Kreuzkapelle (Rüssingen)
| Basic data | |
| place | Rüssingen, Germany |
| Patronage | Holy cross |
| Building history | |
| Client | Count of Nassau |
| start of building | around 1469 |
| Building description | |
| Profanation | 17th century |
| Construction type | three-aisled facility |
The Kreuzkapelle Rüssingen was a chapel near Rüssingen , a local community in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The Kreuzkapelle stood not far from the Adolphslinde, about 500 m northwest of the village. Today the road from Rüssingen in the direction of the Lindenhof and the factory road of Dyckerhoff AG cross here ; in the Middle Ages the road from Rüssingen to Kirchheimbolanden and from Zell to Göllheim . In the Göllheimer Weistum of 1683, a path in the direction of the Marnheim district is designated as the Heiligkreuzweg.
history
The chapel was a pre-Reformation foundation of the Counts of Nassau, which they had built around 1469 with reference to the nearby Göllheimer Königskreuz in memory of their ancestor Adolph von Nassau and existed independently of the parish church.
After the introduction of the Reformation it lost its importance; the position of pastor was no longer filled and the associated goods were leased to someone else. In the decades that followed, the church deteriorated and was damaged in the Thirty Years War . It fell into complete disrepair by the end of the 17th century; the parts above ground were used to rebuild the village. It was first mentioned in a document in 1549 as the pilgrimage chapel to the Holy Cross, in 1576 it was still referred to as a “beautiful church”, but in 1657 it was presented as “rubble and masonry” and in 1696 it appeared one last time on a French war map.
Excavations took place in 1897 and 1910 to 1912. Well-preserved remains of walls, fragments of columns, floor slabs, vault ribs and even painted broken glass came to light. The stones and slabs found were used by the owner of the field to build houses.
construction
Measurements showed an approximate length of 26 m to a width of 19 m. On aerial archaeological recordings from early summer 2011, the outlines of the church's foundation walls can still be seen in the seed. After that, it was probably a three-aisled complex, which was vaulted at least in the choir area, as indicated by the vault profiles that were found during the excavations at the beginning of the 20th century and the buttresses around the apse.
A picture from that time can be found on a map of the Göllheimer Weistums from 1658.
literature
- Markus Hoffmann: Die Verbandsgemeinde Göllheim: A cultural and historical travel guide , Göllheim, 1997, without ISBN, p. 168 u. 169
- Berthold Schnabel : The former Kreuzkapelle near Rüssingen. In: Submerged villages and small settlements in the Northern Palatinate. 1996, ISBN 3-87022-231-X ; Pp. 227-240
- Ernst Christmann: The settlement names of the Palatinate , publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, 1964, Volume 2, Page 268