Our Lady Chapel (Aries)
The Liebfrauenkapelle in Widdern in the Heilbronn district is an old pilgrimage chapel in the local cemetery.
history
The church was first mentioned in the second half of the 15th century, but may be significantly older. Its creation is possibly related to the discovery of a statue of the Virgin Mary, which was once worshiped in the chapel during pilgrimages .
The alabaster figure probably dates from the middle of the 15th century and, according to the legend handed down through a dedication image from 1725, was found when clearing vineyards on today's Kapellsteige . They wanted to build a chapel on the opposite bank of the Jagst, but the building material with the builders sleeping on it was carried overnight by angels over the Jagst to the location where it was found. The Church received "ample indulgence" from the Pope.
In the 16th century, in addition to the pastor of the Laurentiuskirche, there was a second parish in Widdern , which included the chaplaincy of the Liebfrauenkapelle and a benefice there. In 1541 the benefice had too little income to support its own priest.
After the Reformation , the statue of the Virgin Mary was probably forgotten. In 1617 the imperial notary Caspar Neunhöfer (1564–1628) was working in the Jagsttal, found the broken statue in Aries and brought it to Bamberg , where it has been kept in the Martinskirche since 1625 . The statue broke several times in Bamberg, but was always repaired. A copy of the Widdern Madonna is kept in a niche at the Würzburg office building in Widdern. Another copy was kept in the Catholic Church of St. Joseph , but was later replaced by a larger statue.
From 1955, the Liebfrauenkapelle served as a place of worship for the Catholic community for a few years, before it received its own St. Josef Church in 1966 in the immediate vicinity of the cemetery .
Furnishing
There are four historical tombs in the chapel. The oldest is that of a Frau von Zyllnhardt from 1542, the other tombs are those of pastor Peter Christian Alberti († 1762) and Zyllnhardt's bailiff Johann Ludwig Pfeiffer († 1746) and their wives.
In the chapel there was once a bell from 1731, which Johann Leonhard Lösch had cast and which, according to its inscription, was consecrated to the memory of Burkhart Hirsch. This bell, which had a diameter of 38 cm and a weight of 30 kg, had to be delivered for armaments purposes during the First World War . In 1951 (at the same time as the new bell on the Dörnle ) a replacement bronze bell was procured from the Bachert bell foundry in Kochendorf ( Bad Friedrichshall ), which has the strike tone e '' and a diameter of 62.5 cm. It bears the inscription I KNOW THAT MY SAVIOR LIVES. Job 19.25 RESTING THE CITY - CHASING MS
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caspar Neunhöfer: Truthful report, Msc notarized, from January 25, 1625. German Central Archive Potsdam
literature
- Wolfram Angerbauer : Church and pastor in Widdern until around 1800. In: Local history association Widdern (Hrsg.): Widdern once and now. Widdern 2011, pp. 94-96
- Willibald Laicher: The Protestant parish. In: Heimatgeschichtlicher Verein Widdern (Hrsg.): Widdern once and now. Widdern 2011, p. 311/312.
- Norbert Jung: On the bell story of rams. In: Aries then and now. Widdern 2011, pp. 345–352.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 18'53.1 " N , 9 ° 24'52.3" E