Leper Chapel (Bad Wurzach)
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The leprosy chapel is a chapel in Bad Wurzach in the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia, presumably donated by Johann II von Waldburg-Wolfegg in 1505 .
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The chapel is located on federal road 465 below the Leprosenberg, opposite the Oberland Glas company buildings . It is an eastern extension of the Leper House . This infirmary was first mentioned in a document in 1355; Here lepers , separated from the healthy, were cared for until they died.
In the beaver-tail-roofed, east- facing chapel with retracted choir, a votive plaque has been preserved, which describes the possible background of the foundation. In the upper part of the panel, the founder - presumably Johann II von Waldburg-Wolfegg († 1511), husband of Helena von Hohenzollern - kneels next to a crucifixion group. To the right of the crucifixion group, the plague saint Sebastian is depicted on a stake, including the legend of the foundation. The scene takes place in the Wurzacher Ried . A well-dressed man resting on a wooden pole, who was probably lost in the reed, is found by three men and a woman with a torch. The three men and the woman can be identified as suffering from leprosy by means of leprosy rattles and leprosy coats . A dog can be seen between the group of lepers and the presumably noble gentleman . He is said to have alerted the lepers in the leper house near the reed, who then found him. In thanks to the rescue from the confusing reed, the noble gentleman is said to have donated the leprosy chapel.
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In 1570 the chapel was renovated and extended for the first time and redesigned in a baroque style in 1720 . Little has been preserved of the original furnishings. The altar by Bad Wurzach sculptor Johann Ruez has been in the Ratzenried parish church since 1926 . Johann Ruez's choir arch cross is still in the chapel.
The ceiling painting in the ship from 1720 with the healing of a leper comes from the Bad Wurzach painter Johann Jakob Falch. In the picture you can see a sick linden tree, a town in the background, which could be Wurzach, and people with pointed hats in their hands.
From 1871 to 1959 the chapel served as a place of worship for the Protestant parish . There is no organ in the chapel.
literature
- Manfred Thierer / Ursula Rückgauer: Places of Silence. The chapels in the Ravensburg district . Ed .: District Office Ravensburg. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-547-9 , p. 392 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '22.8 " N , 9 ° 53' 1.6" E