Philomenakapelle (Salzburg)
The Philomena Chapel is a chapel in the Maxglan cadastral community in the Liefering district on Münchener Straße B155 in the city of Salzburg . The chapel of St. Philomena, under the patronage of the Christian-Doppler-Klinik, is a listed building and is a stop on the Lieferinger Kulturwanderweg .
history
The simple chapel building was built around 1830 and expanded around 1837. The chapel belonged to the Guggenbichlergut at the time. It is believed that it was built on the site of a soft cross that was previously found here or not far away . Such crosses, which marked urban borders, were often reinterpreted as religious places and replaced in the immediate vicinity by martyrs , wayside crosses and chapels.
The Philomena Chapel was supplemented with a Way of the Cross in 1839. Until 1904 there was a license to hold trade fairs. When the Sacred Heart Missionaries who immigrated to Salzburg around 1887/1888 had not yet acquired the not too far distant castle farm as a mission house, they held their masses here for a time. Votive offerings and votive tablets that used to be in the chapel bear witness to the lively local pilgrimage to the chapel.
The grounds of the Guggenbichlergut passed into the possession of Anna Fäustle around 1895, and her daughter of the same name sold the entire site again in 1902 to the Salzburg state government. It was used to expand the adjacent New State Insane Asylum, which was opened in 1898 and is now the Christian Doppler Clinic . In the chapel there is a memorial stone to Anna Fäustle, the listed Villa Fäustle still stands on the clinic grounds .
In 1904 the measuring license expired and the church equipment as well as the bell and the altar stone were moved to the house chapel of the nearby Villa Marien-Stein, built in 1904 on Lieferinger Hauptstrasse. The administration of the Christian Doppler Clinic had the Philomena Chapel renovated in 1932 and 1946. Another renovation was carried out on a private initiative in 1960. In 2002, the facade of the chapel was renewed by the Christian Doppler Clinic and the building was re-covered.
Building description and equipment
The chapel is a simple building with a round apse, saddle roof and gable turret with a flat arched barrel vault. The wrought iron grille from the construction period in front of the altar is original. Above the door there is a “marble slogan and Maria Plain picture (sheet metal)”, which is no longer shown today.
The interior is designed as follows: “There is a flat arched vault above the nave and the re-entrant round-big end. Wrought iron grille in front of the apse. Floor made of square, red and white marble slabs. ”The furnishings originally included a wooden statue of the Scourged Savior, which is no longer there; the current statue of the Virgin Mary in the chapel dates from 1960.
A memorial in the chapel contains the warning:
“May all who come here in the needs of life find solace. But may those with a different mind also remember that this chapel is dear to many of their fellow human beings, and that it will protect them from any damage. "
literature
- St. Philomena Chapel , in: Österreichische Kunsttopographie , Volume XIX: The monuments of the judicial district of Salzburg, by Paul Buberl , archival part by Franz Martin , Kunstverlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1916, p. 343.
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Salzburg, fiefdom - Liefering, chapel St. Philomena, p. 661.
- Wolfgang Richter: The Philomenakapelle. Text on the display board of the Lieferinger Kulturwanderweg next to the chapel.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dehio Salzburg 1986 , p. 661.
- ↑ According to Austrian Art Topography (see references) The chapel is from 1838.
- ↑ a b Austrian art topography (see references).
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 52.3 " N , 13 ° 1 ′ 14" E