Chapels in Mainz

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Mainz at the time of Elector Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein , churches and chapels highlighted

The many small but also larger chapels in Mainz often take a back seat to the large number of church buildings. In addition to the large churches from different stylistic epochs, however, smaller house and monastery chapels were also built in the city, which often only consisted of a converted room on a private floor.

Existing chapels

St. Joseph's Chapel

St. Joseph's Chapel

The St. Joseph's Chapel in the Lage retirement home , formerly the Invalidenhaus, was built between 1715 and 1719 as the house chapel of the novitiate and monastery of the Jesuits . Auxiliary Bishop Johann Edmund Gedult von Jungsfeld inaugurated the chapel on June 21, 1719, the feast of St. Aloysius from the Jesuit order. In 1773 the building became an archiepiscopal seminary , in 1798 a French central school, in 1803 a lyceum, in 1813 a hospital and then part of a barracks. As early as 1841, the chapel came into the hands of the city and was assigned as the “Civic Hospices” foundation to the Invalidenhaus, now an old people's home. In 1942 the Joseph Chapel burned down completely after an air raid , whereby the richly decorated stucco ceiling with painting in the middle field was lost.

In 1954/55 a concrete ceiling was put in and the chapel thus divided was made usable for both denominations, which celebrated their services one above the other. It is the only city-owned church in Mainz, is used today by the two major Christian denominations as a simultaneous chapel and was renovated and restored in 2007/2008.

Architectural style and equipment

The beautiful baroque portal can be seen from Schusterstrasse. The figure above the portal dates from 1720 and represents Saint Joseph . The richly carved oak door has old wrought iron fittings on the inside. Inside there is a stucco ceiling.

The so-called Mönchhof Altar, which is now in the chapel, probably comes from the Carthusian monastery in Mainz, which was dissolved in 1781, and was probably made in the workshops of Burkard Zamels and Franz Anton Hirsch. In 1916 it was transferred from the Mönchshofkapelle near Raunheim to the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt and is on permanent loan from the museum.

Two backlit glass windows and panel paintings of the four evangelists by the Mainz artist Hans Kohl (1897–1990) were renovated for the chapel from the formerly evangelical church service room.

Chapel of the Three Wise Men

location

The chapel of the Holy Three Kings in the Maria Ward School (formerly: Institute of the English Misses ) in the older Dalberger Hof was built in 1862–1865 by the Grand Ducal District Architect Ludwig Metternich from Mainz and in 1865 by Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler inaugurated. In the choir you can see the Three Wise Men, Saint Boniface , Saint Bilhildis and the Archangel Raphael with the Old Testament Tobias . The two-aisled room shows three romanizing yokes covered with ribbed vaults with the apse facing north. The interior decoration in the Byzantine style was carried out by Joseph Anton Nikolaus Settegast and August Gustav Lasinsky , who also painted the pictures in the main nave of the Mainz Cathedral based on the designs by Philipp Veit .

This chapel was the successor to the Simon and Judas chapel in the courtyard “Zum Roten Haus”, later the Königsteinerhof, on the ball court , which was built and endowed by Count Eberhard von Eppstein , Herr zu Königstein.

  • St. Three Kings, Maria Ward School, Mainz

  • St. Three Kings, Maria Ward School, Mainz, interior view

Chapels of the Sisters of Mary in the Brother Konrad Monastery

Maria Mater Dolorosa Chapel

Location
Former Capuchin Church, now the motherhouse church of the Sisters of Mary (founded in 1926) in the Bruder-Konrad-Stift in Weintorstraße.

  • Maria Dolorosa, front in Weintorstraße

  • Maria Dolorosa, view from Mauritzenplatz

St. Anselm Chapel

Location
Chapel in theMaria Frieden house oftheBruder-Konrad-Stiftretirement home.
This building, first mentioned in a document in 1226, became a“custody and educational institution for girls and women with a dissolute lifestyle”underJohann Philipp von Schönborn. Above the entrance you can see on a board a vehicle pulled by wild boars, lions and deer, on which the women are brought to the penitentiary. The inscription says:
“DO NOT HURRY SO SPEED, WITH YOUR JUDGMENT CASES,
THE IMPERFECTION, HAS STILL MADE MANY.
CONCERN YOURSELF BEFORE YOU CAN DO ANYTHING BETTER,
THE CRIMINAL OF THIS WORK, OTHERWISE YOU WILL LAUGH AT YOURSELF. "
These words, which the unknown artist added to the picture much later, do not refer to the prison, but to the criticism of his work:" Don't rush to judge my work, there is much more that is imperfect. But if you can do better, you can blame me. Otherwise you will laugh at yourself. ”
In this context it is curiously worth mentioning that until the time before the Second World War, the Mainz brothel district was located directly behind this prison in Kappelhofgasse.

  • Board at the former penitentiary

  • Interior view of the St. Anselm Chapel

Chapels in the Erbacher Hof

location

Gothic Marienkapelle and immediately adjacent the modern St. Bernhard's chapel in the education center of the diocese of Mainz Erbacher Hof in Grebenstrasse. 1177 City courtyard of the Cistercian monastery Eberbach, the restored and partially reconstructed Marienkapelle in the central building from 1250 was the center of the former monastery courtyard and originally St. Consecrated to Anna.

  • Interior view of the Gothic Lady Chapel

  • Gothic Lady Chapel in the Erbacher Hof

  • St. Bernard Chapel, in the background the passage to the Marienkapelle

More chapels

Portal Rochus Chapel
Kreuzkapelle Mombach

Destroyed or no longer existing chapels

  1. The Albanskapelle or Albansruhe in the Petersstiftische Präbendkuria zum Huhn on Petersweg, at today's Schloßplatz. It was called Albansruhe because, according to a legend, Saint Alban of Mainz is said to have rested on the place of the chapel after his martyrdom in front of the city in today's Neustadt when he carried his severed head to Marterberg , today's Albansberg .
  2. The All Saints Chapel, formerly a yeshiva , was taken from the Jews by Elector Adolf II of Nassau after 1462 and endowed by him. Later it came to the temporary auxiliary bishops with the house standing next to it and was later built into the house in Bolzano.
  3. The All Saints Chapel in the Quintinskirchhof. It was built in 1418 over the ossuary , which has the inscription MCCCCXVIII on it . Sunday after Pentecost is worth this kerntner - ossuary - starting with the common alms by the first hern Johann Felzperg, Heinrich Medenbach, Eberhard Windeck, pastor and builder of the same Pharr proves.
  4. The chapel of Saints Andrew, Martin and Mansuetus in the former cathedral provost, opposite the entrance of the former Dominican monastery . Only in 1668 was the entrance opened from the street. The Dompropst Damian Friedrich von der Leyen had the Dompropstei with the chapel demolished in 1786 and the former rebuilt without a chapel.
  5. The hermit's Antonius chapel in the Lorcher house on Hundsgasse was moved from the Jakobsberg monastery to the royal Prussian barracks (wooden yard barracks).
  6. The Bartholomäus chapel at the entrance to the St. Stephen's cloister
  7. The Bernhardskapelle in the Arnsburgerhof in Grebengasse
  8. The Blasius Chapel at the entrance to the Kirschgarten from Augustinergasse was demolished in 1803 to expand the square.
  9. The Bonifaziuskapelle in the former Peterstiftischen chapter house on Rheingräfen , which was moved to the Schloßplatz.
  10. The Brigidenkapelle next to the Haus zum Fuchs in Altmünstergasse later became a Beginenklause , whose celibate women lived according to the rules of the Brigidean Order and wore a red cross on their gray clothing. Sometimes this hermitage was also called the dean's convention. In the will of a Wernher von Oppenheim from 1390 it says: "Item I bequeath three Malter Korn to the Münsterkonvcnt der Sustern in Altmünstergasse, called Dechantskonvent - Item the" Becharten "in Altmünstergasse three Malter Korn".
  11. The Catharinenkapelle in the churchyard of the former Udenmünster parish church (→ St. Peter (Mainz) ) was demolished in 1590 on the orders of Elector Wolfgang von Dalberg to widen the street.
  12. The Catharinenkapelle in the cathedral scholasterie was demolished during the construction of the new houses in the Weihergarten.
  13. The Cäcilienkapelle in the Peterstiftischen prebend curia to the large tavern , next to the Curia zum Huhn, was actually just a solid bay window with an altar that was inaugurated in 1492.
  14. The Dreikönigskapelle in Hof zum Humbrecht , later the Dreikönigshof in Schustergasse. The relics of the three holy kings are said to have rested in this house for one night when they were brought from Milan to Cologne in 1162. As a memorial, this chapel is said to have been built in honor of the three wise men of the East, profaned by the Swedes during their occupation of the city and re-consecrated in 1643. In 1780 it was converted into a general store.
  15. The Elisabethenkapelle in the dean of the Liebfraustift . Priestly ordinations were often made in them. It was demolished in 1790 when the new dehy was built.
  16. The Fatima Chapel location in the (school) yard of the former school building Jägerstraße 33, the high school at that time still located there Theresianum (Mainz) , now Upper Laubenheimer way. In the late 1950s and 1960s, so-called Fatima processions were held several times a year with hundreds of believers through the school yard, the school sports grounds and the extensive garden (with Fatima grotto) around the Fatima chapel. The chapel was closed in 1980/81 due to the sale of the property to the Vincenz-und-Elisabethen-Hospital .
  17. The Gallus Chapel in the old butchers scharn , often called the Sülzenkapelle .
  18. The Holy Spirit Chapel in the cathedral custody was built
  19. The Heilig-Geist-Kapelle in the Domkurie zum Thiergarten was also built.
  20. The Georgenkapelle on Marktstrasse, today's Emmeransgasse, diagonally opposite the former Palace of Justice. A Beginenklause was connected to it and belonged to the Altmünster Nunnery , which gave the right of patronage or commission to noblemen and patricians as fiefdoms, who were then entitled to accept the beguines or celibate women with some usages. In 1390 Friedrich von Leyen, a noble servant, was the feudal bearer and patron of the sant Georien off Marktstrasse , in 1452 it was Philipp and Heinrich zum Junge. In 1479 and 1487 Heinrich zum Junge gave this right of patronage with the approval of the Abbess von Altenmünster to others in afterlehen. At that time, this hermitage was housed so badly that the female hermits were chased away and they stood empty until, in 1485 , Elector Berthold von Henneberg allowed a certain Agnes Dille to move in to restore the hermitage to a respectable status. The chapel and hermitage came into private hands and fell into disrepair. Only the tower was still standing when, in 1652, the heirs of a certain Pless sold the old buildings and empty spaces around it to the abbess of the poor Poor Clare monastery , who used the stones of the tower for her monastery walls.
  21. The Georgen chapel in the former cathedral mechanic, on what is now Gutenbergplatz . The cathedral dean Otto von Rüdesheim donated it. A cathedral vicaria was associated with her. The chapel was demolished in 1807 with the deanery.
  22. The George Chapel in the old cathedral choir behind the holy grave. It was canceled as early as 1319.
  23. The St. Gereons chapel by the city wall on the Rhine, later known as the Heilig-Geist-Hospital chapel.
  24. The Johanniskapelle, also called little St. Johann, Lützel St. Johann, was behind the current large theater . The collegiate curia, in whose district it was located, belonged to a cathedral vicaria, which was devastated in the Swedish property of the city with most of the religious houses. The house and chapel were still in the rubble in 1658, when the cathedral chapter exchanged them for the Jesuits for the house at Ehrenfels, who built the four houses C, 117, 118, 119 and 120 there.
  25. The Johanniskapelle in the former Johanniterordenshaus, called the Holy Sepulcher , later royal Prussian Geniedirection, today Episcopal Ordinariate .
  26. The Johanniskapelle at the Altmünsterpforte, which Elector Damian Hartard von der Leyen united with the military hospital in 1676.
  27. The chapel of Saints Kilian, Victor and Barbara in the Große Pfaffengasse
  28. The Lambertus Chapel in the Hof zum Reineck, across from the red gate on Leergasse. It probably died with the extinction of the Reineck family in the 16th century.
  29. The Lorenz chapel in the cathedral architecture, the bishop's court.
  30. The Lorenz chapel in the former Cologne court on the ball court . Count Ludwig von Isenburg-Büdingen , who owned this farm as a Cologne fief, had the chapel torn down in 1567 to enlarge the garden.
  31. The Lorenz chapel on the right at the entrance to the St. Stephen's cloister, opposite the Pankratius chapel
  32. The Lorenz chapel by the old mayor's house
  33. The Margarethenkapelle on Flachsmarktstrasse. According to the coat of arms of the patricians for the boy , the three hunting horns, which is carved on a stone arch, these were their founders. The Peterstift later acquired ownership of it, which was denied to him by the provost of the cathedral. Beguines or hermits who obeyed the third rule of St. Francis had also settled with her. When at the time of the Reformation the nuns of the Augustinian Choir Women's Monastery of St. Peter zu Kreuznach were expelled and fled here, Elector Daniel Brendel von Homburg temporarily directed the Margarethenklause to their apartment until they were transferred to Eibingen and later to the Agnesenkloster in Mainz. From this time the chapel came back to the Peterstift, which held the service there until it was abolished. The Margaret Chapel and the house belonging to it were auctioned by the French domain administration.
  34. The Marienkapelle in the old Teutonic Order House was probably demolished as early as 1314 when the Teutonic Brothers were building their Elisabethenkirche.
  35. The Lady Chapel on the flax market
  36. The Martinskapelle in the Martinsburg built by Elector Diether von Isenburg . The altar stood in a bay window that protruded from the wall facing the Rhine. It was demolished with the Martinsburg in 1807.
  37. The Gothic Michelskapelle in the old Michelshof, opposite the Holy Sepulcher Monastery, was the most distinguished of all Mainz Michelskapellen. The house in which she stood was counted among the oldest in town. It was owned by the Johannis pen and was still in its original design when it was demolished in 1831. In the 13th and 14th centuries it was used for the meetings of the Mainz clergy. A mass called the Michel Mass was read in the chapel every Sunday and public holiday. A churchyard must have belonged to it, as a vault filled with dead bones was found when the house was demolished.
  38. The Michelskapelle at the entrance to the former Franciscan monastery. When the city ​​was bombed in 1793 , it burned down with the church.
  39. The Michelskapelle in the Emmeranskirchhof . A foundation was associated with her.
  40. The Michelskapelle in the Ignazkirchhof had an altar neficon.
  41. The Michelskapelle on the Quintinskirchhof is attached to the church and also had its own altar church, which the cathedral scholaster had to lend. The altar was consecrated in 1427.
  42. The Michelskapelle in the Stephanskirchhof was demolished as dilapidated in the 19th century.
  43. The Michelskapelle on the Christophskirchhof was demolished in 1786 and built into the Kertellische house. She, too, had an old school age.
  44. The Ottilien Chapel on the Flachsmarkt, behind the Haus zum Berner . The remains of this chapel were still visible for a long time in the former Reil between this house and the prisons .
  45. The Pankratius Chapel to the left of the entrance to the St. Stephen's cloister. It was also called the baptistery because it had a baptismal font and belonged to the Vicarie of St. Pancras, which was connected to the parish.
  46. The Pantaleon Chapel at the monastery church on Jakobsberg was destroyed by the citizens of Mainz during the civil revolt in 1329 with the monastery.
  47. The Remigius Chapel, at the corner of the garden of the house hanging hand , was demolished during the Swedish ownership of the city.
  48. The Sebastian chapel on the ditch next to the Goldstein, at the Dietherpforte. It was also destroyed during the Swedish times.
  49. The Sebastian Chapel in Hanauerhof in Augustinergasse,
  50. The Secundina Chapel in the Cathedral Scholasterie, next to the Johanniskirche , was built into the house of the later General Treasury around 1790.
  51. The Severikapelle on the Emmeranskirchhof is attached to the church next to the bell house. It belonged to the Mainz wool weavers and was used by them.
  52. The Simon and Judas Chapel in the red house, later Königsteinerhof, today's Older Dalberger Hof on the Ballplatz, was built and endowed by Count Eberhard von Eppstein, Herr zu Königstein.
  53. The Stephanskapelle in the district of the former Agnesenkloster . The right of patronage was granted to the von Rheinberg family of knights and was donated to the Johannis Abbey in Mainz by Sigfried von Rheinberg in 1299 with the approval of his children. “Since the Agnesennonnen later built their monastery there, they asked the Johannis monastery until it consented to the assignment of the same with the right of patronage in a document dated 1329, on the condition that the one to be built in the new monastery church high altar at the same time of salvation. Agnes and the holy Pope Stephan must be consecrated and the slopes of the chapel remain with the monastery, for which the foundation would fulfill. But the Abbot Wilhelm of the Erbacherkloster and the Archbishop Heinrich had to promise by means of a special document that they would not remember anything if the monastery did not fulfill that foundation. "
  54. The Thérèse of Lisieux Chapel located on the 1st floor of the former school building Jägerstraße 33, as well as letters of school, home and boarding chapel of the high school at that time located there Theresianum (Mainz) . After the Theresianum moved out and moved to Oberen Laubenheimer Weg in 1981, the building was converted into a residential building with numerous condominiums.
  55. The Ulrichskapelle at the former Mühlpforte, opposite the current large entrance gate of the New Armory . With her there was a Beginenklause dependent on the local Johannis pen. Elector Daniel had the stones from the demolished chapel used to build the new castle church.
  56. The Walpurgis Chapel in the rear part of the courtyard at Gensfleisch . According to Johann Friedrich Ladomus , it is said to have been one of the oldest churches in Mainz and Bishop Siegbert I moved it to the city in the 6th century, as it would have been outside of the city before. However, there is no evidence for this. It is certain that the Walpurgis chapel and hermitage belonged to the Altmünster monastery in the 13th century and stood behind the courtyard of the Gensfleisch. In 1240 it was made available to the Minorites newly admitted to the city until their own church was completed, then on March 2, 1279, it was left to the recluses of St. Agnes, from which they came to the Antonites and still at the beginning of the 16th century. Century and was then demolished.

In addition to these fifty-six disappeared chapels, there were others in the city before 1841 whose location is unknown.

  • St. Hildergardiskapelle
  • St. Vincent and Elisabeth Chapel
  • Eternal adoration
  • Auräus chapel
  • St. Bilhildiskapelle

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Joseph's Chapel at the municipal retirement home in Mainz . ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Press release from May 15, 2006.
  2. ^ Karsten Preßler: Mainz in the age of Gutenberg. A walk through the late medieval city. Verlag der Rheinhessische Dr.-Werkstätte, Alzey 2000, ISBN 3-87854-151-1 .
  3. ^ Website of the diocese of Mainz on the Franziskuskapelle with the cross of grace
  4. ↑ Cardinal Lehmann consecrated the Mainz Dominican Chapel
  5. ^ Schaab p. 377 books.google
  6. ^ History of the city of Mainz by Karl Anton Schaab , first volume, 1841 p. 361 books.google
  7. ^ Schaab p. 367 books.google
  8. ^ In his map of the Middle Ages, Friedrich Lehne lists a St. Nicholas' Chapel that Georg Christian Joannis and Valentin Ferdinand Gudenus do not know. Source: Schaab p. 369 fn. 3

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