Kluskapelle (Goslar)

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Klusfelsen, on the right the entrance to the Siedelei, next to it the beginning of the stone stairs to the chapel

The Kluskapelle (also known as Marienkapelle) is a prayer room (Klus) in the rock of the Klusfelsen in Goslar .

Location and structure

The Kluskapelle is a chapel carved directly into the rock in the upper part of the Klusfelsen . It is reached via a staircase, also carved in the stone, and a bridge. The ascent begins right next to the entrance to the hermitage, leads over it in an arch and then over the bridge to the ledge in front of the entrance to the Klus. The small plateau has been artificially smoothed. The chapel room has two windows next to the entrance. Inside the chapel there is an altar niche carved out of the stone and a replica of a statue of the Virgin Mary, the original of which is deposited in the Goslar City Museum. To protect against vandalism, all openings in both the hermitage and the chapel are closed by bars.

history

The Klusfelsen as a place of worship can be traced back to the Neolithic . The hermitage was first mentioned in a document in 1169. According to tradition, the chapel should have existed for two years at this point in time. It served as a prayer and prayer room until the beginning of the 19th century. In 1980 the Rotarian Club Goslar began renovating the chapel. The bridge was rebuilt.

gallery

  • Part of the climb

  • Stairs over the settlement and bridge

  • Plateau and entrance to the chapel

  • The two windows of the chapel

  • Altar with statue of the Virgin Mary

literature

  • Roland Roth, Mike Vogler, and others: Fantastic Places: Excursions into the past. Twilight-Line, 2014, ISBN 3-944-31510-3 , p. 64 f.
  • Siegfried Hermerding, Nis Lassen, Eva Raub: The magicians from the "Klus": The Klusfelsen in Goslar as a place of mysteries. Verlag Joachim Hermerding, 1995, ISBN 3-928-09502-1 .

Web links

Commons : Kluskapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Klusfelsen Description on lbeg.de. Retrieved on August 5, 2020 (pdf)
  2. ↑ Cult site Klusfelsen Description on ausflugsziel-harz.de. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ Photos Photo series with ascent, bridge and chapel room on tell.at. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  4. ^ Goslar Klusfelsen Kluskapelle photo series by Raymond Faure. Retrieved August 5, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '  N , 10 ° 27'  E