Klaus chapel near Heideck
The Klausenkapelle bei Heideck is a Catholic chapel on the Kappelsberg near Heideck near a former hermitage .
location
The former hermitage and today's Catholic chapel Matris dolorosae were or are located on the Kappelsberg, which climbs up to 464 meters, south of the center of Heideck, accessible on the "Ziegelmoos" path towards the Rudletzholz district of Heideck .
history
A chapel to the Holy Sepulcher with a hermitage on the mountain south of Heideck is first mentioned in a source from 1352. Klausner was a Markard Gründner at the time. The chapel was furnished with indulgences from several bishops. The chapel and hermitage went under in the Reformation , which was introduced in 1542 in Heideck, which was pledged to Nuremberg . However, the chapel was rebuilt at an unknown time in the course of the Counter Reformation from 1627. It was also called the Klausenkapelle when a hermit settled here again .
Around the middle of the 18th century, Anton Fritz lived here as a hermit, Tertiary of the Franciscans of Heiligenblut and accepted by the parish priest of Heideck for the burial chapel. There is a biography of his successor, Joseph Fleuchaus, from the early 19th century. Born in Gerlachsheim in 1723 , he studied at the University of Würzburg , served as a soldier and officer in Spain, Denmark, Austria and Holland, took his leave in 1757 and became a hermit on the Kappelsberg, where he was the hermitage of his brother who was moving to a more lonely area Fritz bought it with the approval of the Heideck City Council. In the house of the neighboring sun farmer, where he worked, he set up a school for the farmers' children in the area. When the number rose to 70, he added a schoolroom to his hermitage. He taught the children reading, writing, arithmetic, religion and Latin. One of his students, Josef Schmidpeter from Rudletzholz, became a high school professor in Eichstätt in 1786 (* 1750; † 1846). Brother Fleuchaus died in his hermitage, where like his predecessor he also ran a garden with fruit trees, on February 23, 1786; it is not known whether there was still a successor.
In 1803 the chapel was demolished in the course of secularization , and the Vespers picture of the chapel was placed in the Heideck parish church. Today's chapel was rebuilt in 1836/37 by the Benz and Schleicher families when they took over the construction work . In 1840 the old Vespers picture was put up again. In 1852 the chapel was designated and the celebration of Holy Mass permitted; around 1920/30 the chapel housed a baroque wooden Vespers group. The hermitage was demolished around 1890.
A Way of the Cross made up of 14 stone pillars with terracotta relief panels in the niches leads up the mountain , which was consecrated in 1846. There is also an old atonement cross on the Kapellsberg .
literature
- Pastoral Journal of the Diocese of Eichstätt , Vol. 5, Eichstätt 1858
- Franz Xaver Buchner : The Diocese of Eichstätt , Volume I, Eichstätt 1937
- Franz [Xaver] Buchner: Pictures from the hermit life of the 17th and 18th centuries in the diocese of Eichstätt. The Kappelsberg near Heideck . In: Heimgarten , 17th year 1936, No. 29, p. 113 f.
- Felix Mader (arr.): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. III District Office Hilpoltstein . Unchanged reprint from 1929, Munich / Vienna 1983: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, p. 141 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pastoralblatt, p. 203; Buchner, Diocese of Eichstätt, p. 466
- ↑ Martin Königsdorfer: The picture of a pious soldier and brave hermit, or life story of the godly brother Joseph Fleuchaus, hermit on the Kappelsberg near Heydeck in the Bißthume Eichstätt, described by his confessor (and early measure deficit in Heideck) Martin Königsdorfer . Augsburg: Veith u. Rieger 1817, 2nd edition 1837
- ↑ Buchner, Einsiedlerleben, p. 113 f.
- ↑ Pastoralblatt, p. 203
- ↑ Buchner, Diocese of Eichstätt, p. 470
- ↑ Kunstdenkmäler BA Hilpoltstein, p. 142
- ↑ Information board at the chapel.
- ↑ Buchner, Diocese of Eichstätt, p. 473
Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 35.1 ″ N , 11 ° 7 ′ 42.7 ″ E