Kreuzkapelle on the Greifenberg
The Kreuzkapelle is a chapel on the Greifenberg near Limburg an der Lahn . Together with the neighboring Way of the Cross and Mount of Olives , it is a listed building . It is located at the height of the Greifenberg in the immediate vicinity of the edge of the edge of the Kasselbach valley .
history
The Kreuzkapelle was probably donated by the Rath family around 1666. The chapel was largely destroyed in 1792 during retreats by Prussian troops and in 1796 in the Battle of Limburg . The chapel was rebuilt in the following years with donations and rededicated in 1804.
In 1912 the chapel was rebuilt. As part of this construction project, it received a porch. In 1979/82 the chapel was extensively restored.
description
A narrow entrance zone with a baroque portal (inscription “IN CRVCE SALVS”) leads into a somewhat wider anteroom with a cranked cornice and groin vault. Here is a small side altar with a gothic Pieta (around 1900). The almost square main room, which is also covered with a groin vault, is separated by a basket arch. A total of four large ox-eye windows illuminate the interior. On the outside, the sloped, curved canopy roof, which merges directly into a roof turret, gives the building a sense of unity. Above the main altar there is a baroque group of crosses from the Hadamar school, which probably comes from the Michael's Chapel (Cathedral Square).
Way of the Cross
In 1900, the merchant Peter Paul Cahensly the Elder . J. (1838–1923) donated a way of the cross with fourteen stations on the steep slope to the chapel. The respective scenes are designed as rectangular clay reliefs that are embedded in neo-Gothic sandstone steles with pyramid roofs (design by architect Jakob Fachinger , sculptor Georg Baudrexel and Jakob Hilf ). In 1905, an almost life-size, architecturally framed Mount of Olives scene was added at the beginning of the path by the tin goods manufacturer Joseph Heppel . The almost fully plastic figure of Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsemane kneels above a pedestal, with the sleeping disciples as a bas-relief in the background (sculptor Ludwig Lipp , Mainz). The marble sculptures are covered and protected by a round arch with a Norman jagged frieze as well as by eyelashes on romanized capitals. The Way of the Cross is in poor condition today, but it is still accessible.
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, Station 1
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, Station 2
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, Station 3
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, Station 4
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, station 5
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, station 6
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, station 7 ok
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, Station 8
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, Station 9
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, station 10
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, station 11
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, station 12
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, Station 13
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, station 14
Way of the Cross on the Greifenberg, Mount of Olives
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Todays use
The interior of the Kreuzkapelle is usually not open to the public. The traditional way of the cross of the cathedral parish on Good Friday regularly ends at the building. It is occasionally used by church groups for devotions.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (ed.): Tal Josaphat without number In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 8 ° 4 ′ 23.6 ″ E