Marienkapelle (Stolberg)
The Marienkapelle is a chapel in the district Stadt Stolberg (Harz) of the municipality of Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . It is located a few meters northwest of St. Martini's Church on a terrace on a hillside.
Architecture and history
The chapel was built between 1477 and 1482 as a donation from Count Heinrich zu Stolberg over an ossuary . It stands on a high stone pedestal. There is a three-sided closure on the east side of the rather small building. On the western side there is a portal worked as a pointed arch. The walls of the portal, but also the ogival windows and their tracery are made of red sandstone . The building is covered by a high roof.
The chapel was no longer used as early as 1529. After a restoration in 1962, a memorial to the victims of the First and Second World Wars was built in the chapel .
The large bronze bell from 1478 comes from the neighboring Saint Martini Church and is decorated with a relief representation of Saint Martina in a kneeling pose. There is also a dedicatory inscription and the donor's mark of Pastor Ulrich Rißpach .
literature
- Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt II, Dessau and Halle administrative districts , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , page 803
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 26.2 " N , 10 ° 57 ′ 15.2" E