Leonhard's Chapel (Augsburg)
The St. Leonard's Chapel in Augsburg was a religious building in the former city palace of Welser , called Welser house, which was located on the corner Karolinenstraße / Charles Street and the Second World War was destroyed. Remnants of the vaults were built in 1963 in the cellar of the Fuggerei's senior citizen building .
history
The St. Lienhart Chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1241 and was owned by the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter until the first half of the 14th century . It is not known when it was built. In 1351/55 the adjoining property , then referred to as Haus auf dem Stein , was taken over by the Augsburg city keeper Konrad Ilsung , who possibly used the sacred building as a house chapel. It is believed that the current rib vaults were also created in this era. When the Ilsung auf dem Stein became extinct , the property came to the Welser family in 1422 and has since been referred to as the Welserhaus .
According to a document from 1503, the cathedral chapter allowed the patrician Anton Welser, as feudal lord of the Pründe, to carry out renovation work on St. Leonhard's chapel . Whereby he built a passage from the chapel to his house. In 1539 his son, the patrician Bartholomäus Welser , had the chapel integrated into his property and set up his banking house there. The previously free-standing chapel was built over. The Welser bequeathed the property to the Hößlin family in the 18th century . In 1880 it became the property of the soap manufacturer J. Freyinger, who ran a soap factory and shop there. At times the vaults were used as hardware stores. In 1913 the chapel was converted into the St. Leonhards Chapel .
The medieval Welserhaus was destroyed with the air raids on Augsburg in the night of February 25th to 26th, 1944, but the late Gothic vaults of the chapel were preserved. After the former sacred building was barely protected by planking for almost ten years, the city council decided in June 1955 to lift the monument protection due to the ruinous condition. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation also voted against a commitment of 50,000 DM to preserve the Leonhard Chapel, as this would never have been sufficient for preservation or even reconstruction. In October 1958, work began on demolishing the building. The preserved columns and capitals were dismantled and temporarily stored in the Dominican church . In 1963 it was installed in the cellar of the Fuggerei's senior citizen building. In the place of the former Welserhaus , a modern commercial building was built, which is formally based on the earlier appearance.
literature
- Werner Lutz: Augsburg's way to the modern city 1907–1972. The Augsburg artists' association “Die Ecke” as a critical companion . Edited by the Schwaben Architecture Museum and the Arno Buchegger Foundation. 2001, pp. 169-173
- Johannes Hallinger: Augsburg - Window to the Past: Photos of old Augsburg 1870–1944 from the image archive of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2007, p. 54
- Franz Häußler: The imperial mile of Augsburg's boulevard from St. Ulrich to the cathedral. Wißner Verlag, Augsburg 2000, pp. 126-131
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark Häberlein, Johannes Burkhardt: The Welser: New research on the history and culture of the Upper German trading house . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-007705-5 ( google.de [accessed on August 19, 2018]).
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 13 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 51.8 ″ E