Maria-Hilf Chapel (Erlach)

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The Maria-Hilf-Chapel in November 2015

The Maria-Hilf-Kapelle bei Erlach is a Catholic chapel in the Upper Franconian town of Weismain in the Lichtenfels district ( Bavaria ). It is protected as a monument under the number D-4-78-176-97 by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments .

location

The chapel is located at 340  m above sea level. NHN at the western foot of the Schleizknocks , one 485  m above sea level. NHN high mountain southwest of the core city of Weismain. To the west, the LIF 22 district road leads past the chapel, which connects Weismain with the towns of Altendorf , Siedamsdorf and Kaspauer in the Schöpfleinsgrund . The village of Erlach is around 400 m away and the city center of Weismain is around 1.9 km away.

History and description

The innkeeper, mayor, church and hospital caretaker Reichard Fuchs (1728–1787) had a wooden path chapel built on the site of today's chapel. It served primarily as a station for Corpus Christi processions . Presumably due to its poor structural condition, the chapel was demolished and rebuilt in the neo-baroque style in 1906/1907 by the Weismain construction company Dietz according to plans made by Fritz Fuchsenberger in 1905 . Today's chapel is a central building with an open portico . The fresco on the gable of the vestibule was designed by the Munich painter Herze. At the foot of the chapel there is a fountain whose water is drawn from the Schleizknock behind the chapel. The sandstone blocks in the base area on the left-hand side of the entrance, whose joints form the words "MARIA HILF", are a specialty. The chapel is closed with a lattice gate, which allows a look inside with the rich furnishings.

literature

  • Jutta Böhm: Mill bike tour. Routes: Kleinziegenfelder Tal and Bärental , Weismain environmental station of the Lichtenfels district, Weismain / Lichtenfels (Lichtenfels district), 2000. (numerous illustrations and maps)
  • Günter Dippold: The Erlach Chapel was consecrated 100 years ago: a new neo-baroque building instead of a wooden structure . In: From the Franconian homeland - newsletter of the Society Friends of Plassenburg , Volume 9, Friends of Plassenburg eV, Kulmbach 2007
  • Günter Dippold (Ed.): Weismain - A Franconian city on the northern Jura 1 . Dechant Bau GmbH, Weismain 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814302-0-2
    • Günter Dippold: On Weismain Church History from the Beginnings to the End of the Bamberg Monastery, pp. 231–262
    • Günter Dippold: From the economic history of Weismain , pp. 287-348

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Weismain (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. ^ Dippold (2011), p. 222
  4. ↑ Dippold (2011), p. 340
  5. ↑ a b c d e Böhm (2000), p. 17
  6. ↑ Erlach , stadt-weismain.de, accessed on May 18, 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 17.5 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 19.6 ″  E