Magdalenenkapelle (Bad Wimpfen)

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The Magdalenenkapelle in Bad Wimpfen in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg was a chapel that existed from the Middle Ages and was removed around 1820 in the course of the construction of the Ludwigshall salt works .

location

The chapel was set back from the road from Wimpfen in the valley to Wimpfen am Berg, a good way before the exit of the Merschbach valley on a small foothill of the Altenberg.

history

The chapel was built in 1280 by the Heiliggeistspital Wimpfen , possibly on the site of an older building. At first the chapel was equipped with a rich chaplaincy benefice, later it was used for the services of the Heiliggeist brothers and then in the late Middle Ages it came to the Wimpfen monastery , which housed leprous hospital brothers in the chapel. After the separation of the spiritual and secular hospital in 1471, the hospital brothers continued to hold services in the chapel. After the Reformation, the chapel remained Catholic.

According to some traditional views and floor plans, the chapel was a square building crowned by a ridge turret with a small, somewhat retracted three-conch choir . The so-called Magdalenenrain stretched below the chapel hill .

Over the centuries the chapel fell into disrepair. It seems to have suffered especially during the Napoleonic Wars . After 1800 it was last used as a barn. Nevertheless, the Catholic sacristan Schaub received an annual payment in 1814 for the sacristy in the spiritual hospital and the associated Magdalenenkapelle. It is questionable whether services were actually held at that time. The number of Catholics in Wimpfen was very small at that time and in the course of the redesign of the German southwest and the abolition of the monasteries they were awarded the Dominican Church in 1818 , so that no further Catholic church was needed.

After the successful drilling for brine in the Morschbachtal from 1818, the Ludwigshall salt works with numerous buildings were quickly built at the exit of the Morschbachtal in 1819 . Most of the chapel was demolished and the saltworks house No. 16 was built on its foundation walls, which was inhabited by the Friederich and Kühnle families in 1924.

literature

  • Otto Lorent: Wimpfen am Neckar. Historically and topographically presented according to historical reports and archaeological studies , Stuttgart 1870.
  • Otto Scriba: The Maria Magdalenen Chapel in Wimpfen am Berg , in: ders .: Wimpfen am Neckar. Pictures from history and art , Wimpfen 1924, pp. 44–46.
  • Erich Scheible: The history of the Hessian exclave Wimpfen. Volume 1: 1802 to 1836 , Bad Wimpfen 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Scheible 2004, p. 174.
  2. ↑ Scheible 2004, pp. 175/76.
  3. ↑ Lorent 1870, pp. 273/74.
  4. ↑ Scriba 1924, pp. 44-46.

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