Chapel ruins St. Ottmar and St. Ottilien
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 30.3 " N , 11 ° 24 ′ 23.1" E
The chapel ruin Sankt Ottmar and Sankt Ottilien is a destroyed chapel on the Keilberg near the village of Offenhausen in the central Franconian district of Nürnberger Land . The former chapel was built as a thank you for surviving the plague in 1436 and consecrated to Saints Otmar and Saint Ottilie in 1448 . After the destruction, the tower was rebuilt in its current form and consecrated in 1756. Since then , the Keilberg Kirchweih has been celebrated every year after Kilian's Day (July 8th) on the second Sunday in July.
location
The chapel ruin is located on the summit plateau of the 547 meter high Keilberg about one kilometer southwest of the village of Offenhausen. The place can only be reached via forest roads or hiking trails by bike or on foot.
history
The Keilberg was still called Keyrberg in the Middle Ages . The Keilberg was first mentioned in a document in 1326/27 as the property of Michelfeld Monastery , when it was sold to Heinrich and Dietrich von Wildenstein . They later sold it to Engelthal Abbey .
The plague in the summer of 1436 killed many people in the Offenhausen area. They implored God's help and vowed to build a chapel on the Keilberg. Engelthal Abbey, Grund and patron saint, feared harmful competition and was able to prevent a chapel from being built for years by refusing. Only under a new prioress could an agreement be notarized on November 3, 1447 before the responsible bishop of Eichstätt . In the spring of 1448 the work was probably started and a sacred building measuring around 15 by 23 meters was built . Archaeological research has shown that the chapel was probably destroyed shortly after its completion in the first Margrave War in August 1449, along with 14 villages from the area. After this destruction, the chapel was rebuilt much smaller in the second half of the 15th century.
A claim made in 1756 that the chapel was destroyed again in the Second Margrave War in May 1553 has not been confirmed. It is therefore possible that the chapel was destroyed by dilapidation or demolition after the Reformation . The second chapel building was in ruins again in the second half of the 16th century at the latest. With the time of the Reformation, the pilgrimages to the Keilberg Chapel ceased and the last church consecration service was held in 1523. The brother house built next to the chapel for the Bergmesner was initially still inhabited, but the chapel received little attention. The brother house was demolished in 1568 for the extraction of building material. Reconstruction was not considered. Today's Keilberg Tower does not emerge from the chapel, but was built on the old foundations. A building report proves that it was rebuilt or rebuilt in 1666. In 1748 it received its present appearance. The Offenhausen pastor Andreas Würfel published the history of the chapel and organized a festive service on July 11, 1756. Since then, the fair held at the St. Ottmar- and Ottilie chapel a church service before the chapel tower. In 1858 the tower was given the characteristic wooden outer pulpit for the service and in 1890 a roof turret for the bell .
In 2005/2006 an archaeological excavation was carried out under the direction of Oliver Specht . It was also refuted that the presumed Burgstall Keilberg is at this point . Here, however, the foundation walls of different construction phases of the Keilberg Chapel came to light and the tower was renovated.
The tower is a listed building .
Information board at the chapel ruins
Tower and reconstruction of the foundation walls
Keilbergkirchweih
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board at the chapel ruin, see picture gallery
- ↑ Google Books, Andreas Würfel (accessed May 7, 2013)
- ↑ Information from the Offenhausen Trumpet Choir ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 7, 2013)
