Rector's Chapel (Tauberbischofsheim)
The Roman Catholic Rector's Chapel (also Hammberg Chapel ) is located on Hammberg in the Gewann Vorderer Heimberg in Tauberbischofsheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg . The so-called Rector's Chapel was built in 1626 and was located at a different location near the Tauberbischofsheim Hospital on Albert-Schweitzer-Straße ( Alte Würzburger Straße ). According to the column inscription, it was built by Kaspar Liebler and Jacob Trefs. The name "Rector" originated from the custom of a school principal at the time who sang songs of the Mother of God with his students at this point.
Nothing precise is known about the historical, possibly slightly different chapel shape at the original location. In the lower part of the old Wurzburg street, the old location of the principal chapel, blew up the Prussian artillery in the German war 1866 the Battle of Tauberbischofsheim a supplies convoy of Württemberg cavalry, took position along the old Wurzburg street at Edelsberg between Gützberg and the forest belt. Since the fallen were mostly buried where they had fallen, there is a mass grave with around 239 fallen soldiers in the area of the old location of the Rector's Chapel. The Württemberg war memorial was later erected in this area . The historic chapel stood opposite the Württemberg monument.
At the current location in the area of the Tauberbischofsheimer fitness trail , it is an open chapel building with an altar and a Pietà , a representation of Mary with the dead Jesus. The chapel can be reached via the Hammbergsteig, which branches off from Albert-Schweitzer-Straße and leads to the Rector's Chapel on the edge of the forest. The chapel is a under monument protection standing cultural monument of the city of Tauberbischofsheim.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ LEO-BW.de: Chapel (Tauberbischofsheim) . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ↑ Jürgen Wohlfarth: wayside shrines and other stone witnesses . Online at www.büscheme.de. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ^ Jürgen Wohlfarth: Alte Würzburger Strasse . Online at www.büscheme.de. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ↑ Jürgen Wohlfarth: 1866 - Battle near Tauberbischofsheim . Online at www.büscheme.de. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: KN 18 No. 222, archival unit Tauberbischofsheim - altarpiece Pieta in the Rector's Chapel . From the Hans-Werner Siegel collection. Online at www.landesarchiv-bw.de. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ↑ Regional Council Stuttgart (Ed.): List of architectural and art monuments as of February 15, 2012.
Parish churches of the pastoral care unit Tauberbischofsheim: St. Bonifatius (Tauberbischofsheim) | St. Laurentius (Dittwar) | St. Markus (Distelhausen) | St. Martin (Tauberbischofsheim) with the branch St. Jakobus (Dienstadt) | St. Nikolaus (Impfingen) | St. Pankratius (Hochhausen) | St. Vitus (Dittigheim)
Other churches, chapels and crossroads: Friedhofskapelle (Hochhausen) | Cemetery chapel (Impfingen) | House chapel in the Hotel St. Michael (Tauberbischofsheim) | Herz-Jesu-Kapelle (Tauberbischofsheim) | Höhbergkapelle (Tauberbischofsheim) | Josefskapelle (Hochhausen) | Käppele (Hochhausen) | Way of the Cross (Dittwar) to the Kreuzkapelle (Dittwar) , Kalvarienbergkapelle (Dittwar) and Mariengrotte (Dittwar) with the pilgrimage to Kreuzhölzle | Way of the Cross (Impfingen) | Way of the Cross (Tauberbischofsheim) to the Stammberg chapel ( Tauberbischofsheim) | Laurentius Chapel (Tauberbischofsheim) | Maria-Hilf-Chapel (Tauberbischofsheim) | Mariengrotte (Dienststadt) | Chapel of Our Lady (Dienstadt) | Peterskapelle (Tauberbischofsheim) | Rector's Chapel (Tauberbischofsheim) | Sebastianus Chapel (Tauberbischofsheim) | St. Lioba Church (Tauberbischofsheim) | St. Wolfgang Chapel (Distelhausen) and the Way of the Cross in the cemetery wall (Distelhausen) | Bildhäusle (Hochhausen) | Holy Blood Chapel (Hochhausen) | To Our Lady of Sorrows (Hof Steinbach)
Monasteries: Benedictine monastery Tauberbischofsheim (Lioba monastery) (†) | Franciscan monastery Tauberbischofsheim (†)
(†): Sacred building no longer used / available
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 5.9 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 53.3" E