Chapel ruins of the Reichsburg Kyffhausen
The chapel ruin of the Reichsburg Kyffhausen stands on the site of the former lower castle of the Reichsburg Kyffhausen in the Steinthaleben district of the Kyffhäuserland community not far from the city of Bad Frankenhausen in the Kyffhäuserkreis , Thuringia . The chapel originally bore the patronage of the Holy Cross .
history
The former two-part Romanesque lower castle was the oldest component of the entire Kyffhäuser castle complex . The remains of the chapel ruins stand entirely in the eastern part of the castle ruins and, with the remains of the palace, fill the angle between the transverse wall and the northern mantle wall on which it sits. Therefore, the chapel could have been built in 1118, during the castle's third construction period.
In the Gothic period, the chapel and the residential tower were rebuilt and a gate system was incorporated into the southern wall when the lower castle had become a place of pilgrimage . The circular wall at the chapel up to the battlements has been preserved up to a height of 10.65 meters . The battlements ran behind it . You can see this in the beam holes in the masonry of the separating wall, which divided the lower castle in half. In the eastern half, the three-part chapel is leaned against the north and east walls with a connected remainder of the residential building.
literature
- Fred Dittmann: Castles in the Kyffhäuser Mountains. 2nd Edition. Graphischer Kunstverlag Kyffhäuser, Kelbra 1990, DNB 1008448753 , pp. 12 and 13.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the chapel. Accessed on May 13, 2014.
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 46.1 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 43.6 ″ E