Maxensruh Chapel (Immenstadt)
The Maxensruh Chapel of St. Antonius of Padua and St. Hubertus of Lüttich is located on the site of the former country estate “Maxens Ruhe” at the north-western entrance to Immenstadt in the Allgäu .
Description and history
On the Konstanzer Ach , the Ottobeuren monastery operated a wax bleaching facility from 1755 before its dissolution in the course of the secularization of 1802 .
In 1825, the then owner Count Maximilian (* 1757; † 1831) from the von Königsegg-Rothenfels family had a villa with a park and garden built on his property after his work as cathedral capitular in Cologne, Strasbourg and Constance. Maximilian was a brother of the last count Fidel to rule in Immenstadt, who died in 1804. The facility was open to visitors and was popularly known as “Maxens Ruhe”. Other attractions in a wooden counted occupied with an artificial hermit Klausner house . It was intended to commemorate Brother Servulus Helchenberg, the last hermit in Immenstadt, who was admitted and cared for in the Capuchin monastery in 1806 , where he died in 1811 at the age of 86.
In the sale advertisement from Maxensruh from 1832, a hermitage with a special garden and a chapel are listed in addition to the gardens with pavilion and greenhouse and a Chinese building with suitable surroundings.
In 1854, Count Ludwig von Rechberg and Rothenlöwen (* 1814; † 1888) became co-owners of the country estate, which has since been used for purposes other than intended. He was the uncle of the better known Otto von Rechberg and made it to the Bavarian general. In 1865 Count Ludwig became adjutant general of King Ludwig II of Bavaria , and in 1866, at the age of 52, governor of the federal fortress of Mainz . In the Alpine region he had rendered outstanding services to the revival of the aristocratic hunting industry and in particular to the rearing and protection of the game population.
On the Maxensruh he had the chapel redesigned in the neo-Gothic style in 1855/56 and consecrated not only to Saint Anthony of Padua but also in honor of Hubertus of Liège .
In 1939 the chapel received a new altarpiece, painted by J. Schulte. Basic renovation measures in 1979 and 1983 saved the building from deterioration. It is listed in the list of protected monuments of Immenstadt im Allgäu under Maxensruhe .
literature
- Rudolf Vogel: Immenstadt in the Allgäu . Landscape, history, society, economy, cultural and religious life over the course of the century. Verlag J. Eberl, Immenstadt im Allgäu 1996, ISBN 3-920269-00-4 , Christian churches - chapel in the "Maxensruhe", p. 416, 528 (town chronicle of the former town archivist.).
Web links
- Maxensruh Chapel . In: Parish community Immenstadt (ed.): Website . Churches - chapels in the PG. ( Website of the Catholic Church Immenstadt [accessed October 19, 2018]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ see Königsegg (noble family) #Linie Rothenfels
- ↑ Lit Chronik Immenstadt, p. 528
- ↑ Lit Chronik Immenstadt, p. 537
- ^ District intelligence paper of the royal Bavarian government of the Oberdonau district, No. 16 of April 16, 1832
- ^ Note on Rechberg and Rothenlöwen in the German Digital Library
- ↑ Description at zvab.com 6th picture
- ↑ Lit Chronik Immenstadt, p. 416
- ↑ a b website of the cath. church
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 42 " N , 10 ° 12 ′ 48.6" E