St. George's Chapel (Stolberg)

Saint George Chapel

The Sankt-Georg-Kapelle is a Protestant chapel in Stolberg (Harz) in Saxony-Anhalt . It is located in Niedergasse .

History and architecture

The chapel was first mentioned in 1333, but is of older origin. It served as the chapel of the immediately adjacent Georgen Hospital, which served as a church retirement home for centuries. The chapel was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and rededicated in 1657. In 1892 the chapel was rebuilt in its current form as a small hall church in the neo-Gothic style on the old foundation walls . The facade is structured by decorative elements made of red sandstone . In 1994 a renovation took place, whereby the interior also received new seating. In the immediate vicinity of the chapel, age-appropriate apartments were built in the 1990s, which ties in with the tradition of the Georgen Hospital.

West front of the chapel is a war memorial in honor of the First World War Fallen.

literature

• Wolfgang Knape, Stolberg , Schmidt-Buch-Verlag Wernigerode 2007, ISBN 978-3-928977-34-0 , page 50
• Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt II, administrative districts Dessau and Halle , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , page 803 f.

Web links

Commons : Saint George Chapel (Stolberg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 19 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 23.9 ″  E