Kapelleninsel and Amorinsel Monrepos
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The Kapelleninsel and Amorinsel Monrepos are two islands on the lake behind Monrepos Castle near Ludwigsburg . The chapel island has a neo-Gothic church on a smaller scale (chapel). It was built in the English village in 1797 and moved to Chapel Island in 1803. In 1944 the chapel was partially destroyed. Cupid Island used to have a temple with a cupid figure inside. Only the foundations remain from him.
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Behind the rear facade of Monrepos Castle, the Monrepos Lake extends in a south-westerly direction over a width of around 200 and a length of around 450 meters. In the middle of the lake on the left is the narrow, 200-meter-long Kapelleninsel and on the right opposite the Amorinsel (see plan from 1819).
A boat rental on the northeast corner of the lake rents rowing and pedal boats with which you can reach the islands. As the islands are bird sanctuaries, they can only be bypassed but not entered. Like the castle, the islands are owned by the House of Württemberg .
Chapel Island
description
The neo-Gothic church on the northern tip of Kapelleninsel was built on a reduced scale (1: 4) and is therefore also known as a chapel. The church was built on an artificial rock hill and its tower was oriented towards the castle. It consists of a four-bay, single-storey nave with high pointed arched windows and buttresses. During the Second World War, the interior of the nave and the gable roof were destroyed and not rebuilt.
The square, slender tower, which is about twice as high as the nave, leans against the nave. The tower hall also has high lancet windows on the ground floor and alternating round, rounded and lancet windows on the upper floors. The top of the tower is formed by two floors with a round cross-section, which have Romanesque or Gothic windows throughout and end with a slim conical roof made of bronze and a metal cross.
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history
The construction of the Gothic church was started in 1787 by Reinhard Ferdinand Heinrich Fischer and completed in 1797 by Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret . It was located at the southern end of the English village in the Hohenheim Gardens , which belong to Hohenheim Castle in Stuttgart-Hohenheim, near the Körsch , see number 64 in Viktor Heideloff's floor plan from 1795. The floor plan shows a round square around which there are six houses Grouped cells for Carthusian monks that were never occupied. The church was built at the entrance to the square. It was called a Gothic church, in contrast to the Gothic chapel, see number 59 in the floor plan, a small church with a bell gable and without a tower.
In 1803 the Gothic church was moved to the Kapelleninsel in Monrepos. A comparison of Viktor Heideloff's copper engraving “The Gothic Church with the Kartaeuser Monastery” with photos of the island chapel in Monrepos shows that it was not rebuilt 1: 1. The corner pinnacles of the tower were replaced by massive buttresses and the tower was crowned with a conical bronze helmet.
In 1944 the interior of the nave and the gable roof were destroyed by fire bombs and not rebuilt, so that the chapel has since presented itself as a ruin.
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Two attractions on the Kapelleninsel have not been preserved: the Femgericht and the Hermitage:
- Under the chapel was the "rock hall", a grotto-like substructure, from which one entered a dark vault. Twelve temples, probably sculpted in wax, sat around a round table and held feasts. Their armor hung on the wall and on the table lay sword, cross and skull.
- Behind the chapel was the hermit hermitage, a little hut in which a mechanical hermit lived. When you opened the door, the clerk reading a book turned around, took off his glasses, looked at the visitor seriously, then turned back to his reading as the door slammed shut.
Cupid Island
The Temple of Amor, of which only the foundations have been preserved, was hidden in the woods on Cupid Island. The small temple consisted of a ruin-like column structure, the monopteros of the "ruins of a Roman bath" in the English Garden in Hohenheim, which was moved to the Amorinsel, and a classicistic extension.
A cast of Johann Heinrich Dannecker's famous Amor was placed in the extension . At the side were two figures by Carlo Albacini: a boy with a bird and a girl with a bird's nest.
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literature
- Paul Faerber: Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret. A builder of classicism. Stuttgart 1949, page 153, interior of the island chapel: plate 18.
- Christian von Holst : Johann Heinrich Dannecker, Part 1: The Sculptor , Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1987, pages 336–339 (Danneckers Amor).
- Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger : Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg with their surroundings. With a chart, a plan and a floor plan. Stuttgart: Cotta, 1817, pages 446-449, pdf .
- Eduard Paulus : Description of the Oberamt Ludwigsburg. Stuttgart: Karl Aue, 1859, pages 215-216, Wikisource .
- Eduard Paulus : The art and antiquity monuments in the Kingdom of Württemberg. Inventory. Stuttgart: Paul Neff, 1906, pdf , pages 350–351.
- Patricia Peschel (editor); Nadine Kröhn (editor): Evidence of a garden dream: the Hohenheim gouaches from the possession of Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2016, pages 220–221, 150–151.
- Gottlob Heinrich Rapp : Description of the garden in Hohenheim. In: Pocket calendar for the year 1798 for nature and garden lovers. With images of Hohenheim and other coppers. Tübingen: Cotta, 1797, reprint Stuttgart: Lithos-Verlag, 1992–1998, pages 113–115.
- Gottlob Heinrich Rapp : Description of the garden in Hohenheim. In: Pocket calendar for the year 1799 for nature and garden lovers. With images of Hohenheim and other coppers. Tübingen: Cotta, 1798, reprint Stuttgart: Lithos-Verlag, 1992–1998.
- Daniel Schulz: The reconstruction of »my calm«. The Monrepos Castle in the 19th century. In: Ludwigsburger Geschichtsblätter, Volume 66, 2012, Pages 95–148, pdf . - Chapel Island: Pages 134–135, Cupid Island: Pages 136–137.
- Hans Schumann: Hohenheim: Pictures and Design. Stuttgart: Ulmer, 1981, pages 68-69.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Monrepos boat rental .
- ↑ # Schulz 2012 , page 134.
- ↑ #Rapp 1799 , pp. 66-68.
- ↑ #Schulz 2012 , pages 134-135.
- ↑ #Memminger 1817 , page 447, #Paulus 1906 , page 215.
- ↑ #Memminger 1817 , page 448.
- ↑ #Schulz 2012 , pages 136-137, #Memminger 1817 , pages 448-449, #Faerber 1949 , page 153, #Holst 1987 , #Peschel 2016 , pages 150-151.
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 6 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 5 ″ E