Quirinskapelle (Gosheim)

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The Quirinskapelle above Gosheim

The Quirinskapelle is a sacred building in the forest above the community of Gosheim ( Tuttlingen district ) on the Swabian Alb at an altitude of 987  m above sea level. NHN . It was created in 1858.

construction

The four benches offer space for four people.

The chapel is a small, simple building. A retracted choir adjoins the chapel . A small, square roof turret with wooden slats on the sides is attached to the roof of the main room . On it there is a half and above it a sphere with a cross on it. The balls and cross are gold-plated. A bell visible from below hangs in the roof turret. The entrance door on the west side and the windows on the north and south sides imitate Gothic shapes. High above the entrance door is a rectangular color mosaic depicting Mary with the baby Jesus . A colored glass window framed in concrete with white and red glass, the shape of which is a cross, is installed as a tympanum above the rectangular entrance door. The two colored glass windows on the sides show the Holy Trinity on the left: the eye for God the Father, the dove for the Holy Spirit, the red cross for Jesus Christ, the other side shows St. Wendelin, the patron saint of Shepherds and flocks. The round glass window in the chancel is high. All glass windows are works from the 20th century in a modern style, in which the glass is firmly embedded in concrete.

Chancel in the choir

Inside there are two rows of benches to the left and right of the aisle, each with only two seats. The altar area is optically separated by an altar barrier, a wooden frame with metal grids, but freely accessible in the middle. A wooden plaque carved with ornaments reads in the middle of the altar cupboard: “Come to me, all of you who are burdened with burdens and toil. I want to refresh you. ”On the granite altar table is an open text on a frame and next to this frame is a vase with flowers. An iron cross in 19th century shapes is placed behind the altar. On the east wall there are two color mosaics, on the left: Resurrection of Christ, on the right the depiction of “St. Brother Konrad ”. Sacrificial candles can be placed on the altar . On the walls of the chapel there are pictures, the information text about the origin and preservation of the chapel, a memory of the widow of the builder, texts with songs and a * poem by W. Marquart about the Quirinskapelle. The rope with which the bell in the roof turret can be rung is led through a small hole in the flat ceiling into the chapel room and is attached to the wall.

Poem Quirins-Kirchlein

This rhyme can be found in a small picture frame on one of the walls:

THE QUIRINS - CHURCH

Don't go past, hold your step, rest with me for a while. take strength for the soul with you, forget the everyday storms.

I would like to say a lot about those who built me ​​one, I often hear bitter woes, some innocent childish sounds.

Many a young man said goodbye here, had to go to war, many a mothers came to me, weeping for their dead son.

Once upon a time the herds grazed under trees here in the field, a delicious picture, a heavenly picture, I sometimes see it in dreams.

The time does not stand, it hurries by with gigantic steps and at some point your mind also learns to thank and ask.

Once upon a time there was poor, but one trusted in God intimately and when the disease crept into the house, one looked to the cross.

And if you continue hiking, you will storm every mile, even if you are successful, stop once and race for a while.

Visit me over rock and stone, in sun, rain, snow, the open door always invites you to a forest-rushed height. (Walter Marquart)

history

The clockmaker Quirin Weiß from Gosheim had this chapel built. A sign attached to the inner wall of the chapel says about the origin:

Certificate. The chapel in Gosheim's district Heuberg on the pilgrimage route to the Trinity Mountain was built by Quirin Weiß, clockmaker, in 1858 as a result of a promise in a serious illness on the property of the community of Gosheim. On August 27, 1858, it was consecrated in honor of the Hochhl. Trinity . It should be open day and night. The wanderer should find protection in storms, for the pilgrim it is a place of prayer. The farmer who comes home from the field may rest here in quiet contemplation. God bless the mark it is written on and let all who pass by come home happy. Gosheim, January 1929. Maria Weiß born. Hugger.

Below is an addition:

Quirin Weiß, born June 4, 1835 and died December 9, 1876. His wife Maria Weiß, b. Hugger, died in 1930. She outlived her husband by almost 60 years and kept the chapel in good condition until her death. At the age of 90, she made all descendants of her family the obligation to look after the chapel after her death.

The Quirinskapelle represents a stopover on the pilgrimage to the Trinity Mountain . In 1984 a bell in a roof turret was consecrated. On this occasion the decision was made to choose Quirinus von Neuss as a secondary patron .

  • The interior of the Quirinskapelle

  • View of the chancel

  • The entrance to the west

  • The description of the creation

  • Theft: destroyed wall

  • Brother Konrad mosaic

  • Holy Spirit window with dove

Events

A prayer service with the participation of the Gosheim music club chapel takes place annually on the Tuesday before Ascension Day in front of the Quirins chapel, in rainy weather in the Gosheim Holy Cross Church.

Damage if the sacrificial cane is stolen

After several thefts of the sacrificial stock, which was associated with the violent breaking of the wall, in Advent 2015 and mid-June 2016, the chapel carers refrained from renewing the sacrificial stock and asked for donations by bank transfer on information sheets.

reachability

The Quirinskapelle is located on an asphalt road that branches off from Kreisstraße 5905 from Gosheim to Bubsheim and leads to Böttingen . The hiking trail on the Albtrauf also touches the chapel.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Signpost next to the chapel
  2. ↑ Text on the photo of the altar barrier
  3. ↑ a b leaflet on the chapel, n.d. (after June 2016), unpag., P. 1
  4. ^ Text on the west wall of the chapel to the left of the entrance
  5. ↑ S. Website of the music association .
  6. ↑ Leaflet on the chapel, undated (after June 2016), unpag., P. 4. S. also website of the parish , accessed on June 20, 2019
  7. ↑ Leaflet on the chapel, undated (after June 2016), unpag., P. 2 with photos of the damage on p. 3

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '32.3 "  N , 8 ° 46' 40.39"  O