Michels Chapel (Burghausen)

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Michelskapelle
Crucifix in front of the Michel's Chapel
Sandstone cross (around 1320-1340)

The church ruin Michelskapelle is located on the Michelsberg between Reichenbach and Burghausen (districts of Münnerstadt ) .

The chapel dedicated to the Archangel Michael is one of the architectural monuments in Münnerstadt and is registered in the Bavarian Monument List under the number D-6-72-135-121 .

history

As local researcher Josef Wabra writes, according to the legend, a castle called Grapfeldonoburgi and a church should have stood on the Michelsberg long before the Michelskapelle was built ; There are no structural remains to be found either from the castle or from the former church. According to Wabra, no documentary evidence is known of the former church, while the former castle is mentioned in a deed of donation dated December 15, 812. According to Wabra, the Michelskapelle was built long after the church was destroyed.

The possibly first known documentary mention of the predecessor church of the Michelskapelle could come from the year 810 AD, making it the oldest parish church in the Münnerstadt area. In this document, a Wuldawirni hands over a church in pago Grabfelde in villa quae dicitur Munirihestate to the Fulda monastery. The church housed three altars and two bells in the church tower .

On May 6, 1806, the Michelskapelle , the parish church for the parishes of Reichenbach and Burghausen or at least a branch church of the parish of Burglauer, was destroyed by a lightning strike during a thunderstorm coming from the west. Since then, the flora has taken more and more possession of the ruins.

After more than 200 years of slumber, the remains of the 24.4 × 7.1 m chapel were secured in the years 2008–2011 as part of conservation work. Numerous volunteer helpers from the communities of Reichenbach and Burghausen were involved in the company, which was initiated by Bertram Becker, who was then district home nurse , because the ruins are right in the middle of the community boundary.

Others

The inventory of the Michelskapelle included a valuable missal, a so-called missale romanum . The book, printed in Venice in 1513, which was a gift from the Teutonic Order Commander Johannes Wolfgang von Preising, is now in the Augustinian Library in Münnerstadt .

During renovation work and smaller excavations at the end of the 1960s, the remains of a stone cross belonging to the complex in the form of a damaged circular segment base and the cross itself, in which the upper longitudinal beam and one longitudinal beam are missing. The Münnerstädter Stadtheimatpfleger had the remains brought to the warehouse of the Münnerstadt City Museum.

Since June 2013, a stone cross made of sandstone from around 1320–1340 has stood in the courtyard of the Michelskapelle. This was originally in the "Münnichholz" (Mönchholz) corridor department in Burghausen . A small Gothic cross relief is incorporated at the intersection of the longitudinal and transverse beams.

The four meter high crucifix in front of the chapel houses a carved and colored figure of Christ, which was made by one of the Schiestl brothers . An inscription at the base of the cross stems from May 6, 1900 as the date of creation of the crucifix and its renovations in 1985 and 1996.

development

The development of the church until it looked like it was destroyed by lightning took place in several steps.

  • before 811: hall church with semicircular apse (10.8 × 6 m); Apse depth = 3.1 m
  • around 811–1000 AD: New construction of the hall church with semicircular apse, shifting the central axis by 2 degrees to the southeast
  • around 1280 AD: The apse was replaced by a rectangular extension (5.15 × 4.15 m) with a ribbed vault
  • around 1550 AD: Extension by a rectangular chancel (5.2 × 3.9 m)
  • around 1721 AD: putting on an onion dome

The Michelskapelle also had an abandoned cemetery, which was surrounded by a cemetery wall with two gates.

literature

  • Josef Wabra: Stories and legends of the Kissinger area , regional studies series for northern Lower Franconia, issue 3, published by the Rhön / Saale / Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen, 1965, p. 12f.
  • Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, pp. 87-89

Web links

Commons : Michelskapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To localization: Siegfried Rietschel: The Civitas on German soil until the end of the Carolingian era . Leipzig 1894, p. 101 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ) and Karl Rübel: The Franks, their conquest and settlement system in the German people's country , Bielefeld 1904, p. 327 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke: Codex diplomaticus Fuldensis . Cassel 1850, p. 138 no.275
  3. ↑ A document is reported according to which certain Wuldarniwi and Ritant, the owners of an estate in Reiterswiesen , built a chapel for the Fulda Abbey in the abandoned Grabfeldonoburg from 796 to 811. ( Source ) Whether this is the original construction of the church ruins still standing today is directly dependent on the correctness of the location of the Grabfeldonoburg on the Michelsberg.
  4. ↑ Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke, Codex diplomaticus Fuldensis , Cassel 1850, p. 75 No. 131
  5. ↑ "Treasures behind monastery walls" Article from January 28, 2000 in the "[Main-Post]"
  6. ^ Elisabeth Keller: The landmarks in the Bad Kissingen district . Volume 1, self-published by the Bad Kissingen district, 1978, pp. 87-89. Although the author does not provide any information about when this renovation work took place, due to the year of publication of the book, it can only be about the special excavations carried out by J. Wabra at the end of the 1960s.
  7. ↑ The ancient cross moves to the ruins on the Michelsberg . In: Saale-Zeitung , June 6, 2013.
  8. ↑ This is handed down through a hunting map of the Münnerstadt area from 1721.

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '13.07 "  N , 10 ° 9' 45.14"  E