Nikolauskapelle (Kempten)

The monastery area in 1632: The Nikolauskapelle is marked with a red circle on the right.

The Nikolauskapelle (also St. Nikolaus and Nikolauskirche ) on the site of the Kempten Monastery was consecrated in 973 by Ulrich von Augsburg and was the first church in southern Germany to be dedicated to St. Nicholas . The chapel is a testament to the growing veneration of Nicholas of Myra in the West .

The remains of the chapel with its former cemetery, both registered as ground memorials with the number D-7-8227-0194, are located below a parking lot (formerly a wooden garden ) east of the courtyard garden . Not far away was the Marienmünster, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , like the Nikolauskapelle .

An independent Nikolauskapelle or -Church there - apart from the Russian Orthodox Nicholas congregation of the soul band not in Kempten since then, only in the - St. Lorenz Basilica , the new collegiate church of the monastery after the Thirty Years' War, were subsequently set up several bands, including also a Nikolauskapelle.

Individual evidence

↑ Birgit Kata, Gerhard Weber: Archaeological findings in the area of the Kempten residence. In: Birgit Kata u. a. (Ed.): "More than 1000 years ..." The Kempten Abbey between founding and closing 752 to 1802. Likias Verlag, Friedberg 2006, ISBN 3-980-76286-6 , p. 72.

47.729716 10.315118Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 47 " N , 10 ° 18 ′ 54.4" E

[1] Birgit Kata, Gerhard Weber: Archaeological findings in the area of the Kempten residence. In: Birgit Kata u. a. (Ed.): "More than 1000 years ..." The Kempten Abbey between founding and closing 752 to 1802. Likias Verlag, Friedberg 2006, ISBN 3-980-76286-6 , p. 72.