Assumption Chapel (Bergheim)
Assumption of the Virgin Mary is aformer Catholic pilgrimage chapel in Bergheim near Neuburg an der Donau with this patronage .
location
The chapel stands in a west-east orientation in the center of the village in the southeast corner of the walled cemetery next to the parish church of St. Mauritius belonging to the diocese of Eichstätt .
history
The chapel was built under the Kaisheim abbot Cölestin I. Meermoos in 1748/49 in the Baroque style instead of an older chapel; since 1315 the parish was incorporated into the Kaisheim monastery. To St. Consecrated to Werner , the previous building is mentioned in 1610; In 1637 it is referred to as the “old chapel”.
The builder of the new chapel was the Ingolstadt city mason Michael Anton Prunnthaler (* 1684 in Kelheim, † 1750 in Ingolstadt), who had built the parish church four years earlier. Since a copy of Our Lady of Altötting was acquired in 1702 and placed on the altar of the chapel, the patronage of St. Werner to Maria. In 1772 the chapel was stuccoed and frescoed. With the Altötting miraculous image copy, people made an annual pilgrimage to Altötting immediately after Corpus Christi , until this pilgrimage was abolished by the state in 1779. Gradually, the Bergheimer Marienkapelle itself had become a pilgrimage destination.
Building description
The chapel is a single-nave, towerless building made of plastered limestone, for whose south wall, which is slightly curved inwards, the cemetery wall was also used. The nave is provided with a shallow barrel over a wide hollow . The choir that has not moved in is closed on three sides. the choir arch is designed as a basket arch. The choir has a segment-arched window in the north and south, the nave has two lyre-shaped windows in segment-arched niches on both long sides.
Furnishing
The four-column high altar was donated in 1721; in the middle, in a niche with a heart-shaped golden frame, is a copy of the Altötting image of grace. On the left between the columns there is a statue of St. Willibald , on the right a statue of St. Walburga . Instead of side altars, the chapel has two canteens with stuccoed antependia ; on the north is a wooden bust of St. John the Baptist , on the southern one a bust of St. John the Evangelist . The wooden figures in the stucco niches on the nave walls, Christ on the scourge column and St. Catherine .
The rich stucco decoration (acanthus, bouquets of roses in vases, flower chains and shellwork) was created by Matthias Abel from Neuburg an der Donau around 1750 († around 1754). The frescoes on the ceiling and the walls that were created at the same time depict scenes from the life of the Virgin, the main fresco depicts the Assumption of Mary. In addition, representations from the Old Testament and the Lauretan Litany can be seen, partly in grisaille scenes. Stuccoed angel heads can be seen above the stuccoed cartouches for the frescoes. The tondi above the stuccoed apostle crosses show the 12 heads of the apostles in bas-relief. The fresco on the inside above the entrance shows the strengthening of the poor souls in purgatory by angels, above the Holy Family on clouds .
literature
- Bergheim, Catholic Marienkapelle. In: Adam Horn and Werner Meyer (arrangement): Die Kunstdenkmäler von Schwaben. V. City and district of Neuburg an der Donau. Munich 1958, p. 403 f.
- Bergheim, district of Neuburg-Schrobenhausen. In: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Munich, Berlin 2006, p. 134.
- Bergheim. In: Rudolf Niessner: Chronicle of the Bergheim community. Bergheim 1989, p. 203.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niessner, pp. 192, 203
- ^ Dehio, p. 134
- ↑ a b Niessner, p. 194
- ↑ Horn / Meyer, p. 403
- ↑ a b Dehio, p. 134; Horn / Meyer, p. 403
- ↑ Horn / Meyer, p. 404
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '36.24 " N , 11 ° 15' 29.03" O