Michaelskapelle (Ochsenfurt)
The Roman Catholic Michaelskapelle is a Gothic hall church in Ochsenfurt in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg in Bavaria . It serves the parish community Ochsenfurt in the deanery Ochsenfurt of the diocese of Würzburg as a cemetery chapel and is a cabinet piece of late Gothic architecture.
History and architecture
The Michaelskapelle stands directly next to the parish church of St. Andreas and is also used by their community. The chapel was started in 1440, the vault is dated 1492. The master builder, Hans Bauer from Ochsenfurt, was also a foreman at the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg . The chapel corresponds to a type used especially in Central Germany for chapels for the dead ( Karner ) and is executed with unusual effort. The buttresses are equipped with a triangular top and a keel arch crown. The ossuary is used today as a war memorial chapel and is illuminated by barred arched openings.
The high, bright main floor is almost completely dissolved in high, three-lane windows with fish bubble tracery, only the west yoke is windowless. Star vaults close off the room, a stone gallery with richly decorated tracery parapets and under vaulting is built into the west. At the front, a double flight of stairs leads to the richly decorated portal. In the tympanum , the Last Judgment is shown in two stripes. The earlier figures in the vestments of the portal are no longer there.
The basement is closed with a barrel vault with stitch caps ; on the star vault of the upper floor there are keystones with the coats of arms of the city of Ochsenfurt and the prince-bishop Rudolf von Scherenberg .
Furnishing
In the neo-Gothic altar case in late Gothic style from 1890 stands a stone figure of the Madonna from around 1450, flanked by wooden figures of Saints Michael and Sebastian from around 1480, which are effectively depicted. The modern glass paintings were designed by Karl Clobes and executed by the Rothkegel glass workshop.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , p. 827.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on the Michaelskapelle in Ochsenfurt on wuerzburgwiki.de. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '50.4 " N , 10 ° 3' 49.1" E