Marcellinus Chapel
The Marcellinus Chapel (popularly: Stumpe Kirch ) is a church ruin from the 13th and 14th centuries. Century. It is located close to the Nidder , two kilometers below Burkhards in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse .
history
The rectangular gothic hall church was built in the second half of the 13th century on a resting place of the funeral procession of Boniface of Mainz to his dream resting place Fulda . It is 17.10 meters long and 8.85 meters wide. The funeral procession stayed at this point on the night of July 13-14, 754. The remains of the church were discovered and excavated in 1931 by Büdinger chamber director and forester Karl Theodor Christian Müller (1856–1938). Parts of the walls were restored, and an altar and a cross were added later. The church was probably initially called Mirtzeler Church (Martyrs Church), which over time was reinterpreted as Marcellinus Church (after the holy martyr Marcellinus ). In the course of the Reformation, the church was given up and fell into disrepair.
The Stumpe Kirch is located directly on the Bonifatius Route and on Via Antiqua or Rechten Nidderstraße .
literature
- The Bonifatius Route from Mainz to Fulda . Ed .: Verein Bonifatiusroute e. V.
- Dieter Wolf , Erika Müller: The Stumpe Church (so-called Marcelliniskapelle) near Burkhards: Guide sheet to the early Gothic church ruins near Schotten-Burkhards, Vogelsbergkreis , Landesamt f. Preservation of monuments in Hessen, Wiesbaden 2004
- Wolfgang Hamberger u. a .: The Bonifatiusweg. Discover the roots of Europe; the special cultural journey from the West to modern Europe. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7701-6326-5 .
- Christian Vogel: Via antiqua, Bonifatius' last way. The Bonifatius overpasses from Mainz to Fulda and their route . Self-published, Niddatal 2004, ISBN 3-9809805-0-2 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 51 ″ N , 9 ° 10 ′ 48.7 ″ E