Kunigunden Chapel (Bullenheim)

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The Kunigunden Chapel near Bullenheim

The Kunigunde Chapel is a church ruin that was consecrated to St. Kunigunde of Luxembourg . It is located in the forest about 300 meters east above the vineyards near Bullenheim in Middle Franconia . The ruin is a popular hiking destination with a beautiful view of the Uffenheimer (= Gollach-) and the Ochsenfurt Gau as well as the southern Maindreieck.

Legend and history

According to legend, the construction of the chapel goes back to a vow made by Empress Kunigunde (* around 980; † 1033), the wife of Emperor Heinrich II . She is said to have got lost in the forest on Bullenheimer Berg and swore to found a church if she found the way out. When she heard the bells of the church in Bullenheim, she found her way out of the forest and kept her promise. In addition to the chapel, the forest itself, the so-called Kunigunden Forest, is said to have been given to the neighboring communities by the Empress.

In fact, the late Gothic chapel was built in the late 15th century. It is said that it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . The choir arch and two Gothic window frames have survived to this day. According to a - dubious - tradition, it was used as a place of pilgrimage until the 18th century .

At the beginning of the 1960s, the church ruins were carefully secured and later (1995/1997) restored. In the process, it was partially massively bricked up and supplemented here and there - probably with the assistance of the State Office for Monument Preservation. On the east side of the ruin you can still see the starting stones of the former choir.

Relation to the Kunigunden chapel in Burgerroth

According to a pious legend, Saint Kunigunde is said to have thrown her veil into the wind during one of her visits to Bullenheimer Berg and promised to donate a chapel where the veil would land. That was the origin of the Kunigunden chapel in Burgerroth near Aub, a late Romanesque chapel that is still almost in its original state.

literature

  • Willi Hügelschäfer: The Kunigunden Chapel . In: Der Steigerwald , Vol. 10 (1990), pp. 241-247.
  • Richard Schmitt: The ruins of the Kunigunden chapel . In: Otmar Guckenberger (Red.): 1200 years Bullenheim . Markt Ippesheim, Ippesheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-054886-4 , 81-82.

Web links

Commons : Kunigundenkapelle (Bullenheim)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Schmitt: Historical . In: Otmar Guckenberger (Red.): 1200 years Bullenheim . Markt Ippesheim, Ippesheim 2016, pp. 40–42.
  2. ↑ Martin Lange: Kunigunden chapel has been restored. There are many legends surrounding the ruins on Bullenheimer Berg . In: Der Steigerwald , Vol. 17 (1997), pp. 197-198.

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 27.3 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 36.2"  E