed north wall had to be reinforced. At the same time, the all- round arched frieze was faded in and a arched door was broken into each of the two sloping western sides. The roof turret has been redesigned. The interior was repainted with frescoes of patriarchs, prophets, apostles and evangelists.

The miraculous image was crowned in 1911 by Antonius Cardinal Fischer on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of pilgrimage on the Gänsevöhde. About 50,000 pilgrims took part.

The most popular day of pilgrimage, with the chapel in the center of Gänsevöhde, was the Silesian pilgrimage in 1953 with an estimated 70,000 pilgrims. Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Josef Cardinal Frings , as well as Prime Minister Arnold took part. At the 300th anniversary of the pilgrimage, around 500,000 pilgrims visited the city.

Extensive renovation work was carried out from 1985 to 1986 due to the risk of collapse, whereby the ceiling beams and nails of the vault were renewed and the north wall, which had fallen further out of balance, was stabilized. A concrete ring anchor was attached to the top of the wall . A new roof structure with an attached plaster ceiling was installed. The building was new interior and exterior caught . The roof turret was re-covered in slate.

Worth mentioning

The chapel was the focus of the event in 1994 at the Open Monument Day .

On May 24, 2011, Reinhard Cardinal Marx visited the chapel as the Pope's special envoy to celebrate a pontifical mass on the Gänsevöhde on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Marian pilgrimage in Werl .

Furnishing

  • The altar from the construction period with the donor's coat of arms of the von Frentz zu Kendenisch family and rotated columns from Frentz zu Kendenich is a work from the construction period of the chapel.
  • The bell was cast in 1679.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The beginning of the Protestant parish Werl . Evangelical Church Community Werl. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ Open Monument Day . City of Werl. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ Cardinal Marx travels as the Pope's special envoy . Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved on August 3, 2012.
  4. ^ Cardinal Marx celebrates his pontifical office in Werl . Vatican Radio. Retrieved August 3, 2012.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 33 '25 "  N , 7 ° 55' 4.4"  E