Brand image chapel

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The brand image chapel in the southern suburb of Koblenz 1900

The brand image chapel stood in the southern suburb of Koblenz from 1851 to 1944 . The miraculous image of the destroyed St. Mary's Chapel is still preserved in the parish church of St. Joseph .

history

Before today's southern suburb of Koblenz was built as part of the southern city expansion from 1890, the area only contained fields, meadows and vineyards. Due to the Reichsrayon Law , no permanent houses were allowed to be built in front of the ramparts of the Koblenz city ​​fortifications in the 19th century . At today's intersection of Markenbildchenweg / Hohenzollernstraße there were originally two small houses of saints that stood on a crossroads from the Rhine to the Holy Cross Chapel at the foot of the Carthusian monastery . This chapel was destroyed at the beginning of the 19th century when the monastery was abandoned and the Fort of Constantine was built . The two holy houses were the Märker Bildchen (Mark = district , outside the city in an open field) and the poor sinners chapel, where people sentenced to death were buried. The Koblenz historian Johann Christian von Stramberg mentioned in his famous "Rheinischen Antiquarius" the little Märker picture at a crossing point of two paths.

The image of grace from the destroyed trademark chapel is now in the parish church of St. Joseph

After both holy houses were dilapidated in the middle of the 19th century, it was decided to build a new chapel. The widow Saarburg (née Kaufmann) bequeathed 200 thalers to this . Now the concrete planning for the new building could begin. A building association was founded, which raised the remaining money for the 459 thalers expensive building. Princess Augusta , who lives in Koblenz, donated the chapel porch made of wood and glass, a holy water kettle, a picture and four candlesticks. A miraculous image was venerated in the chapel, consecrated by clergy of the Castor Church on July 2, 1851 . It is a late baroque sculpture made of wood of a Madonna with child and a surrounding halo. It was probably created in Ehrenbreitstein around 1720 and was previously in the old Märker Bildchen chapel.

The square with the brand image chapel was planned as a roundabout in the 1870s as part of the beginning of the southern city expansion. After construction began in 1890, the roundabout at the intersection of Markenbildchenweg / Hohenzollernstraße was framed by semicircular buildings. In the now denser new part of the city, the faithful went to the chapel in liturgical processions (e.g. on Trinity Sunday ). The end for the chapel came during the air raids on Koblenz in World War II . It was badly damaged in the air raids in 1944 and was not rebuilt after the war in order to be able to expand Hohenzollernstrasse for the increasing traffic. The miraculous image was saved from the rubble and has been in the parish church of St. Joseph in the southern suburb since 1954 .

The semicircular houses still bear witness to the roundabout, in the middle of which was the branded chapel. A commemorative plaque made of basalt lava with a relief of the chapel including the miraculous image, made in the art workshops of Maria Laach, hangs at the entrance to the house at Markenbildchenweg 32 . The following text can be read here: “ Madonna from the brand picture, please for us. In 1944 this house was destroyed. Rebuilt in 1959. "

See also

literature

  • Helmut Kampmann: When stones speak. Memorial plaques and memorial plaques in Koblenz. Fuck-Verlag, Koblenz 1992, p. 238ff. ISBN 3-9803142-0-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The brand image in the St. Josefskirche Koblenz ( Memento from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Kampmann p. 238

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '2.1 "  N , 7 ° 35' 31.2"  E