Klausstein Chapel

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The Klausstein Chapel in an autumn landscape
Interior
Altar (detail)
organ
West facade with entrance

The Klausstein Chapel is a chapel of the former Ahorn Castle near Klausstein , a district of the municipality of Ahorntal in the Bayreuth district in Bavaria .

location

The chapel stands with a homestead in the north-west in Franconian Switzerland on a limestone rock ( 435  m ) 60 meters above the valley of the Ailsbach and above the Sophienhöhle . It can be reached via the BT 34 district road, which branches off from State Road 2185 in Schweinsmühle and continues via Langenloh to Waischenfeld .

history

The chapel is the remainder of a castle built by the Lords of Ahorn in the 11th century and was first mentioned in 1139; Romanesque arched windows in the masonry of the chapel bear witness to this age. Since the lords of the castle owned their own church , they had the right of patronage; In 1272, however, the family died out and the von Rabenstein family took over the chapel. Since 1390, the chapel is no longer a castle chapel, but an independent sacred building. As a result of the Reformation, the Roman Catholic St. Nicholas Chapel became Evangelical Lutheran under the Rabensteiners in 1566 and is now a branch church of Kirchahorn . A general renovation due to fungal attack and moisture in the walls is currently being tackled.

description

The chapel (open in summer) consists of a small rectangular nave, the core of which is Romanesque, with a three-sided small late Gothic choir in the east (around 1450?), The original chancel, which today serves as the sacristy . It is built from rubble stones. The Romanesque arched windows are walled up. The roof turret in the west contains a small silver bell that is rung by rope from the gallery.

Furnishing

An altar consecration is mentioned in a document for 1451. The chapel was redesigned in the Baroque style in 1723 and 1738/39; Instead of the Gothic choir altar, a four-column pulpit altar by the (Catholic) Auerbach carver Johann Michael Doser was added to the chapel in 1723 ; it was expanded in 1738/39 based on ideas from Friedrich Herold . The altar shows four large and several small angel figures with instruments of passion or candlesticks. There is a statue of Peter on the cover , flanked by James (right) and John (left). In the excerpt , the figures of Jesus and the prophets Elijah and Moses and thus the transfiguration can be seen. Herold did not create the colored version until 1739. The vaulted pulpit body shows the Whitsun event in relief, the apostles with Mary in the middle, above the dove of the Holy Spirit. Two angels stand in front of the altar with inviting gestures.

Herold also created the ceiling painting Adoration of the Shepherds in the stucco ceiling made in 1738/39 and the 18 pictures of the life of Jesus on the gallery parapet. Large empty carved picture frames hang under the galleries. The pictures in the stucco cartouches and medallions were later painted over.

The organ case was carved in 1739; the organ comes from the organ builder Streit from Kulmbach . The Rabenstein coat of arms is affixed to the top of the organ front.

The wooden seated figure of the church patron on the right side of the chapel is attributed to the Upper Franconian Gothic (around 1480/90), which Herold received from Herold in a Baroque version that is no longer complete.

reception

"At the Klaussteiner Kirchlein
the Klausner stood in thought
and said: Here you can see into the land
of stones and the Franks."

literature

  • Heinrich Thiel: In the mirror of the churches. A picture book of Protestant village churches in Bavaria. Nuremberg no year
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia . 2nd revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999.
  • Evangelical Luth. Kirchahorn parish (ed.): St. Michael and Jakobuskirche Kirchahorn. [With Klausstein Chapel]. Maple Valley. no year
  • Peter Poscharsky: The churches of Franconian Switzerland. 4th improved edition. Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 2001, ISBN 3-7896-0099-7 , pp. 265-267.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Poscharsky, p. 265
  2. ↑ Thiel, p. 13; Evangelical Luth. Kirchahorn parish, p. [2], [6]
  3. ↑ nordbayern.de of June 26, 2015
  4. ↑ Thiel, p. 13; Dehio, p. 520
  5. ^ Evangelical Lutheran. Kirchengemeinde Kirchahorn, p. [10] f .; Poscharsky, p. 267
  6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran. Kirchengemeinde Kirchahorn, pp. [6] - [8]; Poscharsky, p. 266
  7. ^ Dehio, p. 520; Evangelical Luth. Kirchahorn parish, p. [8] f.
  8. ↑ The Franconian Switzerland Association ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fsv-ev.de
  9. ↑ picture postcard

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 37.7 "  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 30.8"  E